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[SIAS 2021] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Tallinn, Estonia. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ in conjunction with " <https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/> 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021)" SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture . IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) . Correct-by-construction in IAS . MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS . Virtualization and digital twins for IAS . Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS . IAS smart Networking . Communication protocols for IAS . Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS . Distributed database for IAS . Web services for IAS . Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis . Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS . Model checking and theorem proving for IAS . Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS . Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS . Dynamic and static analysis for IAS . Statistical analysis for IAS . Testing for IAS . Smart decision making in IAS . Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance . Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS . Security in distributed IAS . Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS . Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS . Security protocols for IAS . Safety policies for IAS . Safety reinforcement models in IAS . Safety standard analysis for IAS . Resilience metrics and models for IAS . Resilience strategies and plans for IAS . Recovery systems for IAS resiliency . Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases . Applications and Software Platforms for IAS . IoT and CPS for IAS . Smart cities . IAS for industrial and production CPS . Autonomous robots and vehicles . Human-Robot Interaction . Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates . Submission Date: 25 April,2021 . Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 . Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System . <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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MOBISPC 2021 CFP: The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 9-12, 2021, Leuven, Belgium
by Shashank Swarup 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-21/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-2020 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-2021 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: February 20, 2021 - *Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021* - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2021 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: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) - International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF: 3.030) (Pending), Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks) MobiSPC 2021 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-21/). MobiSPC 2021 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 in 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. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. The facade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. 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: ----------- Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Program Chairs Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB â€“ Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chair Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Tracks Chairs Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada StÃ©phane Galland, UniversitÃ© de Technologie de Belfort-MontbÃ©liard, France Uneb Gazger, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Hedi Haddad, Dofar University, Oman Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada Wendy Osborn, University of Lethbridge, Canada Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, EIGSI-Casablanca, Morocco Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines Shashank Swarup, Acadia University, Canada 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 NoÃ«l de Palma, UniversitÃ© de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-21/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) -Prague
by Emilia Marc 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************* International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) Prague - Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/rtatm/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in RTATM 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The RTATM 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence (ADSI 2021) International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Modelling and Simulation Algorithms - Vehicular Wireless Medium Access Control - V2X communications - Routings and Protocols for Connected Vehicles - Mobility Models and Architectures - Distribution Strategies - Traffic Incident Management Systems - Bio-Inspired Approaches - Optimization and Collaboration - Automatic Control in Vehicular Networks - Energy-aware Connected Mobility - Programming Languages - Sustainable Transportation - Multimodal Transportation Networks and Systems - Systemsb Integration - Driver Behavior Models and Simulation - Human Factors and Travel Behaviour - Green Mobility - Regulations and Bylaws for Intelligent - Transportation and Mobility SMART TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS - Mobility Management - Connected Vehicles - VANETs - Predictive Logistics - Spatio-Temporal Event Tracking - Decision Support Systems - Emergency Management - Logistics and E-Commerce - Supply Chain Design and Execution - Supply Chain Management - Advanced Planning Systems - Fleet Management - Multi-Agent Systems - Machine Learning for Smart Logistics - Intelligent Infrastructures - Real-time Analysis of Comprehensive Supply Chain Data - Smart Synchronization of Logistics Processes - New Approaches for Cost Transparency - Big Data for Smart Logistics - Logistics 4.0 - Mobile Networks - Next-Generation Smart Logistics - Performance Management Approaches - Tests and Deployment - Software Defined Networks - Smart Freight Management - Smart Shipment Management - Smart Warehousing - Smart Inventory management DATA AND SERVICES - Real-Time transportation Data Acquisition - Event Detection and Monitoring - Data Warehouses for connected mobility - Data mining and Data analytics - Data Worthiness in Connected Vehicles - Data Trustworthiness for effective transportation and mobility - Road Traffic Data Analytics - Structured and Unstructured Data for Connected Mobility - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - Data Representation for Connected Mobility - Transportation Data Mining - Transportation and mobility Data Visualization - Cognitive and Context-aware Intelligence - Transportation Decision Support Systems - Mobility as a Service (MaaS) - Intelligent Transportation Services - Smart Mobility Services - Big Data and Vehicle Analytics - Massive Data Management - Collective and connected Intelligence - Next Generation Services - Driver Behaviour Analysis - Geo-Spatial Services - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Web and Mobile Services SAFETY, SECURITY, AND HAZARD MANAGEMENT - Security Issues in Vehicular Communications - Safety Applications of Connected Vehicles - Weather-related Safety solutions - V2V, V2I and I2V Road Safety Applications - Connected Mobility for Hazard Management - Risk Management - Road Traffic Crashes Analytics - Traffic Jam Prediction - Resource Allocation for Hazard Management - Trust and Privacy Issues in Logistics - Management of Exceptional Events - New approaches to Networking Security for Transportation Applications - Failure modes, human factors, software safety - Automated Failure Analysis - Performance and Human Error Analysis - Design and Reliability of Control Systems - Dispersion Modelling Software - Quantification of Risk *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatm2021). All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/rtatm/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-rtatm(a)confscience.com

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International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021)
by Mayssa HEMDANI 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************************************** International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) Prague- Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/irsh/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in IRSH 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The IRSH 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence (ADSI 2021) International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Interoperability and Data Integration - Confidentiality and Data Security - Data protection - Data Sharing - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Emergent healthcare standards - Emergent healthcare architectures - ICT, Ageing and Disability - Physiological and behavioural modelling - Pandemic and disease modeling - Usability and user experience of medical devices - Human behaviour - Clinical investigation regulatory frameworks - Integrated healthcare approaches - eHealth data standards and interoperability (e.g. HL7/FHIR) - Databases and data warehousing - Big Data and Open Data for healthcare - Design and Development of Methodologies for Healthcare - Emergent Communication Technologies - Real-time interaction theories - Emergent Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living - User Interface Design for healthcare - Sustainability - New approaches for accuracy and effectiveness - Data mining and bioinformatics - Enhanced living environments - Analysis and evaluation of healthcare systems INTELLIGENT HEALTHCARE - Pattern recognition and Machine - Learning for healthcare - Cognitive Informatics - Big Data in Healthcare - Wellbeing Informatics - Data Mining and Data Analytics - Data Visualization - Smart environments - Smart Ambient Assisted Living - Intelligent healthcare solutions - Agent-based solutions for healthcare - Collaboration systems - Intelligent Electronic Health Records - Internet of Things for healthcare - Cyber-Physical Systems for healthcare - Ambient Computing and Reasoning - Context Awareness - Smart devices for eldercare - Autonomy and active ageing - Emergent technologies for intelligent Computer Vision - Service production and delivery - Gamification - Multi-modal interaction - Computer-aided detection and diagnosis - Crowdsourcing for smarted healthcare SERVICES, SYSTEMS, AND INFRASTRUCTURES - Emergent healthcare services - Pervasive health systems and services - Remote healthcare management - Emergent healthcare infrastructure - Industry Revolution 4.0 for healthcare - eHealth - Electronic health records - Assistive technologies - Disease surveillance and patient monitoring systems - Prevention and detection systems - Home monitoring - Healthcare management systems - ICT-based therapeutic systems - ICT-based rehabilitation technologies - Wearable health informatics - Emergent technologies for data analytics - Ambient Assisted Leaving (AAL) - Decision Support Systems - Emergent Technologies for Remote AAL Monitoring - Emergent Technologies and Accessibility - 5G for healthcare - Healthcare supply chain and logistics - Wireless Body Networks - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine - Mobile Systems - Software Defined infrastructures - Patient empowerment systems - Smart technology for remote patient visits - Biosensors - Medical devices APPLICATIONS - eHealth applications - Application of health informatics in clinical cases - Mobile technologies for healthcare applications - Software Systems in healthcare - Social networking and healthcare - Case Studies - Personalization and patient experience - AR and VR applications - Patient billing - Accounting systems - Personnel and payroll - Materials management - Voice recognition systems - Asset management solutions - Disease management - Feedback integration - Clinical software - Crowd-computing applications - Future directions - Drone-based solutions - Software Defined Networks for healthcare *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irsh2021). All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/irsh/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-irsh(a)confscience.com

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Deadline Extension (March 1, 2021) - CfP for EUSIPCO 2021 Special Session "Image and video analysis for autonomous drones"
by Ioanna Koroni 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

Dear drone imaging scientists and engineers, you are invited to submit an original, unpublished technical paper to the Special Session "Image and video analysis for autonomous drones" of EUSIPCO 2021: https://eusipco2021.org/. New submission deadline for the EUSIPCO conference is March 1, 2021. Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or drones) are becoming more and more important to many industries, promising simplified logistics, cost reductions, increased safety for humans, quicker response times and more accurate results, when compared to traditional procedures. Drones are highly useful thanks to their easy deployment, their aerial point-of-view and their ability to access difficult-to-reach spaces. Recent advances in aerial robotics and AI have already pushed drone automation to an unprecedented degree in various application domains, such as infrastructure inspection and maintenance, aerial cinematography, search and rescue operations, etc. Manipulation, processing, analysis and learning of visual signals lie at the forefront of this revolution. This special session will consider current research in this interdisciplinary subject, aiming to bring together researchers working on image/video analysis and experts in aerial robotics. Topics of interest may include, among others: - Embedded computer vision - Deep learning for image/video analysis - Multimodal perception - Sensor and data fusion - Fault and anomaly detection in drone footage - Subcentimeter-accuracy inspection - Autonomous drone cinematography - Vision-based localization and mapping - Vision-based drone navigation/control - Vision-based human-drone interaction This Special Session concerns a very timely topic with high industrial potential, given that fully/semi- automated drones are slowly emerging as a viable alternative to manually teleoperated ones, thanks to recent advances in robotics and AI. A lot of underlying cognitive functionalities that enable such autonomy, particularly the ones facilitating drone perception, rely on advanced image/video analysis methods for achieving their goals, making this a highly interdisciplinary topic of exceptional interest both to imaging scientists and aerial robotics researchers. The Special Session is organized by Prof. I. Pitas and Dr. I. Mademlis, from the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTH), under the auspices of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme AERIAL-CORE (https://aerial-core.eu/). Relevant links: 1) Horizon2020 EU funded R&D project Aerial-Core: https://aerial-core.eu/ 2) AIIA Lab: https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/ Sincerely yours, Prof. I. Pitas, Dr. Ioannis Mademlis, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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FNC 2021: Call for Workshop Proposals (The 16th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications)
by Muhammad ADNAN 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

******** Call for Workshops Proposals ******** The 16th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-21/#workshop_call August 9-12, 2021 Leuven, Belgium Important Dates =========== - Workshop Proposal Due: February 21, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2021 The FNC 2021 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 2021 and its related areas. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the FNC 2021 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in FNC 2021 Website. 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 ============== Dr. Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium ( muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be) -- Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Navorser - Senior Researcher Instituut voor Mobiliteit (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be\imob Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Kantoor WETP5-0.10

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MobiSPC 2021 : Call for Workshop Proposals (The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing )
by Muhammad ADNAN 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

******** Call for Workshops Proposals ******** The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-21/#workshop_call August 9-12, 2021 Leuven, Belgium Important Dates =========== - Workshop Proposal Due: February 21, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2021 The MobiSPC 2021 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 MobiSPC 2021 and its related areas. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the MobiSPC 2021 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in MobiSPC 2021 Website. 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 ============== Dr. Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium ( muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be) -- Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Navorser - Senior Researcher Instituut voor Mobiliteit (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be\imob Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Kantoor WETP5-0.10

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The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Orven Llantos 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

-- Apologies for Cross-Posting --- The 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 9-12, 2021, Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-21 Important Dates Workshop Proposal: February 21, 2021 Submission Deadline March 19, 2021 Author Notification: May 17, 2021 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 Mobile system and Pervasive computing have evolved into an active area of research and development, 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-2021 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2021 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 communications. The topics include but are not limited to: Component-based IoT - Cloud support for the IoT - Composition of IoT services and components - Distribution and binding models for IoT applications - Experiences applying component-based design to IoT systems - Interoperability of IoT services and components - Modelling, development and simulation support for the IoT - Modular hardware/software co-design - Modular or component based FPGA development - Novel component models for the IoT - Privacy of modular IoT systems - Security of modular IoT systems Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Agents and Intelligent Computing - Big data - Cyber Physical Social Systems - Mobile Applications - Mobile Crowd-sourcing and Human-in-the-Loop Design - Mobile Services and Platforms - Mobile Sensor Based Personal Informatics - Mobile Web - Near Field Communication - New Mobile Sensing Hardware - Robotic Sensor Networking - Vehicular Social Networks - Wearable Augmented Reality Systems Internet of Things (IoT) - Data Mining on IoT systems - Edge Computing solutions for IoT - IoT applied to Cultural Heritage - IoT for e-health - IoT platforms for Data analytics on pervasive and mobile environments - IoT tools and applications - Network Design and Architecture - Sensor networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development Mobile Cloud Computing - Advertisement - Computing Performance Evaluation - Contest Based Sensing - Data and Storage Architecture - Data Storage Management for Mobile Cloud Computing Service Provider and Users - Games - Multimedia Services - Privacy Protection - Quality of Experiences and (QoE) Studies - Security - Service Models - Service Platform - Software Development Platform and Enabled New Applications - Virtualization and Programmable Infrastructure Mobile Data Management - Context-aware Computing for Intelligent Mobile Services - Data Management for Emerging Smart Urban Systems - Data management for Next-Gen Mobile and Ad-Hoc Networks - Data Management for the Internet of Things (IoT) - Data Management in the Mobile Cloud - Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments - Data stream processing in mobile/sensor network - Mobile Activity Recognition - Mobile Data Analytics - Mobile Data and User/Behavioural Understanding - Mobile Location-Based Social Networks - Mobile Situation Inference - Query Processing for moving objects/users - Recommendations for Mobile Users - Semantic Data Management for Mobile Devices/Applications - Transactions and workflows in mobile environments Mobile Social Networking - MSN Advertising, Business to Business (B2B) Marketing - MSN Algorithms for Social Search - MSN Analytics - MSN Architecture - MSN Brand Management (social brand strategic development and product management) - MSN Data Mining and Machine Learning - MSN Infrastructure Support - MSN Marketing (digital, direct and mobile marketing) - MSN Privacy in Data Collection and Management - Trust and Reputations in MSN Pervasive Computing - Adaptive, Autonomic and Context-Aware Computing - Architectures, Protocols, and Technologies for Pervasive Communications - Cognitive Computing in Pervasive Systems - Context Modelling and Reasoning - Data Management for Pervasive Computing - Energy-Efficient and Green Pervasive Computing - Innovative Pervasive Computing Applications - Machine Learning for Activity Recognition - Middleware for Pervasive Services and Applications - Mobile/Wearable Computing Systems and Services in Pervasive Computing - Multimodal Sensing and Context for Pervasive Applications - Opportunistic Networking and Sensing in Pervasive Systems - Participatory and Social Sensing - Pervasive Computing Aspects of Social Networks - Positioning and Tracking Technologies - Programming Paradigms for Pervasive Systems - Sensors and RFID in Pervasive Systems - Smart Devices and Intelligent Environments - Social and Economic Models for Pervasive Systems - Software Evolution and Maintenance in Pervasive Systems - Trust, Security and Privacy Issues in Pervasive Systems - User Interface, Interaction, and Persuasion - Virtual Immersive Communications Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Danny Hughes, KU Leuven, Belgium Program Chairs Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chair Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Tracks Chairs Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Uneb Gazger, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada Wendy Osborn, University of Lethbridge, Canada Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, EIGSI-Casablanca, Morocco Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines Advisory Committee Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Steering Committee Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada (Chair and MobiSPC Founder) -- Orven E. Llantos, PhD Associate Professor School of Computer Studies MSU-IIT -- ---*DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology <http://www.iit.edu.ph/> (MSU-IIT) makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, with respect to the MSU-IIT e-mail resources it provides. 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CFP: The 17th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems
by MobiWIS Conference 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

----------------------- Call for Papers ----------------------------- The 17th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systemsm (MobiWis 2021) Springer LNCS Series. 23-25 August 2020, Rome, Italy http://www.mobiwis.org/2021/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Topics of conference include (but not limited to): Conference Tracks: - Smart and Intelligent Systems - Software Design and Development - Middleware and SOA - Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications - Data management - Security, Trust and Privacy - Mobile Commerce and Services - Transforming Technology - HCI in Mobile Applications - Context & Location-aware Services - Network and Communication - Industrial Applications and Demos Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2021 Authors Notification: 20 May 2021 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2021 Conference Venue: The organizing committee is carefully monitoring the Covid-19 situation. The safety and well-being of the conference participants is the main priority. The committee will confirm by Spring 2021 of whether to hold the conference onsite in Rome or as an online event. 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 (see conference website). 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 Co-Chairs: Thanh Van Do, Telenor, Norway Stephan Böhm, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany Program Co-Chairs: Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Tor-Morten, Kristiania University College, Norway Local Organising Co-Chairs: Flora Amoto, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy Publication Chair: Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Journal Special Issue Coordinator: Satish Narayana, University of Tartu, Estonia Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho Portugal, Portugal Publicity Chair: Nor Shahniza Kamal Bashah, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

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LION15 Athens, Greece, June 20-25, 2021 The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference
by Ilias Kotsireas 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

LION15: The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference Athens, Greece, June 20-25, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference website https://lion15.sba-research.org/index.html Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion15 Extended Submission deadline March 15, 2021 The large variety of heuristic algorithms for hard optimization problems raises numerous interesting and challenging issues. Practitioners using heuristic algorithms for hard optimization problems are confronted with the burden of selecting the most appropriate method, in many cases through expensive algorithm configuration and parameter tuning. Scientists seek theoretical insights and demand a sound experimental methodology for evaluating algorithms and assessing strengths and weaknesses. This effort requires a clear separation between the algorithm and the experimenter, who, in too many cases, is "in the loop" as a motivated intelligent learning component. LION deals with designing and engineering ways of "learning" about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for mining the knowledge obtained online or offline can improve the algorithm design! process and simplify the applications of high-performance optimization methods. Combinations of different algorithms can further improve the robustness and performance of the individual components. This meeting explores the intersections and uncharted territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, energy, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. The main purpose of the event is to bring together experts from these areas to discuss new ideas and methods, challenges and opportunities in various application areas, general trends and specific developments. We are excited to be bringing the LION conference in Greece for the third time. Plenary/Invited Speakers ------------------------ Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel) "B_k-VPG graphs – the string graphs of paths on a grid" Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada) "Communication and Mobility in Optimization for Infrastructure Resilience" Paul Spirakis (University of Liverpool, UK and University of Patras, Greece) "Temporal Networks and the impact of availability patterns" COVID-19 INFORMATION --------------------- The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION) conference is planned to take place as a hybrid (on-site and on-line) conference on June 20-25, 2021 at Athens, Greece. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: Paper Format Please prepare your paper in English using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available here. Papers must be submitted in PDF. Types of Submissions When submitting a paper to LION15, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers: Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages in LNCS format); Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 6 pages in LNCS format); Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference. Submission System All papers must be submitted using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion15. List of Topics -------------- LION15 welcomes high quality submissions on the broad topics of machine learning, artificial intelligence, energy, mathematical programming, optimization (models, algorithms and applications) and heuristics. Additionally, more specialized, submission topics for long and short papers may include, but are not limited to: automatic solver configuration parallel methods for search and optimization hard combinatorial optimization problems intelligent optimization in health, e-health, bioinformatics and neurosciences machine learning and optimization methods in tourism and hospitality nature-inspired algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems hard combinatorial optimization problems in combinatorics, computational geometry and machine learning DC (difference of convex functions) learning: theory, algorithms and applications computational intelligence for smart cities computational intelligence for autonomous driving optimization and management in smart manufacturing algorithms and applied optimization for environmental data science machine learning and robust optimization techniques in finance applications machine learning and optimization methods in software engineering Organizing committee -------------------- Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, USA Dimitris E. Simos (Technical Program Committee Chair), SBA Research, Austria & Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Tecnology, Austria & Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Committee Chair), CARGO Lab, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Publication ----------- LION15 proceedings will be published by SpringerNature in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Revised selected papers of LION15 will be published in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Contact ------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Technical PC Chair, Dimitris E. Simos at dsimos(a)sba-research.org

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ICAS 2021 Special Session
by Ioanna Koroni 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

Call for Papers: ICAS 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Vision (AVVision) Special Session (Deadline: March 03, 2021) ICAS is a flagship event sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) through IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. Special Session Website: https://avvision.xyz/icas21/ With a number of breakthroughs in autonomous system technology over the past decade, the race to commercialize self-driving cars has become fiercer than ever. The integration of advanced sensing, computer vision, signal/image processing, and machine/deep learning into autonomous vehicles enables them to perceive the environment intelligently and navigate safely. Autonomous driving is required to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient automated mobility in complex uncontrolled real-world environments. Various applications range from automated transportation and farming to public safety and environment exploration. Visual perception is a critical component of autonomous driving. Enabling technologies include: a) affordable sensors that can acquire useful data under varying environmental conditions, b) reliable simultaneous localization and mapping, c) machine learning that can effectively handle varying real-world conditions and unforeseen events, as well as “machine-learning friendly” signal processing to enable more effective classification and decision making, and d) resilient and robust platforms that can withstand adversarial attacks and failures. The <https://avvision.xyz/> Autonomous Vehicle Vision (AVVision) Special Session at <https://2021.ieee-icas.org/> the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems 2021 (ICAS'21) will cover all these topics. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics: Organizers Dr. Rui Ranger Fan, UC San Diego Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Important Dates Full Paper Submission: 03/03/2021 Notification of Acceptance: 05/21/2021 Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 06/01/2021 Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 4 pages for technical content including figures and possible references, and with one additional optional 5th page containing only references) via the IEEE ICAS 2021 conference website. Manuscripts should be original (not submitted/published anywhere else) and written in accordance with the standard double-column SPS IEEE conference format. IEEE ICAS 2021 requires that each accepted paper be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule to be published. Any paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore. More details can be found at https://2021.ieee-icas.org/authors/call-papers. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mark Coates, Prof. <mark.coates(a)mcgill.ca <mailto:mark.coates@mcgill.ca> > Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:20 AM Subject: ICAS 2021 Special Session To: Rui FAN <rui.fan(a)ieee.org <mailto:rui.fan@ieee.org> > Cc: pitas(a)csd.auth.gr <mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr> <pitas(a)csd.auth.gr <mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr> >, pitas(a)aiia.csd.auth.gr <mailto:pitas@aiia.csd.auth.gr> <pitas(a)aiia.csd.auth.gr <mailto:pitas@aiia.csd.auth.gr> >, Arash Mohammadi <arash.mohammadi(a)concordia.ca <mailto:arash.mohammadi@concordia.ca> > (arash.mohammadi(a)concordia.ca <mailto:arash.mohammadi@concordia.ca> ) <arash.mohammadi(a)concordia.ca <mailto:arash.mohammadi@concordia.ca> >, malika_meghjani(a)sutd.edu.sg <mailto:malika_meghjani@sutd.edu.sg> <malika_meghjani(a)sutd.edu.sg <mailto:malika_meghjani@sutd.edu.sg> > Dear Organizers, Congratulations! We are glad to inform you that your proposal entitled " Autonomous Vehicle Vision (AVVision)" has been approved for inclusion in the IEEE ICAS 2021's Special Session (SS) Programme. The committee and reviewers were impressed by the proposal. One recommendation was that you could perhaps consider modifying the title of the proposal to narrow the scope and construct a more focused special session. Additionally, you could consider eliminating topics “d) hardware and software codesign” and “f) end-to-end system integration”. These are not mandatory changes, but the overall impression of the committee was that in its current form the scope of the session is very broad. The "Paper Submission Deadline" for SS papers is March 3, 2021 as such please contact authors of the proposed contributed papers in your SS to proceed with submission of their papers in a timely fashion. Congratulations again and looking forward to hosting your SS at ICAS'2021. Warm Regards, IEEE ICAS 2021's Special Session Chairs. Malika Meghjani and Mark Coates Mark Coates Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University -- Rui (Ranger) Fan, Ph.D. (University of Bristol, UK) I will join Tongji University in Fall 2021 as a Research-Track Full Professor. I have several Master/Ph.D./Postodc openings! ruirangerfan.com <http://www.ruirangerfan.com/> Postdoc, UC San Diego <mailto:rfan@ucsd.edu> rfan(a)ucsd.edu UC, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> www.avast.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021)
by Mayssa HEMDANI 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************* International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility - (RTATM 2021) Prague - Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/rtatm/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in RTATM 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The RTATM 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence (ADSI 2021) International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Modelling and Simulation Algorithms - Vehicular Wireless Medium Access Control - V2X communications - Routings and Protocols for Connected Vehicles - Mobility Models and Architectures - Distribution Strategies - Traffic Incident Management Systems - Bio-Inspired Approaches - Optimization and Collaboration - Automatic Control in Vehicular Networks - Energy-aware Connected Mobility - Programming Languages - Sustainable Transportation - Multimodal Transportation Networks and Systems - Systemsâ€™ Integration - Driver Behavior Models and Simulation - Human Factors and Travel Behaviour - Green Mobility - Regulations and Bylaws for Intelligent - Transportation and Mobility SMART TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS - Mobility Management - Connected Vehicles - VANETs - Predictive Logistics - Spatio-Temporal Event Tracking - Decision Support Systems - Emergency Management - Logistics and E-Commerce - Supply Chain Design and Execution - Supply Chain Management - Advanced Planning Systems - Fleet Management - Multi-Agent Systems - Machine Learning for Smart Logistics - Intelligent Infrastructures - Real-time Analysis of Comprehensive Supply Chain Data - Smart Synchronization of Logistics Processes - New Approaches for Cost Transparency - Big Data for Smart Logistics - Logistics 4.0 - Mobile Networks - Next-Generation Smart Logistics - Performance Management Approaches - Tests and Deployment - Software Defined Networks - Smart Freight Management - Smart Shipment Management - Smart Warehousing - Smart Inventory management DATA AND SERVICES - Real-Time transportation Data Acquisition - Event Detection and Monitoring - Data Warehouses for connected mobility - Data mining and Data analytics - Data Worthiness in Connected Vehicles - Data Trustworthiness for effective transportation and mobility - Road Traffic Data Analytics - Structured and Unstructured Data for Connected Mobility - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - Data Representation for Connected Mobility - Transportation Data Mining - Transportation and mobility Data Visualization - Cognitive and Context-aware Intelligence - Transportation Decision Support Systems - Mobility as a Service (MaaS) - Intelligent Transportation Services - Smart Mobility Services - Big Data and Vehicle Analytics - Massive Data Management - Collective and connected Intelligence - Next Generation Services - Driver Behaviour Analysis - Geo-Spatial Services - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Web and Mobile Services SAFETY, SECURITY, AND HAZARD MANAGEMENT - Security Issues in Vehicular Communications - Safety Applications of Connected Vehicles - Weather-related Safety solutions - V2V, V2I and I2V Road Safety Applications - Connected Mobility for Hazard Management - Risk Management - Road Traffic Crashes Analytics - Traffic Jam Prediction - Resource Allocation for Hazard Management - Trust and Privacy Issues in Logistics - Management of Exceptional Events - New approaches to Networking Security for Transportation Applications - Failure modes, human factors, software safety - Automated Failure Analysis - Performance and Human Error Analysis - Design and Reliability of Control Systems - Dispersion Modelling Software - Quantification of Risk *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtatm2021). All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/rtatm/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-rtatm(a)confscience.com

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International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence - (ADSI 2021) -Prague
by Emilia Marc 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Call for papers ************************************************* International Conference on Applied Data Science and Intelligence - (ADSI 2021) Prague- Czech Republic, October 14-15, 2021 https://confscience.com/adsi/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2021 All papers accepted in ADSI 2021 will be published in Springer CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (Former ISI Proceedings) *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2021 *************************************************************************** The ADSI 2021 conference will be held in Conjunction with: International Conference on Recent Theories and Applications in Transportation and Mobility (RTATM 2021) International Conference on Informatics Revolution for Smarter Healthcare (IRSH 2021) *************************************************************************** TOPICS: Authors are invited to submit their original papers to address the topics of the conference, including but not limited to: FUNDAMENTALS AND THEORIES - Theoretical Models - Spatial and temporal multi-models - Multi-dimensional data - Data acquisition and pre-processing - Data inference - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics - New approaches for collaboration and competition - Self-organization, self-healing, fault-tolerance approaches - Spatial reasoning - Context awareness - Intelligent mobility - New approaches to supervised and unsupervised learning - New approaches for security, privacy, trust, and ethics in data science - Real-time data analytics - Multi-Agent Systems for data science - Distributed data analytics - Data authenticity - New theories and approaches for Deep learning - New approaches for Business Intelligence - Fuzzy logic - Decision trees - Support vector machines - Evolutionary computation - Statistical methods - Collaborative filtering - Data engineering - Content mining - Indexing schemes - Information retrieval - Metadata use and management INTELLIGENT DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS - Multi-level data processing - Data analytics optimization - Smart data mining - Machine Learning - Deep Learning - Bio-Inspired Computing - Secure data analytics - Privacy in data analytics - Trust in Big Data - Business intelligence - Visualization Analytics - Intelligence as a Service (IaaS) - Data Science as a Service (DSaaS) - Natural Language Processing - Signal Processing - Simulation and Modeling - Data-Intensive Computing SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES - Data storage infrastructure - Data warehouses - Data Query and Indexing Technologies - Software Defined Infrastructures - Software Defined Networks (SDN) - Distributed data systems - Smart grid computing - Intelligent data management - Big Data computing - Smart data networking - Internet of Things - Cyber Physical Systems - Blockchain - Fog and Edge intelligence - Parallel Computing systems - Open Source systems for data science - Embedded intelligence - Embedded data science - In-Memory computing - Intelligent drones - Internet of Drones - Real-time data acquisition systems APPLICATIONS - Intelligent Hazard management - Intelligent data science in healthcare - Intelligent data science in farming - Intelligent data science in Oil and Gas - Smart logistics - Intelligent data science in transportation - Intelligent data science in surveillance - Xtech (Fintech, Agritech, etc.) - Intelligent drones - Digital transformation - Bioinformatics - Marketing - Social Science - E-learning and E-services *************************************************************************** OUTSTANDING PAPERS: Based on the peer review scores as well as the presentations at the conference, the authors of outstanding papers will be invited to extend their works for a potential publication in journals special issues with high impact factors. *************************************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsi2021). All papers will be peer reviewed. Length of Full papers: 12-15 pages long (written in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format, 400 words per page) Length of Short papers: less than 12 pages For more information, please refer to the conference website: https://confscience.com/adsi/ *************************************************************************** CONTACT For more information, please send an email to info-adsi(a)confscience.com

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CFP [SEIT 2021] The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by Hana GHARRAD 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2021) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 The goal of the SEIT 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the faÃ§ade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. 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 -Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium -General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada -Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium -Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA -International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium -Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland -Advisory Committee 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 -Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21/#programCommittees

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[CFP][Annals of Telco] 2 weeks remaining (DL: Feb. 28) - Special Issue: Interactions between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to protect future networks
by Gregory Blanc 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, apologies for multiple postings. We are nearing the submission deadline is: February 28, 2021. As a remaing, please find below the call for paper for the Special Issue of the Annals of Telecommunications, entitled "Interactions between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to protect future networks" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artificial intelligence is the most dynamic research domain of this last decade, and as such has been increasingly penetrating other research domains, and all sectors of society. There is not a single application that AI researchers have not thought of improving with machine intelligence, from disease prognosis to crop management, to autonomous vehicles and facial recognition. Given the wealth of information produced in the era by next-generation networks (incl. virtualized networks, 5G, IoT), AI is expected to discover patterns and make predictions that no human can make, enhancing the efficiency of such networks on one hand, while offering new services on the other hand. In fact, it enables automation through the advance of AI-based decision-making. As such, reasoning is even more important than data analytics in assessing situations. Next-generation networks are thus critical assets that need to be protected as the society will be gradually relying on it, connecting every sector, from the home or workplace to the transport system or the hospital. Cybersecurity may as well benefit from AI approaches for diverse tasks such as malware analysis, intrusion detection, log analysis, threat classification, with a goal to enhance the cybersecurity situation of next-generation networks. Amalgamations between AI and Cybersecurity have been ongoing for more than three decades, and both of them are recently experiencing a blooming stage due to the increasing deployment of next- generation networks in the society. On the one hand, AI offers tremendous capabilities to analyze the threats, risks and attacks in various networking systems, enabling comprehensive and in-depth defense strategies. For example, both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have been frequently used to detect intrusion, while reinforcement learning has the potential to discover optimal security countermeasures for a particular attack. There is also an emerging trend on utilizing AI to assess and improve cybersecurity measures, e.g., by generating evaluation datasets, which Cybersecurity is direly lacking, or predict new malware. On the other hand, AI platforms, algorithms, and systems are attracting significant attention from the Cybersecurity community because of their increasing development, deployment, and application in our ICT infrastructure and services. For instance, the lack of interpretability of many deep learning models makes it extremely hard to defend against a sophisticated attack that either poisons data inputs and transformation, or exploits algorithm parameters and underlying software bugs. Recently, adversarial machine learning approaches have also prompted considerations for more critical thinking with respect to the adoption of AI-based systems, as next-generation network infrastructures that depend on them could be crippled by AI-related incidents then. This special issue is focused at the intersection between AI and Cybersecurity for the benefit of next-generation networks, with an objective to bringing together the engineers, researchers, and practitioners from both AI and Cybersecurity communities in industry and academy, as well as stakeholders in next-generation networks, to explore together the emerging issues, topics, and solutions in the subjects listed above. == Topics == Topics of interest for this special issue include but are not limited to: AI for the Cybersecurity of next-generation networks Anomaly detection Malware detection Botnet detection Root cause analysis Security information and event management DPI and network forensics, including encrypted traffic analysis Countermeasure selection Moving Target Defense Intelligent honeypots Dataset generation Attack generation Adversarial examples and Robustness Critical analysis of AI/ML applied to Cybersecurity Security of AI-based next-generation networks Security and privacy in AI algorithms Security in intelligent systems Trust in AI platforms Security and privacy of BigData processing Formal verification of AI algorithms Evasion/Deception of AI algorithms Adversarial examples and Robustness == Important Dates == Manuscript Submission: Extended to February 28, 2021 Online with DOI: As soon as accepted Printed Issue: Second half of 2021 == Editors == Lead Guest Editor Gregory Blanc, Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Guest Editors Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Takeshi Takahashi, Cybersecurity Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Japan Zonghua Zhang, Huawei France Research Center, Paris, France == Submission Guidelines == Papers must describe original research that advances state-of-the-art research and must not be simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in excellent English and should not exceed 20 pages. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 50% new material to be considered for the special issue. A covering letter to the Guest editors clearly describing the extensions made must accompany these types of submissions. All submissions must be made using the instructions available at: http://annalsoftelecommunications.wp.mines-telecom.fr/how-to-publish/ The authors can directly submit their papers at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ante/ and must select “Open Topic” in the menu “Choose Article Type” and then in the questionnaire on the “Additional Information” section, they will be able to select the item “CfP: Interactions between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to protect future networks”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Gregory Blanc

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CPS&IoT'2021 - the 9th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things
by Jozwiak, Lech 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Please be informed that due to the difficult Covid-19 situation and requests from paper authors the Submission Deadlines of CPS&IoT'2021 and MECO'2021 are extended. New Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2021. New Workshop and Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 March 2021. _________________________________________________________________________ Special Focus: Green CPS&IoT for Green World Special Theme of CPS&IoT’2021: Artificial Intelligence, Edge Computing, Architectures, Methods and Tools for Autonomous Robots, Vehicles, Assistive, Environmental and other advanced CPS&IoT Dear Colleague, Please find the Call for Papers of CPS&IoT’2021 - the 9th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, Budva, Montenegro, 7-10 June, 2021 attached to this e-mail. CPS&IoT’2021 will be held in the Conference Venue (Hotel Budva) and online. All papers that will be accepted after the conference review process will be published in the CPS&IoT’2021 Conference Proceedings regardless of the authors' physical presence at the conference and will be presented by their authors either in the Conference Venue or online. The CPS&IoT’2020 Conference will host several prestigious keynote speakers from industry and academia. Extended journal versions of selected high-quality papers will be published in a special issue of the ISI indexed journal “Microprocessors and Microsystems” (MICPRO) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/microprocessors-and-microsystems<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.journ…>. The CPS&IoT'2021 Conference<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fembeddedco…> is collocated with the CPS&IoT’2021 Summer School<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fembeddedco…> and MECO'2021 Conference<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fembeddedco…> - the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing. Together they constitute a major Europe based conference event in CPS and IoT. Please also find attached the Call for Workshops and Special Sessions of CPS&IoT’2021. You are encouraged to submit your papers, as well as, Workshop and Special Session Proposals to the CPS&IoT’2020 Conference, and to participate in the collocated CPS&IoT’2020 Summer School. New Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2021. New Workshop and Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 March 2021. Best regards, Lech Jozwiak Program Chairman of the CPS&IoT’2020 Conference

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[SIAS 2021] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Tallinn, Estonia. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ in conjunction with " <https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/> 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021)" SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture . IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) . Correct-by-construction in IAS . MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS . Virtualization and digital twins for IAS . Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS . IAS smart Networking . Communication protocols for IAS . Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS . Distributed database for IAS . Web services for IAS . Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis . Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS . Model checking and theorem proving for IAS . Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS . Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS . Dynamic and static analysis for IAS . Statistical analysis for IAS . Testing for IAS . Smart decision making in IAS . Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance . Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS . Security in distributed IAS . Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS . Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS . Security protocols for IAS . Safety policies for IAS . Safety reinforcement models in IAS . Safety standard analysis for IAS . Resilience metrics and models for IAS . Resilience strategies and plans for IAS . Recovery systems for IAS resiliency . Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases . Applications and Software Platforms for IAS . IoT and CPS for IAS . Smart cities . IAS for industrial and production CPS . Autonomous robots and vehicles . Human-Robot Interaction . Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates . Submission Date: 25 April,2021 . Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 . Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System . <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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unsubscribe Francisco.Torrens@uv.es
by Francisco.Torrens＠uv.es 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

unsubscribe Francisco.Torrens(a)uv.es -- ******************************** torrens ******************************** ---------- Missatge reenviat ---------- Per a: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org Assumpte: [computational.science] Professor position in Software & System Security at Telecom Paris De: Jean Leneutre <jean.leneutre(a)telecom-paris.fr> Data: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:13:32 +0100 (CET) Télécom Paris, a member of the "Institut Polytechnique de Paris", is recruiting a professor in the research field of software and system security. The position will be attached to the ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems, https://aces.wp.imt.fr/) team of the LTCI laboratory. For a detailed description of the position, see the following page: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/professeur-en-securite-de… Deadline for application: 30 March 2021 Contact: laurent.pautet(a)telecom-paris.fr ------------------ Télécom Paris is one of the top four engineering schools in France for training general engineers. Recognized for its close ties with businesses, this public graduate school ensures excellent employment prospects in all industries and is considered the number-one engineering school for digital technology. With its top-level innovative teaching, Télécom Paris is at the center of a unique innovation ecosystem, drawing on the interaction and cross-disciplinary nature of the school’s academic programs, interdisciplinary research, two business incubators and its campuses (Paris and Sophia Antipolis – EURECOM). Its LTCI laboratory has been accredited by HCERES as an outstanding unit in the field of digital sciences for its international reputation and exceptional number of initiatives supporting the socio-economic world and industry, as well as for its great contribution to teaching. A founding member of Institut Polytechnique de Paris and an IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) school, Télécom Paris is positioned as the college for digital innovation on the Paris-Saclay Campus. -- ---------------------------------------------- Jean LENEUTRE, Associate Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, LTCI Lab (Information Processing and Communication Laboratory), Computer Science & Networking Dpt, ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems) team, 19 Place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, FRANCE Office : 4D46 Tel. : +33 (0)1 75 31 97 78 -- ---------------------------------------------- Jean LENEUTRE, Associate Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, LTCI Lab (Information Processing and Communication Laboratory), Computer Science & Networking Dpt, ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems) team, 19 Place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, FRANCE Office : 4D46 Tel. : +33 (0)1 75 31 97 78

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Professor position in Software & System Security at Telecom Paris
by Jean Leneutre 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Télécom Paris, a member of the "Institut Polytechnique de Paris", is recruiting a professor in the research field of software and system security. The position will be attached to the ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems, https://aces.wp.imt.fr/) team of the LTCI laboratory. For a detailed description of the position, see the following page: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/professeur-en-securite-de… Deadline for application: 30 March 2021 Contact: laurent.pautet(a)telecom-paris.fr ------------------ Télécom Paris is one of the top four engineering schools in France for training general engineers. Recognized for its close ties with businesses, this public graduate school ensures excellent employment prospects in all industries and is considered the number-one engineering school for digital technology. With its top-level innovative teaching, Télécom Paris is at the center of a unique innovation ecosystem, drawing on the interaction and cross-disciplinary nature of the school’s academic programs, interdisciplinary research, two business incubators and its campuses (Paris and Sophia Antipolis – EURECOM). Its LTCI laboratory has been accredited by HCERES as an outstanding unit in the field of digital sciences for its international reputation and exceptional number of initiatives supporting the socio-economic world and industry, as well as for its great contribution to teaching. A founding member of Institut Polytechnique de Paris and an IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) school, Télécom Paris is positioned as the college for digital innovation on the Paris-Saclay Campus. -- ---------------------------------------------- Jean LENEUTRE, Associate Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, LTCI Lab (Information Processing and Communication Laboratory), Computer Science & Networking Dpt, ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems) team, 19 Place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, FRANCE Office : 4D46 Tel. : +33 (0)1 75 31 97 78 -- ---------------------------------------------- Jean LENEUTRE, Associate Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris, LTCI Lab (Information Processing and Communication Laboratory), Computer Science & Networking Dpt, ACES (Autonomous and Critical Embedded Systems) team, 19 Place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, FRANCE Office : 4D46 Tel. : +33 (0)1 75 31 97 78

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Open Position of Research Engineer on AI and mobility simulation at the CIAD Lab (UTBM) France
by Stéphane Galland 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Dear all. A position of Research Engineer is open at the CIAD laboratory (France, http://www.ciad-lab.fr) in the context of our H2020 REDREAM project. The topics of this position is to contribute to an AI-based mobility simulator in the context of local energy market. Details on the new position could be found on one of the three websites: http://www.ciad-lab.fr/job-offers-at-ciad-laboratory/ https://www.ubfc.fr/recrutement-2/ https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/604054 All the best. -- Laboratoire Connaissance et Intelligence Artificielle Distribuées CIAD UMR 7533 Prof. Dr. Stéphane GALLAND Full Professor of Computer Science and Multiagent Systems Deputy Director of CIAD French Head of ARFITEC ARF-17-11 & ARF-19-11 "Energy, Transport, Industry, Challenges for tomorrow" Senior member of the Multiagent Group Member of AFIA Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard - UBFC 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE CIAD Lab: www.ciad-lab.fr Web: www.ciad-lab.fr/author-10836 Phone: +33 384 583 418 (work office) Mobile: +33 662 274 442 (private)

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#ACDL2021, 4th Advanced Online & Onsite Course on Data Science & Machine Learning | July 19-23, 2021 | Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – Tuscany, Italy
by Ludovico Montalcini 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

#ACDL2021, An Interdisciplinary Course: #BigData, #DeepLearning & #ArtificialIntelligence without Borders ACDL 2021 – A Unique Experience: #DataScience, #MachineLearning & #ArtificialIntelligence with the World’s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano (Online attendance available) Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - #Tuscany, Italy July 19-23 https://acdl2021.icas.cc acdl(a)icas.cc ACDL 2021 (as ACDL 2020): an #OnlineAndOnsiteCourse https://acdl2021.icas.cc/acdl-2021-as-acdl-2020-an-online-onsite-course/ REGISTRATION: Early Registration: by Monday February 15, 2021 (GMT+01) https://acdl2021.icas.cc/registration/ DEADLINES: o Early Registration: by Monday February 15, 2021 (GMT+01) o Oral/Poster Presentation Submission Deadline: Monday February 15, 2021 (GMT+01) o Late Registration: from Tuesday February 16, 2021 o Accommodation Reservation at Reservation at the Certosa di Pontignano: by Saturday July 10, 2021 o Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: by Monday May 31, 2021 ACDL 2021 LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Jacob D. Biamonte, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Federation * Chris Bishop, Microsoft, Cambridge, UK Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge & University of Edinburgh * Silvia Chiappa, DeepMind, London, UK * Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for AI, USA CEO at Allen Institute for AI * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Georg Gottlob, Computer Science Dept, University of Oxford, UK * Marta Kwiatkowska, Computer Science Dept., University of Oxford, UK * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Daniela Rus, MIT, USA) Director of CSAIL (TBC) * Silvio Savarese, Stanford, University, USA Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence * Cristina Savin, New York University, Center for Neural Science & Center for Data Science, USA * Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel * Isabel Valera, Saarland University, Germany Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, * Germany * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK More Keynote Speakers to be announced soon. ACDL 2021 TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: * Roman Belavkin, Middlesex University London, UK * Martín Gómez Ravetti, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil More Tutorial Speakers to be announced soon. PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/past-lecturers/ * Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK * Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind - Google, London, UK * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Roman Belavkin, Middlesex University London, UK * Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal, Canada * Michael Bronstein, Twitter & Imperial College London, UK * Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA * Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK & Founding Director of Data Science Institute * Phillip Isola, MIT, USA * Leslie Kaelbling, MIT - Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, USA * Diederik P. Kingma, Google Brain, San Francisco, CA, USA * Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada * Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT & Director of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory, USA * José C. Principe, University of Florida, USA * Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Facebook AI Research Lab, New York, USA * Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University, and AI Research at Apple, USA * Guido Sanguinetti, The University of Edinburgh, UK * Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA * Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge * Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK SCOPE: MSc students, PhD students, postdocs, junior/senior academics, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of the attendants. In fact, the Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior and junior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. VENUE: The venue of ACDL 2021 will be The Certosa di Pontignano — Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Località Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info(a)lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2021.icas.cc/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/accommodation/ PAST EDITIONS https://acdl2021.icas.cc/past-editions/ https://acdl2018.icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/registration/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2021 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in 3D or 2D :) in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2021 Organizing Committee. acdl(a)icas.cc https://acdl2021.icas.cc https://acdl2021.icas.cc/category/news/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences

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Live e-lecture by Prof. Efstratios Gavves: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. Efstratios Gavves (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), a prominent young AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, on Tuesday 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/93863728654 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media and <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> Vision and Humane AI Net currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics, starting with the above mentioned e-lecture. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) Lectures will be typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. Other upcoming lectures: 1. Prof. Pietro Perona, ‘Measuring algorithmic bias in face analysis — towards an experimental approach’, 23rd February 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 2. Prof. Björn Schuller: ‘There will be Artificial Emotional Intelligence’, 9th March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET 3. Prof. Andreas Geiger, ‘Towards Robust End-to-End Driving’, 23rd March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET More lecture infos in: <http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/ These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. I. Pitas, N. Sebe, B. O’Sullivan, M. Chetouani AIDA AI Excellence lecture series committee -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Electronics journal - Machine Learning for E-services
by Luis Anido Rifón 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Journal: Electronics Electronics is indexed in the Journal Citation Report with an impact factor of 2.412 (Q2) among other indexes: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/indexing Special Issue on Machine Learning for E-Services Deadine: June 15, 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/ML_EServices Special Issue Information Machine learning is a discipline within computer science that went through massive growth in the past several years. Through a series of mathematical algorithms, together with the increasing availability of data and computational power, a machine learning system can make accurate predictions based on existing data. In addition to the development of new algorithms or the fine-tuning of existing ones, many researchers identified a huge potential in the application of machine learning methods to solve relevant problems. One of the most promising application fields is ‘e-services’, that is, the provision of traditional services through an online Internet-based channel. This Special Issue will address the most recent advances in the introduction of machine learning techniques to improve and personalize e-services. Thus, contributions are expected to present original research on machine learning with real-world applications in e-services. Topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to the following: * New machine learning algorithms for e-services. * Benchmarking of machine learning alternatives in e-services. * Adaptation and fine-tuning of machine learning in specific e-services domains. * Machine learning in e-learning. * Machine learning in e-health. * Machine learning in e-government. * Machine learning in e-commerce. * Machine learning in e-Business. * Machine learning in e-security. * Machine learning in social networks. * Machine learning in marketing. * Machine learning for the development and deployment of e-services on cloud computing scenarios. Prof. Dr. Luís E. Anido-Rifon Dr. Sonia Valladares Rodriguez /Guest Editors/ *Manuscript Submission Information* Manuscripts should be submitted online atwww.mdpi.com <https://www.mdpi.com/>byregistering <https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/>andlogging in to this website <https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/>. Once you are registered,click here to go to the submission form <https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=electronics>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on theInstructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/instructions>page./Electronics/ <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/>is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit theInstructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/instructions>page before submitting a manuscript. TheArticle Processing Charge (APC) <https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/>for publication in thisopen access <https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/>journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI'sEnglish editing service <https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english>prior to publication or during author revisions.

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CfC Ada-Europe 2021 Virtual Conference - 31 Mar deadline!
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** UPDATED Call for Contributions - VIRTUAL EVENT *** 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, online www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 31 MARCH 2021 AoE *** #AEiC2021 ##AdaEurope AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** News - AEiC 2021 will be a virtual-only event. - Deadline for Industrial Presentation outlines and Tutorial proposals is extended to 31 March 2021. *** General Information The 25 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021), initially scheduled to take place in Santander, Spain, will be held online from the 7th to the 11th of June, 2021. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The organizing committee estimates that the conditions for a safe in-person conference will not be met in June 2021. Consequently, the AEiC 2021 Conference will be a virtual-only event. *** Schedule 14 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, and workshop (CLOSED) proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track paper presentations and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and invited presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and invited presentations *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will have keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and virtual social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021. Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, a virtual room will be provided for exhibition activities. 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. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Program Committee Mario Aldea Rivas, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST, FR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Xiaotian Dai, University of York, UK Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Marisol García Valls, Univ. Politècnica de València, ES J. Javier Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI, USA Patricia López Martínez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Lucía Lo Bello, DIEEI - Univ. degli Studi di Catania, ES Kristina Lundqvist, Malardalen University, SE Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, NO Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Jorge Real, Univ. Politècnica de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Politècnica de València, ES Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT *** Industrial Committee Patricia Balbastre, Univ. Politècnica de València, ES Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Laurent Rioux, Thales R&T, FR Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, FR *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be * 25th Ada-Europe Int. Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) * June 7-11, 2021 * online event * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 **

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CFP: Special Issue on Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics for a Green Environment
by Mohammed FATTAH 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ====================================================================== Call for Paper Special Issue "Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics for a Green Environment" Website: : https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/si/705263/ <https://click.email.hindawi.com/?qs=a8731f9bc2b807494a92d41aafa5a1cd5a0509d…> Deadline: 30 Apr 2021 . Dear Colleagues, The rapid growth in the population density in green cities demands that services and infrastructure be provided to meet the needs of city inhabitants. Thus, there has been an increase in the request for embedded devices, such as sensors, actuators, and smartphones, leading to considerable business potential for the new era of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which all devices are capable of interconnecting and communicating with each other over the Internet. Thus, Internet technologies provide a way of integrating and sharing a common communication medium and a complete system consisting of various types of sensor deployment, including smart home sensors, vehicular networking, weather and water sensors, smart parking sensors, and surveillance objects. This iSpecial Issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss various aspects of Internet of things and Big Data for Green Cities, to explore key technologies, and to develop new applications in this research field. Original research and review articles are welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: * IoT-based big data processes and applications for green cities * IoT-based services for smart and green cities * Social computing big data and networks for green cities * Green city big data governance and management * City analytics methods and applications * Green informatics: acquisition, aggregation, and analysis of big data * Green computing for sustainable planning and city configuration evaluation * Big data modelling, storage, management, and analytics Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at https://review.hindawi.com/submit?specialIssue=532007 Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date For more information please visit : https://www.hindawi.com/journals /mpe/si/705263/ <https://click.email.hindawi.com/?qs=a8731f9bc2b807494a92d41aafa5a1cd5a0509d…> Best Regards, Mohammed FATTAH Guest Editor

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining 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 Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail 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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Live e-lecture by Prof. Efstratios Gavves: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. Efstratios Gavves (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), a prominent young AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, on Tuesday 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/93863728654 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media and <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> Vision and Humane AI Net currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics, starting with the above mentioned e-lecture. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) Lectures will be typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. Other upcoming lectures: 1. Prof. Pietro Perona, ‘Measuring algorithmic bias in face analysis — towards an experimental approach’, 23rd February 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 2. Prof. Björn Schuller: ‘There will be Artificial Emotional Intelligence’, 9th March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET 3. Prof. Andreas Geiger, ‘Towards Robust End-to-End Driving’, 23rd March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET More lecture infos in: <http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/ These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. I. Pitas, N. Sebe, B. O’Sullivan, M. Chetouani AIDA AI Excellence lecture series committee -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2021 - First call for papers
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

***************************************************************************** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. First Call for Papers (Scopus and ISI index) Deadline March 28, 2021 ***************************************************************************** Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2021<https://cas2020.webnode.com/> - https://cas2020.webnode.com/) Workshop of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021, https://iccsa.org) will be held on July 5-8, 2021, in Cagliari, Italy. The ICCSA 2021 conference will again we organized in Cagliari, Italy, and we are once more planning for robustness. Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning to offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the pandemic situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for mixed online/in-presence sessions. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 28, 2021: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance. May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends. May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2021 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2021 organizer)

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ICCSA 2021: Computational Optimization and Applications
by Ana Rocha 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2021) Workshop of the 21th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021, <http://www.iccsa.org/> http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 5 - 8, 2021 in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy, in blended form. Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning to offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the pandemic situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for mixed online/in-presence sessions. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 28, 2021: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance. May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends. July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2020 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2021 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs> http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: <http://ess.iccsa.org/> http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site ( <http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors> http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha ( <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt> arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt), <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> ALGORITMI Center (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha ( <mailto:hrocha@fe.uc.pt> hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt), <https://www.uc.pt/en/feuc> Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra), <https://www.uc.pt/en/uid/ceber> CeBER (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2021 organizers)

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ICCSA 2021: Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

-- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it IEEE and ACM Senior Member Department Deputy Chair

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CFPs (SEIT 2021)The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by Hana GHARRAD 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2021) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 The goal of the SEIT 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the faÃ§ade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. 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 Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee 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 Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21/#programCommittees

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CFPs (SEIT 2021)The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by Hana Gharrad 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2021) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 The goal of the SEIT 2021 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 2021 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 2021 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. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the faÃ§ade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. 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 Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee 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 Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21/#programCommittees

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*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Final Submission Deadline Extension ***
by Dominik Bartuschat 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Eleventh International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2021) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2021/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2021, the 11th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2021 Conference in Krakow, Poland, from June 16-18, 2021. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing We welcome full (up to 14 pages) and short (up to 7 pages) papers in Springer LNCS format (we can not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS 2021, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: February 12, 2021 Paper Submission Due March 15, 2021 Author Notification April 5, 2021 Camera-Ready Papers Due IHPCES 2021 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee (tentative): Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel Parallel Computing Lab, USA Sebastian Kuckuk - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2021. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2021 co-chairs -- Dr.-Ing. Dominik Bartuschat, M.Sc. (hons.) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik 10 - Systemsimulation Cauerstrasse 11 D-91058 Erlangen Tel: +49 9131 85 28925 Fax: +49 9131 85 28928 E-Mail: dominik.bartuschat(a)fau.de

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[CfP] VHPC 21 - HPC Virtualization (Springer LNCS)
by Michael Alexander 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 16th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 21) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 24 - July 2, 2021, Zoom Online Event. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: July 2, 2021 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Online Zoom Event registration [free, limited slots] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ux8jRopGhCYku3Z_FFMfud3RLwMg4-DABE_EeqlLmAQ Abstract Registration Deadline: February 15, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 5, 2021 Springer LNCS Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widen the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Rootless Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes, Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC, Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declarative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch (Scheduling / job management, Execution paradigm - workflow, Data management, Deployment, Multi-cluster/scalability, performance, Workflow / execution paradigm) - End-to-end rootless Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking (SDN / NVF, SR-IOV, Network Slicing & provisioning, polling, federated learning OS abstractions). - Lightweight Virtualization (Micro VMMs: Rust-VMM / AWS Firecracker / solo5, Xen, KVM, Nitro, RVirt, Rust based hypervisors / Cloud Hypervisor / Novel hypervisors - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V (hypervisor extensions / ports / IOMMU specification) - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Merging of high throughput computing and HPC - Novel schedulers for job to data placement - Containerizing Scientific Codes (Building / Deploying / Securing / Storage / Monitoring) - High performance containers - Portability of containers/images, impact on performance - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates February 15, 2021 - Abstract registration deadline April 5, 2021 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2021 - Acceptance notification July 2, 2021 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2021 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubis, Greece Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN, Japan Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=28004 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) 2021, June 24 - July 2.

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining 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 Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail 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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Paper Invitation to Special Issue "Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications"
by Anna Napoli 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to inform you that a Special Issue of the Mathematics Journal (a peer-reviewed open access journal ISSN 2227-7390 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics>, WoS impact factor 1.747, Q1 and top 10%) dedicated to polynomial sequences and their applications is now open to receive submission for possible publications. Special Issue: *Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications.* Website:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_sequence…> Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Francesco Aldo Costabile, Prof. Dr. Maria I. Gualtieri, Prof. Dr. Anna Napoli Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 30/A, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy. Deadline for manuscript submissions: *30 June 2021.* Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: ·Modern Umbral Calculus (Binomial, Appell, Sheffer Polynomial Sequences). ·Orthogonal polynomials, Matrix orthogonal polynomials, Multiple orthogonal polynomials and Orthogonal polynomials of several variables. ·Operational methods and Monomiality Principle. ·Generating functions, special classes. ·Matrix and determinant approach to special polynomial sequences. ·Applications of special polynomial sequences in approximation theory, in boundary value problems and in quadrature formulas. ·Number theory and special classes of polynomials. ·Asymptotic methods in orthogonal polynomials. ·Fractional Calculus. ·Extrapolation methods. *Description* Polynomials are an incredibly useful mathematical tools as they are simply defined and can be calculated quickly on computer systems. They can be differentiated and integrated easily, and can be pieced together to form spline curves. Furthermore, from Weierstrass’s Approximation Theorem, every continuous function defined on a closed interval can be uniformly approximated by polynomials. Therefore sequences of polynomials perform an important role in several branches of sciences: mathematics, phisics, engineering etc. For examples, polynomial sequences arise in physic and approximation theory as the solutions of certain ordinary differential equations. Orthogonal polynomials play an important role in the applications. In statistics Hermite polynomials are very important, which are, also, orthogonal polynomials. In algebra and combinatorics umbral polynomials are used such as: rising factorials, falling factorials, Abel, Bell, Bernoulli, Euler, Boile, ciclotomic, Dickson, Fibonacci, Lucas, Touchard etc. polynomials. Some of these belong to special classes, such as Sheffer, Appell and the binomial type.For this reason the research in this field appears in different Journals/Magazines. A special issue that makes the state of art of current research would be very useful for the mathematical community. We warmly invite you to contribute to our Special Issue. Don't hesitate to forward this message to anyone who could be interested. Thank you very much for your kind consideration and apologies for multiple copies. We look forward to hearing from you. Francesco A. Costabile, Maria I. Gualtieri, Anna Napoli

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Job ad: Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
by Sanjay Purushotham 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

[Apologies for multiple copies] Application link: https://apply.interfolio.com/81030 *Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)* The Department of Information Systems (IS) at UMBC invites applications for an open rank tenure-track faculty position starting August 2021. Successful candidates will complement and extend our current strengths. More information about research interests of our faculty can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/research/areas-of-research/. Candidates with research interests cross-cutting multiple areas are particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates must have earned a PhD in related fields no later than August 2021. The Department has 33 full-time faculty and over 1,600 students, including over 80 PhD students. The department offers undergraduate degrees in Information Systems and Business Technology Administration. Graduate degree programs, MS and PhD, are offered in both Information Systems and Human-Centered Computing, including an innovative online MS program in IS. In addition, the Department houses the Master’s in Health Information Technology, which is a professional degree program. Our faculty are actively engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research within and across departments and institutions, and four of our current faculty have received NSF CAREER awards. Further details can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/. UMBC is a public research university that is leading the world in inclusive excellence in research and teaching. We are redefining how to teach and we are one of the most innovative universities in the nation (US News). To continue to support this goal, the Faculty Development Center provides excellent support such as classroom observation, collection and analysis of student feedback as well as regular workshops and pedagogical demonstrations. Our research is bold, cross disciplinary, and leverages our location near to the hospitals in Baltimore, NIH, NASA, NSF, and the USGS. UMBC’s strategic location in the Baltimore-Washington corridor puts us close to many high-tech companies as well. The 2018 Chronicle of Higher Education also named UMBC as one of the best colleges to work for, for the ninth year in a row. The department, college and UMBC are deeply committed to the success of all of our faculty. We have various mentoring programs such as “launch committees” to offer regular and structured mentorship for faculty to develop a thriving and successful research program and the Eminent Scholar mentoring program to build relationships with leaders in the field beyond UMBC. The campus is close to both energetic urban centers and family-friendly suburbs. Nearby cities such as Columbia and Ellicott City have been routinely ranked as top 10 best places to live in the US. Candidates are expected to establish a collaborative, externally funded, and nationally recognized research program and contribute to teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses offered by the department effectively. We expect candidates to be innovative in terms of pedagogical methods, course content, and curriculum development, and be committed to advising, mentoring and supporting student success. All candidates should have experience in – or have the potential for – building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment in teaching, mentoring, research, life experiences, or service. Candidates for the Associate and Full Professor rank should also demonstrate a track record of inclusive excellence. Candidates for the Associate Professor rank should also have a strong record of research, teaching, service, and a sustained externally-funded research program. Candidates for the Full Professor rank should also demonstrate leadership in their field, hold an excellent academic record, and show a history of securing external funds for multiple sizable research projects. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been under-represented in the professoriate. We especially welcome applications from candidates who are willing to contribute to the diversity mission of the university and the department. UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM. Examples of these are our Meyerhoff Scholar programs ( http://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/), the Center for Women in Technology ( http://cwit.umbc.edu), and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs. Inclusive excellence is a hallmark of UMBC and a foundational value of our community. UMBC is the nation’s #1 producer of African American undergraduates who go on to complete an M.D./Ph.D. and #2 nationally for African American undergraduates who complete a STEM Ph.D. The IS department is proud to support a diverse student and faculty body in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity. The IS faculty has a culture of inclusiveness of excellence, demonstrated by both academic research such as community engaged scholarship, research on improving accessibility of technology to disabled, as well as efforts to address diversity issues in STEM such as CWIT scholar program and starting a regional chapter of Women in Data Science and Machine Learning. More than half of the leadership positions in the department including the chair are currently held by women faculty. Applications for the positions must be submitted as PDF files via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/81030. Review of applications will start in December 2020 but will continue until positions are filled. All interviews will be conducted online but applicants are welcome to talk to IS faculty to learn about Baltimore and the surrounding area. A complete submission will consist of: 1) Cover letter 2) CV 3) One-page statement of teaching philosophy. 4) Two-page statement of research interests. 5) One-page statement of demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence. 6) Names and contact information of at least three references. Letters will be required later for short-listed candidates. Candidates’ experience will be evaluated commensurate to the rank to which they are applying. For inquiries, please email to is_faculty_search_2020(a)umbc.edu. An informational webinar will be also held in late November or early December. If you are interested in the webinar, please register at https://forms.gle/CmugCMfPdnPRoT386. Review of applications will begin in December, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. *UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.*

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Ada-Europe 2021 Conference - EXTENDED 14 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

The Ada-Europe 2021 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most submissions is extended to Thursday 14 January 2020. 2 weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Contributions - EXTENDED DEADLINE 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation. If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a full virtual event. The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and Invited Presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited Presentations *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. Should the situation allow it, the presenters will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021 Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 14 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the participation. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees for virtual participants. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

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Paper Invitation for Frontiers in Robotics and AI "Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving"
by T. Hoang Ngan Le 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

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[Deadline Approaching, January 10] 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin), Financial Cryptography 2021
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

[apologies for cross-posting] Call for Papers ================== 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) 2021 -- Regulators meet Industry meet Devs meet Researchers-- March 5, 2021, held in collaboration with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/) 1. Venue and Website ==================== Venue: Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grenada Website: https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/ Submission of papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codecfin21 2. Important Dates ================== Submission deadline: January 10, 2021 Author notification: February 10, 2021 Workshop: March 5, 2021 3. Background ============= On June 8th and 9th 2019, Distributed Ledger Technology-related innovations have been referenced in the Communique at the G20 Finance and Central Bank Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, referencing the report produced by the Financial Stability Board (FSB). G20 Communique Section 13 "We welcome the FSB report on decentralized financial technologies, and the possible implications for financial stability, regulation and governance, and how regulators can enhance the dialogue with a wider group of stakeholders.” FSB Report Decentralized financial technologies: Report on financial stability, regulatory and governance implications; Direct link to the FSB Report document Blockchain Governance Initiative Network(BGIN - pronounced BEGIN) was initiated on March 10, 2020 after several multi-stakeholder workshops including CoDeFi 2020, an associated workshop with Financial Cryptography 2020. This is a multi-stakeholder discussion network which aims at providing an open and neutral sphere for all stakeholders to deepen common understanding and to collaborate to address issues they face in order to attain sustainable development of the blockchain community. 4. Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) ================================================================ This workshop is designed to identify and discuss technology and operation issues of permissionless blockchain and decentralized finance. As permissionless blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms evolve and mature, there is an urgent need for multi-stakeholders to engage in their planning, development, roll-out, and operation, in order for innovation of a wide variety of financial applications to proliferate and become mainstream. Thus far it has been mainly developer & startup communities which are driving these protocols, platforms, and applications for this new era of computing. New standards, governance mechanisms and design patternsare evolving and need input from a variety of perspectives. There is a growing trend towards decentralized computing systems in which distributed ledger technologies are a fundamental component. These systems are designed to be global computing systems; they will likely form the basis of new financial services and businesses including a distributed Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI). These new financial services and businesses could bring huge benefit to the global financial system, e.g. resiliency over efficiency, and predictability over resiliency. However financial regulators, central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), while recognizing the potential of DLT systems, have also been keenly aware of the challenges in the adoption, and designing for the consumer protections required to balance usability, safety while supporting innovation. While it is likely that many G20 countries will be leading the design and development of these new infrastructures, all cities and countries should be considered and encouraged to participatein the planning. Discussions of this workshop are expected to contribute to discussions of Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN), where common documents on blockchain technology and operations are created backed by all stakeholders. Hence, CoDecFin 2021 will be directly connected to the general meeting of BGIN. The second general meeting of BGIN (Block #2) will be held right after CoDecFin. Note: This workshop does not endorse any specific decentralized finance projects and products. 5. Basic Structure of the Workshop ================================== The workshop is composed of three parts: Presentations of academic and practical results on blockchain technology and operations Selected talks from alla variety of stakeholders Discussions by multi-stakeholders on selected discussion topics. 6. Call for papers ================== We call for papers on technology and operational issues related to decentralized finance and permissionless blockchain, and future directions to solve these issues with specifying background the author(s) have. (i) regular papers (15 pages LNCS format excluding references and appendices), (ii) short papers (8 pages LNCS format in total), submission process is conducted by using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codecfin21 This year, we encourage to submit a paper associated with the current discussion topic at BGIN. - Key management at centralized/decentralized Custodian (see the draft of work stream at BGIN) - Decentralized Financial Technologies and Privacy, Identity and Traceability (see the draft of work stream at BGIN) - Reactions to FATF 12 month review to achieve both regulatory goals and privacy - Blockchain-based standard development mechanisms and process to accommodate multi-stakeholders Other topics, but are not limited to: ====================================== - Identity, privacy, and key management - Centralized custody and decentralized custody - 2021 Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption - Common understandings on "Regulatory Goals" - FATF: AML and privacy - Policy on End to End Encryption - Security of exchanges and decentralized finance protocols - Algorithm agility of permissionless blockchain - Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols - Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems - Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention and regulation - Standards: Technical, Regulatory - Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection - Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) - Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledgers and CBDCs - Governance of protocols, implementations 7. Organizing and Program Committees ===================================== (Alphabetical Order) Julien Bringer, Kallistech Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis & Institut Polytechnique de Paris Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London Byron Gibson, Program Manager at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research Feng Chen, University of British Columbia Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University, NTT Research and BSafe.network (tentative chair) Steven Nam, Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University Roman Pavlov, SafeStead Inc. Robert Schwentker, DLT Education and BSafe.network Yonatan Sompolinsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, DAGlabs Shigeya Suzuki, Keio University Ryosuke Ushida, JFSA and Georgetown University Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School Pindar Wong, BSafe.network Aaron Wright, Cardozo Law School Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association Aviv Zohar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Further details at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/

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ANT & EDI40 2021 CfPs (Final Extension): Warsaw, Poland (March 23 - 26, 2021)
by Elhadi Shakshuki 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Call for Papers The 12th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) & The 4th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40) Warsaw, Poland March 23-26, 2021 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/ & http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-21 Important Date * Paper Submission Due Date: December 30, 2020 (FINAL) ANT & EDI40 organizing committee invites you to submit papers. Please encourage your colleagues, research group members and fellow scientists to contribute and participate in this event. ANT & EDI40 conferences in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.770 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Journals Speciaal Issues * Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) * International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) * International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) Publication ANT & EDI40 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Your contributions and support are appreciated. Sincerely

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[Future Internet] Special Issue on "Service-Oriented Systems and Applications"
by Stefano Forti 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

*** Special Issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) on *** ******* "Service-Oriented Systems and Applications" ****** Submission Deadline: 31 August 2021 Website: <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/S_Oriented_Syste ms_A> https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/S_Oriented_System s_A ***************************************** ************ Call for Papers ************ ***************************************** Modern applications are inherently distributed, as they integrate various heterogeneous components and stand-alone (micro)services. How to compose and orchestrate services, as well as how to integrate and adapt them, has thus become a core issue in such distributed, service-oriented systems and applications. Theoretical and practical approaches to modelling and analysing such systems and applications would simplify their development; enable their validation and evaluation; and enhance their interoperability, reusability, and maintainability. The goal of this Special Issue is to allow researchers and practitioners to discuss common problems and present novel solutions in the aforementioned fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Cloud/fog/edge computing, and large-scale distributed systems; * Design principles, architectural smells, and architectural refactoring of service-oriented systems and applications; * Resource and application management in next-gen Cloud-IoT systems; * Dynamic service-oriented architectures and self-* systems and application; * Fault localization and resilience in service-oriented systems and applications; * Formal methods, models, and techniques for service-oriented systems and applications; * Microservices; * Model-driven design and development of peer-to-peer systems and blockchains; * Programming languages for service-oriented systems and applications; * Reverse engineering for service-oriented systems and applications; * Security in service-oriented systems and applications; * Service composition, coordination, orchestration, integration, and adaptation; * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); * Support for business processes-from design- to run-time; * QoS monitoring, modelling, and analysis in service-oriented systems and applications; * Verification and testing solutions for service-oriented systems and applications. Guest Editors Dr. Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy [http://pages.di.unipi.it/soldani] Dr. Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy [http://pages.di.unipi.it/forti/]

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ICCSA 2021: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

The 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2021 - University of Cagliari, Sardinia Island, Italy July 5-8, 2021 https://iccsa.org CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We encourage and invite interested parties to submit a proposal for organizing a Workshop at ICCSA 2021, which will be organized hopefully in a blended way because of pandemic: part in presence, part online, building on the experience of ICCSA 2020 held in July 2020. Workshop proposals will be collected and evaluated as they are received until December 23, 2020 and notification of acceptance / rejection will be sent before December 27, 2020. The Workshop proposals should be submitted from the researcher's home page on the ICCSA 2021 Electronic Submission System: https://ess.iccsa.org. The form to be filled will require the following information: 1) Title of the Workshop Please select a simple name, close to the aim of the workshop. Do not include here the acronym. 2) The Acronym of the Workshop including the year, 2021 (e.g.: VRA 2021) 3) The selected publisher (LNCS) of the proposed workshop. If you are interested publishing the papers of your Workshop on IEEE-CPS Xplore, please specify IEEE. 4) Description of the Workshop, including the detailed list (name, affiliation, country) of the Program Committee members 5) Description of the topics (themes) of the workshop 2) Name, the affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the Workshop organizer(s). 3) Previous experience of the organizer(s) in organizing Workshops (if any). 4) Name, the affiliation, and e-mail addresses of at least three colleagues of the organizer(s) who can assess the ability to organize a Workshop 7) A short description on how the workshop will be advertised. The organization of successful workshops in previous editions of ICCSA (at least 5 papers accepted in the Proceedings, minimum no-show up, several discussions and questions during/after presentations), including the participation of the Workshop Organizers to the Conference, will be given priority ranking for acceptance. The information provided by the workshop organizer(s) to the Conference Chairs shall remain strictly confidential. The Workshop Organizers are responsible for all the organizational aspects including soliciting submissions and providing the details of an adequate number of reviewers for the Workshop papers. Workshop Organizers are also fully responsible for ensuring that only high quality papers are accepted for publication in the Proceedings and for verifying the correctness of the layout adopted by the authors (which depends from the editor selected for the workshop). They are also responsible for choosing the actual reviewers (at least three) for each paper and for monitoring the reviewing process on the reviewing system, in collaboration with the Conference Program Chairs. Workshop Organizers (or their Deputies) are expected to attend ICCSA 2021, set the order of presentations and chair their related workshop(s). Due to their active role, Workshop Organizers will receive some incentives, depending on the number and quality of accepted and registered papers. Paper submission ---------------- GENERAL TRACKS PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. WORKSHOP PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules or 7 to 11 pages for CPS-Xplore publications. SHORT PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 7 to 9 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. PHD SHOWCASE PAPERS The submitted paper must be between 7 to 9 pages long and formatted according to the CPS -XPlore rules. Proceedings The proceedings will be published as a special series of volumes of the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) edited by Springer. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Papers published by IEEE-CPS will be published as Post Conference Proceedings and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. -- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it IEEE and ACM Senior Member Department Deputy Chair

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CFP: 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

========================================================================= 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Australia In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 URL: https://icfec2021.eeecs.qub.ac.uk ========================================================================= We are delighted to invite you for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be held as part of and in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. INTRODUCTION Billions of devices and sensors ranging from user gadgets to more complex systems with sensing and actuating capabilities, such as power grids or vehicles, from the physical world are getting connected to the Internet. However, the need to operate the scale of heterogeneous devices and sensors while being performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the data generated by the devices and sensors are transferred to and processed centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds. This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the ingress bandwidth demand. A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage resources located at the edge of the network and along the continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may be geographically or in the network topology be closer to devices and sensors, such as home router, gateways or more substantial micro data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected services from the cloud to accelerate an application or host edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is harnessed is referred to as 'Fog/Edge computing'. The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility of service deployments, make use of opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the network latency and bandwidth diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise when using edge resources, which requires the re-examination of operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware techniques for fabric management. Extensions to current programming and storage models are required and new abstractions that will allow developers to design novel applications that can benefit from massively distributed and data-driven systems need to be developed. Addressing security, privacy and trust of the edge resources is of paramount importance while managing the resources and context for mobile, transient and hardware constrained resources. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and machine/deep learning need to be supported over such platforms. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions covering both theory and practice over system software and domain-specific applications related to next-generation distributed systems that use the edge. Some representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge computing * Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models for Fog/Edge computing * Storage and data management platforms for Fog/Edge computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Distributed and federated machine learning on Fog/Edge * Performance monitoring and metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Legal issues and business aspects of Fog/Edge computing * Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in Fog/Edge computing * Modeling and simulation of Fog/Edge environments * Novel, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications of Fog/Edge computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. The manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, written in English. Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE format template for conference proceedings available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date may not be reviewed. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers may be submitted online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2021 IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 12 January 2021 23:59 GMT * Author notifications of acceptance: 14 February 2021 * Camera Ready Paper: 03 March 2021 PUBLICATION Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. ORGANIZATION General Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Program Chairs * Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk * Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA, mlena(a)udel.edu Steering Committee * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France * Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

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MEDI 2021 - Call for Workshops - Deadline March 30, 2021
by Antonio Corral 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: -------------------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops ------------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. 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. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure ------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: * George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru * Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr * Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es * Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: * Workshop title * Estimated length (one day or half day) * Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs * Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) * A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) * The main goals of the workshop * The list of workshop topics + Preliminary CFP + How information about the 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, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support --------------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ------------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates ------------------- * Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 * Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 * Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 * Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Antonio Corral, and Jüri Vain

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[CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, (CPSS 2021)
by Alessandro Brighente 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

*7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)* held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'21 Hong Kong, China, 7 June 2021 https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS *Important Dates* Submissions Due: January 27, 2021 AoE Notification: February 26, 2021 Camera-ready Due: March 15, 2021 The 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop will take place together with the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021). It will be held on June 7th, 2021. For more information: ACM ASIACCS 2021 https://asiaccs2021.comp.polyu.edu.hk *Call for Papers* Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Attack detection for CPS Authentication and access control for CPS Autonomous vehicle security Availability and auditing for CPS Blockchain for CPS security Data security and privacy for CPS Digital twins for CPS Embedded systems security Formal methods in CPS Industrial control system security IoT security Legacy CPS system protection Lightweight crypto and security Maritime cyber security Recovery from cyber attacks Security and risk assessment for CPS Security architectures for CPS Security by design for CPS Smart grid security Threat modeling for CPS Transportation system security Vulnerability analysis for CPS Wireless sensor network security *Submission and Final Preparation Instructions* Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, workshop, or conference with proceedings. The review process is single-blinded, i.e., the papers should not be anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>, and should not exceed 12 pages. We also welcome position papers describing work in progress, Systematization of Knowledge papers (distinguished with "SOK:" in the title), and papers describing novel testbeds. 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. *Program Chairs* Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) *Web Chair* Federico Turrin (University of Padua, Italy) * Publication Chair* Alessandro Brighente (University of Padua, Italy) *Program Committee* Ali Abbasi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Lejla Batina (Radboud University, Netherlands) Federica Battisti (University of Padua, Italy) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA) Yanick Fratantonio (CISCO Talos, Austria) Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) Marina Krotofil (ABB, UK) Nicola Laurenti (University of Padua, Italy) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Mihalis Maniatakos (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Daisuke Mashima (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore) Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Martín Ochoa (AppGate Inc., Colombia) Federica Pascucci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Radha Poovendra (University of Washington, USA) Xi Qin (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Awais Rashid (University of Bristol, UK) Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research, Austria) Chia-Mu Yu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) *Contact* Website: https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS E-mail: cpss21(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Call for Papers - 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021)
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) July 6-8, 2021 http://www.secrypt.icete.org SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) will be held in streaming, July 6-8, 2021. 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. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Anonymity Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Blockchains Security 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 Machine Learning and AI Security 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 for Big Data 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 usability 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 https://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://www.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: February 16, 2021 - Authors Notification: April 15, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: April 29, 2021 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Authors Notification: May 6, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 19, 2021 CONFERENCE CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM CHAIR Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, United States Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Peter Amthor, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Muhammad Asghar, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Diogo Barradas, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Ning Cao, WalmartLabs, United States Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Frederic Cuppens, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Mario Di Raimondo, Università of Catania, Italy Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Morocco Alberto Ferrante, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jinguang Han, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom David Megias Jiménez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories, Germany Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, United States Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yunlong Mao, Nanjing University, China Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alessio Merlo, University of Genoa, Italy Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Yunior Ramirez Cruz, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Andreas Schaad, Wibu, Germany Fabio Scotti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Corrado Visaggio, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy Roopa Vishwanathan, New Mexico State University, United States Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Haining Wang, University of Delaware, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jiawei Yuan, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States Qiang Zeng, University of South Carolina, United States Shengzhi Zhang, Boston University, Metropolitan College, United States Yongjun Zhao, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore (list not yet complete) For any questions, please contact the conference and program chairs: sabrina.decapitani(a)unimi.it, pierangela.samarati(a)unimi.it

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MEDI 2021 - Call for Workshops - Deadline March 30, 2021
by Antonio Corral 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: -------------------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops ------------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. 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. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: * George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru * Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr * Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es * Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: * Workshop title * Estimated length (one day or half day) * Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs * Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) * A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) * The main goals of the workshop * The list of workshop topics + Preliminary CFP + How information about the 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, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support --------------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ------------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates ------------------- * Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 * Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 * Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 * Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Antonio Corral, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. 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. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the 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, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. 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. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the 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, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. 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. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the 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, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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Re: Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems"
by Eleonora Losiouk 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems", Computer Networks CFP:https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/sid… Submission deadline: December, 31 2020 Guest Editors *Mauro Conti*, University of Padua, Italy,conti(a)math.unipd.it *Radha Poovendran*, University of Washington, Seattle, USA,rp3(a)uw.edu *Eleonora Losiouk*, University of Padua, Italy,elosiouk(a)math.unipd.it *Riccardo Spolaor*, Shandong University, Qingdao, China,rspolaor(a)sdu.edu.cn Best regards, Eleonora Losiouk

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Special issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining 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 Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail 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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CfC 25th Ada-Europe Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation. If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a full virtual event. The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 7 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and Invited Presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited Presentations *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. Should the situation allow it, the presenters will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 7 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021 Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 7 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the participation. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees for virtual participants. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

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IEEE HiPC 2020 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2020 https://hipc.org/ *********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 is the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The conference focus is not only HPC but also includes Data Science. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be held virtually on December 16, 17, and 18. Each day of the three day event will open with a keynote talk, followed by two one-hour live remote sessions to present the technical program of thirty-three peer reviewed papers. All papers accepted for the conference will be published as part of the proceedings that will be available before, during, and after the week of the scheduled conference. The online publication will include both papers and presentations (slides) for each paper. Access to the online publication is part of the free registration to attend the virtual live sessions. See here (https://hipc.org/register2020/) to register. Below is the planned program schedule for the conference. Return regularly for updates and details on how to attend. All times below are India Standard Time (IST). Wednesday, December 16th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Kathy Yelick University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing and Data Challenges in Climate Change Best Papers Session (10:10 AM IST – start time) SimGQ: Simultaneously Evaluating Iterative Graph Queries Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang and Rajiv Gupta WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs Daniel Jünger, Robin Kobus, André Müller, Kai Xu, Weiguo Liu, Christian Hundt and Bertil Schmidt Session 1: Applications (11:20 AM IST – start time) Towards High Performance, Portability, and Productivity: Lightweight Augmented Neural Networks for Performance Prediction Ajitesh Srivastava, Naifeng Zhang, Rajgopal Kannan and Viktor K. Prasanna. Performance Optimization and Scalability Analysis of the MGB Hydrological Model Henrique R. A. Freitas, Celso Luiz Mendes and Aleksandar Ilic Exploring Task Parallelism for the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Michael Lingg, H. Metin Aktulga, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Stephen Hughey and Doga Dikbayir SparsePipe: Parallel Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds Keke Zhai, Pan He, Tania Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan and Sanjay Ranka HyPR: Hybrid Page Ranking on Evolving Graphs Hemant Kumar Giri, Mridul Haque and Dip Sankar Banerjee Distributing Sparse Matrix/Graph Applications in Heterogeneous Clusters -- an Experimental Study Charilaos Tzovas, Maria Predari and Henning Meyerhenke ************************************************************************************************ Thursday, December 17th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Animashree Anandkumar California Institute of Technology and Machine Learning Research, NVIDIA Role of HPC in next-generation AI Session 2: Scalable Data Science (10:10 AM IST – start time) Processor Pipelining Method for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Embedded Devices Akshay Parashar, Arun Abraham, Deepak Chaudhary and Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran Avoiding Communication in Logistic Regression Aditya Devarakonda and James Demmel A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad and Thierry Winter Blink: Towards Efficient RDMA-based Communication Coroutines for Parallel Python Applications Aamir Shafi, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar K. Panda Content-defined Container Delivery Yuta Nakamura, Tanu Malik and Raza Ahmad Model Checking as a Service using Dynamic Resource Scaling Surya Teja, Yuvraj Singh, Adhish Singla, Suresh Purini and Venkatesh Choppella Session 3: Algorithms (11:20 AM IST – start time) Parallel Hierarchical Clustering using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Lawton Manning, Grey Ballard, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Haesun Park Pipelined Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Distributed Memory Systems Manasi Tiwari and Sathish Vadhiyar Fair Allocation of Asymmetric Operations in Storage Systems Thomas Keller and Peter Varman A GPU Algorithm for Earliest Arrival Time Problem in Public Transport Networks Chirayu Anant Haryan, G. Ramakrishna, Rupesh Nasre and Allam Dinesh Reddy 2D Static Resource Allocation Strategies for Load Balancing in Compressed Linear Algebra under Communication Constraints Olivier Beaumont, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Mathieu Verite Algorithms for Preemptive Co-scheduling of Kernels on GPUs Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Cristiana Bentes ************************************************************************************ Friday, December 18th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Fabrizio Petrini Parallel Computing Lab Intel Corporation Breaking the Scalability Wall Session 4: Runtime Systems (10:10 AM IST – start time) Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror and Ali R. Butt AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal and Jing Li Extending SLURM for Dynamic Resource-Aware Adaptive Batch Scheduling Mohak Chadha, Jophin John and Michael Gerndt On the Marriage of Asynchronous Many Task Runtimes and Big Data: A Glance Joshua Suetterlein, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez and Gunag Gao Exposing data locality in HPC-based systems by using the HDFS backend Jose Rivadeneira, Felix Garcia-Carballeira, Jesus Carretero and Javier Garcia-Blas PufferFish: NUMA-Aware Work-stealing Library using Elastic Tasks Vivek Kumar Design and Study of Elastic Recovery in HPC Applications Kai Keller, Konstantinos Parasyris and Leonardo Bautista Session 5: System Software and Architecture (11:30 AM IST – start time) Accelerating Force-directed Graph Layout with Processing-in-Memory Architecture Ruihao Li, Shuang Song, Qinzhe Wu and Lizy K. John Nonblocking Persistent Software Transactional Memory Alan Beadle, Wentao Cai, Haosen Wen and Michael Scott GPU-FPtuner: Mixed-precision Auto-tuning for Floating-point Applications on GPU Ruidong Gu and Michela Becchi Batched Small Tensor-Matrix Multiplications On GPUs Keke Zhai, Tania Banerjee, Adeesha Wijayasiri and Sanjay Ranka Temporal Based Intelligent LRU Cache Construction Pavan Nittur, Anuradha Kanukotla and Narendra Mutyala Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau and Antonio González

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CFP: The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing ACM SIGARCH Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * INRIA, France * Macquarie University, Australia * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Due (Abstract): 8 December 2020 Paper Due (Final submission) : 15 December 2020 Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. Best Paper Awards: ================== CCGrid will present Best Paper Awards to the author(s) of top three papers selected by the Program Committee. The award will be determined based on review comments and ratings, viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. Journal Special Issue: ====================== Highly rated Top 5 papers from the CCGrid 2021 conference will be invited for submission of extended version for publication in a special issue of the "Software: Practice and Experience" Journal published by Wiley Press. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Vice Chairs: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming Jesus Carretero, Univ Carlos 3, Madrid, Spain Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia Architecture, Networking, Data Centers Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Storage, and I/O Systems Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Beomseok Nam, SungKyunKwan University, Korea Programming Models and Runtime Systems Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Scheduling and Resource Management Eddy Caron, ENS Lyon, France Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling and Evaluation Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alba Cristina Magalhaes, University of Brasilia, Brazil Cyber-Security and Privacy Miguel Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Sustainable and Green Computing Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Toulouse, France Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Paul Roe, QUT, Australia Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan PC Members:: ============================================================ Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University, USA Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan Kazunori Nozaki, Osaka University, Japan Imdad Ullah, PSAU, Saudi Arabia Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Beomseok Nam, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Chunghan Lee, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee, USA Issam Rais, UiT, Norway Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University, USA Eddy Caron, ENS-Lyon, INRIA, France Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Hirotake Abe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Chonho Lee, Osaka University, Japan Stacy Patterson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Aravinda Rao, The University of Melbourne, Australia Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Patricia Stolf, University of Toulouse, France Alba Cristina M. A. Melo, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Mohammad Shojafar, University of Surrey, UK Qingye Jiang, Amazon Web Services, Australia Yu Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Shixuan Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zeyi Wen, The University of Western Australia, Australia Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal C.L. Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Sungjin Lee, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Korea Diana Moise, Cray Inc., USA Houjun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anthony Kougkas, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Michael Kuhn, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Silvina Caíno-Lores, University of Tennessee, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Xavier Martorell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Nezer Zaidenberg, College of management academic studies, Israel Pedro Inácio, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Vlad Tiberiu,INSA Lyon, France Cristina Alcaraz, UMA, Spain Nuno Santos, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Paolo Mori, IIT-CNR, Italy Carlos Maziero, UFPR, Brazil André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Rong Ge, Clemson University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Marcos Assuncao, Inria, France Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ligang He, The University of Warwick, UK Deze Zeng, The University of Aizu, Japan Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo, Brazil Philippe Navaux, UFRGS, Brazil Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia Weiguo Liu, Shandong University, China Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Zichuan Xu, Dalian University of Technology, China Yinlong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Qiufen Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Rizos Sakellariou, The University of Manchester, UK Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Wenzheng Xu, Sichuan University, China Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Shadi Ibrahim, Inria,France Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Felix Garcia-Carballeira, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France Carlos Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Lei Liu, Shandong University, China Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Jose Moreira, IBM, USA Ali Anwar, IBM, USA Kalyana Chadalavada, Intel, USA Julian Martin Kunkel, University of Reading, UK Preeti Malakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Dong Dai, UNC Charlotte, USA Bin Dong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anna Queralt, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University, USA Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory, USA George Teodoro, University of Maryland, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Youngjae Kim, Sogang University, Korea Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Annette Bieniusa, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Young-Ri Choi, UNIST, Korea Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, University of Macau, China Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA Woongki Baek, UNIST, Korea Dongseong Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Bing Bing Zhou, The University of Sydney, Australia Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Shuhao Zhang, TU Berlin, Germany Jiong He, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yao Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Sheng Di, ANL, USA Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen, Germany Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Lúcia Drummond, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lizhe Wang, China University of Geosciences, China Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ashish Verma, IBM Research, USA Kimmy Mu, HDF group, USA Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea Yongseok Son, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastien Lafond, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Adrien Lèbre, Inria, France Mike Wittie, Montana State University, USA Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Devesh Tiwari, Northeastern University, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA Miao Hu, Sun Yat-sen University, China Abhinav Vishnu, AMD, USA Zhen Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Tor Skeie, IFI/UIO, Norway Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Shinichi Yamagiwa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Romain Rouvoy, Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF, France Graham Kirby, University of St Andrews, UK Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India Vignesh Adhinarayanan, AMD Research, USA Lei Yang, South China University of Technology, China Francois Tessier, ETH, Switzerland Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Felix Garcia-Carballeria, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shanika Karunasekera, The University of Melbourne, Australia Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Ian Atkinson, James Cook University, Australia Jason Haga, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Ousmane Thiare, Gaston Berger University, USA Heru Suhartanto, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France Cedric Tedeschi, INRIA, France Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Toinard, ENSI Bourges, France Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Ritu Arora, University of Texas (UT) at Austin, USA Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Dongkyun Kim, KISTI, Korea Bu Sung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Shancang Li, University of the West of England, UK Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay, India Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Deakin University, Australia Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India Hagen Lauer, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Amazon Web Services, USA Chai Kiat Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, University of Florida, USA Daniel Sun, CSIRO, Australia Bruno Martin, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, New Zealand ============================================================

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PDSEC 2021 Workshop - Call for Papers
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

(apologies for cross-postings) The 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-21) (http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2021/pdsec/) will be held on May 21, 2021 in Portland, Oregon in conjunction with IPDPS 2021. Given the pandemic, the conference organizers are planning for different potential scenarios, including a fully virtual conference. Deadline: PDSEC-21 deadline: 22 Jan 2021 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing (PDC) community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 22, 2021 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 28, 2021 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 13, 2021 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 2021 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Organizing Chair Neda Ebrahimi Pour, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Web Chair Yihong Chen, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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HPBench 2020 : Call for Demo Presentations
by Samar Aseeri 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Call for Demos HPBench 2020 track http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-hpbench about HPC Benchmarking & Optimization is calling for demo related participations. The conference is going online, therefore it is an opportunity to have your contribution recorded online. Demos usually go for 25-30 minutes. The Demos page on the web site has more info about demos. http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de…. Follow the submission guide in the page but mention in the email title that submission is for HPBench. The deadline for HPBench 2020 is 20 Nov. Best Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CFP: 19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

*19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)* AusPDC 2021 will be held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) <http://www.acsw.org.au/>, 1 - 5 February 2021. *Scope of the Symposium* In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 19th in 2021 in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): - Cloud computing - Fog/edge computing - Grid and Cluster computing - Big Data processing and analytics - Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers - Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge - Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things - Data storage, placement and replication - Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains - Multi-core systems - Peer-to-peer computing - GPUs and other forms of special-purpose processors - Service computing and workflow management - Managing large distributed data sets - Middleware and tools - Network function virtualisation and Software-defined networks - Performance evaluation and modelling - Datacentre and Interconnection networks - Performance accelerators - Problem-solving environments - Parallel programming models, languages and compilers - Operating systems and runtime systems - Resource scheduling and load balancing - Data mining and machine learning - Computational Science and Engineering - Agent-based computing - Reliability, security, privacy and dependability - e-Science and e-Health Applications The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however, in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. *Paper Submission*The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2021. Papers should be formatted in double-column according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow> ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions: - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for posters. - Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted. - Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. - Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. - Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission. Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2021 Easy Chair Submission Site <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsw2021>. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee. *Awards* A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. *Committees:General Co-Chair*Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia *Program Committee Chairs* Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Irene Moser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Steering Committee*Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/auspdc2021/

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - 17th IEEE eScience Conference 2021
by Vella Flavio 08 Nov '20

08 Nov '20

---------------------------------------------------------- Call for Proposals for WORKSHOPS - Due March 15, 2021 https://escience2021.org/call-for-workshops ---------------------------------------------------------- 17th IEEE eScience Conference September 20-23, 2021 Innsbruck, Austria https://escience2021.org/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2021 ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------- The 17th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Innsbruck, Austria on September 20-23, 2021. eScience 2021 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held with the main conference on Monday, September 20 and Thursday, September 23, 2021. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting broad and well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself, and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to, interdisciplinary research, advanced cyberinfrastructure, data science, and education. eScience 2021 accepts two types of workshop proposals: workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and workshops with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee, paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. The proceedings of the workshops will be included in the eScience 2021 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library if the following criteria will be followed: * The solicitation for papers must be open. * All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. * The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for expected number of submissions. * The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers (for a half-day workshop) or 6 papers (for a full-day workshop), at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2021 to present the paper in person. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to: escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of submissions/accepted papers * Prior history of this workshop, if any Workshops with invited talks and no proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2021 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of talks and their length * Tentative list of speakers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of speakers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Prior history of this workshop, if any Key Dates: * Workshop Submissions Due: Monday March 15, 2021 * Workshop Acceptance Notification: Tuesday March 30, 2021 * All Camera-ready Submissions Due (for workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Program with list of speakers (for workshops with invited talks and no proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Conference Dates: September 20-23, 2021 * Workshop Dates: September 20 and September 23, 2021 Contact information: Michela Taufer - taufer(a)utk.edu Flavio Vella - Flavio.Vella(a)unibz.it

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Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2017 - Papers due August 28
by Engelmann, Christian 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA’17: 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2017, Denver, CO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2017> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala17>. Full papers will be published with the SC'17 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2017 - Final paper submission (firm): October 9, 2017 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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Research Associate Position for 3 years, salary level E13, at Steinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
by ivan.kondov＠kit.edu 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, We have an open position in the new project “Virtual Research Environment for Materials Modeling and Data Analysis” of the Joint Lab “Virtual Materials Design” starting in January 2021. Workflow management, data analysis and visualization in materials science rely currently on generic tools and frameworks and general-purpose languages that require from domain researchers programming and command-line skills, and significant learning, development, validation and maintenance efforts. The main task is to devise a use-case driven domain specific language covering common objects and frequent tasks in computational materials science. This language should allow expressions covering selected use cases and abstract from knowledge of the underlying workflow models and data analysis tools. The new language is expected to increase productivity of domain scientists and enable rapid prototyping. In addition, language processors (interpreter or generator) and supporting tools have to be developed and integrated into an interactive platform (JupyterLab) together with established generic workflow management, data analysis and visualization tools. The successful candidate should have a master degree in computer science or a similar discipline and a very good knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python. Good programming and software engineering skills, knowledge of DSL frameworks, for example Xtext, textX or JetBrains MPS, and/or modeling frameworks (for example EMF or PyEcore) will be beneficial. We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step toward computational science with focus on materials science. Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu). With my best regards, Ivan Kondov -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Mathematics Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Phone: +49 721 608 28644 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu Web: www.scc.kit.edu Registered office: Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association

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Call for Abstracts for the workshop: Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021
by Ebrahimi Pour, Neda 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Call for Abstract contribution - Deadline extension Submission deadline: 13th of November 2020 (extended) Workshop on Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021, January 20-22, Jeju, South Korea This workshop will provide a platform for presentations and discussions on advances in numerical simulation for complex multi-scale, multi-physics and coupled problems. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers (computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, material sciences etc.) working on different disciplines but all facing challenges in multi-scale and multi-physics as well as coupled simulations on HPC systems. This workshop is the second event in the series; the first was held at HPCAsia 2020, in Fukuoka, Japan. The main focus will be set on computational issues regarding performance and suitability for high-performance computing. Furthermore, the underlying strategies to enable these simulations will be highlighted. Keeping these aims in mind, contributions from all aspects of engineering applications will be considered. Topics of applications will include (but not be limited to): - Multi-scale problems - Multi-physics problems - Molecular dynamics - Multi-domain/Concurrency - Multi-scale and/or multi-physics modelling for biomedical or biological systems - Novel approaches to combine different scales and physics models in one problem solution - Challenging applications in industry and academia, e.g. multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions, chemical engineering, material science, biophysics, automotive industry, etc. - Load balancing - Adaptivity - Heterogeneous architectures - New algorithms for parallel-distributed computing, specific to this topic. More information about this workshop and the submission procedure can be found on our webpage: https://www.mb.uni-siegen.de/sts/workshops/mmcp2021/ If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your contribution! Organizers: Neda Ebrahimi Pour Osni Marques Sabine Roller

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Call for Papers Research Topic on Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches [Frontiers in Genetics]
by Alessio Martino 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dearest Colleagues, I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Associate Editor for a Research Topic titled: "Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches" to appear in Frontiers in Genetics: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17011 <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Hypergraphs> With this call for papers, I invite you and/or your co-authors to submit an original research paper, or a focused review, for our special issue. Deadline for abstract submissions: 25 January 2021 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 April 2021 Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, the paper will be published in open access form soon after professional editing. Thank you in advance for your consideration and I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to contribute to this Special Issue. If you believe that you will be able to submit a manuscript, I would also greatly appreciate if you could respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience. “Frontiers in Genetics” (ISSN 1664-8021, IF: 3.258) is an open access journal published online by Frontiers and indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, PubMed Central, amongst others. Best Regards Alessio Martino PostDoctoral Research Fellow University of Rome "La Sapienza" | Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications p: +39 0644585745 <tel:+39 0644585745> w: web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> e: alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> a: Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessio_Martino> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessioxmartino> <https://join.skype.com/invite/omvT1LoeWLcF> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. --

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

============================================================================= The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP on Evolutionary Algorithms in Artificial Intelligent Systems, open access special issue
by Valentina Franzoni 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Deadline: 31 December 2020 Journal Mathematics (indexed on Scopus, WoS, JCR) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Artificial_Intellig… Dear Colleagues, Evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristics are widely used to provide efficient and effective approximate solutions to computationally hard optimization problems. Successful early applications of the evolutionary computational approach can be found in the field of numerical optimization, while they have now become pervasive in applications for planning, scheduling, transportation and logistics, vehicle routing, packing problems, etc. With the widespread use of intelligent systems in recent years, evolutionary algorithms have been applied, beyond classical optimization problems, as components of intelligent systems for supporting tasks and decisions in the fields of machine vision, natural language processing, parameters optimization for neural networks (neuroevolution), and features selection in machine learning systems. Moreover, they are also applied in areas like complex networks dynamics, evolution and trend detection in social networks, emergent behaviour in multiagent systems and adaptive evolutionary user interfaces, to mention a few. In these systems, the evolutionary components are integrated into the overall architecture and they provide services, e.g., pattern matching services, to the specific algorithmic solutions. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together recent theoretical and applicative research advancements in the area of evolutionary algorithms as components of intelligent systems, with a focus on solutions and methodologies that can be reused to solve subclasses of problems recurring in intelligent applications. Contributions are welcome on theoretical models and applications to intelligent systems of evolutionary algorithms for, but not limited to, single-objective and multiobjective optimization, numerical continuous nonlinear optimization, combinatorial optimization, graph matching and pattern matching, agents, and automata optimization. Evolutionary paradigms to be considered, non-exhaustively, include continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm-based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired metaheuristics. The selection criteria will be primarily based on the formal and technical soundness, the experimental support, and the relevance of the contribution and its impact on the reusability of the results for solving subgroups of problems recurring in a class of intelligent applications. Prof. Dr. Alfredo Milani Dr. Valentina Franzoni *Guest Editors* ------------------------------ Valentina Franzoni, *Ph.D. Engineering for Computer Science* Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Computer, Control and Management Engineering *Research Fellow* University of Perugia, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia, Italy --- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any review of, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender by e-mail and delete the content.

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2-years position (INF/01) in Milan: Data integration and Artificial Intelligence for Life science
by Chiara Damiani 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, I am writing to advertise a research fellowship for a Data Scientist/Computational Biology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where I work as as fixed-term researcher and where I am starting a research group in Data Integration and Complex Systems. The lab collaborates actively with the Department of Computer Science and with the Joint Research Unit ISBE-it. The announcement of selection will be published soon on https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/>. The deadline will be 30 days after the publication day. The position will start on January 1st 2021. You can find a description of the position and of the candidate we would like to attract in attachment or here <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Please help me disseminate this post among your colleagues and students. Thanks for your attention, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Cari colleghi, vi scrivo per segnalare un assegno di ricerca in INF/01 per Data Scientist/Computational Biology al dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, dove ho recentemente preso posizione come ricercatore (RTD-B in INF/01) e dove sto avviando un gruppo di ricerca in Data Integration and Complex Systems. Il laboratorio collabora attivamente con il Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione e con l’infrastruttura di ricerca ISBE-it. Il bando uscirà a giorni su https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/> (con scadenza a 30gg) e la posizione decorrerà dal primo gennaio 2021. Trovate una breve descrizione della posizione del candidato che vorremmo attrarre in allegato o qui <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Vi pregherei di segnalare il post a chi fosse interessato e di girarlo nelle vostre mailing lists di dottorandi, assegnisti, studenti. Grazie mille per l’attenzione, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Awards - Call for Nominations
by IEEE TCCLD 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Dear all, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] As a friendly reminder, please nominate qualified candidates for the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) awards listed below by 2020-10-20. Please also help with distributing the call for nominations. - *TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award. * TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. thesis award is presented to a researcher whose Ph.D. thesis has the potential of a very high impact in cloud computing or gives direct evidence of such an impact. Only a Ph.D. degree obtained in 2019/2020 is considered for this award. *Chair*: Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>. Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - *TCCLD Rising Star Award (within 5 years of receiving Ph.D degree)* It recognizes outstanding young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and made a significant contribution to the field of cloud computing. Only candidates who receive their Ph.D. within 5 years are eligible. *Chair:* Prof. Ling Liu. Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - *TCCLD Research Innovation Award.* Anyone or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations are in the field of cloud computing. The contributors must have a long-term impact on advancing the theory and practice in cloud computing. *Chair:* Prof. Yo-Ping Huang Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - *TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award* This award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding leadership contributions in the field of cloud computing. Also, the outstanding contributions in the application of cloud computing which affect and improve global business and help organizations and individuals are considered. *Chair:* Prof. Beniamino Di Martino. Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - *TCCLD Outstanding Service Award* This award recognizes one individual who has outstanding services to building the cloud computing community with significant and persistent volunteer efforts, such as services to IEEE TCCLD activities worldwide, annual related events. *Chair*: Martin Gilje Jaatun. Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no - *TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Award* It recognizes women leaders who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of cloud computing and solve real problems. *Chair*: Prof. YuanYuan Yang. Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - *TCCLD Impact Award* It recognizes senior researchers or educators for her/his significant/distinguished contribution in the field of cloud computing. *Chair*: Prof. Christophe Cérin. Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org. *Details on the awards and the nomination process are available at * https://tc.computer.org/tccld/awards/ . *Eligible applicants* 1. The TCCLD members. Join TCCLD Now <https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage…> 2. Qualified candidates except for the IEEE TCCLD chairs, TCCLD executive committee members, and the past IEEE TCCLD awardees. 3. Nominees that have not been recognized for the TCCLD award will be reviewed with higher priority. 4. In terms of the TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Ph.D. degree should have been obtained in 2019/2020. *Nomination Process* o Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are not accepted. o Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less), and personal/team web page URL of the nominee. o Two supporting letters are required for each nomination. The letters should address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. o Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. o The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners for each award category. *Important Dates:* - Oct. 20: Nomination due - Nov. 20: Selection results. (Internal) - Nov. 30: Announcement of Winners (Web & CloudCom 2020) CloudCom 2020 <https://2020.cloudcom.org/> *Submission Link* All nominations should be sent through the following link. All the files should be merged into one PDF file. The submission link is as follow. * TCCLD Award Nomination <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ7k-ruXSTUUrjHdWlfRk0b6f10wILgHN…>* Note: If you require further information, feel free to contact ieeetccld(a)gmail.com <ieeetccld(a)gmail.com> *Awards committee chairs* - Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>, Middlesex University, UK.* ( TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Chair.) * Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - Prof. Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.* (TCCLD Research Innovation Award Chair)*. - Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - Prof. Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France. (TCCLD Impact Award Chair) - Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org - Prof. Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy. *( TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award Chair)* - Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - Prof. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. *(TCCLD Rising Star Award Chair) * - Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - Prof. YuanYuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA. *(TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Awar Chair) * - Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway *(TCCLD Outstanding Service Award Chair) * - Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no Meanwhile, Awardees will be publicized through TCCLD social media channels as follow. I. Facebook: IEEE Cloud Computing ( https://www.facebook.com/ieeecloudcomputing/). II. 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CFP - Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS)
by William Spataro 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2021 (www.pdp2021.org/) The 29th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Valladolid (Spain) (online) 10-12 March 2021 https://www.pdp2021.org/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 21th, 2020 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops at PDP (since 2014), we are glad to invite you to our seventh edition which will take place in Valladolid (Spain). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Paper submission: 21 October 2020 Acceptance notification: 23 December 2020 Camera ready due: 17 January 2021 Conference: 10 - 12 March 2021 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2021 and select the "High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation" track. Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Program Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D'Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. 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HPBench CFP - Don't miss this opportunity! Today is last day
by Samar Aseeri 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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 an 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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 an 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - 3 days to deadline
by Samar Aseeri 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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 an 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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 an 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale and energy-efficient computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Developing next-generation machine learning and AI approaches for science * Advancing quantum computing technologies, software, algorithms and applications * Evaluating or developing new and promising HPC systems and networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large-scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due November 9, 2020. Letters of Reference are due November 16, 2020. Details of the application process can be found at https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/2021-alvarez-hopper-postdoctoral….

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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - Deadline has been Extended
by Samar Aseeri 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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 an 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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 an 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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[HPCS 2020] High Performance Computing and its applications (Core-B quality). Deadline: 25th sept of Workshop MSPDS (Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems)
by JOSE LUIS GUISADO LIZAR 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Dear Colleague, Deadline of the 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) is approaching (September, 25th): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020/workshop19-mspds This Workshop is to be hold within the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020, 18th Annual Meeting) in 10 - 14 December 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 We want to highlight your attention for the following reasons: 1. HPCS congress is one of the most important conferences in High Performance Computing and its applications (classified as Core-B according to http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/653/ ). 2. Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral…, are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Moreover, plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in other reputable journals as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. 3. The goal of this workshop is very specific: to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. Please note that this workshop deadline (25th of September) is one week later than that of the Main Track Full Paper Submission Deadline. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. Please find attached the CFP for a complete information. Kind regards, Fernando Diaz-del-Rio Jose Luis Guisado-Lizar University of Seville (Spain) The 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 10 - 14 December 2020 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Large parallel systems have become mainstream of both commercial and scientific computing. At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has witnessed a revolution that has turned it into a jungle populated by very different types of parallel computing systems exploiting parallelism at different levels. They include multi- and many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs or heterogeneous systems joining together several of those types of devices. Shared-memory systems with hundreds of processors are commercially available, while a new generation of massively parallel systems have pushed the limits of scalability to unprecedented levels. Designing and understanding these systems requires new simulation and modeling approaches that can be effective at those scales. New software- and hardware-based simulation techniques have been developed to cope with those challenges. The goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas: MSPDS Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas: * Simulation of Exascale Systems * Simulation of Interconnection Architectures and Technologies * Workload Characterization to help Simulation Studies * Parallel and Distributed Simulators * Hardware accelerators for simulating parallel systems * Bootstrapping: Using a current generation system to design the next generation * Modeling and simulation at the data centers level * Use of reconfigurable logic for simulation of parallel systems * Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation * Machine learning for developing models of parallel systems * New and novel approaches to modeling and simulation of large and complex systems * Modeling techniques, including reuse of models, modeling languages, agent-based M&S, and spatially explicit M&S * M&S to manage and/or optimize operational systems and methodological challenges arising from these applications such as online simulation, symbiotic simulation, dynamic data-driven, real-time and embedded simulation, and emulation of real systems. * Simulation of breaking technologies (e.g. quantum computing, wireless photonics, etc) * Simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems * Modeling of HPC systems and components * Modeling in various domains of knowledge using HPC and parallel systems and algorithms, including (but not limited to) parallel models of complex systems, multiscale models, multi-agent systems, P-systems models, cellular automata and stencil computation, neuromorphic models, etc. * Modeling and Evaluation Methods and Studies INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to modeling and simulation of high performance parallel and distributed computing systems and applications. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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's paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mspds2020. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies 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 soundness, 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 (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the Symposium as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 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 Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Plans are underway to have the best papers related with the rest of topics, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Additional 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 Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 25 September 2020 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 09 October 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Fernando Díaz-del-Rio Department of Computer Architecture and Technology University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 61 47 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: fdiaz(a)us.es<mailto:fdiaz@us.es> José-Luis Guisado-Lizar Computer Architecture and Technology Department University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 62 41 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: jlguisado(a)us.es<mailto:jlguisado@us.es> International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Workshop's technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. Coming Soon (* Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.) For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the Conference's organizers. Dr. José Luis Guisado Lizar Profesor Titular de Universidad (Associate Professor, tenured) Depto. de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores E.T.S. Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla Avda. Reina Mercedes, S/N 41012-Sevilla, Spain Tel.: (+34) 954 55 62 41 E-mail: jlguisado(a)us.es Web: http://personal.us.es/jlguisado Twitter: @JLGuisado<https://twitter.com/jlguisado> [https://sic.us.es/sites/default/files/servicios/correo/Archivos/us_logo.jpg] www.us.es<http://www.us.es/> Por favor considere el medio ambiente antes de imprimir este correo electrónico. - Este correo electrónico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, contiene información de carácter confidencial exclusivamente dirigida a su destinatario o destinatarios. Si no es Vd. el destinatario del mensaje, le ruego lo destruya sin hacer copia digital o física, comunicando al emisor por esta misma vía la recepción del presente mensaje. Gracias

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HPCS 2020 going online - The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Please Post. Thank you kindly. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** ** **The 2020 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** **(HPCS 2020)** ** **10-14 December, 2020** **Barcelona, Spain (fully virtual/online)** ** **http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20** * *In Cooperation with (Forthcoming)** ** **(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 17 September 2020 - Final Extension)** **(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest web page.)** * Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference Covid-19 Announcement 2: Under the extenuating circumstances due to the international pandemic, HPCS 2020 is going fully virtual/online. Accepted and presented papers in the HPCS 2020 will be published in the conference proceedings as usual and submitted for inclusion in the Digital Library after they are successfully presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for the virtual presentation will be posted on the conference website and sent separately. Registration fees for the HPCS 2020 will be adjusted accordingly and posted on the HPCS 2020 website as well. *INVITATION:* You are cordially invited to contribute and participate in this conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, 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, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, 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 the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: (some still need co-organizers; please let us know if you are interested) *_Symposia_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia-hpcs2020 SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2020) SYM04: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2020) SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2020) SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2020) SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2020) *_Workshops_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020 W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing (DRMEC 2020) W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed Computing Systems (OPTIM 2020) W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2020) W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects (HPINI 2020) W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2020) W06: Advances in Parallel Programming Models and Frameworks for the Multi-/Many-core Era (APPMM 2020) W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2020) W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2020) W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2020) W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2020) W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2020) W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2020) W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation (CIPEC 2020) W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2020) W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2020) W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences (BILIS 2020) W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN 2020) W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2020) W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks (PCNN 2020) W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2020) W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (LSAUC 2020) W23: Parallel Optimization using/for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing (POMCO 2020) W24: HPC and Collaborative Networking for Real Time Agricultural Applications (AgrApps 2020) *_Special Sessions_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and Optimization (HPBench 2020) SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2020) SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2020) SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2020) SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2020) SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2020) SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2020) SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications (IoT-HPC 2020) SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2020) SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2020) SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering (FSASE 2020) SS13: High Performance Computing and Modeling & Simulation Education (HPCEd 2020) SS14: Quantum Computing (QuanC 2020) SS15: Smart Cities and Systems in the Era of HPC (SCS-HPC 2020) *Proceedings* All accepted papers in the conference and its tracks are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. The plan is to have the proceedings formally published and be available at the time of the conference. The accepted & presented proceedings papers will subsequently be included in the Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc.. *Journals Opportunities* Plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the official conference website. ============================================================== *Important Dates:** * * Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline 17 September 2020 - Final Extension** ** Other Tracks Paper & Poster Paper Submission Deadline Please check the track** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline 25 September 2020** ** Main Track Notifications of Acceptance start 09 October 2020** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due 19 October 2020** ** Conference Dates 10-14 December 2020** * ============================================================== For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the organizers. Please stay safe and healthy. We look forward to your contributions and meeting you virtually in December. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2020 Organizers

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2021 (Volgograd, Russia, March 30 – April 1, 2021)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2021), 15th International Scientific Conference, March 30 – April 1, 2021, Volgograd, Russia http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng https://link.springer.com/conference/pct Conference founders: Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.ras.ru) HPC Consortium of Russian Universities (http://hpc-russia.ru) Sponsored by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (http://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng) WELCOME Russian Academy of Sciences, High-Performance Computing Consortium of Russian Universities, Moscow State University, Volgograd State Technical University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 15th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2021) to be held in Volgograd, Russia, March 30 – April 1, 2021. The main purpose of the PCT’2021 conference is to provide an opportunity to report and discuss the results achieved by leading research groups in solving practical issues using supercomputer and neural network technologies. The scope of the conference covers all aspects of the application of cloud, supercomputer and neural network technologies in science and technology such as applications, hardware and software, specific languages and packages. The 34th edition of Top50 of the CIS's most powerful computers will be announced on the first day of the conference. On working days of the conference, a supercomputer exhibition will be organized, where leading manufacturers of hardware and software present their latest products in the field of high performance computing. LANGUAGE The official languages of the Conference are Russian and English. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following topics: * Parallel and distributed computing technologies * Cloud computing * Prospective multiprocessor architectures * Parallel and distributed database systems * High performance data mining * Artificial neural networks and deep learning * Management, administration, monitoring and testing of multiprocessor systems * Computational Mathematics * Computational Physics * Computational Chemistry * Gas hydrodynamics and heat transfer * High nonlinear and rapid processes in mechanics * Bioinformatics and medicine * Nanotechnology * Geoinformatics * Cryptography * Image processing and visualization * Computer algebra * Supercomputer education. CALL FOR PAPERS PCT’2021 admits papers presenting original contribution that have not been previously published and are not being submitted to another conference or journal. There are three categories of submissions: * Full paper describes the results of completed scientific research (12 to 15 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Short paper reports preliminary results of uncompleted scientific research (up to 12 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Abstract of the poster contains information about plans and initial results of recently started scientific research (one standard A4 page). Papers may be prepared in LaTeX or MS Word according to the LNCS one-column page format (see guidelines at the conference website http://agora.guru.ru/pavt2021/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2021 by December 1, 2020. Each paper will be reviewed by three Program Committee members and/or invited experts to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. At least one author of the accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. PROCEEDINGS All accepted full papers will be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series (https://link.springer.com/conference/pct, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus), final approval pending. All accepted short papers and posters will be published electronically and indexed in Russian Science Index. The best short papers in English will be recommended for publication in Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations (http://superfri.org, indexed in Scopus, Q2). The best short papers in Russian will be published (after further revision) in Computational Mathematics and Software Engineering series of the Bulletin of the South Ural State University (http://vestnikvmi.susu.ru/). IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: November 2, 2020 * Submission of the papers: December 1, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2021 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2021 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2021 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2021 * Conference: March 29: arrival date March 30 – April 1, 2021: conference work dates April 2: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2021. Leonid Sokolinsky, DSc., Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Co-chair of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: Leonid.Sokolinsky(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 272 35 00 Mikhail Zymbler, CSc., Assoc. Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Academic secretary of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: mzym(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 267 90 06, ext. 112 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman of the Program Committee: Viktor Sadovnichiy, academician of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Co-chairs of the Program Committee: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (USA) Leonid Sokolinsky, South Ural State University (Russia) Vladimir Voevodin, corresponding member of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Academic secretary of the Program Committee: Mikhail Zymbler, South Ural State University (Russia) Members of the Program Committee: S.V. Ablameyko, Belarusian State University (Republic of Belarus) A.P. Afanasiev, Institute for Systems Analysis RAS (Russia) E.N. Akimova, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS (Russia) A. Andrzejak, Heidelberg University (Germany) P. Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory (USA) Y.Ya. Boldyrev, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) J. Carretero, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) R.K. Gazizov, Ufa State Aviation Technical University (Russia) V.P. Gergel, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) B.M. Glinsky, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.D. Goryachev, Tver State Technical University (Russia) V.P. Il'in, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) H. Kobayashi, Tohoku University (Japan) J. Kunkel, University of Hamburg (Germany) J. Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) A. Lastovetsky, University College Dublin (Ireland) T. Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center (Germany) V.N. Lykosov, Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS (Russia) D. Mallmann, Julich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) M. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre (Singapore) V.E. Malyshkin, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.Ya. Modorsky, Perm Polytechnic University (Russia) A.V. Shamakina, High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (Germany) P. Shumyatsky, University of Brasilia (Brazil) H. Sithole, Centre for High Performance Computing (Republic of South Africa) A.V. Starchenko, Tomsk State University (Russia) T. Sterling, Indiana University (USA) M. Taufer, University of Delaware (USA) V.E. Turlapov, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) R. Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) M.V. Yakobovsky, Institute for Mathematical Modelling RAS (Russia) Y. Yamazaki, Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil)

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UMBC Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty diversity
by Sanjay Purushotham 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is now accepting applications for Cohort VI (2021-2023) of the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity. All application materials must be received by October 2 2020 via Interfolio, to start fellowships in July 2021. UMBC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity is a 2-year in-residence fellowship that supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity and inclusive excellence in the academy and to prepare those scholars for possible tenure-track appointments at UMBC. During the two-year appointment, UMBC provides fellows with teaching and research mentors, and professional development opportunities across campus. Fellowship recipients are provided with a stipend, health benefits, office space, library, and additional funding for conference travel. The Department of Information Systems at UMBC offers a supportive environment for Postdoctoral Fellows with a strong focus on mentoring, and will supplement the base stipend and conference travel allowances for Postdoctoral Fellows working with mentors in the department. The Department of Information Systems is a research-intensive department with thriving graduate and undergraduate programs (http://is.umbc.edu). Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, including the following areas: -AI and Machine Learning -Data Science -Health Informatics -Human-Computer Interaction -Software Engineering We welcome applications for study in any field represented within Information Systems and in particular interdisciplinary fields and emerging fields. UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM through its Meyerhoff Scholars program (http://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/), Center for Women in Technology Scholars program (http://cwit.umbc.edu/), and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs to widen access for groups which have been traditionally underrepresented in careers in STEM. More information about the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity program can be found at https://coeit.umbc.edu/postdoctoral-fellows-program/, or by contacting Dr. Autumn Reed (autumn2(a)umbc.edu).

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[CFP] IA^3 2020 - NEW DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 10th
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] !!!!!!!!! NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 10th !!!!!!!! IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 11, 2020 Virtual Workshop In conjunction with SC20 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: September 10, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 10, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 11, 2020 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers (excluding references). Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat… Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza(a)unisa.it. -------------------- Special Issue -------------------- Authors of papers accepted to the workshop will also be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the journal of Parallel Computing (ParCO) on Hardware/Software Co-design for Sparse and Irregular Applications. Submissions for the special issue with open December 1, 2020 and will close on March 1, 2021. For more information on this special issue, please visit the special issue page and/or contact the guest co-editors, Flavio Vella (flavio.vella(a)unibz.it) and Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov). https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/hardwa… -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza(a)unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Cat Graves, HPE, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University José Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD

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CFP HiPar20: submission deadline. extended to Sept. 7th
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

--- Submission deadline extended to Sept. 7th --- ******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SCC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: September 7th, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 23, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Virtual Workshop Date: November 11, 2020 (10am-6.30pm EST) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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HPBench 2020 (10 days to deadline! )
by Samar Aseeri 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online this year. We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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 an 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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 an 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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Maple Conference 2020 Registration
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25 Aug '20

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CFP: HiPar20 Workshop co-located with SC20 - Submission deadline August 31st
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Apologies for the multiple copies of this. ******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SCC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 14, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Workshop Date: November 11-13, 2020 (details TBD) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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Using Artificial Intelligence to read the mind of pets!
by Uwe Aickelin 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Have you ever wondered what your pet is thinking? Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems have developed an app for that!! It is called HappyPets and uses artificial intelligence (convolutional neural networks) to analyse and interpret the facial expressions of pets. And, yes, dogs are easier to read than cats! You can read more about how it works here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ever-wondered-what-your-pet-is-thin… And download the free app here: IOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/happy-pets/id1515202735 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.edu.unimelb.eresearch.happ… A bit of fun, but perhaps also a good example for teaching the wide capabilities of AI?! Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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CfPart: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2020) September 7-10, 2020 Virtual Event - Call for Participation http://edcc.dependability.org/ A unique opportunity to learn more about the current work on dependability at no cost! The European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The EDCC is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. Intel and Fraunhofer IKS are covering the cost of the proceedings and all organisational expenses. Hence, the participation is free of charge. But you will need to register at http://edcc.dependability.org/registration.html. The EDCC technical program spans over three half days (Sept 8-10, 14h -17h45). It includes three invited talks: - Towards Universal Safety Guarantees of Decision Making in Automated Vehicles. Ignacio Alvarez. Intel Labs. - Safety of Autonomous Driving Systems. Alex Haag. AID GmbH. - Public Transport: Challenges and Opportunities for Dependability. Martin Rothfelder. Siemens AG. and twenty one technical presentations selected by the Program Committee. More information about the program could be found here: http://edcc.dependability.org/program.html Five EDCC workshops are organised on September 7: - AI4RAILS - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for RAILwayS - DREAMS - Dynamic Risk managEment for Autonomous Systems - DSOGRI - 2nd International Workshop on Dependable SOlutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution GRIds - SERENE - 12th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems - TAIWAN-DCC - 1st International Workshop on Technology of AI and Wireless Advanced Networking: Dependable Computing and Communication General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Steering Committee chair: Karama Kanoun, LAAS Workshop chair: Simona Bernardi, University of Zaragoza Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Local Organization chairs: Veronika Seifried, Fraunhofer IKS Kerstin Alexander, Intel For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP
by Samar Aseeri 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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 an 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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 an 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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[CFP] IA^3 2020 - 10th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms - UPDATED
by Tumeo, Antonino 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] !!!!!!!!! NEWS: WORKSHOP GOING VIRTUAL; PARCO SPECIAL ISSUE !!!!!!!! IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 11, 2020 Virtual Workshop In conjunction with SC20 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 11, 2020 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers (excluding references). Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat… Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza(a)unisa.it. -------------------- Special Issue -------------------- Authors of papers accepted to the workshop will also be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the journal of Parallel Computing (ParCO) on Hardware/Software Co-design for Sparse and Irregular Applications. Submissions for the special issue with open December 1, 2020 and will close on March 1, 2021. For more information on this special issue, please visit the special issue page and/or contact the guest co-editors, Flavio Vella (flavio.vella(a)unibz.it) and Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov). https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/hardwa… -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza(a)unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Cat Graves, HPE, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University José Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD

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REMINDER - Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC ECR Award for Excellence in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees: •Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) •Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) •Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) •Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) •Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC) •Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS) Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination application must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org as a single PDF file and should contain the following details: 1.Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible). 2.Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended. 3.A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who have provided letters supporting the nomination. 4.CV of the nominee. 5.Up to three letters of support from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: •Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2020 •Results Notification: September 15, 2020 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: •Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain •Tom Conte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA •Yufei Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA •Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK (Chair) •Xu Liu, College of William & Mary, USA •Guillaume Pallez, Inria, France •Happy Sithole, National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure (NICIS), South Africa Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE Computer Society and TCHPC websites, newsletters and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC20 conference that will be held virtually during November 9 – 19, 2020. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc20.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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Maple Conference 2020 - Reminder
by Juergen Gerhard 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

The deadline to submit a presentation proposal to the Maple Conference 2020 is coming up quickly! Proposals are due on Aug. 16, 2020. Please see the Call for Presentations, below, for details. Call for Presentations Maple Conference 2020 invites submissions of proposals for presentations on a range of topics related to Maple, falling into three broad categories: Maple in Education Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Effective ways to use Maple as a tool to support remote learning or hybrid courses * Innovative uses of Maple in the classroom (new ways to approach old problems, methods for using Maple to teach courses outside of traditional core math, impact on the curriculum, etc.) * Measurable improvements in student performance after integrating Maple into a course * Classroom tips and techniques/best practices drawn from experience Algorithms and Software Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Symbolic and symbolic-numeric methods for solving mathematical problems, from any field * Algorithm optimization and performance tuning techniques * Effective use of types and data representations for particular problems or domains * User interfaces for mathematical problem solving Applications of Maple Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Applications that use Maple in unusual settings or in unusual ways * Applications that push or extend the limit of what Maple can do * Applications that explore critical world problems * Applications that combine Maple with other technology All presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee. If the proposal is accepted, the submitter will be invited to present their work at the conference. After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings. These submissions will undergo peer-review, and the decision about acceptance or rejection lies with the Maple Conference 2020 Program Committee<https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/Papers-and-Presentations.aspx>. Presentation Proposals Your presentation proposal should be in the form of a title and abstract for your proposed talk. Abstracts should be under one page/400 words in length, and must be in English. If your presentation proposal is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the paper. All presentations are to be given in English. Papers (optional) After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper on the work they presented. These papers will undergo peer-review, and if accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers must be in English and should be 6-15 pages in length. Please follow the Springer LNCS conference proceedings author instructions<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Authors should download the .zip file: "LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates." Submission Instructions Proposals should be in the form of a Word doc or a PDF. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maple2020 Conference Details and Important Dates Conference Date: November 2-6, 2020 Location: The conference will be held online. Program Chairs: Robert M. Corless, Western University, and Jürgen Gerhard, Maplesoft Submission Deadlines Abstract submission: July 15, 2020 Extended to August 16, 2020 Notification of acceptance/rejection of presentation proposal: August 31, 2020 September 18, 2020 Paper submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: February 28, 2021 Camera-ready copy due: March 31, 2021 We look forward to reviewing your proposal. See you at Maple Conference 2020! Sincerely, Rob Corless and Jürgen Gerhard, Maple Conference 2020 Program Chairs (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc., 615 Kumpf Drive Waterloo ON Canada N2V1K8; customerservice(a)maplesoft.com<mailto:customerservice@maplesoft.com>. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. To manage subscriptions or to opt out of all commercial email communications from Maplesoft, please click here<%25%25unsubscribe%25%25>.

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HPBench 2020 is going online and accordingly dates has changed
by Samar Aseeri 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP: HiPar20 - Papers due August 31st - SC20 Going Virtual
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 14, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Workshop Date: November 11-13, 2020 (details TBD) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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CFP: Virtual/Online Conference Announcement and new dates for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Dear All, 1. Covid-19 Announcement: Under the extenuating circumstances due to the international pandemic, HPCS 2020 is going fully virtual/online. Accepted and presented papers in the HPCS 2020 will be published in the conference proceedings as usual and submitted for inclusion in the Digital Library after they are successfully presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for the virtual presentation will be posted on the conference website and sent separately. Registration fees for the HPCS 2020 will be adjusted accordingly and posted on the HPCS 2020 website as well. 2. The deadlines have been extended for the new dates for the conference. You can still make changes until the deadline. After the deadline, the paper will be reviewed by multiple reviewers. You will be notified about the final status of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 07 September 2020 - Extended Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 28 September 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 3. Call for Papers: The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) 10 - 14 December 2020 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Paper Submission Deadline: 07 September 2020 - Extended Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters PURPOSE AND SCOPE Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Virtualization in HPC o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments: o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs IO Virtualization o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines Tools o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments Algorithms o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration Virtualization in Simulation INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to virtualization in high performance computing and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies 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 soundness, 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 (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 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 reputable 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 special session, please contact the special session organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 07 September 2020 - Extended Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 28 September 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS Uday Kurkure VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu Hari Sivaraman VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com Lan Vu VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com Uday Kurkure, Lan Vu and Hari Sivaraman Co-Chairs of Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation

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CFP - The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’20)
by Peter Mueller 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Call for Papers The sixth workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’20) http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/ At IEEE Globecom’20, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-11 December 2020 http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org Scope of the workshop: Recent experimental results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications, computing, security, and sensing. Companies and governments started to invest significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. These developments are offering numerous opportunities to contribute to the research and engineering aspects of quantum technologies. On the scientific side, the workshop also addresses novel ideas in the fields of quantum communications and information processing, which contribute to the general know-how of quantum technologies. The following topics are key to the workshop, but not exclusive: - Quantum communications - Entanglement distillation & swapping - Quantum state discrimination - Quantum sensing & metrology - Quantum coding theory - Homomorphic applications - Quantum networks - Quantum algorithms - Error Correction for quantum systems - Interconnection and complexity theory - Modeling and simulation - Optimized algorithms and applications - Quantum eco-system - Other topics related to quantum communications and information processing Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts: Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/N27538 Further information is available in the Globecom 2020 webpages: http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org Important dates: Manuscript submission due date: 1. August 2020 Notification date: 17. August 2020 Final manuscript due date: 1. October 2020 QCIT’20 workshop date: 7. December 2020 (Afternoon) Globecom’20 conference date: 7.-11. December 2020 Workshop organizers: Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italia, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC ECR Award for Excellence in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees: • Technical Committee on Parallel Process (TCPP) • Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) • Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) • Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) • Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC) • Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS) Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination application must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org as a single PDF file and should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible). 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended. 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who have provided letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee. 5. Up to three letters of support from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: • Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2020 • Results Notification: September 15, 2020 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: • Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain • Tom Conte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Yufei Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA • Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK (Chair) • Xu Liu, College of William & Mary, USA • Guillaume Pallez, Inria, France • Happy Sithole, National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure (NICIS), South Africa Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE Computer Society and TCHPC websites, newsletters and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC20 conference that will be held in Atlanta, GA, USA during November 15 – 20, 2020. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc20.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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Maple Conference 2020 - Deadline Extended
by Juergen Gerhard 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

The deadline to submit a presentation proposal to the Maple Conference 2020 has been extended until Aug. 16, 2020. Please see the Call for Presentations, below, for details. Call for Presentations Maple Conference 2020 invites submissions of proposals for presentations on a range of topics related to Maple, falling into three broad categories: Maple in Education Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Effective ways to use Maple as a tool to support remote learning or hybrid courses * Innovative uses of Maple in the classroom (new ways to approach old problems, methods for using Maple to teach courses outside of traditional core math, impact on the curriculum, etc.) * Measurable improvements in student performance after integrating Maple into a course * Classroom tips and techniques/best practices drawn from experience Algorithms and Software Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Symbolic and symbolic-numeric methods for solving mathematical problems, from any field * Algorithm optimization and performance tuning techniques * Effective use of types and data representations for particular problems or domains * User interfaces for mathematical problem solving Applications of Maple Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Applications that use Maple in unusual settings or in unusual ways * Applications that push or extend the limit of what Maple can do * Applications that explore critical world problems * Applications that combine Maple with other technology All presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee. If the proposal is accepted, the submitter will be invited to present their work at the conference. After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings. These submissions will undergo peer-review, and the decision about acceptance or rejection lies with the Maple Conference 2020 Program Committee<https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/Papers-and-Presentations.aspx>. Presentation Proposals Your presentation proposal should be in the form of a title and abstract for your proposed talk. Abstracts should be under one page/400 words in length, and must be in English. If your presentation proposal is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the paper. All presentations are to be given in English. Papers (optional) After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper on the work they presented. These papers will undergo peer-review, and if accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers must be in English and should be 6-15 pages in length. Please follow the Springer LNCS conference proceedings author instructions<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Authors should download the .zip file: "LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates." Submission Instructions Proposals should be in the form of a MS Word document or a PDF document. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maple2020 Conference Details and Important Dates Conference Date: November 2-6, 2020 Location: The conference will be held online. Program Chairs: Robert M. Corless, Western University, and Jürgen Gerhard, Maplesoft Submission Deadlines Abstract submission: July 15, 2020 Extended to August 16, 2020 Notification of acceptance/rejection of presentation proposal: August 31, 2020 September 18, 2020 Paper submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: February 28, 2021 Camera-ready copy due: March 31, 2021 See you at Maple Conference 2020! Sincerely, Rob Corless and Jürgen Gerhard, Maple Conference 2020 Program Chairs (c) 2020 Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc., 615 Kumpf Drive Waterloo ON Canada N2V1K8; customerservice(a)maplesoft.com<mailto:customerservice@maplesoft.com>. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. To manage subscriptions or to opt out of all commercial email communications from Maplesoft, please click here<%25%25unsubscribe%25%25>.

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CFP Deadline Extended - 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20)
by gaowanling 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS New Deadlines Registration of abstract (non-mandatory): July 15, 2020 Paper Submission: August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2020 ========================================================== 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium (Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (same place and same time), but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems and applications in the areas of big data, AI, block chain, HPC, datacenters, IoT, and edge computing. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a highquality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and practitioners from the architecture, systems, algorithms, and applications communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral. Call for papers ------------------------ Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Synthetics or real-world data sets of: **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmarking, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Test methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big data -AI -HPC -Machine learning -Big scientific data -Datacenters -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT -Block chain -Data management and storage -Medicine, finance and education Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 15 pages in the LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page limit is 8 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed by EI). Please note that the LNCS format is the final one for publishing. After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight, or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in the proceedings as full-length papers. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is preregistered will be removed from the proceedings. Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20# Improtant Dates --------------------- Registration of abstract (non-mandatory) July 15, 2020 Paper Submission August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2020 Awards ---------- At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include: * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral) - BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) TPC Chairs Felix Wolf (Technical University of Darmstadt) Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Submission Chair Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Publicity Chairs Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University) Akihiro Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Zhen Jia (Amazon) Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Matthew Bachstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Woongki Baek, UNIST David Bermbach, TU Berlin Arne Berre, SINTEF Ben Blamey, Uppsala University K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University Florina Ciorba, University of Basel Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Cheol-Ho Hong, Chung-Ang University Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University Sascha Hunold, TU Vienna Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt Zhen Jia, Amazon Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Juby Jose, Intel Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Huan Liu, Arizona State University Gang Lu, Huawei Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Benson Muite, University of Tartu Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd. Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shuaiwen Leon Song, The University of Sydney Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiexuan Zhou, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry

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HPBench 2020 - Deadline has been extended
by Samar Aseeri 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 21 July 2020 Author Notification: 03 August 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 15 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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IEEE HiPC 2020: Deadlines Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - DEADLINES EXTENDED ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HiPC 2020 will be held virtually this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced, and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also workin with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online proceedings publication as well as participation in the virtual meeting. Extended Deadlines for HiPC 2020 are as follows: Abstract Registration: July 10, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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IEEE HiPC 2020: Deadlines Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - DEADLINES APPROACHING ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HiPC 2020 will be held virtually this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced, and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also workin with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online proceedings publication as well as participation in the virtual meeting. Upcoming Deadlines for HiPC 2020 are as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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[CFP] IA^3 2020 - 10th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 27 Jun '20

27 Jun '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 15, 2020 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA In conjunction with SC20 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 15, 2020 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers (excluding references). Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat… Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza(a)unisa.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza(a)unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University José Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, Princeton, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD

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Maple Conference 2020 Call for Presentations
by Juergen Gerhard 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Hello, First, our sincerest apologies if you have received this message across multiple platforms, but we want to be sure that you hear about Maple Conference 2020! That's right, Maple Conference 2020 is happening November 2-6, 2020. This conference is dedicated to exploring different aspects of the math software Maple, including Maple's impact on education, new symbolic computation algorithms and techniques, and the wide range of Maple applications. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the latest research, share experiences, and interact with Maple developers. The conference will take place online, and will include live presentations and discussions as well as and recordings and chatrooms, in order to accommodate time zones. Maplesoft staff will also offer Maple training sessions on a variety of topics during the conference. Call for Presentations Maple Conference 2020 invites submissions of proposals for presentations on a range of topics related to Maple, falling into three broad categories: Maple in Education Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Effective ways to use Maple as a tool to support remote learning or hybrid courses * Innovative uses of Maple in the classroom (new ways to approach old problems, methods for using Maple to teach courses outside of traditional core math, impact on the curriculum, etc.) * Measurable improvements in student performance after integrating Maple into a course * Classroom tips and techniques/best practices drawn from experience Algorithms and Software Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Symbolic and symbolic-numeric methods for solving mathematical problems, from any field * Algorithm optimization and performance tuning techniques * Effective use of types and data representations for particular problems or domains * User interfaces for mathematical problem solving Applications of Maple Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Applications that use Maple in unusual settings or in unusual ways * Applications that push or extend the limit of what Maple can do * Applications that explore critical world problems * Applications that combine Maple with other technology All presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee. If the proposal is accepted, the submitter will be invited to present their work at the conference. After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings. These submissions will undergo peer-review, and the decision about acceptance or rejection lies with the Maple Conference 2020 Program Committee<https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/Papers-and-Presentations.aspx>. Presentation Proposals Your presentation proposal should be in the form of a title and abstract for your proposed talk. Abstracts should be under one page/400 words in length, and must be in English. If your presentation proposal is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the paper. All presentations are to be given in English. Papers (optional) After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper on the work they presented. These papers will undergo peer-review, and if accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers must be in English and should be 6-15 pages in length. Please follow the Springer LNCS conference proceedings author instructions<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Authors should download the .zip file: "LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates." Submission Instructions Proposals should be in the form of a Word doc or a PDF. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maple2020 Conference Details and Important Dates Conference Date: November 2-6, 2020 Location: The conference will be held online. Program Chairs: Robert M. Corless, Western University, and JÃ¼rgen Gerhard, Maplesoft Submission Deadlines Abstract submission: July 15, 2020 Notification of acceptance/rejection of presentation proposal: August 31, 2020 Paper submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: February 28, 2021 Camera-ready copy due: March 31, 2021 See you at Maple Conference 2020! Sincerely, Rob Corless and Jürgen Gerhard, Maple Conference 2020 Program Chairs (c) %%dynamic_content_1378%% Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc., 615 Kumpf Drive Waterloo ON Canada N2V1K8; customerservice(a)maplesoft.com<mailto:customerservice@maplesoft.com>. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. To manage subscriptions or to opt out of all commercial email communications from Maplesoft, please click here<%25%25unsubscribe%25%25>.

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New Deadline July 17 for CFP for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

*The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2020)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of * *The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20>* *26 - 30 October* * 2020* *Barcelona, Spain* *(Tentative)* * Paper Submission Deadline: 17 July 2020 - Extended* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE AND SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - - Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning* o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS * You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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. *- Poster papers* and *Posters* (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. *Conference Policies* 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 soundness, 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 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the *Authors Info* and *Registration Info* pages. *Proceedings* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 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 reputable 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 special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 17 July 2020 - Extended* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 02 August 2020* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 15 August 2020* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 26-30 October 2020* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com *International Program Committee*: * All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres*, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *François Diakhaté,* CEA, France - *Isaac Gelado*, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Giuseppe Lettieri,* University of Pisa, Italy - *Xiaoyi Lu*, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla*, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran*, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Dong Ping Zhang*, AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang*, Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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Open PhD student position at KIT
by Kondov, Ivan (SCC) 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Dear all, We are inviting applicants for the following open position (see below). With my best regards, Ivan Kondov PhD Student Position (3 years 75% salary level E13) Enhancing e-mobility with artificial intelligence and uncertainty quantification Courses: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics Topic The ability to quickly charge car batteries plays a key role in the acceptance of e-mobility. Furthermore, besides fulfilling all of the driver’s requirements, batteries should retain long life times. These challenges in e-mobility are tackled by the battery management system (BMS). To satisfactory meet all requirements, the BMS needs detailed information on battery function. Since this information is limited during operation, the BMS currently works with high safety margins that can significantly reduce battery performance. The plan of this project is to apply machine learning to the battery cells as well as the BMS to achieve an intelligent, individualized cell management that at any point uses each cell at its optimum performance based on extensive lifetime data. Initial training of an AI on a particular battery design is done in the lab using advanced equipment, collecting as much data as possible for subsequent retraining and optimization. In a second step, the BMS AI shall be implemented on simple hardware, where sufficient data is collected and stored such that the AI can be continuously improved individually for each battery cell. One key task of this thesis is to set up a model of the battery by using Gaussian Process Regression. This model (or digital twin) is used by the AI BMS. While providing efficient insight into the dynamics of the battery cell, Gaussian Process Regression enables the use of uncertainty quantification, which is then employed to obtain a more sophisticated idea of the dynamics of the developed model. In order to quantify how the cell behavior is affected by uncertainties, efficient uncertainty propagation models have to be developed and applied to the digital twin. Requirements Knowledge or experience in at least one of these methodological fields will be an advantage for the candidate: machine learning, artificial intelligence, or uncertainty quantification. Partners This project is one of 19 AI pilot projects of the Helmholtz Association. It is a joint project of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München and Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the PhD student will closely collaborate with both partners. Contacts Prof. Dr. Martin Frank Faculty of Mathematics Steinbuch Centre for Computing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology www.scc.kit.edu martin.frank(a)kit.edu Dr. Ivan Kondov Steinbuch Centre for Computing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology www.scc.kit.edu ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu

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CFP - Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology at IEEE Globecom 2020
by Peter Mueller 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The sixth workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’20) http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/ At IEEE Globecom’20, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-11 December 2020 http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope of the workshop: Recent experimental results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications, computing, security, and sensing. Companies and governments started to invest significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. These developments are offering numerous opportunities to contribute to the research and engineering aspects of quantum technologies. On the scientific side, the workshop also addresses novel ideas in the fields of quantum communications and information processing, which contribute to the general know-how of quantum technologies. The following topics are key to the workshop, but not exclusive: - Quantum communications - Entanglement distillation & swapping - Quantum state discrimination - Quantum sensing & metrology - Quantum coding theory - Homomorphic applications - Quantum networks - Quantum algorithms - Error Correction for quantum systems - Interconnection and complexity theory - Modeling and simulation - Optimized algorithms and applications - Quantum eco-system - Other topics related to quantum communications and information processing Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts: Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/N27538 Further information is available in the Globecom 2020 webpages: http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org Important dates: Manuscript submission due date: 17. July 2020 Notification date: 17. August 2020 Final manuscript due date: 1. October 2020 QCIT’20 workshop date: 7. December 2020 (Afternoon) Globecom’20 conference date: 7.-11. December 2020 Workshop organizers: Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italia Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

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CFP - HPBench2020
by Samar Aseeri 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 1 July 2020 Author Notification: 22 July 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 10 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Job Opening: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on tenure-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (PR0311/18-19)* The appointees will perform high-impact research; to teach and supervise students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as to contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. They will be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues within the Department to contribute to two special thematic applications including (a) health informatics and (b) secure and privacy-aware computing, and to pursue new strategic research initiatives under the Department/Faculty/University. Applicants should possess PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in areas including but not limited to: Internet of things, Cyber-security, High-performance computing, Big data analytics, and Financial technologies. Applicants should also show strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and be able to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. The above positions are on tenure-track with initial appointment on three-year fixed-term contracts. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr. William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Those who have responded to the advertisement posted in December 2019 need not re-apply. *Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably *three best ones* out of their most recent publications/works. They should also request *two referees* to send in confidential letters of reference, with *PR* number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer. *Closing Date: 31 July 2020 (or until the positions are filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=503

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HPCS 2020 - The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

Please Post. Thank you. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** **** ****The 2020 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** ****(HPCS 2020)** **** ****26-30 October, 2020** ****Barcelona, Spain** **** ****http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20** **** ****In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP** **** ****(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 17 July 2020 - Extended)** ****(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest.)* HPCS Proceedings are to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed by all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc. Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference You are cordially invited to participate in this conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, 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, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, 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 the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: (some still need co-organizers; please let us know if you are interested) Symposia: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia-hpcs2020 SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2020) SYM04: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2020) SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2020) SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2020) SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2020) Workshops: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020 W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing (DRMEC 2020) W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed Computing Systems (OPTIM 2020) W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2020) W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects (HPINI 2020) W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2020) W06: Advances in Parallel Programming Models and Frameworks for the Multi-/Many-core Era (APPMM 2020) W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2020) W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2020) W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2020) W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2020) W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2020) W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2020) W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation (CIPEC 2020) W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2020) W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2020) W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences (BILIS 2020) W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN 2020) W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2020) W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks (PCNN 2020) W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2020) W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (LSAUC 2020) Special Sessions: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and Optimization (HPBench 2020) SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2020) SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2020) SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2020) SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2020) SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2020) SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2020) SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications (IoT-HPC 2020) SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2020) SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2020) SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering (FSASE 2020) SS13: High Performance Computing and Modeling & Simulation Education (HPCEd 2020) ============================================================== *Important Dates:** ** ** Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline 17 July 2020 - Extended** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline 25 July 2020** ** Notification of Acceptance starts 07 August 2020** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due 19 August 2020** ** Conference Dates 26-30 October 2020* ============================================================== For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the organizers. Please stay safe and healthy. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Barcelona, Spain in October. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2020 Organizers

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VHPC Zoom 25th of June Call for Participation: 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
by Michael Alexander 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

We cordially invite you to participate online in the 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '20) Keynote: RedHat on Podman (a Docker alternative) for HPC Talks include: Google on Autopilot (Google internally used autoscaler) This year's focus is on: Orchestration (Kubernetes) Resource efficiency via auto-scaling (Autopilot / Google) Containers for HPC (Podman) Lightweight Virtualization / Unikernels The Workshop is being held online via Zoom. Participation is free with registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vC5pwmgbQ6ypJEfyQ8nHIg

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Expert Sessions: Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization – Theory and Practice
by Aviv Gibali 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Dear all; Due to the Corona pandemic we had to cancel our June 24-26, 2020 planned workshop on “Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization – Theory and Practice” organized by the division of Optimization of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In order to keep in touch with our friends and colleagues in the scientific community, we establish a weekly Expert Session Webinar focusing on Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization - Theory and Practice. For more details please visit our webpage: https://www.leistungszentrum-simulation-software.de/en/news-events/Fairs_co… We hope that this initiative will help to explore and discuss opportunities for joint research projects. If you are interested please register at the above webpage to receive announcements and links of the talks. Aviv Gibali, Dirk Lorenz, Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho and Karl-Heinz Küfer (Organizers) ================================================== Assoc. Prof. Aviv Gibali Department of Mathematics, ORT Braude College<http://www.braude.ac.il/english/>, P.O. Box 78, Karmiel 2161002, Israel & The Center for Mathematics and Scientific Computation<http://math.haifa.ac.il/ccmsc/>, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Homepage: https://w3.braude.ac.il/lecturer/assoc-prof-aviv-gibali/ Office: +972-4-9086404 ==================================================

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[CFP] 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20)
by Hoang Nguyen 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email!!! ======================================================================== Call For Papers 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20) to be held in conjunction with SC 2020 and in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC Sun Nov 15, Atlanta, GA, USA https://works-workshop.org ======================================================================== Scientific workflows have been almost universally used across scientific domains and have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past several decades. Workflow management systems (WMSs) provide abstraction and automation which enable a broad range of researchers to easily define sophisticated computational processes and to then execute them efficiently on parallel and distributed computing systems. As workflows have been adopted by a number of scientific communities, they are becoming more complex and require more sophisticated workflow management capabilities. A workflow now can analyze terabyte-scale data sets, be composed of one million individual tasks, require coordination between heterogeneous tasks, manage tasks that execute for milliseconds to hours, and can process data streams, files, and data placed in object stores. The computations can be single core workloads, loosely coupled computations, or tightly all within a single workflow, and can run in dispersed computing platforms. This workshop focuses on the many facets of scientific workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service, and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: scientific workflows representation and enactment; workflow scheduling techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow on heterogeneous infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. WORKS20 will be held in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC20), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). Topics ------ WORKS20 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Big Data analytics workflows * Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) * Workflow composition, tools, and languages * Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) * Reproducible computational research using workflows * Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions * Exascale computing with workflows * In Situ Data Analytics Workflows * Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) * Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques * Workflow user environments, including portals * Workflow applications and their requirements * Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) * Performance analysis of workflows * Workflow debugging * Workflow provenance * Machine Learning workflows Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Full paper deadline: August 15, 2020 Paper acceptance notification: September 15, 2020 E-copyright registration completed by authors: October 1, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2020 Workshop: November 15, 2020 --------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Submissions are limited to 8 pages in the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). The 8-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices, and references. WORKS papers this year will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process and each will have at least three reviews by members of the program committee. Papers will be accepted based on their technical contributions. --------------------------------- Organizing Committee - Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA - Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, UK General Chair - Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK, University of Notre Dame, USA Steering Committee - David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia - Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA - Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Publicity Chair - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Program Committee (tentative) - Pinar Alper – King's College London, UK - Ilkay Altintas – SDSC, USA - Khalid Belhajjame Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France - Ivona Brandic – TU Wien, Austria - Kris Bubendorfer – VUW, New Zealand - Jesus Carretero – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Henri Casanova – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA - Rafael Ferreira da Silva – USC/ISI, USA - Daniel Garijo – USC/ISI, USA - Sandra Gesing – University of Notre Dame, USA - Tristan Glatard – Concordia University, Canada - Daniel Katz – UIUC, USA - Tamas Kiss – University of Westminster, UK - Dagmar Krefting – HTW Berlin, Germany - Maciej Malawski – AGH UST, Poland - Anirban Mandal – RENCI, USA - Marta Mattoso – UFRJ, Brazil - Paolo Missier – Newcastle University, UK - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia - Jarek Nabrzyski – University of Notre Dame, USA - Daniel de Oliveira – UFF, Brazil - Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece - Loic Pottier – USC/ISI, USA - Radu Prodan – University of Innsbruck, Austria - Omer Rana – Cardiff University, UK - Ivan Rodero – Rutgers University, USA - Rizos Sakellariou – University of Manchester, UK - Frédéric Suter – CNRS, France - Andrew Stephen Mcgough – Newcastle University, UK - Domenico Talia – University of Calabria, Italy - Douglas Thain – University of Notre Dame, USA - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain - Chase Wu – NJ Institute of Technology, USA

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due June 12 (REMINDER)
by Thomas Naughton 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> 2020 Workshop Format: Due to the exceptional situation of COVID-19, this year Euro-Par and its workshops will be organized as an all-virtual event. This includes the main conference and workshops. The accepted workshop papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. There will be a single minimal registration fee for each accepted paper in order to cover expenses associated with organization and proceedings publication. Only one author per paper needs to register (150 euros). Lastly, the preferred presentation format for the workshop will be via a streaming presentation, with slides and pre-recorded video presentations used in exceptional situations. Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Resilience 2020 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 12, 2020 (extended) - Workshop author notification: July 21, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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[High Performance Computing] Become a specialist!
by Master in HPC 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

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Release 0.11 of SARL agent programming language
by Stéphane Galland 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues. I'm glade to announce the major release of SARL version 0.11 ( www.sarl.io).SARL is a statically-typed agent-programming language. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration for multiagent systems. In addition to the traditional bug fixes, four major changes are available, and are briefly explained below. 1. Janus version 3Janus is the official SARL run-time environment (aka. SARL virtual machine). This release of SARL provides a MAJOR NEW IMPLEMENTATION of Janus with its version 3. In the past, the change from version 1 to version 2 was due to a total re-implementation of Janus in order to follow and support the SARL metamodel. This time, Version 3 of Janus is a total re-implementation with the SARL language, i.e. we have written the code with SARL not anymore with Java. The major benefits of the new implementation with the SARL language are: * Direct usage of the SARL concepts and statements; * Ability to generate the same SRE to different target platforms (Java, Python, etc.); * Proof-of-concept related to the capabilities of the SARL language to cover complex application’s implementation. In addition to the total re-implementation with SARL language, the software architecture of Janus was re-thinking and optimized in order to improve the global run-time performances of the SRE, and to be more modular in order to extend modules of Janus with new third-party modules (based on Bootique modules). 2. New types of participants in spacesFrom the SARL metamodel, spaces are entities in which the agents are able to interact or communicate. The agents that are part of a space are named participants. From our experience during the past years, different types of participants may be involved into a space. First, the agents constitute the largest part of these participants. Second, external software, such as an graphical user interface (GUI), may have to listen for events or emit them into a space in order to setup an interaction with the agents. Nevertheless, having only a single type of participant defined causes issues into the SARL run-time environment (SRE) when it is time to decide if a space should be destroyed or not. Indeed, the SRE is in charge of destroying the spaces when they are not used anymore (usually when there is no more agent inside). A problem occurs when all the agents have leaved the space, and only GUI remain. In this case, the SRE was not able to detect this case and to destroy the space. This issue could be seen because the SRE never stops to run, even when all the agents were killed. In order to solve this issue, two types of participants are defined: * Strong Participant: it corresponds to the regular meaning of a participant (and the default one). When a strong participant is involved into a space, the SRE cannot destroy the space. Typical strong participants are the application agents. * Weak Participant: it is a participant that is considered as optional by the SRE. In order words, when a space has only weak participants, it is considered as releasable by the SRE. Typical weak participants are GUI objects. Whatever the type of participant, they have the same level of abilities for using the space. For example, in the case of an event space, the strong and weak participants have all the abilities to emit events, and receive them. 3. New agent spawning APIThe spawning functions of the agents have encountered a big change: they are not replying anymore the unique identifier of the just spawned agents. Now, the spawning functions return void. This change was forced by the need to execute in parallel the different spawning processes when multiple agents are spawned at the same time. In this case, it is almost impossible to retreive the unique identifiers of the agents before returning from the spawning function. 4. New tool for SARL contributors: an Eclipse DSL with embedded SARLIn past, it was not so easy to install and set-up an complete and working development environment for the SARL contributors. It was due to the usage of different technologies such as Eclipse DSL, Java, Maven and Xtext. In order to have a ready-to-use environment, as much as possible, a specific Eclipse product is now available into the SARL project: sarl- dsl. This new product includes: * Regular Eclipse framework for domain specific language implementation, that includes: 1. Eclipse environment,Java development environment,Maven integration into Eclipse, andXtext libraries; * SARL compiler integration into Eclipse; * Janus run-time environment; * Eclipse Checkstyle. Enjoy SARL 0.11! -- Laboratoire Connaissance et Intelligence Artificielle Distribuées CIAD UMR 7533 Prof. Dr. Stéphane GALLAND Full Professor of Computer Science and Multiagent Systems Deputy Director of CIAD French Head of ARFITEC ARF-17-10 "Energy, Transport, Industry, Challenges for tomorrow" Senior member of the Multiagent Group Member of AFIA Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard - UBFC 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE CIAD Lab: www.ciad-lab.fr Web: www.ciad-lab.fr/author-10836 Phone: +33 384 583 418 (work office) Mobile: +33 662 274 442 (private)

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Call for Papers: The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science – July 19-23, 2020 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy - Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 (this Thursday)
by Ludovico Montalcini 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear Colleague, Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested authors/attendees. The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science – July 19-23, 2020 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – Tuscany, Italy An multidisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence without Borders From 2015, the LOD Conference brings academics, researchers and industrial researchers together in a unique multidisciplinary community to discuss the state of the art and the latest advances in the integration of machine learning, optimization and data science to provide the scientific and technological foundations for interpretable, explainable and trustworthy AI adopting, from 2017, the Asilomar AI Principles. The 6th Annual Conference on machine Learning, Optimization and Data science (LOD) is a international conference on machine learning, computational optimization, data science that includes invited talks, tutorial talks, special sessions, industrial tracks, demonstrations and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD) has established itself as a premier interdisciplinary conference in machine learning, computational optimization and data science. It provides an international forum for presentation of original multidisciplinary research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences. We invite submissions of papers, abstracts, posters and demos on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Data Science including real-world applications for the Conference proceedings – Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. LOD 2020 an On-Site & On-Line Conference! After numerous discussions, we have concluded that holding the event this year in mixed form both in presence (like previous editions) and virtual is more advantageous than postponing it until next year. In order to accommodate a large number of situations and constraints, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors and participants manage to attend, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. The Conference, hence, will be held in presence with virtual rooms for authors and participants using remote connection (e.g., Zoom or MS Teams). The online lectures (e.g., live presentations and/or recorded ones) will be made possible. W: https://lod2020.icas.xyz E: lod(a)icas.cc EC: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2020 FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ News: https://lod2020.icas.xyz/category/news/ Important Date: * Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 – Anywhere on Earth. * Early Registration: June 30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA Talk: TBA * Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal, Canada - A.M. Turing Award 2018 LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Nando de Freitas, Google DeepMind, London, UK & Oxford University, UK Talk: TBA * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Talk: TBA * Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Talk: TBA (online talk) * Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt & Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany Talk: Machine Learning of Robot Skills (online talk) * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Talk: Inverse Combinatorial Optimization Problems * Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy Talk: NLP for Close Domain Applications with Real World Data: an hybrid approach to jointly leverage prior domain knowledge, reasoning techniques and deep learning * Cristina Savin, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Tali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Israel LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA More Keynote Speakers Coming soon! Tutorial Speakers * Chip Huyen, Stanford University, USA 4-hour tutorial on "TensorFlow 2.0 for Deep Learning Research" * Vincenzo Sciacca, Almawave, Italy Tutorial on "Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning" More Tutorial Speakers Coming soon! SATELLITE WORKSHOPS I) Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 https://lod2020.icas.xyz/workshop-on-biologically-plausible-learning/ Chair: Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Keynote Speaker: * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal, Canada - A.M. 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Updates : HiPC 2020 going virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic - Revised Timeline
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 May '20

30 May '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - REVISED TIMELINE ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 27th edition of HiPC - HiPC 2020 will be held VIRTUALLY this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also working with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online publications as well as the virtual meeting. The updated timeline for HiPC 2020 is as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 Rebuttal Period: August 31 - September 2, 2020 Decisions Communicated: September 15, 2020 Deadline for Revised Papers: October 10, 2020 Final Notifications: October 25, 2020 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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CFP - HPBench 2020
by Samar Aseeri 29 May '20

29 May '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 1 July 2020 Author Notification: 22 July 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 10 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CFP - HPBench 2020
by Samar Aseeri 29 May '20

29 May '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== The Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization provides a premier venue to bring together systems researchers working on compiler architecture, design and code optimization of high performance computing systems, particularly for many-core, GPU, and accelerators. The track spans the spectrum from compiler performance to energy optimization, and from purely static to fully dynamic approaches. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 1 July 2020 Author Notification: 22 July 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 3 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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GECON 2020, Final Call, Submission Deadline Extended to June 7th, 17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services
by Jörn ALTMANN 26 May '20

26 May '20

=========================================================== 17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services Extended Deadline: June 7th, 2020 =========================================================== ONLINE CONFERENCE with high interaction between participants WWW: http://2020.gecon-conference.org Dates: 15-17 September 2020 Proceedings: Springer LNCS =========== / NOTICES! / =========== Extended Deadlines: Extended abstract Submission deadline: May 31st, 2020 Full papers deadline: June 7th, 2020 The organizing committee of GECON 2020 has decided all sessions will be held exclusively online! We consider the new online format to offer opportunities for exploring new ways of improving the interaction and feedback of the audience with speakers and promoting networking among the conference participants. The registration fee of the online conference has been reduced to 250€ for one author of each publication, 100 € for participants, and 50€ for students. The selection process will run as planned. The timely publication of accepted papers in the proceedings of GECON 2020 will be published in the LNCS series of Springer as announced. Due to the new online format, GECON maintains open the proposal for special sessions. With the objective of encouraging alternative forms of participation that can increase discussions of technical topics and new ideas. We solicit new topics and birds-of-a-feather session proposals. Deadline for proposals is August 15th, 2020. ======== / SCOPE / ======== GECON 2020 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions (http://www.gecon-conference.org) since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes. ============== / Important Dates / ============== Deadlines: Extended abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2020 Full papers deadline: June 7th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 6th, 2020 Camera Ready deadline: July 13th, 2020 Poster Submission for accepted papers: July 20th, 2020 Birds of a feather session proposals: August 15th, 2020 ============================== / Publication and Submission Guidelines / ============================== Original full papers and work-in-progress papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, originality, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been around 30 per cent in recent years. Full papers, work-in-progress (WIP) papers, and wild-and-crazy-ideas (WACI) papers shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages, WIP papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices) and WACI papers (4 pages). For further details, visit the GECON 2020 web page. Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2020). The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication in a special issue of the: - Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects, a special issue of the - Springer Electronic Markets Journal or - Elsevier Electronic Commerce and Applications with up to 5 papers is foreseen. ============== / Topics of Interest / ============== As a global market for infrastructures, platforms, and software services emerge, the need to understand and deal with its implications and its interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. To address this, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area. GECON list of areas includes, but is not limited to: -Economics- Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages Economic efficiency Techno-economic analysis and modelling Pricing schemes and revenue models Metering, accounting, and billing Cost-benefit analysis Automated trading and bidding support tools Trust, reputation, security, and risk management Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Energy efficiency Sustainability Business models and strategies Decision support Open source ecosystems -Law and Legal Aspects- Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects Service level agreements (SLAs), negotiation, Monitoring and enforcement Governance of ecosystems Privacy -Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services- IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity Resource management: allocation, sharing, scheduling Capacity planning Virtualization and containers Service science, management and engineering (SSME) Software engineering Security -Technologies Transforming the Economy- Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings Energy-aware infrastructures and services Fog, edge, osmosis computing Micro-services, serverless computing Internet-of-Things Blockchains Community networks Social networks Social computing Big data Data stream ingestion and complex event processing Additionally, the following special topic sessions have been lined up (a detailed description is available on the GECON 2020 submission web site): -Digital Infrastructures to Support Decision Making for Pandemic Response and Countermeasures- Contact: GECON 2020 Chairs, gecon2020(a)easychair.org -Decentralising Clouds to Deliver Intelligence at the Edge- Contact: Seugwoo Kum, Korean Electronics Technology Institute, Korea, seungwoo.kum(a)gmail.com; Domenico Siracusa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy, dsiracusa(a)fbk.eu. -Sustainability of Digital Infrastructures: Social, Economic, and Policy Aspects for Material Resources Supporting the Digital World- Contact: Leandro Navarro Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, leandro(a)ac.upc.edu; Felix Freitag Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, felix(a)ac.upc.edu -Business and Economic Aspects of Machine Learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science- Contact: Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen University of South-Eastern, Norway, aurilla.aurelie.arntzen(a)usn.no ==================== / Conference Organization / ==================== Conference Chair Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana,Slovenia) Conference Vice-Chairs Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spai Steering Committee Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain) Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (Technion, Israel) Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK) Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece) Maurizio Naldi (Universita di Roma, Italy) Contact for Questions: gecon2020(a)easychair.org @&@#^%&*%$@*#*&%#%^&$#@^@^&@%$@*^#&@ @%#&#@^*$@@#*%&%#@*$*&^@#$%@#%&$&%@ Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN office 37-305 Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program Departmentof Industrial Engineering Collegeof Engineering Seoul National University 1 Gwanak-Ro, Gwanak-Gu, 08826 Seoul, South-Korea phone: +82 70 7678 6676 phone: +49 4155 129333 phone: +1 510 962 3062 phone: +44 20 32393134 fax: +1 610 956 4404 email: jorn.altmann(a)acm.org www: http://altmann.my-groups.de/

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CFP for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 24 May '20

24 May '20

*The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2020)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of * *The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20>* *26 - 30 October* * 2020* *Barcelona, Spain* *(Tentative)* * Paper Submission Deadline: 17 June 2020* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE AND SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - - Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning* o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS * You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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. *- Poster papers* and *Posters* (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. *Conference Policies* 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 soundness, 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 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the *Authors Info* and *Registration Info* pages. *Proceedings* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 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 reputable 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 special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 17 June 2020* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 10 July 2020* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 03 August 2020* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 26-30 October 2020* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com *International Program Committee*: * All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres*, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *Isaac Gelado*, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Xiaoyi Lu*, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla*, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran*, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Dong Ping Zhang*, AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang*, Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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Postdoc Position at Berkeley Lab in Ice Sheet Modeling
by Esmond G. Ng 21 May '20

21 May '20

Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division has an opening for a Postdoctoral Scholar to work on the BISICLES Ice Sheet Model. The Applied Numerical Algorithms Group (ANAG), in partnership with the Universities of Bristol and Swansea in the UK, is a home of BISICLES, an open-source adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) ice sheet model under development as a part of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded ProSPect SciDAC partnership (see http://bisicles.lbl.gov). You will join an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers in extending the current BISICLES capabilities while applying the model to a range of idealized and realistic problems. ANAG develops advanced numerical algorithms and software for partial differential equations integrated with the application of the software to problems of independent scientific and engineering interest. The primary focus of our work is in the development of high-resolution and adaptive finite difference methods for partial differential equations in complex geometries with applications to DOE-mission applications including porous media flows, magnetohydrodynamics, industrial problems, climate, and fusion energy. Details, including how to apply, can be found here: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/bisicles-ice-sheet-model-postdoctoral-scholar-2616

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due June 12 (deadline extended)
by Thomas Naughton 20 May '20

20 May '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> 2020 Workshop Format: Due to the exceptional situation of COVID-19, this year Euro-Par and its workshops will be organized as an all-virtual event. This includes the main conference and workshops. The accepted workshop papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. There will be a single minimal registration fee for each accepted paper in order to cover expenses associated with organization and proceedings publication. Only one author per paper needs to register (150 euros). Lastly, the preferred presentation format for the workshop will be via a streaming presentation, with slides and pre-recorded video presentations used in exceptional situations. Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Resilience 2020 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 12, 2020 (extended) - Workshop author notification: July 21, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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CVML live Web lectures 20th May 2020: 1) Motion estimation, 2) Introduction to Machine Learning. Change of CVML web lectures date/time.
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 15 May '20

15 May '20

Dear Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Autonomous Systems students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is proud to have launched the live CVML Web lecture series that covers very important Computer Vision/Machine Learning topics. Two new upcoming 45 min lectures will take place soon: 1) Motion estimation 2) Introduction to Machine Learning New!: Date/time: Wednesday 20th May 2020, 17:00-18:30 EEST for both lectures (7:00-8:30 am California time, 10:00-11:30 am New York time, 22:00-23:30 Beijing time). Registration can be done using the link: <http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/> http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Registration for asynchronous access to CVML live Web lecture material (video, pdf/ppt) for any past/present lecture can be done using the link: <http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/> http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Lecture abstracts 1) Motion estimation, Wednesday 20th May 2020, 17:00-17:45 EEST Summary: Motion estimation principals will be analyzed. Initiating form 2D and 3D motion models, displacement estimation as well as quality metrics for motion estimation will subsequently be detailed. One of the basic motion estimation techniques, namely block matching, will also be presented, along with three alternative, faster methods. A good overview of deep neural notion estimation will be presented. Phase correlation will be described, next followed by optical flow equation methods. Finally, a brief introduction to object detection and tracking will conclude the lecture. 2) Introduction to Machine Learning, Wednesday 20th May 2020, 17:45-18:30 EEST Summary: This lecture will cover the basic concepts of Machine Learning. Supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised learning. Multi-task Machine Learning. Classification, regression. Object detection, Object tracking. Clustering. Dimensionality reduction, data retrieval. Artificial Neural Networks. Adversarial Machine Learning. Generative Machine Learning. Temporal Machine learning (Recurrent Neural Networks). Continual Learning (few-shot learning, online learning). Reinforcement Learning. Adaptive learning (Knowledge Distillation, Domain adaptation, Transfer learning, Activation Pattern Analysis, Federated learning/Collaborative learning, Ensemble learning). Precise mathematical definitions of ML tasks will be presented. Lecturer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. His current interests are in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 860 papers, contributed in 44 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 69 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 41 such projects. He has 31000+ citations to his work and h-index 83+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas lead the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: <https://multidrone.eu/> https://multidrone.eu/ and is principal investigator (AUTH) in H2020 projects Aerial Core and AI4Media. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative <https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/> https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. Lecturing record of Prof. I. Pitas: He was Visiting/Adjunct/Honorary Professor/Researcher and lectured at several Universities: University of Toronto (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), EPFL (Switzerland), Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), University of Bristol (UK), Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Yonsei University (Korea), Erlangen-Nurnberg University (Germany), National University of Malaysia, Henan University (China). He delivered 90 invited/keynote lectures in prestigious international Conferences and top Universities worldwide. He run 17 short courses and tutorials on Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, most of them in the past 3 years in many countries, e.g., USA, UK, Italy, Finland, Greece, Australia, N. Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan. Relevant links: a) Prof. I. Pitas: <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el b) AIIA Lab <http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr> www.aiia.csd.auth.gr General information: Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required. These two lectures are part of a 14 lecture CVML web course 'Computer vision and machine learning for autonomous systems' (April-June 2020): Introduction to autonomous systems (delivered 25th April 2020) Introduction to computer vision (delivered 25th April 2020) Image acquisition, camera geometry (delivered 2nd May 2020) Stereo and Multiview imaging (delivered 9th May 2020) Structure from Motion (delivered 9th May 2020) 2D convolution and correlation algorithms Motion estimation Introduction to Machine Learning Introduction to neural networks, Perceptron, backpropagation Deep neural networks, Convolutional NNs Deep learning for object/target detection Object tracking Localization and mapping Fast convolution algorithms. CVML programming tools. Sincerely yours Prof. Ioannis Pitas Director of Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Post scriptum: To stay current on CVMl matters, you may want to register to the CVML email list, following instructions in <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai gn=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai gn=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link> www.avast.com

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GrAPL 2020 - Virtual Event - Call for Participation
by Tumeo, Antonino 15 May '20

15 May '20

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 8AM – 10AM PDT IMPORTANT: This year, GrAPL will hold two LIVE 45 minute Q&A sessions with the authors of the accepted papers and invited talks according to the schedule below. Papers and static presentations for the entire conference including the GrAPL Workshop will be made available to all conference registrants by Friday May 15th. Register for free at the IPDPS website (http://www.ipdps.org) to get instructions on how to access to this content. In addition, links to 3-5 minute lightning talks by the workshop speakers will be found at the GrAPL website (https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/) by May 15th. To attend the Zoom Sessions, we ask participants to register in advance at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/grapl2020 The organizing committee will then provide the link to the session. ****************************************************************************** Program for May 18th: 0800 – 0845 (PDT): Session 1 Welcome message. Algorithms and Applications Kronecker Graph Generation with Ground Truth for 4-Cycles and Dense Structure in Bipartite Graphs Trevor Steil (University of Minnesota), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Geoffrey Sanders (LLNL), Roger Pearce (LLNL), Benjamin Priest (LLNL) A scalable graph generation algorithm to sample over a given shell distribution M. Yusuf Özkaya (Georgia Institute of Technology), Muhammed Fatih Balin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ali Pinar (SNL), Ümit V. Çatalyürek (Georgia Institute of Technology) An incremental GraphBLAS solution for the 2018 TTC Social Media case study Márton Elekes (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Gábor Szárnyas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Linear Algebraic Louvain Method in Python Tze Meng Low (Carnegie Mellon University), Daniele Spampinato (Carnegie Mellon University), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Michel Pelletier (FPX, LLC) 0900 – 0945 (PDT): Session 2 Keynote - The GraphIt Universal Graph Framework: Achieving High-Performance across Algorithms, Graph Types and Architectures Saman Amarasinghe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) API's and Implementations Parallelizing Maximal Clique Enumeration on Modern Manycore Processors Jovan Blanuša (IBM Research - Zürich, EPFL), Radu Stoica (IBM Research - Zürich), Paolo Ienne (EPFL), Kubilay Atasu (IBM Research - Zürich) A Roadmap for the GraphBLAS C++ API Benjamin A. Brock (UC Berkeley), Aydın Buluç (LBNL), Timothy G. Mattson (Intel), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), José E. Moreira (IBM) Considerations for a Distributed GraphBLAS API Benjamin A. Brock (UC Berkeley), Aydın Buluç (LBNL), Timothy G. Mattson (Intel), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), José E. Moreira (IBM), Roger Pearce (LLNL), Oguz Selvitopi (LBNL), Trevor Steil (University of Minnesota) 75,000,000,000 Streaming Inserts/Second Using Hierarchical Hypersparse GraphBLAS Matrices Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) ****************************************************************************** GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING IN PROCESS MINING ML4PM 2020 - 5 OCTOBER, 2020 - PADUA, ITALY
by Paolo Ceravolo 14 May '20

14 May '20

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING IN PROCESS MINING ML4PM 2020 - 5 OCTOBER, 2020 - PADUA, ITALY http://ml4pm2020.di.unimi.it AN ACTIVITY FROM THE IEEE TASK FORCE ON PROCESS MINING ON THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROCESS MINING (https://icpmconference.org/2020/) ## About ML4PM The interest in Machine Learning applications in Process Mining has seen increasing growth in the last few years along with the relevance of the ICPM conference. Thus, this workshop offers a focused environment to discuss new approaches, applications and their results to a wide audience, composed of researchers and practitioners. ML4PM will be held in online (due to covid-19), in conjunction with the ICPM conference. ### Call for Papers This workshop invites papers that present works that lay in the intersection between machine learning and process mining. The event provides a suitable environment to discuss new approaches presented by researchers and practitioners. Main themes include automated process modeling, predictive process mining, application of deep learning techniques and online process mining. The workshop will count with leading researchers, engineers and scientists who are actively working on these topics. Full papers must be written in English, not exceed 12 pages and must be an original contribution, not previously published or under review. Workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). ### Virtual conference Due to the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak, ICPM 2020 will be a fully virtual conference, with no travel involved. However, the entire program, including the co-located events, will be retained, and will not change. With the spirit of keeping the entire conference as interactive as possible, presentations will be given live using webinars. The presentations will also be broadcasted, and also available after the conference for off-line viewing. Attendees will be able to ask questions, which will be answered at the end of the each presentation. When multiple sessions run in parallel (e.g., workshops), the conference will feature parallel virtual rooms. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: * Outcome and time prediction * Classification and clusterization of business processes * Application of Deep Learning for PM * Stream mining for online process environments * Anomaly detection for PM * Natural Language Processing and Text Mining for PM * Multi-perspective analysis of processes * Machine Learning for robot process automation * Automated process modeling and updating * Conformance checking based on Machine Learning * Transfer Learning applied to business processes * IoT business services leveraged by Machine Learning * Multidimensional Process Mining * Predictive Process Mining * Prescriptive Learning in Process Mining * Convergence of Machine Learning and Blockchain in Process Mining ### Submission Guidelines Submissions must use the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Submissions must be in English and cannot exceed 12 pages (including tables, figures, the bibliography and appendices). Each paper should clarify the relation of the paper to the workshop’s main topics, clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during one of the workshop’s sessions and one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. ### Important Dates Abstract Submission: August 18 2020 Paper Submission: August 25 2020 Notification of Acceptance: September 14 2020 Submission of Camera Ready Papers: September 22 2020 Workshop: October 5 2020 ## Organizers * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4519-0173) * Sylvio Barbon Jr., State University of Londrina, Brazil (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4988-0702) * Annalisa Appice, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-844X) ### Program Committee María Teresa Gómez, University of Seville Rafael Accorsi, PwC Digital Services Niek Tax, Booking.com Josep Carmona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University of Science Technology Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Antonella Guzzo, Università della Calabria Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento Matthias Ehrendorfer, University of Vienna Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu Paola Mello, Università di Bologna Gabriel Marques Tavares, Università degli Studi di Milano Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina Irene Teinemaa, Booking.com Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari Aldo Moro Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University of Technology

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Postdoc position at UGR: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in Automation of Systematic Reviews
by Juan Manuel Fernández Luna 11 May '20

11 May '20

The University of Granada, Spain, and more specifically its Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence offers a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual European fellowship on the automation of systematic reviews using Artificial Intelligence. Published biomedical research needs to be synthesised for health practitioners. This currently takes too long to contemporaneously enhance health care quality because the methods of evidence synthesis that bring together published studies to underpin guidance for practice have well recognised, serious delays taking on average 5 staff members over 12 months to complete a review. We postulate that artificial intelligence (AI) can assist in evidence synthesis, improving the timeliness of guidelines. The objective of this project is, using beyond state-of-the-art AI methodology, develop an integrated system using modern AI technologies to support the complete process of systematic reviews. We will validate the performance the AI-based system quantifying its accuracy, precision, heterogeneity, bias and generalizability compared to a standard meta-analysis. We wish to form an international consortium of well-established researchers with individually distinctive track records in computer science, systematic review, study quality assessment, meta-analysis, evidence grading, public health, cardiometabolic research, and various forms of evidence synthesis including both randomized and real-world data. This will allow the delivery of a much-needed, exciting, ground breaking, high-quality and impactful project. Our output will help accelerate the process of meta-analyses, evidence synthesis and transfer of research into guidelines for improving the quality of health care. So we are looking for an experienced researcher with a PhD in Computer Science, with a strong background in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining to be integrated in a friendly and strong research group. She/he will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team in order to automating several of the stages of systematic reviews, where all these previously disciplines must be involved. The candidate will work and live at the beautiful city of Granada, at southern Spain. Those interested candidates should send a letter of interest and presentation (including the reasons why she/he would be interested in this position, her/his possible contributions to the research and skills) to Juan Manuel Fernández Luna (jmfluna <at> decsai.ugr.es) in addition to her/him CV. After a first selection from all the CVs, the selected candidate will work with the members of the research team to elaborate a successful proposal. More information about the fellowship is in the following link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/msca-if-joint-application-univer… And about the call in this one: *https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en * ----------- Juan M. Fernández Luna Department of Computer Science and Artificial University of Granada, Spain.

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Call For Workshop Proposals - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 May '20

09 May '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ********************************************************************* The 27th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2020) will be held in Pune, India, December 16-19, 2020. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, networking, data analytics, and their applications. Held on the first day of the conference, HiPC workshops will typically be half-day events although proposals for full-day workshops will also be considered. Workshops should have contributed papers in their program, and can have invited talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions as part of their technical program. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the call for papers to their workshops and also peer-review all submissions in accordance with the conference and IEEE guidelines. Papers accepted for presentation at the HiPC 2020 workshops will be included in the workshops volume of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN (HiPCW 2020) and will be distributed online. Post-conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be made available to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Deadlines and Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: May 20, 2020 Workshop proposal notifications: May 31, 2020 Workshop Website and CFP: June 15, 2020 Workshop organizers should further note the deadlines for their workshop organization to coordinate the proceedings of the main conference: Notification of Workshop papers accepted: October 14th, 2020 Workshop Camera-ready: October 28th, 2020 Final submission of workshop program and materials and full workshop websites online: November 7, 2020 Workshop date: December 16, 2020 Workshop Themes The topics of the proposed workshop should complement those listed in the main conference call for papers. Each workshop should be centered around a coherent theme or topic related to HPC and/or scalable data science; We particularly encourage workshop themes that relate to emerging areas and/or emerging application contexts of societal value (e.g., agriculture, energy, sustainability, workforce development). Workshop proposals will need to clearly state the purpose and the applications of the techniques in the abstract. Workshop proposers will also need to clearly identify how they are going to attract papers and speakers. What/Where to Submit Potential HiPC workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal that contains the items listed below. The proposal should also specify steps to be taken to develop a high-quality program committee and attract high-quality submissions to place the workshop(s) in a competitive international landscape. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, i.e., December 16th. Workshops may be proposed as a half-day program, running for 3 hours in the morning or afternoon, or as a full day program. In the case of the latter, organizers should explain how they will attract sufficient participation to develop a full day program of peer-reviewed papers. Proposals to organize a workshop at HiPC 2020 should include: * Description: title; topics to be addressed; goals; relevance and significance to the main conference. * Names, affiliations and contact information for organizers. * Plans for soliciting submissions, and the process for selecting papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. * Tentative names of Keynote/ invited speakers * Tentative program outline, identifying key elements such as panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions, invited talks, etc. * Tentative list of PC members to be recruited * A detailed timeline of the peer-review process The proposal should not exceed three pages and should be submitted as a pdf file to the HiPC Workshops Chairs at workshops(a)hipc.org. For additional information about organizing an HiPC workshop, see the FAQs sheet on the website. Workshop Co-Chairs Josephine Namayanja, University of Massachusetts, Boston Antonino Tumeo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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CVML live Web lectures 9th May 2020: 1) Structure from Motion 2) 2D convolution and correlation algorithms
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 04 May '20

04 May '20

Dear Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Autonomous Systems students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Two lectures will take place on Saturday 9th May 2020: 1) Structure from Motion 2) 2D convolution and correlation algorithms Date/time: a) Saturday 11:00-12:30 EET (17:00-18:30 Beijing time) for audience in Asia and will be repeated b) Saturday 20:00-21:30 EET (13:00-14:30 EST, 10:00-11:30 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ From this week onwards, asynchronous access to past CVML live Web lecture material (video, pdf/ppt) will be allowed. Separate email will be sent for this option. Lectures abstract 1) Structure from Motion Summary: Image-based 3D Shape Reconstruction, Stereo and multiview imaging principles. Feature extraction and matching. Triangulation and Bundle Adjustment. Mathematics of structure from motion. UAV image capturing. Optimal UAV flight trajectory/flight height/viewing angle/image overlap ratio. Pre/post-processing for 3D reconstruction: flat surface smoothing/mesh modification/isolated point removal. Structure from motion applications: 3D face reconstruction from uncalibrated video. 3D landscape reconstruction. 3D building/monument reconstruction and modeling, 2) 2D convolution and correlation algorithms Summary: 2D convolutions play an extremely important role in machine learning, as they form the first layers of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). They are also very important for computer vision (template matching through correlation, correlation trackers) and in image processing (image filtering/denoising/restoration). 3D convolutions are very important for machine learning (video analysis through CNNs) and for video filtering/denoising/restoration. 1D convolutions are extensively used in digital signal processing (filtering/denoising) and analysis (also through CNNs). Therefore, 2D convolution and correlation algorithms are very important both for machine learning and for signal/image/video processing and analysis. As their computational complexity is of the order O(N^4), their fast execution is a must. This lecture will overview 1D/2D linear and cyclic convolution. Then it will present their fast execution through FFTs, resulting in algorithms having computational complexity of the order O(Nlog2N), O(N^2log2N) for 1D and 2D convolutions respectively. Parallel block-based 2D convolution/calculation methods will be overviewed. The use of 2D convolutions in Convolutional Neural Networks will be presented. Lecturer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 1138 papers, contributed in 50 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 70 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 42 such projects. He has 30000+ citations to his work and h-index 81+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas lead the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/ and is principal investigator (AUTH) in H2020 projects Aerial Core and AI4Media. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> &hl=el AIIA Lab www.aiia.csd.auth.gr <http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr> Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required. These two lectures are part of a 14 lecture CVML web course 'Computer vision and machine learning for autonomous systems' (April-June 2020): Introduction to autonomous systems (delivered 25th April 2020) Introduction to computer vision (delivered 25th April 2020) Image acquisition, camera geometry (delivered 2nd May 2020) Stereo and Multiview imaging (delivered 2nd May 2020) 3D object/building/monument reconstruction and modeling Signals and systems. 2D convolution/correlation Motion estimation Introduction to Machine Learning Introduction to neural networks, Perceptron, backpropagation Deep neural networks, Convolutional NNs Deep learning for object/target detection Object tracking Localization and mapping Fast convolution algorithms. CVML programming tools. Sincerely yours Prof. Ioannis Pitas Director of AIIA Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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CFP and Workshops: 10th ICTH 2020 to be held in Madeira, Portugal - 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare
by MOHAMMED MOHAMMED FATTAH 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] *The 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH)* *Date*: November 2-5, 2020 *Location*: Madeira, Portugal *Website*: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/ *Important Dates*--------------- - *Workshop Proposals*: May 30, 2020 - *Paper Submission Due*: June 15, 2020 - *Author Notification*: August 2, 2020 - *Final Manuscript Due*: August 30, 2020 *Publication* ----------- All ICTH 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer ( http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: ( http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-comm… ) ICTH 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/). Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/call-for-papers.html ICTH 2020 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. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to*: ------------------------------------------- - Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care - Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems - Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems - Clinical Data and Knowledge Management - Cloud Computing for Healthcare - Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare - Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care - Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare - Data Visualization - Decision Support Systems in Healthcare - Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare - Digital Hospitals - Drug Information Systems - E-health & m-health - Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) - Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) - Healthgrids - Health Portals - Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments - Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications - Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare - Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems - Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare - RFID Solutions for Healthcare - Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments - Telemedicine and Health Telematics - Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare - Usability & Socio Technical studies - User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications - Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare - Virtual Environments for Healthcare *Committees* ---------- General Chairs Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil Program Chairs Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Local Arrangements Chairs Rui Neves Madeira, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal Nelson Rocha, University of Aveiro, Portugal Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Sony Guntuka, Acadia University, Canada Mohammed Fattah, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/program-committees.html Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Advisory Committee Abdullah Ali Al-Maniri, Oman Medical Specialty Board, Oman Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due May 29
by Thomas Naughton 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> 2020 Workshop Format: Due to the exceptional situation of COVID-19, this year Euro-Par and its workshops will be organized as an all-virtual event. This includes the main conference and workshops. The accepted workshop papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. There will be a single minimal registration fee for each accepted paper in order to cover expenses associated with organization and proceedings publication. Lastly, the preferred presentation format for the workshop will be via a streaming presentation, with slides and pre-recorded video presentations used in exceptional situations. Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Resilience 2020 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 29, 2020 - Workshop author notification: July 3, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 10, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2020) - Deadline extended until May 4
by Barbara Fila (Kordy) 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

*The GraMSec submission deadline is extended to Monday, May 4.* Please find below the full CFP. ====================================================================== GraMSec 2020: The Seventh International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security http://gramsec.uni.lu June 22, 2020 *Online event* Co-located with CSF 2020 *LNCS post-proceedings confirmed* SCOPE The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security is an established scientific event dedicated to study and exchange of experiences on graphical security and safety modelling. TOPICS This year, we encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 3. Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations 4. Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) 5. Risk analysis and management: models and graphical methodologies for security and privacy risk management in business and organisational architectures 6. Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 10. Visual security: modelling and analytics for security visualisations. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. We welcome a broad range of contributions: from theory to tools and experience reports. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 18 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Short papers (up to 10 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. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2020 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2020. PUBLICATION As in previous editions, we the post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, published by Springer. Proceedings will be published after the workshop, thus permitting the authors to incorporate feedback. VENUE Due to the current coronavirus outbreak, the IEEE CSF Symposium and its associated workshops, including GraMSec, will be held online this year. Details about registration and participation will be soon made available. IMPORTANT DATES Given the situation and the fact that the workshop will be held online, we will keep only one submission deadline. - Paper submissions due: Monday, May 4, 2020 - Notifications: Friday, May 29, 2020 - Workshop: Monday, June 22, 2020 - Camera ready versions due: Friday, August 7, 2020 PROGRAM CHAIRS Harley Eades III, Augusta University, United States of America Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, United States of America Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christian W. Probst, Unitec, New Zealand Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PUBLICITY CHAIR Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France WEB CHAIR Reynaldo Gil Pons, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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[KDD Mining and Learning from Time Series 2020]: Call for papers
by Sanjay Purushotham 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

[KDD Mining and Learning from Time Series 2020]: Call for papers CFP Webpage: https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2020/#call -------------------------------------------------------------- KDD Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2020 Aug 24th, 2020 - San Diego, California, USA https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2020/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- KEY DATES ---------------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2020, 11:59PM Alofi Time Author Notification: June 15th, 2020 Camera Ready Version: July 2nd, 2020 Workshop: August 24th, 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------- MiLETS is the premier KDD workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series. Time series data are ubiquitous. In domains as diverse as finance, entertainment, transportation, and health care, we observe a fundamental shift away from parsimonious, infrequent measurement to nearly continuous monitoring and recording. Rapid advances in diverse sensing technologies, ranging from remote sensors to wearables and social sensing, are generating rapid growth in the size and complexity of time series archives. Thus, although time series analysis has been studied extensively, its importance only continues to grow. What is more, modern time series data pose significant challenges to existing techniques (e.g., irregular sampling in hospital records and spatiotemporal structure in climate data). Finally, time series mining research is challenging and rewarding because it bridges a variety of disciplines and demands interdisciplinary solutions. Now is the time to discuss the next generation of temporal mining algorithms. The focus of MiLeTS workshop is to synergize the research in this area and discuss both new and open problems in time series analysis and mining. The solutions to these problems may be algorithmic, theoretical, statistical, or systems-based in nature. Further, MiLeTS emphasizes applications to high impact or relatively new domains, including but not limited to biology, health and medicine, climate and weather, road traffic, astronomy, and energy. The MiLeTS workshop will discuss a broad variety of topics related to time series, including: · Time series pattern mining and detection, representation, searching and indexing, classification, clustering, prediction, forecasting, and rule mining. · BIG time series data. · Hardware acceleration techniques using GPUs, FPGAs and special processors. · Online, high-speed learning and mining from streaming time series. · Uncertain time series mining. · Privacy preserving time series mining and learning. · Time series that are multivariate, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, etc., or that possess other atypical properties. · Time series with special structure: spatiotemporal (e.g., wind patterns at different locations), relational (e.g., patients with similar diseases), hierarchical, etc. · Time series with sparse or irregular sampling, non-random missing values, and special types of measurement noise or bias. · Time series analysis using less traditional approaches, such as deep learning and subspace clustering. · Applications to high impact or relatively new time series domains, such as health and medicine, road traffic, and air quality. · New, open, or unsolved problems in time series analysis and mining. ------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ Submissions should follow the SIGKDD formatting requirements and will be evaluated using the SIGKDD Research Track evaluation criteria. Preference will be given to papers that are reproducible, and authors are encouraged to share their data and code publicly whenever possible. Submissions are strongly recommended to be no more than 4 pages, excluding references or supplementary materials (all in a single pdf). The appropriateness of using additional pages over the recommended length will be judged by reviewers. All submissions must be in pdf format using the workshop template (latex, word). Submissions will be managed via the MiLeTS 2020 EasyChair website. *Note on open problem submissions:* To promote new and innovative research on time series, we plan to accept a small number of high-quality manuscripts describing open problems in time series analysis and mining. Such papers should provide a clear, detailed description and analysis of a new or open problem that poses a significant challenge to existing techniques, as well as a thorough empirical investigation demonstrating that current methods are insufficient. *COVID-19 Time Series Analysis Special Track:* The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting almost everyone worldwide and is expected to have life-altering short and long-term effects. There are many potential applications of time series analysis and mining that can contribute to the understanding of this pandemic. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts describing original problems, time-series datasets, and novel solutions for time series analysis and forecasting of COVID-19. The review process is single-round and double-blind (submission files have to be anonymized). Concurrent submissions to other journals and conferences are acceptable. Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop and list on the website. Besides, a small number of accepted papers will be selected to be presented as contributed talks. Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com. ----------------- KEY DATES ----------------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2020, 11:59PM Alofi Time Author Notification: June 15th, 2020 Camera Ready Version: July 2nd, 2020 Workshop: August 24th, 2020 ------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Sanjay Purushotham University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yaguang Li Google -------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- Eamonn Keogh University of California Riverside Yan Liu University of Southern California Abdullah Mueen University of New Mexico ------------- Contact: -------------- Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com.

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Call For Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 16--19 December, 2020 in Pune India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Bora Uçar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Data Science: Gagan Agrawal, Augusta University, USA HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, USA Applications: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India and Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Architecture: Biswabandan Panda, IIT Kanpur, India System Software: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore and Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Scalable Systems and Software: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2020 will be the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES (2020) Abstract Submissions : June 8, 2020 Paper Submissions : June 15, 2020 Reviews for Rebuttals: August 4, 2020 Initial Submission Decisions: August 21, 2020 Revisions Due: September 22, 2020 Author Notifications: October 2, 2020 Camera Ready: October 16, 2020 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and 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) – will be linked •Word Package (ZIP) – will be linked Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference in person is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2020 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2020. __________________________________________________________________________ HiPC 2020 is co-sponsored by * IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with: * ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT); * ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH); * IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems; * Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT); * National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

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[PSD 2020, deadline approaching] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES, Springer LNCS, Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

[apologies for cross-posting] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2020 (PSD 2020) ================================================ Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020 http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** ** In spite of Covid-19, we plan to organize PSD 2020 as scheduled. The submission deadline (May 24, 2020) stays valid ** 1. AIMS AND GOAL ----------------- Privacy in statistical databases is about finding trade-offs to the tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents providing the statistical data. In the case of statistical databases, the motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival: statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy of their responses is guaranteed. Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or gathering the data, who would not like to share the data they have collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay private). "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2020" (PSD 2020) is a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The purpose of PSD 2020 is to attract world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy. PSD 2020 is a successor to - PSD 2018 (Valencia, Sep. 26-28, 2018, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2018/), - PSD 2016 (Dubrovnik, Sep. 14-16, 2016, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2016/), - PSD 2014 (Eivissa, Sep. 17-19, 2014, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014/), - PSD 2012 (Palermo, Sep. 26-28, 2012, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2012), - PSD 2010 (Corfu, Sep. 22-24, 2010, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2010), - PSD 2008 (Istanbul, Sep. 24-26, 2008, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008), - PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), all with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 11126, LNCS 9867, LNCS 8744, LNCS 7556, LNCS 6344, LNCS 5262, LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those nine PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS 2316. Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2020 originates in Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome. 2. ORGANIZATION --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (More members to be confirmed soon) - Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona, USA) - Bettina Berendt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA) - Aleksandra Bujnowska (EUROSTAT, European Union) - Jordi Castro (Universitat PolitËcnica de Catalunya) - Anne-Sophie Charest (UniversitÈ Laval, QuÈbec, Canada) - Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA) - Graham Cormode (University of Warwick, UK) - Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands) - Josep Domingo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Joerg Drechsler (IAB, Germany) - Khaled El Emam (University of Ottawa, Canada) - Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK) - SÈbastien Gambs (UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ‡ MontrÈal) - Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany) - Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University, Japan) - Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA) - Laura McKenna (Census Bureau, USA) - Anna Monreale (Universit‡ di Pisa, Italy) - Krish Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) - Anna Oganyan (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) - David Rebollo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Jerry Reiter (Duke University, USA) - Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel) - Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota, USA) - Nicolas Ruiz (OECD, European Union) - Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) - David S·nchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands) - Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester, UK) - Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State University, USA) - Jordi Soria-Comas (Catalan Data Protection Authority, Catalonia) - Tamir Tassa (The Open University, Israel) - Vicenc Torra (National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Ireland) - Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University, USA) PROGRAM CHAIR - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) GENERAL CHAIR - Krishnamurty Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Giulia Lombardi (The University of Oklahoma, Italy) - Jesus Manjon (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Romina Russo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New anonymization methods for tabular data - New anonymization methods for microdata (including non-conventional microdata types such as trajectories, graphs, etc.) - Best anonymization practices for tabular data - Best anonymization practices for microdata - Co-utility for privacy preservation - Big data anonymization - Streaming data anonymization - Decentralized anonymization - Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC - Differential privacy and other privacy models - SDC transparency issues - Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software - Estimating disclosure risk in SDC - Record linkage methods - Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad - Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic) - Private information retrieval - Privacy in web-based e-commerce - Privacy in healthcare - Privacy in official and corporate statistics - Other data anonymization issues 4. SUBMISSIONS -------------- Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are sought. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2estyle or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in ComputerScience. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same page above. We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their submissions. LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS. Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 5. PROCEEDINGS -------------- Among PSD 2020 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This follows the tradition of the previous PSD conferences. The remaining accepted papers will be published in a USB with an ISBN. It is possible to submit a paper directly for the USB, which benefits from a later submission deadline (see USB-only dates below). The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*. 6. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** Acceptance notification: June 26, 2020 Proceedings version due: July 5, 2020 USB-only submission deadline: July 5, 2020 USB-only acceptance notification: July 15, 2020 USB-only proceedings version due: July 22, 2020 Conference: Sep. 23-25, 2020 7. VENUE AND TRAVEL ------------------- The conference will take place at the San Francesco classroom annex of the 'Oklahoma University in Arezzo' facilities, located in the city of Arezzo. OU in Arezzo. San Francesco Classroom annex Piazza San Francesco, 18 Arezzo, Italy 52100 http://www.ou.edu/cis/education_abroad/programs/ou-in-arezzo Further venue, travel and accommodation information will be posted in due course at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 A number of travel grants are made available by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition countries. Information on grants is posted in the conference web site. 8. REGISTRATION --------------- Registration information will be posted no later than June 2020 at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020

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[CFP] 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20)
by Hoang Nguyen 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ============================================================ 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20) to be held in conjunction with SC 2020, Sun Nov 15, 9am-5:30pm Atlanta, GA, USA https://works-workshop.org ============================================================ Scientific workflows have been almost universally used across scientific domains and have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past several decades. Workflow management systems (WMSs) provide abstraction and automation which enable a broad range of researchers to easily define sophisticated computational processes and to then execute them efficiently on parallel and distributed computing systems. As workflows have been adopted by a number of scientific communities, they are becoming more complex and require more sophisticated workflow management capabilities. A workflow now can analyze terabyte-scale data sets, be composed of one million individual tasks, require coordination between heterogeneous tasks, manage tasks that execute for milliseconds to hours, and can process data streams, files, and data placed in object stores. The computations can be single core workloads, loosely coupled computations, or tightly all within a single workflow, and can run in dispersed computing platforms. This workshop focuses on the many facets of scientific workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service, and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: scientific workflows representation and enactment; workflow scheduling techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow on heterogeneous infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. WORKS20 will be held in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC20), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). Topics ------ WORKS20 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Big Data analytics workflows * Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) * Workflow composition, tools, and languages * Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) * Reproducible computational research using workflows * Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions * Exascale computing with workflows * In Situ Data Analytics Workflows * Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) * Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques * Workflow user environments, including portals * Workflow applications and their requirements * Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) * Performance analysis of workflows * Workflow debugging * Workflow provenance * Machine Learning workflows Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Full paper deadline: August 15, 2020 Paper acceptance notification: September 15, 2020 E-copyright registration completed by authors: October 1, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2020 Workshop: November 15, 2020 --------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Full submission will be up to 8 pages long including references. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process and each will have at least three reviews by members of the program committee. Papers will be accepted based on their technical contributions. --------------------------------- Organizing Committee - Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA - Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, UK General Chair - Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK, University of Notre Dame, USA Steering Committee - David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia - Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA - Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Publicity Chair - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Program Committee (tentative) - Pinar Alper – King's College London, UK - Ilkay Altintas – SDSC, USA - Khalid Belhajjame Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France - Ivona Brandic – TU Wien, Austria - Kris Bubendorfer – VUW, New Zealand - Jesus Carretero – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Henri Casanova – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA - Rafael Ferreira da Silva – USC/ISI, USA - Daniel Garijo – USC/ISI, USA - Sandra Gesing – University of Notre Dame, USA - Tristan Glatard – Concordia University, Canada - Daniel Katz – UIUC, USA - Tamas Kiss – University of Westminster, UK - Dagmar Krefting – HTW Berlin, Germany - Maciej Malawski – AGH UST, Poland - Anirban Mandal – RENCI, USA - Marta Mattoso – UFRJ, Brazil - Paolo Missier – Newcastle University, UK - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia - Jarek Nabrzyski – University of Notre Dame, USA - Daniel de Oliveira – UFF, Brazil - Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece - Loic Pottier – USC/ISI, USA - Radu Prodan – University of Innsbruck, Austria - Omer Rana – Cardiff University, UK - Ivan Rodero – Rutgers University, USA - Rizos Sakellariou – University of Manchester, UK - Frédéric Suter – CNRS, France - Andrew Stephen Mcgough – Newcastle University, UK - Domenico Talia – University of Calabria, Italy - Douglas Thain – University of Notre Dame, USA - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain - Chase Wu – NJ Institute of Technology, USA

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CVML live Web lectures 25th April 2020: 1) Introduction to Autonomous Systems 2) Introduction to Computer Vision
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Dear Computer Vision/Machine Learning/Autonomous Systems students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Two lectures will take place on Saturday 25th April 2020: 1) Introduction to Autonomous Systems 2) Introduction to Computer Vision Date/time: a) Saturday 11:00-12:30 EET (17:00-18:30 Beijing time) for audience in Asia and b) Saturday 20:00-21:30 EET (13:00-14:30 EST, 10:00-11:30 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Registration can be done using the link: <http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/> http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Lectures abstract 1) Introduction to Autonomous Systems Abstract: Mission planning and control, perception and intelligence, embedded computing, swarm systems, communications and societal technologies. a) autonomous cars, b) drones and drone swarms, c) autonomous underwater vehicles d) autonomous marine vessels and e) autonomous robots. 2) Introduction to Computer Vision Abstract: image/video sampling, Image and video acquisition, Camera geometry, Stereo and Multiview imaging, Structure from motion, Structure from X, 3D Robot Localization and Mapping, Semantic 3D world mapping, 3D object localization, Multiview object detection and tracking, Object pose estimation. Lecturer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 1138 papers, contributed in 50 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 70 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 42 such projects. He has 30000+ citations to his work and h-index 81+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas lead the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: <https://multidrone.eu/> https://multidrone.eu/ and is principal investigator (AUTH) in H2020 projects Aerial Core and AI4Media. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative <https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/> https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. Prof. I. Pitas: <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el AIIA Lab <http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr> www.aiia.csd.auth.gr Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required. These two lectures are part of a 14 lecture CVML web course 'Computer vision and machine learning for autonomous systems' (April-June 2020): 1. Introduction to autonomous systems 2. Introduction to computer vision 3. Image acquisition, camera geometry 4. Stereo and Multiview imaging 5. 3D object/building/monument reconstruction and modeling 6. Signals and systems. 2D convolution/correlation 7. Motion estimation 8. Introduction to Machine Learning 9. Introduction to neural networks, Perceptron, backpropagation 10. Deep neural networks, Convolutional NNs 11. Deep learning for object/target detection 12. Object tracking 13. Localization and mapping 14. Fast convolution algorithms. CVML programming tools. Sincerely yours Prof. Ioannis Pitas, Director of AIIA Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Bench'20 (http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html) Call for Papers
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium (Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (Same place and same time), but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data, AI, Block Chain, HPC, Datacenter, IoT, Edge and other things. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a highquality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and practitioners from the architecture, system, algorithms and application communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award (3000$), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award (1000$), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award (1000$). As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates, hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To that end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral. Call for papers ------------------------ Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Synthetics or Real-world Data Sets of: **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmark, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Test methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big Data -AI -HPC -Machine learning in HPC -Big scientific data -Datacenter -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT -Block chain -Data management and storage -Medicine, Finance and Education Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page limit is 4 pages in standard twocolumn IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed by EI). Please note that LNCS format is the final one for publishing. After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight, or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in the proceedings as full-length papers. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is preregistered will be pulled from the proceedings. Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20# Improtant Dates --------------------- Registration of abstract (non-mandatory) June 15, 2020 Paper Submission July 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification Aug 15, 2020 Awards ---------- At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include: * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral) - BenchCouncil incubates, hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To that end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) TPC Chairs Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Submission Chair Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Publicity Chairs Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Zhen Jia (Amazon) Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Woongki Baek, UNIST Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zhen Jia, Amazon Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Huan Liu, Arizona State University Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University Arne Berre, SINTEF Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Benson Muite, University of Tartu K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Ben Blamey, Uppsala University Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd. Juby Jose, Intel

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CfP VHPC'20: extension, Zoom Online Event without charge
by Michael Alexander 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Online Zoom Event https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vC5pwmgbQ6ypJEfyQ8nHIg Physical Event: ISC, Frankfurt Paper Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2020 (extended) Springer LNCS Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes) - Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC - Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declerative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch - Scheduling, job management - Execution paradigm - workflow - Data management - Deployment paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates May 12th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline - extended (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=26973 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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IEEE BigData 2020 Call for Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 20, 2020
by CFP Conference 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

*IEEE Big Data 2020 Call for Workshop Proposals* 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/index.html December 10-13, 2020, Atlanta, GA, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) 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://bigdataieee.org/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://bigdataieee.org/BigData2014/, 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://bigdataieee.org/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://bigdataieee.org/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. 5. The IEEE Big Data 2017 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2017/, regular paper acceptance rate: 17.8%) was held in Boston, MA, Dec 11-14, 2017 with close to 1000 registered participants from 50 countries. 6. The IEEE Big Data 2018 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2018/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 19.7%) was held in Seattle, WA, Dec 10-13, 2018 with close to 1100 registered participants from 47 countries. 7. The IEEE Big Data 2019 ( http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2019/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Los Angeles, CA, Dec 9-12, 2019 with close to 1200 registered participants from 54 countries. The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) 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, Hardware/OS Acceleration for Big Data, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2020 http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/index.html for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* April 20, 2020 Workshop proposal submission due - submit to: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW May 1, 2020: Notification to workshop proposers June 1, 2020: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2020 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 1, 2020:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Nov 1, 2020:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors *Nov 15, 2020:* Camera-ready of accepted papers *Dec 10-13 2020:* 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/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW *Workshop Co-Chairs* Prof. Eyhab AI-Masri, University of Washington, USA, ealmasriu(a)gmail.com Prof. Zhiyuan Chen, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA, zhchen(a)umbc.edu Prof. Jeff Saltz, Syracuse University, USA, jeffrey.s.saltz(a)gmail.com ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM3NTUxIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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Call for Papers -International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)
by Rohlupuia Pachuau 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)June 20~21, 2020, Dubai, UAEhttps://csita2020.org/mlcl/index.html ScopeInternational Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Cloud computing. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.This conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of machine learning and cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including (but not limited to):Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following* Case Studies and Theories in Cloud Computing* Cloud Application, Infrastructure and Platforms* Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries* Cloud Based, Parallel Processing* Cloud Business* Cloud Computing Architecture* Cloud Storage and File Systems* Consolidation* Data storage and Management in Cloud Computing* Design Tool for Cloud Computing* Energy Management and Programming Environments* Location Based Services, Presence, Availability, and Locality* Machine Learning Applications* Machine Learning in knowledge-intensive systems* Machine Learning Methods and analysis* Machine Learning Problems* Machine Learning Trends* Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing* Mobile Clouds for New Millennium, Mobile Devices* Networks within Cloud systems, the Storage Area, and to the Outside Virtualization in the Context of Cloud Computing* NoSQL Data Stores* Performance, SLA Management and Enforcement* Platforms* Resource Provisioning* Security Techniques for the Cloud* Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing* Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud)* System Integration, Virtual Compute Clusters* The Open Cloud: Cloud Computing and Open Source* Virtualization on Platforms in the CloudPaper SubmissionAuthors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 12, 2020. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed). Important Dates* Submission Deadline : April 12, 2020* Authors Notification : May 20, 2020* Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due :May 28, 2020Contact us : Here's where you can reach us : mlcl(a)csita2020.org (or) mlclconf(a)yahoo.com

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CFP: Research Book, Springer publisher. HPC, Scientific Computing, Cloud, cluster, ... (USA); Deadline: April 25
by cs＠american-cse.org 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Dear subscribers of computational.science listserv: We believe that the appended announcement is of interest to the subscribers. Please share with those who would be interested. Thank you. Rob --- CALL FOR PAPERS (Topics: HPC, Scientific Computing, Cloud, ...) Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER NATURE in BOOK SERIES: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence https://www.springer.com/series/11769 Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 25, 2020 All accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in book series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The books will be widely disseminated (to over 1,000 libraries and to 1,000's of individuals). It should be noted that publication of papers in research books would permit each paper to be quite comprehensive (if need be) and so the publication value would be comparable to journal publications; and so would be listed as such in the list of research contribution. Our set of previous published books by Springer received the top 25% downloads in their respective topics with many papers receiving over 100 citations (some received over 700 citations). PDPTA 2020: The 26th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/pdpta20 CSC 2020: The 18th International Conference on Scientific Computing https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/csc20 MSV 2020: The 17th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/msv20 GCC 2020: The 16th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/gcc20 Co-Located: July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA In case of hesitation by some authors/speakers to travel during Year 2020 (due to Coronavirus), the CSCE Steering Committee has developed a policy for Non-Attendance. In summary, for Year 2020, the non-attendance by any registered author would not negatively impact the publication of his/her paper. Having said the above, based on a survey conducted recently, we anticipate that all (or the vast majority) of speakers/authors to physically attend the CSCE 2020 Congress in late July. For more information see: the NON-ATTENDANCE POLICY: https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/non_attendance_policy KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS: There will be between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks; speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured Keynote Speakers in recent years have included: - Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL) - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.) - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT) - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology) - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of Cyber-infrastructure) - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy) - Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program; former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley) - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California) - Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering) - Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University) - Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin) - Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA) - Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis)) - Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan) - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley) - Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech) - Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence) - Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) - and over 200 other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest international annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos): https://photos.ucmss.com/ https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html INTRODUCTION: In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program committees of PDPTA, CSC, MSV, GCC conferences have their 2020 events held at one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122 technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over 158 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including: Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, Twitter, Uber Technologies, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, ...), US national laboratories (including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside USA; from 69 nations. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: https://american-cse.org/ Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Book Title: Advances in Parallel & Distributed Processing, & Applications Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes: online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus (www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org), EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and others. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: https://american-cse.org/ Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format: later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include the followings: - Title of the paper - Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author (identify the name of the Contact Author) - Abstract (between 100 and 120 words) - A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the work described in the paper - Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper", "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper". - The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space permitting). Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site portal at https://american-cse.org/ Type of Submissions/Papers: - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages): Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research contributions. They must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and support for the results and conclusions should also be provided. The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as journal papers. - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages): Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should provide overall research methodologies with some results. The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published as regular papers. - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages): Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). IMPORTANT DATES: April 25: 2020: Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/ - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages); - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages); - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages) May 08, 2020: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) May 22, 2020: Final papers + Copyright + Registration July 27-30, 2020: PDPTA 2020: The 26th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications + CSC 2020: The 18th International Conference on Scientific Computing + MSV 2020: The 17th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods + GCC 2020: The 16th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 CONTACT: Questions and inquiries should be sent to: Conference Secretariat: cs(a)american-cse.org

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[Changes to deadline] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2020) - CFP
by Barbara Fila (Kordy) 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

GraMSec 2020: The Seventh International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security http://gramsec.uni.lu June 22, 2020 *Online event* Co-located with CSF 2020 *LNCS post-proceedings confirmed* SCOPE The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security is an established scientific event dedicated to study and exchange of experiences on graphical security and safety modelling. TOPICS This year, we encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 3. Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations 4. Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) 5. Risk analysis and management: models and graphical methodologies for security and privacy risk management in business and organisational architectures 6. Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 10. Visual security: modelling and analytics for security visualisations. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. We welcome a broad range of contributions: from theory to tools and experience reports. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 18 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Short papers (up to 10 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. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2020 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2020. PUBLICATION As in previous editions, we the post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, published by Springer. Proceedings will be published after the workshop, thus permitting the authors to incorporate feedback. VENUE Due to the current coronavirus outbreak, the IEEE CSF Symposium and its associated workshops, including GraMSec, will be held online this year. Details about registration and participation will be soon made available. IMPORTANT DATES Given the situation and the fact that the workshop will be held online, we will keep only one submission deadline. - Paper submissions due: Friday, April 24, 2020 - Notifications: Friday, May 29, 2020 - Workshop: Monday, June 22, 2020 - Camera ready versions due: Friday, August 7, 2020 PROGRAM CHAIRS Harley Eades III, Augusta University, United States of America Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, United States of America Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christian W. Probst, Unitec, New Zealand Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PUBLICITY CHAIR Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France WEB CHAIR Reynaldo Gil Pons, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Your Contribution to a Research on Human-Smart Devices Interaction
by Francesco Lelli 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hello, I am Prof. Francesco Lelli (*) and together with Dr. Heidi Toivonen (**) we are running a multidisciplinary research on human-smart devices interaction. We are inviting you to take part in a little survey regarding your relationship with smart devices. In doing this survey, you will be able to reflect on how you relate to technology, while contributing to a study that aims to foster a deeper understanding of human interaction with personal smart devices that are becoming a more and more pervasive element of our everyday life. We sincerely appreciate your support and collaboration. Completing the survey will take you no more than 5 minutes. Follow this link to the Survey: Take the Survey <https://tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GMjalxLgvKO1ox?Q_DL=cBfRpP…> Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser: https://tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GMjalxLgvKO1ox?Q_DL=cBfRpP… You are also welcome to forward this invitation to anybody you think may be interested in participating in this research. Obviously, you are very welcome to contact us if you have any questions by replying to this email. In addition, if you have done work that you believe is relevant for this research, please get in touch. We look forward to learning from you! All the Best, Francesco Lelli and Heidi Toivonen (*) Doing research on Internet of Things and Information Management, more info at:https://francescolelli.info/ <https://francescolelli.info/ > (**) Doing research on agency in the field of Psychology, more info at http://www.heiditoivonen.com/ <http://www.heiditoivonen.com/> -- -- -- =================================================== Dr. Francesco Lelli Tilburg School of Economics and Management Department of Management Web: https://www.francescolelli.info/ <https://www.francescolelli.info/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_…> eMail: f.lelli(a)TilburgUniversity.edu <mailto:f.lelli@TilburgUniversity.edu> =================================================== The contents of this e-mail and its attachments ("message") are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. The contents may not be disclosed, copied or distributed without the prior written consent of the sender Follow the link to opt out of future emails: Click here to unsubscribe <https://tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/CP/Register.php?OptOut=true&RID=MLRP_4Z…>

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[PSD 2020] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES, Springer LNCS, Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

[apologies for cross-posting] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2020 (PSD 2020) ================================================ Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020 http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** 1. AIMS AND GOAL ----------------- Privacy in statistical databases is about finding trade-offs to the tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents providing the statistical data. In the case of statistical databases, the motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival: statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy of their responses is guaranteed. Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or gathering the data, who would not like to share the data they have collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay private). "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2020" (PSD 2020) is a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The purpose of PSD 2020 is to attract world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy. PSD 2020 is a successor to - PSD 2018 (Valencia, Sep. 26-28, 2018, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2018/), - PSD 2016 (Dubrovnik, Sep. 14-16, 2016, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2016/), - PSD 2014 (Eivissa, Sep. 17-19, 2014, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014/), - PSD 2012 (Palermo, Sep. 26-28, 2012, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2012), - PSD 2010 (Corfu, Sep. 22-24, 2010, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2010), - PSD 2008 (Istanbul, Sep. 24-26, 2008, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008), - PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), all with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 11126, LNCS 9867, LNCS 8744, LNCS 7556, LNCS 6344, LNCS 5262, LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those nine PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS 2316. Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2020 originates in Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome. 2. ORGANIZATION --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (More members to be confirmed soon) - Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona, USA) - Bettina Berendt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA) - Aleksandra Bujnowska (EUROSTAT, European Union) - Jordi Castro (Universitat PolitËcnica de Catalunya) - Anne-Sophie Charest (UniversitÈ Laval, QuÈbec, Canada) - Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA) - Graham Cormode (University of Warwick, UK) - Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands) - Josep Domingo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Joerg Drechsler (IAB, Germany) - Khaled El Emam (University of Ottawa, Canada) - Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK) - SÈbastien Gambs (UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ‡ MontrÈal) - Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany) - Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University, Japan) - Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA) - Laura McKenna (Census Bureau, USA) - Anna Monreale (Universit‡ di Pisa, Italy) - Krish Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) - Anna Oganyan (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) - David Rebollo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Jerry Reiter (Duke University, USA) - Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel) - Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota, USA) - Nicolas Ruiz (OECD, European Union) - Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) - David S·nchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands) - Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester, UK) - Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State University, USA) - Jordi Soria-Comas (Catalan Data Protection Authority, Catalonia) - Tamir Tassa (The Open University, Israel) - Vicenc Torra (National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Ireland) - Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University, USA) PROGRAM CHAIR - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) GENERAL CHAIR - Krishnamurty Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Giulia Lombardi (The University of Oklahoma, Italy) - Jesus Manjon (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Romina Russo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New anonymization methods for tabular data - New anonymization methods for microdata (including non-conventional microdata types such as trajectories, graphs, etc.) - Best anonymization practices for tabular data - Best anonymization practices for microdata - Co-utility for privacy preservation - Big data anonymization - Streaming data anonymization - Decentralized anonymization - Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC - Differential privacy and other privacy models - SDC transparency issues - Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software - Estimating disclosure risk in SDC - Record linkage methods - Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad - Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic) - Private information retrieval - Privacy in web-based e-commerce - Privacy in healthcare - Privacy in official and corporate statistics - Other data anonymization issues 4. SUBMISSIONS -------------- Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are sought. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2estyle or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in ComputerScience. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same page above. We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their submissions. LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS. Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 5. PROCEEDINGS -------------- Among PSD 2020 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This follows the tradition of the previous PSD conferences. The remaining accepted papers will be published in a USB with an ISBN. It is possible to submit a paper directly for the USB, which benefits from a later submission deadline (see USB-only dates below). The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*. 6. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** Acceptance notification: June 26, 2020 Proceedings version due: July 5, 2020 USB-only submission deadline: July 5, 2020 USB-only acceptance notification: July 15, 2020 USB-only proceedings version due: July 22, 2020 Conference: Sep. 23-25, 2020 7. VENUE AND TRAVEL ------------------- The conference will take place at the San Francesco classroom annex of the 'Oklahoma University in Arezzo' facilities, located in the city of Arezzo. OU in Arezzo. San Francesco Classroom annex Piazza San Francesco, 18 Arezzo, Italy 52100 http://www.ou.edu/cis/education_abroad/programs/ou-in-arezzo Further venue, travel and accommodation information will be posted in due course at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 A number of travel grants are made available by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition countries. Information on grants is posted in the conference web site. 8. REGISTRATION --------------- Registration information will be posted no later than June 2020 at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020

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[CFP ICICS 2020] Information and Communications Security, Springer, LNCS, Denmark, Aug 2020
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

[apologies for cross-posting] 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2020) ================================================ Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 August 2020 http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/ Submission deadline: **3 May 2020 (23:59 AOE - Extended!)** ================================================ The 2020 International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be the 22nd event in the ICICS conference series, started in 1997, that brings together individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information and Communications Security in order to foster exchange of ideas. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards with cash reward sponsored by Springer. It will be organized by Technical University of Denmark (DTU). http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/ Program Topics: Original papers offering novel research contributions on all aspects of information and communications security are solicited for submission to ICICS 2019. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Access control Social networks security, privacy and trust Key management and key recovery Software defined networking security Anonymity Embedded systems security Language-based security Security management Applied cryptography Security models, metrics, and policies Malware and anti-malware Fraud and cyber-crime Authentication and authorization Security and privacy of Big Data Mobile computing security and privacy Hardware security Biometrics security Security of critical Infrastructures Network security Identity access management Blockchain security and privacy Trust and reputation systems Cloud and edge computing security Trusted and trustworthy computing technologies Operating systems security Usable security and privacy Computer and digital forensics Insider threat detection Cyber-physical systems security Underground economy Privacy protection Intellectual property protection Data and system integrity Verification of security protocols Privacy-preserving data mining Intrusion detection Database security Web security Risk assessment IoT security and privacy Distributed systems security Wireless security Instructions for Authors: Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded, in the Springer-Verlag LNCS format (details can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset with 11pt font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices (no more than 18 pages in total). Note that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions. Accepted papers will be presented at ICICS 2020 and included in the conference's post-proceeding published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper should register with full rate to the conference and give a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in the conference proceedings. Organization: General Chairs - Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Program Chairs - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark If there is any question, please contact us at: icics2020-1(a)easychair.org.

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TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS - SIMPDA 2020
by Paolo Ceravolo 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

# SIMPDA 2019 ## TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS ### In conjunction with the 24th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems – ADBIS 2020 – Lyon, France, August 25, 2020 [http://simpda2020.di.unimi.it](http://simpda2020.di.unimi.it) [![ADBIS](http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/adbis-tpdl-eda-2020/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/adbis_logo2-270x192.png)](http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/adbis-tpdl-eda-2020/adbis/) ## About SIMPDA The increasing automation of business processes and the growing amounts of process data become available opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining, and modeling. The aim of the *IFIP W.G. 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis* is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of advanced *research papers*, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive *Ph.D. seminar* and selected research and *industrial demonstrations*. This year the symposium will be held in Bled, in cunjunction with the ADBIS conference. ###Call for Papers The **IFIP W.G. 2.6** *International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis* **(SIMPDA 2020)** offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation, and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers, and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 6 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the **CCIS template** and **Springer** paper preparation rules, see: [https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. ### Call for post-Proceedings The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the **LNBIP series** [Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing](http://www.springer.com/series/7911), scheduled for late 2020 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 5-8 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: * Business process modeling languages, notations, and methods * Lightweight process model * Data-aware and data-centric approaches * Big Data process representation and management * Online Process Mining * Process mining with Big Data * Variability and configuration of process models * Process simulation and static analyses * Process data query languages * Process data mining * Process data visualization and reporting * Privacy-aware process data mining * Process metadata and semantic reasoning * Process patterns and standards * Foundations of business process models * Resource management in business process execution * Process tracing and monitoring * Process change management and evolution * Business process lifecycle * Case studies and experience * Social process discovery * Crowdsourced process definition and discovery  ### Call for Ph.D. Research Plans The SIMPDA Ph.D. Seminar is a workshop for **Ph.D. students** from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. **Research plans** should be at most of 6 page long and should be organised following the following structure: * Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. * Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. * Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). * Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. * Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. * Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA Ph.D. award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA Ph.D. Jury to the best research plan submitted. ### CALL for Demonstrations Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 12 pages. ### Submission Guidelines Contributions to all calls should be submitted electronically to the Symposium management system connecting to [http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpda2020](http://www.easychair…. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to participate in the conference and present his/her work. The papers submitted must be sent in PDF, following CCIS template and Springer paper preparation rules, see: [https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… > > **Registrations** are managed by the [ADBIS system](http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/adbis-tpdl-eda-2020/registration/) > ### Important Dates | Milestone | Deadline| | ------ | ------ | | Paper Submission| April 30, 2020| | Notification of Acceptance| May 05, 2020| | Submission of Camera Ready Papers| June 05 2020| | Symposium| August 25 2020| | Post-proceeding submissions| 30 January 2021| ## Organizers ### CHAIRS * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Maria Teresa Gomez Lopez, University of Seville, Spain ### Program Committee - Alexandra Mazak - University of Vienna, Austria - Robert Singer - FH JOANNEUM, Austria - Manfred Reichert - University of Ulm, Germany - Schahram Dustdar - Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Helen Balinsky - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK - Valentina Emilia Balas - University of Arad, Romania - Antonio Mana Gomez - Universidad de Malaga, Spain - Karima Boudaoud - Ecole Polytechnique de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France - Jan Mendling - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Peter Spyns - Flemish Government, Belgium - Mohamed Mosbah - University of Bordeaux - Chintan Mrit - University of Twente, The Netherlands - Fabrizio Maria Maggi - University of Tartu, Estonia - Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel - Matthias Weidlich - Imperial College, UK - Roland Rieke - Fraunhofer SIT, Germany - Edgar Weippl - TU Vienna, Austria - Benoit Depaire - University of Hasselt, Belgium - Angel Jesus - Varela University of Seville, Spain - Luisa Parody - University Loyola Andalucia, Spain - Antonia Azzini - Consorzio C2T, Italy - Jorge Cardoso - University of Coimbra, Spain - Carlos Fernandez-Llatas - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - Chiara Di Francescomarino - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Faiza Bukhsh - University of Twente, The Netherlands - Mirjana Pejiƒá Bach - University of Zagreb, Croatia - Tamara Quaranta - 40Labs, Italy - Anna Wilbik - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Yingqian Zhang - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Richard Chbeir - Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, France - Renata Medeiros - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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PhD in formal methods and security, cotutelle France-Scotland
by Barbara Fila (Kordy) 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

We have a fully-funded three-year PhD position in formal methods for information security. This is a joint doctorate (cotutelle) between IRISA (Rennes, France) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). The student will obtain a PhD degree from both universities. For more details, see http://people.irisa.fr/Barbara.Kordy/vacancies.php The deadline for applications is Friday, May 15, 2020, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. For all inquiries please contact Barbara Fila (barbara.fila(a)irisa.fr) and Saša Radomirović (sasa.radomirovic(a)hw.ac.uk) With kind regards, Barbara ---------------------- http://people.irisa.fr/Barbara.Kordy/

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CFP: Special Issue "Modeling and Analysis of Data-Driven Systems through Computational Neuroscience" with Hindawi's Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
by Computational Science Mailing List 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

[Apologies for Multiple Emails] Please consider submitting your manuscript to the special issue of "Modeling and Analysis of Data-Driven Systems through Computational Neuroscience" with Hindawi's Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. Theme of this special issue: Artificial intelligence(AI)based application systems are becoming the mainstream in the software industry and application domains such as computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and healthcare. Recent advances in big data generation and management have created an avenue for decision makers to utilize these huge volumes of data for different purposes and analyses. AI-based application developers have long utilized conventional machine learning techniques to design better user interfaces and vulnerability predictions. However, with the advancement of deep learning-based and neural-based networks and algorithms, researchers are able to explore and learn more about data and their exposed relationships or hidden features. This new trend of developing data-driven application systems seeks the adaptation of computational neural network algorithms and techniques in many application domains, including software systems, cyber security, human activity recognition, and behavioral modeling. As such, computational neural networks algorithms can be refined to address problems in data-driven applications. This Special Issue aims to foster machine and deep learning approaches to data-driven applications, in which data governs the behavior of applications. Original research and review articles that consider how to model and build data-driven applications using computational neuroscience are encouraged. More specifically, it is of interest to learn how neuron networks can represent data-driven applications and their behaviors in order to extract key features. The Special Issue will enable researchers from academia and industry to share innovative applications and creative solutions to common problems when modeling neural-based applications in computational neuroscience and neuroengineering. Topics of Interest: Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: - Neural programming and coding in data-driven systems using machine and deep learning - Attention and learning of data-driven systems using neural memory networks - Neural-based mathematical formulation of information and data using machine and deep learning - Human perception, cognition, and decision making through neural networks - Human activity recognition through deep neural modeling - Modeling and prediction of human behavior using computational neuroscience techniques - Modeling human-computer interactions through neural networks - Modeling humanoid intelligent bots and mimicking human behavior using computational neuroscience techniques For more information regarding this special issue, please visit the following link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/si/696425/ Sincerely, Akbar Namin, The lead editor of this special issue.

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ICCSA 2020 workshop Advanced Transport Tools and Methods - A2TM deadline extension and coronavirus outbreak news
by Computational Science Mailing List 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Dear Collegue, I hope to find yourself in good health. Inside the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Application, to be held in Cagliari, Italy in July 1-4 2020, we organized the workshop: Advanced Transport Tools and Methods - A2TM http://www.iccsa.org/workshops The Local Organizing Commitee is doing a great job laying the foundation for a great conference. We are not experts on epidemics and, in order to be sure, it is better to observe the evolution of the phenomenon in order to take better decisions. For this reason we decided new deadlines: Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â full paper submission 26 April 2020 for our Workshop Transport and Mo, the sessions can have different deadlines; Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â notification of Acceptance 24 May 2020; Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â submission deadline for camera ready paper and registration 15 June 2020. In last days the submission flow increased a lot, this means that in all cases the proceedings (Springer LNCS) will be published. Due to the deadline extension, the volumes will be published after the conference. I hope that in the summer, with the hot temperatures of Sardinia, the situation will be solved, but in next weeks we will continue to analyse the evolution of the situation and we will inform you. Best regards, Massimiliano Petri and Antonio Pratelli

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CFP: Special Issue "Deep Learning for the Internet of Things" with MDPI Electronics
by Computational Science Mailing List 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

[Apologies for Duplicate Emails] Please consider submitting your manuscripts to the special issue on "Deep Learning for the Internet of Things" with MDPI Electronics The Special Issue Theme: The recent advancements in artificial intelligence; machine learning; and, more importantly, deep learning, with its many variations of algorithms and platforms, have radically transformed conventional software applications into a set of smart and connected components with the capability of data-driven decision-making; intelligent data sensing and filtering; proactive and collaborative integration of software and hardware devices; and, more importantly, the ability to capture tons of useful interaction data. Machine and deep learning-based components are becoming the backbone of modern systems such as cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT), where intelligent integrations and collaborations of smart devices along with their outstanding data collection capabilities make them a perfect application domain for such sophisticated learning algorithms. The beauty of smart and connected devices governed by software utilities has already been demonstrated in several application domains such as healthcare, agriculture and farming, manufacturing, smart buildings, transportation, energy, and environmental surveillance monitoring systems. While these IoT-based systems can capture a good amount of data, the usage of these valuable and hard-to-produce data are not being fully utilized. Deep learning enables one to explore these data in further detail and capturing the hidden relationships that may exist among their key factors and parameters, thus providing further insight into the underlying application domains. Furthermore, deep learning algorithms are also capable of addressing challenging problems that are natural in IoT but remain unsolved in systems such as real time optimization problems, modeling non-linear characteristics of IoT devices and components, and several instances of prediction and classification problems. This Special Issue aims to foster deep learning-based modeling, solutions, and approaches to problems in Internet of Things systems. It seeks to explore deep learning algorithms, including generative adversarial models, attention-based networks, deep reinforcement learning, and recurrent deep neural networks, in capturing features and modeling the behavior of the involved software and hardware components. Topics of Interest: Academic researchers and industrial practitioners are invited to contribute their valuable research and experiences to state-of-the-art of deep learning-based approaches to modeling Internet of Things and associated problems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following applications of deep learning techniques to - Modeling IoT systems using deep learning; - Generative adversarial networks (GANS) in IoT and CPS; - Long short-term memory (LSTM) modeling of IoT time series data; - Attention-based approaches to capture significant features in IoT; - Deep learning-based modeling and experience in IoT-based applications such as smart building, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, left-driving cars, and cyber security; - Deep reinforcement learning for modeling decision making and uncertainty in IoT. For more information regarding this special issue, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Deep_Learning_IoT Sincerely, Akbar Namin Guest Editor

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Ada-Europe Int'l Conference 2020 (AEiC 2020) cancelled!
by Computational Science Mailing List 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice of CANCELLATION 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 (was planned to be held 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain) #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming #ConferenceCancelled ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, 21 March 2020 The containment measures put in place on a world scale against the COVID-19 pandemic, which is affecting us all so severely, have taken precedence in everybody's personal and professional life. The consequent regulations issued by national governments and public health authorities in the regard of public gatherings, oblige us to cancel the Ada-Europe International Conference 2020 (AEiC 2020), scheduled for 8-12 June 2020, in Santander, Spain. Consequent to that obligation, the organizing committee and its principal sponsor Ada-Europe have made a number of decisions, which we wish to share with authors, sponsors, participants and any other interested parties. In regard to the calendar of events promoted by Ada-Europe: - Santander, Spain, will be the venue of the next Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies in June 2021. - The venue originally earmarked for the 2021 edition of the AEiC, Ghent, Belgium, will be the prime candidate to host the 2022 edition of the conference. - Selected elements of the technical program of the 2020 conference program will be considered for presentation at an Ada event co-organized with the International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW 2020), now tentatively postponed to late October 2020, near Valencia, Spain. The details of that event will be announced in due course, contingent on the lifting of current sanitary restrictions. In regard to the elements of the 2020 conference program: - The processing of the Journal-track submissions continues seamlessly, with a view to ensuring prompt open-access publication to those that gain acceptance. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the 2021 conference. - The authors of the Industrial Presentations that are accepted after review will be invited to forward their work to the Ada User Journal for immediate publication. - The call for Work-in-Progress submissions is cancelled. The prospective authors are invited to forward their work to the Ada User Journal for consideration. We express our heartfelt friendship to all members of our community and their families in these difficult times, and look forward to the restoration of a safe normality. See you all soon! The Ada-Europe Board -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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E-courses on Computer vision, Machine Learning, Autonomous Systems, Image/Video Processing/Analysis, Human-Centered Computing
by Computational Science Mailing List 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

Dear Colleague/Professor, this message is sent to you, as several Universities switch to tele-education, in reaction to COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of my very long University teaching career, complemented by rich dissemination activities in many European funded R&D projects, we have developed a long list of educational material (100+ 1-hour lecture ppts, more under development) and student assessment tools that allow tele-education of one or more of the following senior undergraduate/MSc/PhD full-semester courses: 1) Computer Vision 2) Machine Learning 3) Autonomous Systems 4) Image Processing and Analysis 5) Video Processing and Analysis 6) Human-Centered Computing 7) Social Media Analysis. As an example, the Computer Vision course lecture list is attached (final lecture list from parts A-E can be configured, depending on University rules/priorities). The lecture list of the rest of the courses can be sent upon request. A multitude of other courses can be devised, matching special education needs of any University. Any of these courses can be delivered upon request in various formats (e.g., intensive e-short course, regular e-course with weekly lectures) using tele-education tools (typically Skype for Business) to any audience that has appropriate background (typically senior undergraduate/MSc/PhD students of ECE/CS/EE departments, or other Science/Engineering departments). Educational material can also be delivered to be used by other Professors, upon request Sample educational material can be sent upon request. A lecture example can be found in: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Fast-convolution-algor… Sincerely yours I. Pitas Lecturer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 860 papers, contributed in 44 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 69 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 41 such projects. He has 30500+ citations to his work and h-index 81+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas leads the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. He is chair of the IEEE Autonomaous Systems Initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/ https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=en Computer vision lecture list Part A Mathematical foundations of computer vision Mathematical analysis fundamentals Linear algebra fundamentals Geometry fundamentals Part B Image/video acquisition and analysis Introduction to computer vision Digital images and videos Image acquisition Color theory Image/video perception Image registration Edge detection Region segmentation Texture description Image topology 2D shape description and recognition Motion estimation Object detection Object tracking Part C 3D Computer Vision Camera geometry Stereo and Multiview imaging Structure from Motion 3D object Localization and Mapping Semantic 3D world mapping 3D object localization Multiview object detection and tracking Object pose estimation Part D 3D Imaging 3D (volumetric) image processing 3D image geometry and topology 3D image segmentation 3D shape analysis Part E Applications Autonomous systems perception (cars/drones) Human centered computing (face detection, recognition, facial expression recognition, activity recognition) Medical imaging (CT/MRI/X-ray/ultrasonic image/volume analysis, medical image registration)

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due May 8
by Computational Science Mailing List 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 8, 2020 - Workshop author notification: June 30, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 10, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Computational Science Mailing List 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

***Submission deadline extension to April 8th (abstract) and April 15th (full paper)*** The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: (March 17, 2020) - new: April 8, 2020 Full Paper Submission: (March 24, 2020) - new: April 15, 2020 Author Notification: (May 25, 2020) - new: June 1, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2020 - special extended deadline
by Computational Science Mailing List 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Dear Colleague, I hope you are well, beyond the hardships that everyone, in every part of the world, is experiencing. Taking into account the exceptional situation that the whole world is going through, the dates related to submission and decision-making on articles submitted to the 7th edition of the Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS2020) (https://cas2020.webnode.com/) workshop have been changed. The new deadline for paper submission is April 26, 2020. *********************************************************************** ****************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES RECEIVED *************** *********************************************************************** ********************* CAS 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** ********************* NEW deadline: April 26, 2020 ******************** Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2020<https://cas2020.webnode.com/>) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES (NEW) ====================== April 26, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. May 24, 2020: Notification of Acceptance June 15, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends June 15, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2020 organizer)

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Call For Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020
by Computational Science Mailing List 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 16--19 December, 2020 in Pune India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Bora Uçar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Data Science: Gagan Agrawal, Augusta University, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, USA Applications: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Architecture: Biswabandan Panda, IIT Kanpur, India System Software: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Scalable Systems and Software: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2020 Call For Papers HiPC 2020 will be the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES (2020) Abstract Submissions : June 8, 2020 Paper Submissions : June 15, 2020 Reviews for Rebuttals: August 4, 2020 Initial Submission Decisions: August 21, 2020 Revisions Due: September 22, 2020 Author Notifications: October 2, 2020 Camera Ready: October 16, 2020 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and 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) – will be linked •Word Package (ZIP) – will be linked Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference in person is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2020 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2020. __________________________________________________________________________ HiPC 2020 is co-sponsored by * IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with: * ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT); * ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH); * IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems; * Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT); * National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

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CfP for ENGAGE 2020 at CGI 2020 in Geneva, 23rd June 2020
by Computational Science Mailing List 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

*“EMPOWERING NOVEL GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA FOR GRAPHICS & ENGINEERING WORKSHOP”* *Call for papers *http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/?page_id=1817* * Since ACM SIGGRAPH2001 and 2003 conferences, there has been limited attention on the benefits of employing W. K. Clifford’s geometric algebras (GA), quaternions and octonions 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 Workshops at CGI’2016 on “Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering” and at CGI’2017, 2018, 2019 on “Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering” began to bridge that gap. Under the auspices of *CGI’20 (22-25 June), ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) on June 23rd in Geneva, Switzerland*, will again engage in a multi-disciplinary approach from mathematics, applied to computer graphics, computer vision and general computer science fields where GA has strong potential to answer existing mathematical problems. GA is in a particularly well suited to allow cross-disciplinary solutions in software engineering as it provides an intuitive and insightful common denominator across mathematical disciplines that have often advanced application specific. Understanding GA enables us to relate distinct, seemingly incompatible paths by providing a common mathematical base. We invite original contributors in the form of full and short papers, which advance the state-of-the-art of the application of geometric algebra as well as of its computing technology in topics related, *topics related, but not limited to:* * Feature Detection & Data Analysis * LIDAR and Point Cloud Algorithms * Scientific & Information Visualization * Computer graphics rendering * Computer animation and video processing * Holographic optics & Holographic maps * Geographic Information Systems * Soundscape & Electromagnetic landscape Modelling * Augmented and Virtual Reality * Application of Clifford Fourier transforms and Clifford wavelets to 2D and 3D images, including color images * Higher dimensional geometric algebras * GA Computing and Quantum Computing * GA hardware implementations * GA for Artificial Intelligence * GA for ubiquitous information processing * GA for Big Data processing & visualization * Other engineering/applied science applications using GA, like robotics applications, graph computing etc. Authors should submit short and full papers directly to the CGI conference LNCS proceedings, by April 7th deadline. All authors of accepted ENGAGE related papers will be invited either to an oral or poster presentation. For Springer LNCS CGI proceedings author instructions please refer to http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/?page_id=1359. Post workshop extended and more advanced ENGAGE papers (15 pages plus) can be published in the topical collection “Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering” of the Journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA), published by Birkhauser, and should have been orally presented at the conference. See the “Instruction for Authors” at AACA. Online paper submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aaca/Default.aspx has deadline of October 31, 2020. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the topical collection “ENGAGE 2020-Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering”. *IMPORTANT DATES* *All participants:* Abstract submission (ca. 200 words): March 31, 2020 to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp> *Full and Short ENGAGE Papers:* (to appear in Springer LNCS proceedings, full 8-12 pages and short 5-7 pages) * Paper submission: April 7, 2020 * Paper notification: April 25, 2020 * Camera ready papers due: May 01, 2020 *Full AACA Papers:* (15 pages+, Latex using birkjour.cls) * Paper submission: October 31, 2020 For *further information*, please contact one of the ENGAGE Workshop organizers: * Andreas Aristidou (Cyprus) * Werner Benger♯ (w.benger(a)ahm.co.at <mailto:w.benger@ahm.co.at>) (Innsbruck) * Dietmar Hildenbrand♯ (dietmar.hildenbrand(a)gmail.com <mailto:dietmar.hildenbrand@gmail.com>) (Darmstadt) * Eckhard Hitzer♯ (hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>) (Tokyo) * Joan Lasenby (Cambridge) * Kit Ian Kou (Macao) * Vincent Nozick (Paris) * George Papagiannakis♯ (papagian(a)ics.forth.gr <mailto:papagian@ics.forth.gr>) (Crete) * G. Stacey Staples (Edwardsville) * Kanta Tachibana (Tokyo) * Lars Tingelstad (Trondheim) * Peter Vasik (Brno) * Yu Zhaoyuan (Nanjing) (♯ = local workshop organizers) -- The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution http://www.discovery.org/a/24041/ Male and female he created them (... question of gender theory in education): http://www.educatio.va/content/dam/cec/Documenti/19_0997_INGLESE.pdf *-----------------------------------------------------------------* Eckhard Hitzer, Dr. rer. nat. of Theoretical Physics, International Christian University Osawa 3-10-2, Mitaka-shi 181-8585 Tokyo, Japan Tel: +81-(0)422-33-3724, Email: hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp SUDem2020 (22.02.2020): https://sudworkshops.wordpress.com/ Japanese Bible: https://www.bible.com/ja/bible/83/mat.1.jlb

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WHPC@ISC'20 Call for posters- Deadline extended
by fouzhan.hosseini＠nag.co.uk 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 12th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 12th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 25th 2020 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop ================================================================= The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: * Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies * Putting in place a framework to help women take grow their careers * Explore pathways to leadership positions * Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC * Short talks on topics including: dealing with sponsorship versus mentorship, the case for reverse mentorship to achieve diversity, addressing toxic behaviour at work, career advancement strategies, and 3 minute networking solution. Call for posters: Open to All! /*Deadline for submissions: Extended to*//**//*16th March 2020 AOE*/ As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. */Exclusive to WHPC at ISC20: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their posters in the main ISC20 conference poster session./* For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop *Workshop Organising Committee* - Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA, UK) - Co-chair: Fouzhan Hosseini (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK) - Vice-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Submissions Co-Chair: Vitalina Morais (Mozambique Research and Education Network, Africa) - Mentoring Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) - Invited Talks Chair: Rosa Filgueira (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Publicity Chair: Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight, UK) - Website Chair: Caitlin Ross (Kitware, USA) /Dr Fouzhan Hosseini/ *HPC Application Analyst * *Tel:**+44 (0)161 250 3876* * * ** *Numerical Algorithms Group <https://www.nag.com>** * */Experts in numerical software and high performance computing services/* Disclaimer The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business.

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[PSD 2020] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES, Springer LNCS, Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

[apologies for cross-posting] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2020 (PSD 2020) ================================================ Arezzo, Italy, Sep. 23-25, 2020 http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** 1. AIMS AND GOAL ----------------- Privacy in statistical databases is about finding trade-offs to the tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents providing the statistical data. In the case of statistical databases, the motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival: statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy of their responses is guaranteed. Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or gathering the data, who would not like to share the data they have collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay private). "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2020" (PSD 2020) is a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The purpose of PSD 2020 is to attract world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy. PSD 2020 is a successor to - PSD 2018 (Valencia, Sep. 26-28, 2018, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2018/), - PSD 2016 (Dubrovnik, Sep. 14-16, 2016, https://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2016/), - PSD 2014 (Eivissa, Sep. 17-19, 2014, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014/), - PSD 2012 (Palermo, Sep. 26-28, 2012, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2012), - PSD 2010 (Corfu, Sep. 22-24, 2010, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2010), - PSD 2008 (Istanbul, Sep. 24-26, 2008, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008), - PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), all with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 11126, LNCS 9867, LNCS 8744, LNCS 7556, LNCS 6344, LNCS 5262, LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those nine PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS 2316. Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2020 originates in Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome. 2. ORGANIZATION --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (More members to be confirmed soon) - Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona, USA) - Bettina Berendt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA) - Aleksandra Bujnowska (EUROSTAT, European Union) - Jordi Castro (Universitat PolitËcnica de Catalunya) - Anne-Sophie Charest (UniversitÈ Laval, QuÈbec, Canada) - Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA) - Graham Cormode (University of Warwick, UK) - Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands) - Josep Domingo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Joerg Drechsler (IAB, Germany) - Khaled El Emam (University of Ottawa, Canada) - Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK) - SÈbastien Gambs (UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ‡ MontrÈal) - Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany) - Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University, Japan) - Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA) - Laura McKenna (Census Bureau, USA) - Anna Monreale (Universit‡ di Pisa, Italy) - Krish Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) - Anna Oganyan (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) - David Rebollo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Jerry Reiter (Duke University, USA) - Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel) - Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota, USA) - Nicolas Ruiz (OECD, European Union) - Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) - David S·nchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands) - Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester, UK) - Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State University, USA) - Jordi Soria-Comas (Catalan Data Protection Authority, Catalonia) - Tamir Tassa (The Open University, Israel) - Vicenc Torra (National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Ireland) - Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University, USA) PROGRAM CHAIR - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) GENERAL CHAIR - Krishnamurty Muralidhar (The University of Oklahoma, USA) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Giulia Lombardi (The University of Oklahoma, Italy) - Jesus Manjon (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) - Romina Russo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New anonymization methods for tabular data - New anonymization methods for microdata (including non-conventional microdata types such as trajectories, graphs, etc.) - Best anonymization practices for tabular data - Best anonymization practices for microdata - Co-utility for privacy preservation - Big data anonymization - Streaming data anonymization - Decentralized anonymization - Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC - Differential privacy and other privacy models - SDC transparency issues - Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software - Estimating disclosure risk in SDC - Record linkage methods - Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad - Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic) - Private information retrieval - Privacy in web-based e-commerce - Privacy in healthcare - Privacy in official and corporate statistics - Other data anonymization issues 4. SUBMISSIONS -------------- Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are sought. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2estyle or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in ComputerScience. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same page above. We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their submissions. LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS. Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 5. PROCEEDINGS -------------- Among PSD 2020 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This follows the tradition of the previous PSD conferences. The remaining accepted papers will be published in a USB with an ISBN. It is possible to submit a paper directly for the USB, which benefits from a later submission deadline (see USB-only dates below). The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*. 6. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Submission deadline: **MAY 24, 2020** Acceptance notification: June 26, 2020 Proceedings version due: July 5, 2020 USB-only submission deadline: July 5, 2020 USB-only acceptance notification: July 15, 2020 USB-only proceedings version due: July 22, 2020 Conference: Sep. 23-25, 2020 7. VENUE AND TRAVEL ------------------- The conference will take place at the San Francesco classroom annex of the 'Oklahoma University in Arezzo' facilities, located in the city of Arezzo. OU in Arezzo. San Francesco Classroom annex Piazza San Francesco, 18 Arezzo, Italy 52100 http://www.ou.edu/cis/education_abroad/programs/ou-in-arezzo Further venue, travel and accommodation information will be posted in due course at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020 A number of travel grants are made available by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition countries. Information on grants is posted in the conference web site. 8. REGISTRATION --------------- Registration information will be posted no later than June 2020 at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2020

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CfP VHPC'20: HPC Containers-Kubernetes
by Michael Alexander 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

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

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IEEE ISORC 2020 Call for Posters and Demos
by Tommaso Cucinotta 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

*IEEE ISORC 2020 - Call for Posters and Demos <https://isorc.github.io/2020/>*/The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* IEEE ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. ISORC has a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators, and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This session will enable presenters to demonstrate their work and contact directly with potential users of their technology, fostering new collaborations and promoting the adoption of new frameworks. We specially encourage the submission of results from finished or ongoing projects, demos of their use-cases and products. *Topics* * Software architectures for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * Algorithms for real-time analytics: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * Applications: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * System evaluation: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. * Submission guidelines* Authors should submit a 2-pages extended abstract describing the poster and an optional demonstration, in the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. The IEEE conference paper templates can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… <ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology.> The program committee will review the abstracts and decide on the adequacy of the demo/poster to the conference audience. Reviews are single-blinded. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings, and highly-rated posters invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture>. The session will consist of two parts: (i) a short presentation session where each participant can present slides on their demo/poster, followed by (ii) a demonstration and poster session where participants can display their work and discuss it with the attendees. Extended abstracts are to be submitted through HoTCRP at https://isorc20-ip.mpi-sws.org. All accepted poster/demo papers should be accompanied by a regular non-student registration. One of the authors of the poster/demo must attend and present their work at the conference. *Important dates* Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Conference: May 19 - 21, 2020 *Program committee chairs* Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA, muelle(a)ncsu.edu Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India, simmhan(a)iisc.ac.in Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, tommaso.cucinotta(a)santannapisa.it -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: March 17, 2020 Full Paper Submission: March 24, 2020 Author Notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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SDM/IBM EARLY CAREER DATA MINING RESEARCHER AWARD
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

SDM/IBM EARLY CAREER DATA MINING RESEARCHER AWARD About the Award: The SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award for Excellence in Data Analytics seeks to recognize one individual (no runner up/ honorable mention) who has made outstanding, influential, and lasting contributions in the field of data analysis and who will be within 10 years of having received their PhD degree as of the calendar year prior to the year of the award. For example, an award winner in 2020 should have received their PhD no earlier than 2009. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by any member of the community except members of the Award Selection Committee. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted to the Award Selection Committee Co-Chairs by email at cdomenic(a)gmu.edu and nchawla(a)nd.edu with "SDM/IBM Research Award" as the subject. A nomination application (a single PDF file) should contain the following: 1-Name/email of nominator (self-nominations are not permitted). 2-Name/email of candidate being nominated. 3-A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the ?nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award ?is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email addresses of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination. 4-CV of the nominee (the CV must clearly indicate date of degree received) 5-Up to three support letters. The letters should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. The letter writers may not be the nominator nor Award Selection Committee members. Important Dates: .Nomination Deadline: March 30, 2020 .Results Notification: April 15, 2020 Award Selection Committee: Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame (Co-Chair) Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University (Co-Chair) Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of Athens, Greece Zoran Obradovic, Temple University (Steering Committee Representative) Jimeng Sun, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Also note that the intent is to select exactly one awardee - re-nominations for subsequent years are permissible as long as the individuals continue to maintain eligibility. The committee at its discretion may elect not to make an award in a particular year.

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Call for Participation, ACDL2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, July 13-17, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Tuscany - Italy, Early Registration: March 31
by Ludovico Montalcini 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

ACDL 2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence without Borders ACDL 2020 – A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence with the World’s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 13-17, 2020 https://acdl2020.icas.xyz acdl(a)icas.xyz The past 2 editions have attracted more than 150 students per year and world-renowned experts in ML, AI, DP and DS including Yoshua Bengio, Leslie Kaelbling, Peter Norvig, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Josh Tenenbaum, Naftali Tishby and Oriol Vinyals. More info about our current and past editions can be found here: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/past-editions/ ACDL 2018 & ACDL 2019 Sold-out! Probably also ACDL 2020 ;-) Early registration deadline: March 31, 2020 https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2020 Deadlines: Oral/Poster Presentation Submission: March 31, 2020. Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: by April 12, 2020. Early Registration: Until March 31, 2020. Late Registration: After March 31, 2020. LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. * Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind - Google, London, UK * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Michael Bronstein, Twitter & Imperial College London, UK * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Victor Lempitsky, Samsung AI Center, Moscow Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia * Diederik P. Kingma, Google Brain, San Francisco, CA, USA * Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Daniela Rus, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK More speakers coming soon! Tutorial Speakers * Chip Huyen, Stanford University, USA 4-hour tutorial on "TensorFlow 2.0 for Deep Learning Research" * Adam Paszke, University of Warsaw, Poland 4-hour tutorial on "PyTorch: A Modern Library for Machine Learning" More tutorial speakers coming soon! SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. 8 ECTS POINTS: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. A formal certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2020 will be The Certosa di Pontignano — Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Località Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info(a)lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/accommodation/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ We remind you that ACDL 2018 and ACDL 2019 sold out a long time before the registration deadline! Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2020 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2020 Organizing Committee. acdl(a)icas.xyz https://acdl2020.icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested *

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Advanced Transport Tools and Methods at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 3rd call
by Massimiliano Petri 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2020) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of A2TM workshop is to bring together scientists working on mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Smart Urban Mobility, New ITS, Big Data in Transport, Innovation in Freight Transport and Logistic, Connected/Autonomous Vehicles, Innovation for Sustainable Mobility, Innovaton in Transport Modeling and Analysis IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 15, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the A2TM Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the A2TM 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Massimiliano Petri (m.petri(a)ing.unipi.it) * Antonio Pratelli (a.pratelli(a)ing.unipi.it) Dep. of Industrial and Civil Engineering (University of Pisa), Italy. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact organizers. Best regards, Massimiliano Petri Antonio Pratelli (A2TM 2020 organizers) ---------------------------------------------------- Eng.Massimiliano Petri

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - extended deadline
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

Dear Colleague, Due to a considerable number of requests, the deadline for paper submission, to the 7th edition of the Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS2020) (https://cas2020.webnode.com/) workshop has been extended to March, 15th. *********************************************************************** ****************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES RECEIVED *************** *********************************************************************** ********************* CAS 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** ********************* NEW deadline: March 15th, 2020 ******************** Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2020<https://cas2020.webnode.com/>) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 15, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2020 organizer)

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[Journal] [Special Issue] CFP: Image and Vision Computing
by Pourya Shamsolmoali 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

Image and Vision Computing CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Advances in Domain Adaptation for Computer Vision Aim and Scope: In daily routines, humans, not only learn and apply knowledge for visual tasks but also have intrinsic abilities to transfer knowledge between related vision tasks. For example, if a new vision task is relevant to any previous learning, it is possible to transfer the learned knowledge for handling the new vision task. In developing new computer vision algorithms, it is desired to utilize these capabilities to make the algorithms adaptable. Generally, traditional computer vision methods do not adapt to a new task and have to learn the new task from the beginning. These methods do not consider that the two visual tasks may be related and the knowledge gained in one may be applied to learn the other one efficiently in lesser time. Domain adaptation for computer vision is the area of research, which attempts to mimic this human behavior by transferring the knowledge learned in one or more source domains and use it for learning the related visual processing task in the target domain. Recent advances in domain adaptation, particularly in cotraining, transfer learning, and online learning have benefited computer vision research significantly. For example, learning from high-resolution source domain images and transferring the knowledge to learning low-resolution target domain information. This special issue will focus on the recent advances in domain adaptation for different computer vision tasks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Domain adaptation for machine learning frameworks for learning deep representations · Domain adaptation for face detection/recognition and tracking · Domain adaptation for object detection/ recognition and tracking · Domain adaptation and hybrid models for real-time computer vision tasks · Domain adaptation for human pose detection/recognition and estimation · Domain adaptation for event/action detection and recognition · Domain adaptation for few-shot learning · Domain adaptation for deep neural network optimization Important Dates: Paper submission due: May 31, 2020 First notification: July 31, 2020 Revision submission due: September 30, 2020 Final decision: November 30, 2020 Paper evaluation and submission: Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, the significance of contribution, technical quality, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers (the papers will be reviewed following standard peer-review procedures of the Journal). Each paper will be reviewed rigorously and possibly in two rounds. Prospective authors should follow the formatting and Instructions of Image and Vision Computing at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing/0262-8856/guid…, and invited to submit their papers directly via the online submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/IMAVIS/default.aspx. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type "VSI: Advances in Domain Adaptation for Computer Vision (ADACV)" Please submit your manuscript before the submission deadline. [ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-paper… | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-paper… ] Guest Editors: Dr. Pourya Shamsolmoali Institute of Image Processing & Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Email: [ mailto:pshams@sjtu.edu.cn | pshams(a)sjtu.edu.cn ] Prof. Salvador Garcaí Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. Email: [ mailto:salvagl@decsai.ugr.es | salvagl(a)decsai.ugr.es ] Dr. Huiyu Zhou Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Email: [ mailto:hz143@leicester.ac.uk | hz143(a)leicester.ac.uk ] Prof. M. Emre Celebi Department of Computer Science, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, USA. Email: [ mailto:ecelebi@uca.edu | ecelebi(a)uca.edu ]

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International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning in Process Mining (ML4PM)
by Gabriel Marques Tavares 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING IN PROCESS MINING ML4PM 2020 - 5 OCTOBER, 2020 - PADUA, ITALY http://ml4pm2020.di.unimi.it ### AN ACTIVITY FROM THE IEEE TASK FORCE ON PROCESS MINING(https://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/doku.php?id=start) ON THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROCESS MINING (https://icpmconference.org/2020/) ## About ML4PM The interest in Machine Learning applications in Process Mining has seen increasing growth in the last few years along with the relevance of the ICPM conference. Thus, this workshop offers a focused environment to discuss new approaches, applications and their results to a wide audience, composed of researchers and practitioners. ML4PM will be held in Padua, in conjunction with the ICPM conference. ### Call for Papers This workshop invites papers that present works that lay in the intersection between machine learning and process mining. The event provides a suitable environment to discuss new approaches presented by researchers and practitioners. Main themes include automated process modeling, predictive process mining, application of deep learning techniques and online process mining. The workshop will count with leading researchers, engineers and scientists who are actively working on these topics. Full papers must be written in English, not exceed 12 pages and must be an original contribution, not previously published or under review. Workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: * Outcome and time prediction * Classification and clusterization of business processes * Application of Deep Learning for PM * Stream mining for online process environments * Anomaly detection for PM * Natural Language Processing and Text Mining for PM * Multi-perspective analysis of processes * Machine Learning for robot process automation * Automated process modeling and updating * Conformance checking based on Machine Learning * Transfer Learning applied to business processes * IoT business services leveraged by Machine Learning * Multidimensional Process Mining * Predictive Process Mining * Prescriptive Learning in Process Mining * Convergence of Machine Learning and Blockchain in Process Mining ### Submission Guidelines Submissions must use the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Submissions must be in English and cannot exceed 12 pages (including tables, figures, the bibliography and appendices). Each paper should clarify the relation of the paper to the workshop’s main topics, clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during one of the workshop’s sessions and one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. ### Important Dates | Milestone | Deadline| | ------ | ------ | | Abstract Submission| August 18 2020| | Paper Submission| August 25 2020| | Notification of Acceptance| September 14 2020| | Submission of Camera Ready Papers| September 22 2020| | Workshop| October 5 2020| ## Organizers ### CHAIRS * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4519-0173) * Sylvio Barbon Jr., State University of Londrina, Brazil (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4988-0702) * Annalisa Appice, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-844X) ### Program Committee María Teresa Gómez, University of Seville Rafael Accorsi, PwC Digital Services Niek Tax, Booking.com Josep Carmona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University of Science Technology Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Antonella Guzzo, Università della Calabria Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento Matthias Ehrendorfer, University of Vienna Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu Paola Mello, Università di Bologna Gabriel Marques Tavares, Università degli Studi di Milano Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina Irene Teinemaa, Booking.com Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari Aldo Moro Natalia Sidorova, Eindhoven University of Technology

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WHPC@ISC'20 Call for posters
by fouzhan.hosseini＠nag.co.uk 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 12th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 12th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 25th 2020 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop ================================================================= The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: * Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies * Putting in place a framework to help women take grow their careers * Explore pathways to leadership positions * Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC * Short talks on topics including: dealing with sponsorship versus mentorship, the case for reverse mentorship to achieve diversity, addressing toxic behaviour at work, career advancement strategies, and 3 minute networking solution. Call for posters: Now Open! /*Deadline for submissions: March 2nd 2020 AOE*/ As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. */Exclusive to WHPC at ISC20: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their posters in the main ISC20 conference poster session./* For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop *Workshop Organising Committee* - Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA, UK) - Co-chair: Fouzhan Hosseini (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK) - Vice-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Submissions Co-Chair: Vitalina Morais (Mozambique Research and Education Network, Africa) - Mentoring Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) - Invited Talks Chair: Rosa Filgueira (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Publicity Chair: Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight, UK) - Website Chair: Caitlin Ross (Kitware, USA) /Dr Fouzhan Hosseini/ *HPC Application Analyst * *Tel:**+44 (0)161 250 3876* * * ** *Numerical Algorithms Group <https://www.nag.com>** * */Experts in numerical software and high performance computing services/* Disclaimer The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business.

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Research Fellow In Approximate Data Structures
by Uwe Aickelin 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi, It’s a great time to join one of the world’s leading Schools of Computing and Information Systems: We are looking for a Research Fellow In Approximate Data Structures to work with two of our top Professors: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/899981/research-fellow-in-approximate… Thanks, Uwe Aickelin Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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CfP: Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020
by Werner Benger 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure and privilege to invite you for the workshop *Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020* ENGAGE 2020 on 23rd of June 2020 at CGI 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The *abstract submission (ca. 200 words) deadline* for all participants has been postponed to: */March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* Please see the Call for Papers (below) for details. And please consult the CGI 2020 website as well: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ We very much hope, that you will be able to participate in ENGAGE 2020 and present your latest research results in this field at the shore of Lake Geneva. With kind regards, Eckhard Hitzer (On behalf of the organizing team of ENGAGE 2020) * * *Call for Papers : Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering Workshop @ CGI 2020 – 23rd June 2020* CGI 2020 URL: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ Since ACM SIGGRAPH2001 and 2003 conferences, there has been limited attention on the benefits of employing W. K. Clifford’s geometric algebras (GA), quaternions and octonions 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 Workshops at CGI’2016 on “Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering” and at CGI’2017, 2018, 2019 on “Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering” began to bridge that gap. Under the auspices of *CGI’20 *(22-25 June), ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) on *June 23rd* in Geneva, Switzerland, will again engage in a multi-disciplinary approach from mathematics, applied to computer graphics, computer vision and general computer science fields where GA has strong potential to answer existing mathematical problems. GA is in a particularly well suited to allow cross-disciplinary solutions in software engineering as it provides an intuitive and insightful common denominator across mathematical disciplines that have often advanced application specific. Understanding GA enables us to relate distinct, seemingly incompatible paths by providing a common mathematical base. We invite original contributors in the form of full and short papers, which 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:* * Feature Detection & Data Analysis * LIDAR and Point Cloud Algorithms * Scientific & Information Visualization * Computer graphics rendering * Computer animation and video processing * Holographic optics & Holographic maps * Geographic Information Systems * Soundscape & Electromagnetic landscape Modelling * Augmented and Virtual Reality * Application of Clifford Fourier transforms and Clifford wavelets to 2D and 3D images, including color images * Higher dimensional geometric algebras * GA Computing and Quantum Computing * GA hardware implementations * GA for Artificial Intelligence * GA for ubiquitous information processing * GA for Big Data processing & visualization * Other engineering/applied science applications using GA Authors should submit short and full papers directly to the CGI conference LNCS proceedings, by April 7th deadline. All authors of accepted ENGAGE related papers will be invited either to an oral or poster presentation. For Springer LNCS CGI proceedings author instructions please refer to http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/?page_id=1359. Post workshop extended and more advanced ENGAGE papers (15 pages plus) can be published in the topical collection “Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering” of the Journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA), published by Birkhauser, and should have been orally presented at the conference. See the “Instruction for Authors” at AACA. Online paper submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aaca/Default.aspx has deadline of October 31, 2020. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the topical collection “ENGAGE 2020-Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering”. *IMPORTANT DATES* *All participants:* * *Abstract submission (ca. 200 words): /March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* *Full and Short ENGAGE Papers: *(to appear in Springer LNCS proceedings, full 8-12 pages and short 5-7 pages) * Paper submission: /April 7//, 2020/ * Paper notification: /April 25, 2020/ * Camera ready papers due: /May 01, 2020/ *Full AACA Papers: (15 pages+, Latex using birkjour.cls)* * Paper submission: /October 31, 2020/ For *further information*, please contact one of the ENGAGE Workshop organizers: * Andreas Aristidou (Cyprus) * Werner Benger♯ (benger(a)ahm.co.at <mailto:w.benger@ahm.co.at>) (Innsbruck) * Dietmar Hildenbrand♯ (hildenbrand(a)gmail.com <mailto:dietmar.hildenbrand@gmail.com>) (Darmstadt) * Eckhard Hitzer♯ (hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>) (Tokyo) * Joan Lasenby (Cambridge) * Kit Ian Kou (Macao) * Vincent Nozick (Paris) * George Papagiannakis♯ (papagian(a)ics.forth.gr <mailto:papagian@ics.forth.gr>) (Crete) * Stacey Staples (Edwardsville) * Kanta Tachibana (Tokyo) * Lars Tingelstad (Trondheim) * Peter Vasik (Brno) * Yu Zhaoyuan (Nanjing) (♯ = local workshop organizers) -- ___________________________________________________________________________ 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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FOSDEM 2020 Ada Developer Room - presentations & videos online
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Presentations and video recordings available online *** 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020 Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/ada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All presentations and video recordings from the 10th Ada Developer Room, held at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels recently, are available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM web sites now. - "Welcome to the Ada DevRoom" by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium, Jean-Pierre Rosen - Ada-France - "An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog, France - "HAC: the Compiler which will Never Become Big" by Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland - "Tracking Performance of a Big Application from Dev to Ops" by Philippe Waroquiers - Eurocontrol, Belgium - "Cappulada: What we've Learned" by Johannes Kliemann - Componolit, Germany - "Programming ROS2 Robots with RCLAda" by Alejandro R. Mosteo - Centro Universit. de la Defensa, Spain - "Live Demo of Ada's Distribution Features" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog, France - "Writing Shared Memory Parallel Programs in Ada" by Jan Verschelde - Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA - "Spunky: a Genode Kernel in Ada/SPARK" by Martin Stein - Genode Labs, Germany - "Alire: Ada Has a Package Manager" by Alejandro R. Mosteo - Centro Universit. de la Defensa, Spain & Pierre-Marie de Rodat and Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore, France - "Protect Sensitive Data with Ada Keystore" by Stephane Carrez - Twinlife, France - "EUgen: a European Project Proposal Generator" by Riccardo Bernardini - University of Udine, Italy - "On Rapid Application Development in Ada" by Tomasz Maluszycki - Poland - "Ada-TOML: a TOML Parser for Ada" by Pierre-Marie de Rodat - AdaCore, France - "Securing Existing Software using Formally Verified Libraries" by Tobias Reiher - Componolit (in Security room) - "BSP Generator for 3000+ ARM Microcontrollers" by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore (in Hardware room) - "Gneiss: A Nice Component Framework in SPARK" by Johannes Kliemann - Componolit (in Microkernels room) - "A Component-based Environment for Android Apps" by Alexander Senier - Componolit (in Microkernels room) Presentation abstracts, speaker bios, pointers to relevant information, copies of slides, links to corresponding pages and video recordings, are available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM sites at the URLs above. Some pictures will be posted later as well. If you have pictures or other material you would like to share, or know someone who does, then please contact me. Finally, thanks once more to all presenters and helpers for their work and collaboration, thanks to all the FOSDEM organizers and volunteers, thanks to the many participants for their interest, and thanks to everyone for another nice experience! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Ada DevRoom coordinator Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) #AdaFOSDEM #AdaDevRoom #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2020 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Paper Deadline Extended: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 02 Feb '20

02 Feb '20

Dear All: The deadline for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20) has been extended to February 14, 2020. See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fcse.stfx.ca%…> . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline (extended): 14 Feb 2020 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 14, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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ACA 2020 - Last Call For Special Sessions
by Ilias Kotsireas 02 Feb '20

02 Feb '20

======================================================================= ACA 2020 26th International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra July 15-18, 2020 Athens, Greece https://aca2020.sba-research.org/ The ACA conference series is devoted to promoting all aspects of computer algebra applications, encouraging the interaction of developers of computer algebra systems with researchers and users (including scientists, engineers, educators, mathematicians and practitioners). Topics include, but are not limited to, computer algebra in the sciences, engineering, medicine, pure and applied mathematics, cryptology, education, and computer science. The 26th International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra will be held in Athens, Greece, July 15-18, 2020. Arrival/travel day is July 14, 2020, followed by 4 full conference days. Call for Sessions ----------------- The ACA conferences are organized as a series of Special Sessions. All interested session organizers can propose a Special Session by sending an e-mail to the ACA 2020 Chairs: ikotsire(a)wlu.ca, wester(a)math.unm.edu, dsimos(a)sba-research.org The ACA Working Group will then decide on the acceptance of the proposed session. All accepted sessions will be immediately announced on the conference website. Session organizers are expected to prepare webpages to host the information regarding their special sessions. Links to the special session webpages will be provided on the ACA 2020 webpage. A proposal for an ACA 2020 Special Session has to include: (1) title of the Special Session, (2) short abstract describing the Special Session, (3) contact information of the organizers. For more details please see: http://math.unm.edu/ACA/Organizing/special_session.html For examples of past sessions, please consult past ACA conferences websites at: http://math.unm.edu/aca.html Special Session extended deadline: ---------------------------------- Submission of session proposals: February 23th, 2020 List of 15 accepted ACA 2020 Special Sessions --------------------------------------------- https://aca2020.sba-research.org/sessions.html S1. Algebraic Geometry from an Algorithmic Point of View - Organizers: Cristina Bertone and Francesca Cioffi S2. Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Computation - Organizers: Robert M. Corless, Mark Giesbrecht, George Labahn and Leili Rafiee Sevyeri S3. Computational Differential and Difference Algebra and its Applications - Organizers: Vladimir Gerdt, Alexander Levin and Daniel Robertz S4. Effective Ideal Theory in Commutative and non-Commutative Rings and its Applications - Organizers: Michela Ceria, Andre Leroy and Teo Mora S5. Computer Algebra Modeling in Science and Engineering - Organizers: Alexander Prokopenya and Haiduke Sarafian S6. Symbolic Computation MMXX - Organizers: Dongming Wang and Bruno Buchberger S7. Computer Algebra in Coding Theory and Cryptography (CACT) - Organizers: Edgar Martinez-Moro and Irene Marquez-Corbella S8. Computer Algebra for Geometry and Combinatorics - Organizers: Anton Betten and Fatma Karaoglu S9. Machine Learning and Computer Algebra - Organizers: Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos S10. Polytopes - Algebra - Computation (PAC) - Organizers: Gizem Sungu and Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos S11. Computer Algebra in Education - Organizers: Michel Beaudin, Michael Wester, Alkis Akritas, Noah Dana-Picard, Jose Luis Galan Garcia and Elena Varbanova S12. Algebraic and Algorithmic Aspects of Differential and Integral Operators Session (AADIOS) - Organizers: Moulay Barkatou, Thomas Cluzeau, Clemens Raab and Georg Regensburger S13. Symbolic Summation and Integration: Algorithms, Complexity, and Applications - Organizers: Carsten Schneider and Eugene Zima S14. Algorithmic Combinatorics - Organizers: Hao Du, Christoph Koutschan and Ali Uncu S15. Algorithms for Polynomial System Solving and their Applications - Organizers: Ryoya Fukasaku, Yosuke Sato and Tateaki Sasaki

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[CFW] HPDC2020 Call for Workshops - Deadline extended to February 7
by Tumeo, Antonino 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] -- NEWS: DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7th -- The 29th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'20) Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2020 Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH http://www.hpdc.org/2020/workshops/call-for-workshops/ Overview The organizers of the 29th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'20) call for proposals for Workshops to be held the day preceding the main conference (June 23). The HPDC Workshops provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics and/or emerging research areas relevant to HPDC. Workshops typically include some combination of invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, panel discussions, and work-in-progress talks. Proposers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, lasting either one full day or one-half day, depending on interest and space constraints. Proposals for workshops on new topics are welcome, as are proposals to continue previously successful workshops. HPDC workshops proceedings will be published by ACM in the HPDC proceedings companion book. We also welcome proposals for agency PI meetings, of technical tutorials, or of user-group meetings that would engage HPDC attendees. Proposal Submission To Submit: Please email your proposal to Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov) with the title "HPDC Workshop Proposal" Formatting Guidelines * Workshop proposals should be formatted as a single PDF document of 2-4 pages, describing the following: * The full name and acronym of the workshop * A description of the theme of the workshop and its key topics – proposers should be particularly careful in highlighting the focused nature of the theme of workshop * A description of the link to and relevance of the workshop for HPDC – proposers should highlight how their proposed event can complete or completement the main program of HPDC * Whether the workshop is intended for one full day or for one half day * A summary of the intended audience * A description of the intended structure of the workshop (peer-reviewed articles, invited articles, invited talks, panels, etc.) * Details of the review process leading to acceptance to present in the workshop * If the workshop will have a call for papers, a tentative version of such CFP (which can reference to the description and theme of the workshop) * Tentative list of program committee members, if peer-review is to be used * Proposed names for invited speakers and panelists (if invited talks and panels are to be held), and their impacts on the topics discussed at the workshop * If workshop is going to have published papers, type of papers to be accepted and their length * A plan for attracting submissions and attendees to the workshop * A brief biographical information on the workshop organizers * Data about previous editions of the workshop (if any) including attendance, number of papers submitted and accepted Accepted workshops will need to be ready to set up a website and, if a paper submission process with peer review is going to be used, provide the submission link. Important Dates Deadline for Workshop Proposals: February 7, 2020 (EXTENDED) Notification of Workshop Acceptance: February 14, 2020 (EXTENDED) Workshop Submission Deadlines: Late March, 2020* Camera-Ready Deadline: Preferably Early May, 2020** Workshop Dates: June 23, 2020 * could change slightly, to allow for the flow of borderline articles from main conference to workshops ** could change slightly, to synchronize with the main conference proceedings

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020 - Deadline Extended to February 10
by Tumeo, Antonino 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

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

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CFP - ICA3PP 2020 - 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
by Henry Q 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

The 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2020) http://www.cloud-conf.net/ica3pp2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: *May 1st, 2020* Author notification: July 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 1st, 2020 Registration: August 1st, 2020 Conference date: Ocotber 2nd-4th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*ICA3PP 2020 is the 20th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian, Japan, Zhangjiajie, Granada, Helsinki, Guangzhou, and Melbourne, ICA3PP 2020 will be held in New York, USA. The objective of ICA3PP 2020 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2020 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e. architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: *Parallel and Distributed Architectures* - Parallel Architectures - Parallel Programming Paradigms - Heterogeneous Systems - Service-Oriented Architectures *Blockchain Systems* – Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain – Blockchain application in social networking – Smart contract and distributed ledger – P2P network analysis for blockchain – Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing – Blockchain-enabled services *Software Systems and Programming Models* - Cluster, Distributed & Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware - Programming Models for Compute and Storage - Parallel File Systems and Storage - Parallel and Distributed Databases - Tools for Programming and Analysis of System Software *Distributed and Network-based Computing* - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Cloud, Grid, and Services Computing - Web and Internet Computing - Interconnection Networks - Network Simulations *Big Data and its Applications* - Architecture, Networks and Systems of Big Data - Big Data Applications, Algorithms and Data Structures - Research and Development Trends of Big Data - Big Data Benchmarking, Interoperability, Monitoring, Security, Privacy and Management - Distributed Data Analytics and Feature Extraction - Big Data Interoperability and Orchestration - Parallel Processing for Big Data *Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications* - Reliability and Fault-tolerant Computing - High-performance Scientific Computing - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Resource Management and Scheduling - Multimedia in Parallel Computing - Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics - Parallel Machine Learning Algorithms - Industrial Applications *Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems* - Dependability Issues in Computer Networks and Communications - Dependability Issues in Distributed and Parallel Systems - Dependability of Software Defined Networks - Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems - Network and Information Security - Trust, Security and Privacy in Cloud computing, Social Networks, and Internet of Things *Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing* - Social Computing and Analytics on Cyber-Physical Data - Smart Communities with Cyber-Physical Systems - Ubiquitous Sensing in Social Networks - Building Social Life Networks - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Control, Computing and Networking - Cyber-Physical Systems and Networks - Cyber-Physical Social Applications and Case Studies *Performance Modeling and Evaluation* - Performance of Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems - Software and Hardware Reliability, Testing, Verification and Validation - Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development - Optimization, Modeling and Simulation - Stochastic Analysis, Statistical Analysis and Simulation - Data Collection and Analysis - Planning, Scheduling and Quality-of-Service - Game theory, Economics and Control Theory

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CFP - Several Special Issues - 10th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2020
by Didier Elbaz 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. *************************************************************************** The 10th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2020) https://pdco2020.sciencesconf.org/ held in conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2020) May 18-22, 2020 New Orleans, USA http://www.ipdps.org <http://www.ipdps.org/> *************************************************************************** ============================================ FIXED DEADLINE (no more extensions): February 16, 2020 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to one of the following *Special Issues*: - Journal of Applied Sciences - Optimization, Processing, and Visualization of Data for Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/optimization_processing…> - Algorithms Journal - Optimization Algorithms and Applications <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Optimization_Algorit…> - Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Multi-swarms of unmanned autonomous systems <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12547/multi-swarms-of-unmanned-…> =========================================== Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing; * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be completed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, E-Bus Competence Center, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2020 submission system: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFul… <https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFul…> Abstract and paper can be uploaded until February 16, 2020. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available on IPDPS website <http://www.ipdps.org/>. Special Issue: ============ Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to one of the following Special Issues: - Journal of Applied Sciences - Optimization, Processing, and Visualization of Data for Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/optimization_processing…> - Algorithms Journal - Optimization Algorithms and Applications <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Optimization_Algorit…> - Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Multi-swarms of unmanned autonomous systems <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12547/multi-swarms-of-unmanned-…> Important Dates: ================ - Submission Deadline: February 16, 2020 - Author notification: March 6, 2020 - Camera ready version: March 22, 2020 - Workshop: May 18, 2020 Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at pdco2020(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2020@sciencesconf.org>

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CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: March 17, 2020 Full Paper Submission: March 24, 2020 Author Notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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Multiple Academic Vacancies at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi, It’s a great time to join one of the world’s leading Schools of Computing and Information Systems: We are hiring across several academic recruitment campaigns at The University of Melbourne: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901974/lecturersenior-lecturer-in-mac… http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901760/lecturersenior-lecturer-women-… http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901494/teaching-fellow-senior-teachin… Thanks, Uwe Aickelin Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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CfP: Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020
by Werner Benger 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure and privilege to invite you for the workshop *Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020* ENGAGE 2020 on 23rd of June 2020 at CGI 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The *abstract submission (ca. 200 words) deadline* for all participants has been postponed to: */March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* Please see the Call for Papers (below) for details. And please consult the CGI 2020 website as well: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ We very much hope, that you will be able to participate in ENGAGE 2020 and present your latest research results in this field at the shore of Lake Geneva. With kind regards, Eckhard Hitzer (On behalf of the organizing team of ENGAGE 2020) * * *Call for Papers : Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering Workshop @ CGI 2020 – 23rd June 2020* CGI 2020 URL: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ Since ACM SIGGRAPH2001 and 2003 conferences, there has been limited attention on the benefits of employing W. K. Clifford’s geometric algebras (GA), quaternions and octonions 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 Workshops at CGI’2016 on “Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering” and at CGI’2017, 2018, 2019 on “Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering” began to bridge that gap. Under the auspices of *CGI’20 *(22-25 June), ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) on *June 23rd* in Geneva, Switzerland, will again engage in a multi-disciplinary approach from mathematics, applied to computer graphics, computer vision and general computer science fields where GA has strong potential to answer existing mathematical problems. GA is in a particularly well suited to allow cross-disciplinary solutions in software engineering as it provides an intuitive and insightful common denominator across mathematical disciplines that have often advanced application specific. Understanding GA enables us to relate distinct, seemingly incompatible paths by providing a common mathematical base. We invite original contributors in the form of full and short papers, which 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:* * Feature Detection & Data Analysis * LIDAR and Point Cloud Algorithms * Scientific & Information Visualization * Computer graphics rendering * Computer animation and video processing * Holographic optics & Holographic maps * Geographic Information Systems * Soundscape & Electromagnetic landscape Modelling * Augmented and Virtual Reality * Application of Clifford Fourier transforms and Clifford wavelets to 2D and 3D images, including color images * Higher dimensional geometric algebras * GA Computing and Quantum Computing * GA hardware implementations * GA for Artificial Intelligence * GA for ubiquitous information processing * GA for Big Data processing & visualization * Other engineering/applied science applications using GA Authors should submit short and full papers directly to the CGI conference LNCS proceedings, by April 7th deadline. All authors of accepted ENGAGE related papers will be invited either to an oral or poster presentation. For Springer LNCS CGI proceedings author instructions please refer to http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/?page_id=1359. Post workshop extended and more advanced ENGAGE papers (15 pages plus) can be published in the topical collection “Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering” of the Journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA), published by Birkhauser, and should have been orally presented at the conference. See the “Instruction for Authors” at AACA. Online paper submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aaca/Default.aspx has deadline of October 31, 2020. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the topical collection “ENGAGE 2020-Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering”. *IMPORTANT DATES* *All participants:* * *Abstract submission (ca. 200 words): /March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* *Full and Short ENGAGE Papers: *(to appear in Springer LNCS proceedings, full 8-12 pages and short 5-7 pages) * Paper submission: /April 7//, 2020/ * Paper notification: /April 25, 2020/ * Camera ready papers due: /May 01, 2020/ *Full AACA Papers: (15 pages+, Latex using birkjour.cls)* * Paper submission: /October 31, 2020/ For *further information*, please contact one of the ENGAGE Workshop organizers: * Andreas Aristidou (Cyprus) * Werner Benger♯ (benger(a)ahm.co.at <mailto:w.benger@ahm.co.at>) (Innsbruck) * Dietmar Hildenbrand♯ (hildenbrand(a)gmail.com <mailto:dietmar.hildenbrand@gmail.com>) (Darmstadt) * Eckhard Hitzer♯ (hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>) (Tokyo) * Joan Lasenby (Cambridge) * Kit Ian Kou (Macao) * Vincent Nozick (Paris) * George Papagiannakis♯ (papagian(a)ics.forth.gr <mailto:papagian@ics.forth.gr>) (Crete) * Stacey Staples (Edwardsville) * Kanta Tachibana (Tokyo) * Lars Tingelstad (Trondheim) * Peter Vasik (Brno) * Yu Zhaoyuan (Nanjing) (♯ = local workshop organizers) -- ___________________________________________________________________________ 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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[CFP] Computing Frontiers 2020 - Deadline Extended!
by Tumeo, Antonino 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 11!!!! ================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2020 (CF'20) May 11 - 13th, 2020, Catania, Sicily, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: February 11, 2020 (Extended) http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ ================================================================== The next ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers will be held May 11th - 13th in Sicily, Italy, in the town of Catania. Computing Frontiers is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers who investigate emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that transform society. CF's broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as memory hardware and systems, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, power efficiency, new application domains of machine and deep learning and big data analytics, and systems portability and wearability. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology — and are the CF community focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss, and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and datacenters. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission deadline: February 11th, 2020 Notification: March 29th, 2020 Final Papers Due: April 19th, 2020 Conference Dates: May 11-13th, 2020 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and environments. * Innovative Computing Approaches, Architectures, Accelerators, Algorithms, and Models - Approximate, analog, inexact, probabilistic computing - Quantum computing - Neuromorphic, biologically-inspired computing, and optical computing - Dataflow architectures, near-data, and in-memory processing * Technological Scaling Limits and Beyond - Limits: Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, dark silicon - Extending past Moore’s law: 3D-stacking, many-core architectures and accelerators, distributed computing on mobile devices and their challenges * Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics - Novel architecture and systems across computing systems (IoT to datacenter) - High performance data analytics - Exascale data management * Embedded, IoT, and Cyber-Physical Systems - Ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging - Physical security, attack detection and prevention - Reactive, real-time, scalable, reconfigurable, and self-aware systems - Sensor networks, IoT, and architectural innovation for wearable computing * Large-Scale System Design and Networking - Large-scale homogeneous/heterogeneous architectures and networking - System-balance and CPU-offloading - Power- and energy-management for clouds, datacenters, and exascale systems * System Software, Compiler Technologies, and Programming Languages - Technologies that push the limits of operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies - Large scale frameworks for distributed computing and communication - Resource and job management, scheduling and workflow systems for managing large-scale heterogeneous systems - Compiler technologies: hardware/software integrated solutions, high-level synthesis - Tools for analyzing and managing performance at large scale - Novel programming approaches * Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems (e.g., infrastructure, airlines) - Hardware and software approaches in adverse environments such as space * Security - Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code - Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols - Quantum and post-quantum cryptography * Computers and Society - Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics and AI environmental impact - Education, health, cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets, and interdisciplinary applications We strongly encourage submissions in emerging fields that may not fit into traditional categories -- if in doubt, contact the PC co-chairs by email. CONFERENCE WEBSITE ================== http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ SUBMISSION ========== We encourage the submission of both full and short papers containing high-quality research describing original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf2020 Short papers may be position papers or may describe preliminary or highly speculative work. Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) (excluding references) and short papers a maximum of four (4) (including references) double-column pages in ACM conference format (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html). Authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted full papers. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices, but exclude references for full papers. As the review process is double-blind, removal of all identifying information from paper submissions is required (i.e. cite own work in third person). Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits and the removal of identifying information will be automatically rejected. No-show policy: Any accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper. A no-show of papers will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2020 Chairs General Co-Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Program Co-Chairs: Cat Graves, Hewlett Packard Labs, US Eishi Arima, ITC University of Tokyo, JP Poster/Short Paper Co-Chairs: Kun-Chih Chen, National Sun Yat-set University, Taiwan Nader Bagherzadeh, University of Irvine, US Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT Carlo Sau, University of Cagliari, IT Workshops Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Registration Chair: Giuseppe Ascia, University of Catania, IT Publications Co-Chairs: Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Finance Chair: Siddhartha Jana, Intel, US Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, IT Davide Patti, University of Catania, IT Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Industry/Special Session Co-Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin, IT Industrial Sponsorship Chair Amlan Ganguly, Rochester Institute of Technology, US Publicity Chairs: Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Simone Vuotto, University of Sassari, IT Computing Frontiers Steering Committee Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US John Feo, PNNL, US Hubertus Franke, New York University / IBM Research, US Paul Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Sally A. McKee, Clemson University, US Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, DE Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, DE Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE FURTHER INFORMATION =================== For further information and updates, check the CF'20 website at http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/

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Final Reminder of Paper Deadline: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Dear All: This is a final reminder of the January 31 deadline for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20). See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/ . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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Call for Papers: IEEE ISORC - Int. Symp. on Real-Time Distributed Computing 2020
by Khare, Shweta Prabhat 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Dear researcher/colleague, Please consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the IEEE ISORC 2020 conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), from May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/ The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process by introducing double-blind submissions and a rebuttal phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. Best Paper and Student Paper Awards will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited to: * Software architectures for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * Algorithms for real-time analytics: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * Applications: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * System evaluation: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline: (Extended Deadline) Jan 31, 2020 (AOE) * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc.github.io/2020/ The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020 - Deadline Approaching!
by Tumeo, Antonino 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

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

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Open positions (Post-doc and MSc/PhD): Web-Based Multi-Agent Systems
by Ciortea, Andrei 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Dear all, We have two open positions on Multi-Agent Systems, Semantic Web, and Linked Data: Inria Sophia Antipolis (France): Post-Doctoral researcher on architectural styles and ontologies for Hypermedia Multi-agent Systems https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2019-02101 MINES Saint-Étienne (France): Master Internship on Semantic Multi-Agent Organisations for the Regulation of Hypermedia Communities of People and Autonomous Agents (to be converted in a Doctoral Position) https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/jobs/M2_HyperAgents_2020.html Kind regards, Andrei Ciortea -- Andrei Ciortea Postdoctoral Researcher Interaction- and Communication-based Systems University of St. Gallen http://interactions.ics.unisg.ch/

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CFP - Quantum Computing Thematic Track at International Conference on Computational Science 2020
by Peter Mueller 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Quantum Computing Thematic Track -------------------------------- in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science June 3 - 5, 2020 , Amsterdam, The Netherlands Extended paper due date: February 7th, 2020 (firm) https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2020/ http://www.qcw2020.agh.edu.pl/ Introduction Quantum computing is a new paradigm that exploits fundamental principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems in various fields of science that are beyond possibilities of classical computing infrastructures. Despite increasing activity in both theoretical research and hardware implementations, reaching the state of useful quantum supremacy is still an open question. This workshop aims to provide a forum for computational scientists, software developers, computer scientists, physicists and quantum hardware providers to understand and discuss research on current problems in quantum informatics. Topics Specific topics include (but are not limited to): - New quantum computing algorithms; - New hybrid quantum-classical solutions; - Application of quantum computing to current problems in computational science; - Quantum algorithms in machine learning and big data; - Integration of quantum computation with supercomputing infrastructure; - Quantum computing hardware; - Quantum error correction; - Advanced methods for quantum software engineering; - Novel numerical methods supporting quantum information theory; - Environments and frameworks for quantum computing; - Quantum simulators; - Cloud-based support for quantum computing; - Dedicated services required for quantum computing; - Novel approaches to quantum games; - Quantum networks / quantum Internet; - Quantum programming languages; - Creative tools for quantum computation education: video games, interactive art; - Challenging applications in industry and academia; Papers We cordially invite you to submit a paper presenting the results of original research in the area of quantum computing. Papers of up to 14 pages, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS templates, should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. You also have the option of submitting a short paper of up to 7 pages. Both Full and Short Papers use the same templates and are published in LNCS. Templates are available for download in EasyChair’s “Templates” menu.All papers will be peer reviewed. After the conference, the best papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (Impact Factor: 1.925). Important Dates Full paper submission: February, 7, 2020 (firm) Notification of acceptance: February 14, 2020 Camera-ready papers: March 6, 2020 Program Committee Nicholas Chancellor, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellow, Durham University, UK Piotr Frąckiewicz, Pomeranian University, PL Piotr Gawron, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences Sophia Grundner-Culemann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Tobias Guggemos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Maximilian Höb, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Krzysztof Kurowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL Jarosław Miszczak,Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL Peter Müller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, CH Frank Phillipson, TNO, The Hague, NL Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology, IBM Research, Zurich, CH Haozhen Situ, College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, CN Bogdan Staszewski, University College London, UK Tomasz Stopa, IBM Software Laboratory, Kraków, PL Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL Workshop Chairs Katarzyna Rycerz, Department of Computer Science, AGH, Krakow, Poland Marian Bubak, Department of Computer Science AGH and Sano Center, Krakow, Poland E-mail: qcw2020 [at] agh.edu.pl

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WHPC@ISC'20 Call for posters
by Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 12th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 12th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 25th 2020 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop ================================================================= The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies - Putting in place a framework to help women take grow their careers - Explore pathways to leadership positions - Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC - Short talks on topics including: dealing with sponsorship versus mentorship, the case for reverse mentorship to achieve diversity, addressing toxic behaviour at work, career advancement strategies, and 3 minute networking solution. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: March 2nd 2020 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. Exclusive to WHPC at ISC20: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their posters in the main ISC20 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop *Workshop Organising Committee* - Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA, UK) - Co-chair: Fouzhan Hosseini (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK) - Vice-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Submissions Co-Chair: Vitalina Morais (Mozambique Research and Education Network, Africa) - Mentoring Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) - Invited Talks Chair: Rosa Filgueira (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Publicity Chair: Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight, UK) - Website Chair: Caitlin Ross (Kitware, USA) -- Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA) Visiting Researcher @ The University of Sheffield Software Sustainability Institute Fellow +447776633818 | mkchimeh.com

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Springer LNCS : CFP - AI in Cyber Forensics@ICCSA 2020, Univ of Cagliari, Italy
by A.Chamundeswari 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Dear Sir/Madam, The 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy. Follow this link to explore about the ICCSA 2020 conference, http://www.iccsa.org/ This a call for papers on *Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Forensics (AICF 2020) workshop, *which is to be held at ICCSA 2020 conference. About the workshop : Machine learning can be used in forensics investigation, to setup an environment to train artificial neural networks and as well as analyse data. Machine Learning algorithms such as Classification, Prediction enables to allow machines to interact with the evidence data. Deep Learning techniques can help in the analysis of huge amount of data during a forensic investigation process. Deep Learning algorithms can also handle evidence acquisition, evidence preservation, evidence analysis, evidence interpretation, etc. Invited research papers related to this workshop, but limited to: - Analysis of Forensic Knowledge - Evidence Collection, Extraction and Reporting - Storage and Transmit Information - Volume of Digital Forensic Data - Forensic Tools - Impediments in Mobile Device Forensic - Deep Learning-based Forensics and Anti-Forensics - Applications of Machine Learning in Cyber Forensics The reviewed and accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS series. Follow this link to explore about the workshop : http://www.iccsa.org/workshops Submit your papers by following the link : https://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py *Important dates:* Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2020 Notification Due Apr 25, 2020 Final Version Due May 8, 2020 All submitted papers will be reviewed. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this workshop. Kind regards, Dr. A. Chamundeswari, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Salai(OMR), Kalavakkam, TamilNadu, Pin-603110. http://member.acm.org/~chamundeswaria -- ::DISCLAIMER:: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SSN Institutions (SSN) or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of SSN is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Header of this mail should have a valid DKIM signature for the domain ssn.edu.in <http://www.ssn.edu.in/>

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SEIT-2020 CfPs: The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (August 9-12, 2020, Leuven, Belgium)
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Call for Papers The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-20) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-20/ IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop Proposals Due: February 20, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2020 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2020 - Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2020 About SEIT 2020 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. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. SEIT 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). 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 journals special issues. Conference Main Tracks - 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 Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chairs Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops' Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Mustafa Gül, University of Alberta, Canada Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee 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 Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-20/#programCommittees ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology]<https://www.p.lodz.pl> Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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FINAL CALL - IEEE INFOCOM: International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20)
by Peter Mueller 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) Extended due date for review manuscripts: 25. January 2020 (firm) ----------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 April 27, 2020, Beijing, China https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-big-data-and-cloud-performance The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM'20 in Beijing, China on April 27, 2020. The goal of DCPerf is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimization. Submissions on any topics of datacenter, cloud and bigdata performance are welcome. Submission site will remain open until Jan. 8th, 2020. Cloud data centers are the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow's information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing needs, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. Because of the rapid growth in user-defined and user-generated applications and content, the range of services provided at data centers will expand tremendously and unpredictably. Particularly, big data applications and services, e.g., social and environmental sensing, and IoT monitoring, present a unique class of challenges in the Cloud. In addition, the high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers even more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs, are often conflicting. The increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas adds another dimension to optimizing big data and cloud applications. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems for hosting big data analytics in the cloud. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Big data applications and services - Emerging IoT applications - Data flow management - Processing platforms - Empirical studies - Cloud systems - Novel architectures - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Evaluation/modeling methodology - Big data and cloud performance - Cost/pricing design - Power/energy management - Reliability/dependability - Performance evaluation/modeling - Big data in the cloud - Intra/Inter communication - Network protocols - Security - Real-time analytics Important Dates: Full Review Paper Submission: Jan. 25th, 2020 (firm) Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 15th, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: March 6, 2020 Submission Guideline: Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11-inch format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2020 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blinded. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26866&track=99584 Committee: General Chair Wanyang Dai, Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, China TPC co-Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Rui Han, School of Computer Science&Technology, Beijing Instititute of Technology

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Call for Chapters
by Ivan Mistrik 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

*** Call for Chapters *** We invite high-quality chapters for an edited book on KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF DATA-INTENSIVE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS A book to be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group and edited by: - Ivan Mistrik, Computer Scientist & Software Researcher, Heidelberg, Germany - Matthias Galster, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Bruce Maxim, Full Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA - Bedir Tekinerdogan, Full professor and chair of the Information Technology group at Wageningen University in The Netherlands OVERVIEW ------------------ Big data is characterized by the seven V’s: volume (large amounts of data), velocity (continuously processed data in real time), variety (unstructured, semi-structured or structured data in different formats and from multiple and diverse sources), veracity (uncertainty and trustworthiness of data), validity (relevance of data to the problem to solve), volatility (constant change of input data), and value (how data and its analysis adds value). Big data systems are software applications that process and potentially generate big data. Such applications receive and process data from various diverse (usually distributed) sources, such as sensors, devices, whole networks, social networks, mobile devices or devices in an Internet-of-Things. They process high workloads of data and handle high requests for data. The idea is to use large amounts of data strategically and efficiently to provide additional intelligence. This book will explore software engineering of big data systems, including topics related to requirements as well as architecture, detailed design, implementation, maintenance and operations. Software engineering is the application of a systematic approach to designing, operating and maintaining software systems and the study of all the activities involved in achieving the same. The software engineering discipline and research into software systems flourished with the advent of computers and the technological revolution ushered in by the World Wide Web and the Internet. Software systems have grown dramatically to the point of becoming ubiquitous. They have a significant impact on the global economy and on how we interact and communicate with each other and with computers using software in our daily lives. However, there have been major changes in the type of software systems developed over the years. In the past decade owing to breakthrough advancements in cloud and mobile computing technologies, unprecedented volumes of hitherto inaccessible data, referred to as big data, has become available to technology companies and business organizations farsighted and discerning enough to use it to create new products, and services generating astounding profits. This book will focus on several research challenges of software engineering for developing big data systems, in particular by: - surveying the existing software engineering literature on applying software engineering principles into developing and supporting big data systems - identifying the fields of application for big data software systems - investigating the software engineering knowledge areas that have seen research related to big data systems - revealing the gaps in the knowledge areas that require more focus for big data systems development - determining the open research challenges in each software engineering knowledge area that need to be met. BACKGROUND TOPICS All chapters should consider the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other data systems, as well as allow further approaches already in practice. The book intends to discuss systematic and disciplined approaches to building big data systems, dissemination of the state-of-the-art methods and techniques for representing and evaluating these systems. FORMAT ------------------ Chapters are invited that synthesize existing knowledge on relevant background topics and application areas in software engineering of big systems. Chapters should be accessible to senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a background in Computer Science, Information Science, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Software Design or related disciplines. Chapters are not expected to correspond to the description of a single research project or technique. Each chapter should clearly highlight three to five take-away messages or key lessons at the beginning of the chapter. PROCEDURE ------------------ Please submit your chapter in PDF format to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmddis2019 Chapters will be peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers. The authors participating in this publishing project will also be asked to review chapters by other contributors. We recommend using Word from very beginning, since the sources for the final manuscript are required to be in Word. Please refer to Publisher’s Guideline for Authors at https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Ins… You are expected to collaborate on final editing of your chapter by Publisher’s editorial project manager. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Letter of Intent to editors (a tentative title, authors, a short abstract): December 2019: (as early as convenient) Chapters due: 30 January 2020 (extended until 28 February 2020) First round of reviews: 1 February 2020 – 30 April 2020 Revisions: 1 May 2020 -30July 2020 Second round of reviews: 1 August 2020 -30 August 2020 Final version due: 30 November 2020 Complete manuscript due: 30 February 2021 Expected publication: Spring 2021 For further details please contact editors at kmddis2019(a)easychair.org

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[Meetings] MESS 2020 ~ Learning & Optimization from Big Data ~ Catania, 27-31 July 2020
by Mario Pavone 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2020 - Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data - 27-31 July 2020, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2020/application/ MESS 2020 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is ?Learning and Optimization from Big Data?, therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data. All participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. ** LIST OF LECTURERS + Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata + Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy & University of Portsmouth, UK + Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK + Mauricio Resende, AMAZON, USA + Roman Slowinski, Pozna? University of Technology, Poland + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy More Lecturers will be announced soon. ** SCHOOL DIRECTORS + Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy + Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Students whose algorithm will rank in the first five top of the competition ranking, will be invited to submit a report/manuscript of their work to be published in the special MESS 2020 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS + Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy + Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy ** SHORT TALK & POSTER PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Mini-Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*. ** WORKSHOP CHAIRS + Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy + Paola Festa, University of Naples ?Federico II?, Italy + Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham, UK *See Previous Edition - MESS 2018* https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2018/ ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ -- mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school

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Paper Deadline Approaching: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Dear All: The deadline is approaching for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20). See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/ . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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Call for Posters and Demos - ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020
by flin＠zju.edu.cn 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

======================================================================== Call for Posters and Demos ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020 https://conferences.computer.org/iotDI/2020/ Sydney, Australia April 21-24, 2020 ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Jan 24th 2020 (AoE) * Notification: Feb 7th 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 16th 2020 (AoE) SCOPE The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2020 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. MADNESS SESSION IoTDI’20 and IPSN’20 will co-host a 1-minute madness session, during which the author of each accepted poster or demo has EXACTLY one minute to introduce their work at the main conference venue. Based on the feedback from past years' attendees, the 1-minute madness session is perceived as lively and interesting, and is typically very well attended. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2020, we will use IEEE templates as linked above using the 10-point type. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Abstract submission site: https://iotdi2020pd.hotcrp.com/ ORGANIZERS General Chairs * Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) * Prashant Shenoy (UMASS, Amherst, USA) Poster & Demo Chairs * Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University, USA) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publicity Chairs * Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA) * Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) * Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, China) Post & Demo Program Committee Members * Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University * Jayson Boubin, The Ohio State University * Yiran Shen, CSIRO * Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology Sydney * Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult * Yunfei Hou, California State University at San Bernardino * Zhenyu Yan, Nanyang Technological University * Dhrubojyoti Roy, The Ohio State University * Salma Elmalaki, University of California Irvine * Fatima M. Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Shuochao Yao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Best Regards, Feng Lin flin(a)zju.edu.cn

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Call for Posters: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing
by Valeria Cardellini 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

========================================================================= ICFC 2020: Call For Posters 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) April 21-24, 2020 - Sydney, Australia https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/ Co-located with CPS-IoT Week (https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/) ========================================================================= Important Dates * Poster submission deadline: February 8, 2020 (AoE) * Notification: February 17, 2020 * Conference: April 21-24, 2020 Scope --------- The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020), colocated with the CPS-IoT Week 2020 in Sydney, April 21-24, 2020, welcomes posters that articulate research challenges, work in progress, and application showcases of fog computing. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * System architecture for fog computing * Coordination between cloud, fog, and sensing/actuation endpoints * Connectivity, storage, and computation in the edge * Data processing and management for fog computing * Efficient and embedded AI in the fog * System and network manageability * Middleware and coordination platforms * Power, energy, and resource management * Device and hardware support for fog computing * Programming models, abstractions, and software engineering for fog computing * Security, privacy, and ethics issues related to fog computing * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for fog computing systems * Applications and practical experiences Poster Guidelines and Submission ---------------------------------------------- Poster papers are limited to 2 pages, and the title must start with "Poster:". Submitted poster papers must be PDF files in IEEE two column format. Please refer to IEEE proceedings templates (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for templates and complete formatting instructions. Submissions do not have to be blind, i.e., by omitting author names or affiliations. Poster papers should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfc2020. The poster paper will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted poster papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register and present the poster at the conference. Please visit ICFC website at https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/call-for-posters for more information. Organization ----------------- General Chairs: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Workshop and Poster Chair: David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publicity Chairs: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy Please contact the Poster Chair for any questions/clarifications.

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CFP: 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS'20)
by Pankaj Pandey 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS 2020) in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'20 Taipei, Taiwan -- June 1st, 2020 https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/ ================================================================================ Overview --------- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Attack detection for CPS * Authentication and access control for CPS * Availability of and auditing for CPS * Blockchain for CPS security * Data security and privacy for CPS * Digital twins for CPS * Embedded systems security * Formal methods in CPS * Industrial control systems security * IoT security * Lightweight crypto * Recovery of CPS from cyber attacks * Security risk assessment for CPS * Security architectures for CPS * Security by design for CPS * Security of autonomous vehicles and vessels * Security of legacy CPS * Smart grid security * Threat modeling for CPS * Security of transportation systems * Vulnerability analysis for CPS Important Dates ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: February 10, 2020 * Notification to authors: March 5, 2020 * Camera ready due: March 15, 2020 Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers describing 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 each paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A best paper award will be presented getting opportunities for a registration fee discount. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss20 Organisation Committee ----------------------- Steering Committee: * Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) * Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) * Douglas Jones (UIUC, USA) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) – Chair Program Committee Chairs: * Sokratis Katsikas (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus; and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) * Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Program Committee: - Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (SUTD, Singapore) - Alvaro Cardenas (UC Santa Cruz, USA) - Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) - Afonso Ferreira (CNRS, France) - Yanick Fratantonio (EURECOM, France) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Vasileios Gkioulos (NTNU, Norway) - Eunsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Huy Kang Kim (Korea University, Korea) - Kandasamy Nandha Kumar (SUTD, Singapore) - Qi Li (Tsinghua University, China) - Hoon Wei Lim (SingTel, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Bo Luo (University of Kansas, USA) - Emil Lupu (Imperial College, UK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Daisuke Mashima (ADSC, Singapore) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University, Sweden) - Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) - Günther Pernul (Universität Regensburg, Germany) - Indraskhi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) - Justin Ruths (UT Dallas, USA) - Savio Sciancalepore (HBKU-CSE, Qatar) - Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) - Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) - Zheng Yang (SUTD, Singapore) - Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Publicity Chair: * Pankaj Pandey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) Publication Chair: * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Contact ------- Email: cpss20(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: https://nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/

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CFP: IEEE ISORC 2020 - Deadline extended to Friday, Jan 24th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times -- feel free to forward to potentially interested colleagues] Dear researcher/colleague, please, consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the /23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ (ISORC) conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), on May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. *IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 _/Main Track Papers Submission Deadline extended to: Friday, Jan 24th 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)/_ ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process introducing /double-blind submissions/ and a /rebuttal/ phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. /Best Paper//and //Student Paper Awards/ will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a /Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)/. IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * /Software architectures/ for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * /Distributed computing and communication infrastructures/: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * /Algorithms for real-time analytics/: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * /System software/: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * /Applications/: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * /System evaluation/: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Proceedings Chair * Yogesh Barve, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA *IMPORTANT DATES* Main Track * *Submission deadline (extended): January 24, 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)* * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers/ -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium Call for Paper
by Jialie Shen 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval July 25-30, 2020 (Xi'an, China); DC on July 26 https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are: * To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and discuss their research with experienced IR researchers: the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. * To provide students with an opportunity to establish a supportive community, including other doctoral students at a similar stage of their dissertation research. The Consortium will take place the day before the main conference (on Sunday, July 26th, 2020), with the format including: student presentations with plenary discussions, individual 1:1 meetings with experienced researchers, interactive networking sessions over lunch, and panel sessions with a special emphasis on gaining insights regarding career paths after the PhD. Prospective attendees should have written, or be close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent). It is desirable that students not be so close to completing their PhD that the event would have little impact on their work, or so early that a topic has not been chosen. Before submitting, students should discuss this criterion with their advisor or supervisor. To apply for a place at the Doctoral Consortium, candidates should submit a paper up to 5+1 pages in length, solely authored by the student - see submission guidelines below. Candidates will be selected based on the potential of their research for future impact on the field of information retrieval, as well as for the likely benefit to the student from participating in the Consortium. We note that SIGIR 2020 DC is deeply committed to improving the field of IR by making it more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We highly encourage women and students from other underrepresented groups to apply. For each selected student, a one page extended abstract will be published in the SIGIR 2020 Conference Proceedings. Extended abstracts will be invited after selection, and should not be submitted with the proposal. Doctoral students who submit to the Consortium are allowed to have previously published their research, and are encouraged to submit full, short, or demo papers of their work to the SIGIR 2020 conference and associated workshops. Priority is given to students chosen to attend the Consortium when travel grants are determined for the conference, and generally grants will be awarded to chosen students. Application details for travel grants will be available on the SIGIR 2020 website (You must apply for the grant to be considered). Submission Guidelines Papers should be submitted through easychair in the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2020 The submitted paper, solely authored by the student, will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium. To get the most out of the discussion, it should include: * Motivation for the proposed research. * Background and related work (including key references). * Description of proposed research, including main research questions. * Research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate). * Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, a one page appendix to the paper (placed after the references) must include the following: A detailed statement by the student explaining why they want to participate in the SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium at this point in their doctoral studies, and how they hope it will contribute to the development of their work and potential future career. A statement by the student’s advisor/supervisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the Consortium. Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate. Format Requirements Submissions must be written in English and submitted in the 2017 ACM Master Article Template (for LaTeX, use the “sigconf” option). The paper should be no more than 5 pages in length including all figures and references, but excluding the one page appendix. The first page must contain the title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details, an abstract of up to 250 words, ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) categories, and up to 3 keywords describing the topic areas. Information about categories and keywords can be found in ACM Web pages on the computing classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates. Doctoral Consortium papers will not be published in the SIGIR Conference Proceedings; only one-page extended abstracts, invited from accepted students will be published. Doctoral Consortium submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via Easychair SIGIR 2020 doctoral consortium site. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their submissions use no unusual format features and are printable on a standard printer. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. Important dates * Time zone : Anywhere On Earth (AOE) * Doctoral consortium papers due: March 1, 2020 * Doctoral consortium papers notification: April 22, 2020 * ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium: Sun, Jul 26, 2020 Doctoral Consortium Chairs Gabriella Kazai - Microsoft, UK Barbara Poblete - University of Chile, Chile Jerry Jialie Shen - Queen's University Belfast, UK Contact information: sigir2020dc(a)easychair.org For updates, please check: https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/

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DDSW2020 (Deadline Extended): International Workshop on Data-Driven Security
by DDSW 2020 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

*Dear Sir/Madam,* *[*** **Apologies if you received multiple emails for this call of paper * ****]* *Call for Paper* *International Workshop on Data-Driven Security (DDSW 2020)* *In conjunction with* *The 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)* *Warsaw, Poland April 6 - 9, 2020* * Deadline Extended: January 22, 2020 (Firm)* *http://www.just.edu.jo/~qmyaseen/ddsw2020/ddsw2020.html* <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> Data breaches are a daily occurrence, where adversaries attack consumers, corporations, and governments. Moreover, data breaches are growing tremendously due to the immense growth of the backbones of commerce and critical infrastructure, and interconnectivity of networks. The skills of adversaries are improving, and the number and severity of attacks are increasing, which make known security countermeasures suffer. While much research focuses on technical, business or compliance aspects, there is an increasing need for new security solutions to protect assists other than traditional approaches. This workshop focuses on new security techniques that use machine learning, data mining and statistics analytical techniques to solve nowadays security challenges. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Data Mining techniques for Security - Machine Learning for Security - Statistics for Security - Analysis of identified vulnerabilities - Analysis of successful attacks or attack attempts - Diverse aspects of security analytics - Tools for security analytics - Security analytics data *Submission of Papers* Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the DDSW workshop. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (electronically, PDF only) that are no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to the conference guidelines found at: http://csconferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/#paperSubmissions <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> . Please use the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ddsw2020 <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> to submit your paper. *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: January 22,2020 (Firm) - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo <qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo>*

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