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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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[ACM/IEEE IoTDI'20] Call for Posters and Demos - one week left before deadline
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 16 Jan '20

16 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 ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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ICCSA 2020: 2nd Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

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Fwd: Call for Book Chapter
by Sumit Kumar 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Dear Colleague, I hope this email finds you in the best of your health. It is indeed a matter of great pleasure to announce that I am in the process of co-editing a book with Elsevier, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I take this opportunity to invite you to submit a chapter proposal / Abstract for inclusion in this book and also forward the Call to a wider audience in your circle. There are no publication fees and the book title will be submitted to Scopus for indexing. Book Title: Web Semantics – Cutting Edge and Future Directions in Health Care Publisher: Elsevier Call for Chapter Abstract: 15th Jan 2020 Full Chapter Submission: 15th March 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ws2020 Your contribution will definitely make an excellent addition to this publication. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in <jasarika(a)gmail.com>. Hope to hear from you soon. Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India -- Sumit Dalal Scholar, NIT Kkr. Contact:- 9050894689

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CFP META'2020 @Marrakech
by El-ghazali Talbi 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, please distribute the CFP of META'2020 in your networks. Thanks for your collaboration. Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ********************************************************************** META'2020 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-31 Oct 2020 Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/ ********************************************************************** META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2020 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP) conference proceedings. At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also confirmed. META'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2020 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions. The scope of the META’2020 conference includes, but is not limited to: * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, … * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, bio-inspired algorithms, … * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, … * Quantum computing * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, … * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, … * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, … * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, … * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive) * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing Submission of papers: ____________________ - Submission of papers via the website S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages. S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages. S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work. - Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP). - Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/ - Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 30th March 2020, contact meta2020(a)sciencesconf.org Important dates _______________ - Submission deadline: April 24, 2020 - Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2020 -- *********************************************************************** META'2020 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 28-31 Oct 2020, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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CFP: IEEE ISORC 2020 - Papers due on Friday, Jan 17th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

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: Friday, Jan 17th/_ 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 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: January 17, 2020 * 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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CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020
by Qin Liu 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

******************************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 We appreciate your great help if you forward this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to your colleagues and friends. ******************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives Track (SPTI) of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020) ******************************************************************************************************************** Venue & Dates: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 3 - August 6, 2020 Conference Website: http://www.icccn.org/icccn20/index.html ******************************************************************************************************************** Introduction Recent advances in computer communications and networking techniques in technologies such as, Internet of Things, 5G, AI, etc., has resulted in emerging challenges in realizing security, privacy, trust and incentives. There is a need to develop protocols and systems that can preserve security and trust, without violating privacy and providing incentives to participate and collaborate. The 'Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives' (SPTI) track of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), welcomes submissions of original papers from researchers and practitioners working in the fields of security, privacy, and trusted systems as well as incentive mechanisms. The track seeks novel contributions on algorithm and system design, implementation, and evaluations. Track Topics of interest include but not limited to: -Anonymization and privacy -Blockchain based decentralized trust management -Cloud security -Computer and network forensics -Data and application security -Information hiding and watermarking -Incentives and game theory -IoT Security -Private information retrieval -Privacy-preserving trust management -Smart cards and secure hardware -Trust and reputation models -Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis Submission and Publication Information Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2020) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5×11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 9 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay extra charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 11 pages in total in IEEE format). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2020 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail addresses. Note: If a submission is not accepted as a regular paper, it may be accepted as a "short paper". All accepted papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The paper’s abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Important Dates Paper Submission Due: March 2nd, 2020 Acceptance Notification: April 27th, 2020 Camera-Ready Due: May 11th, 2020 TPC List: -Deepak Tosh, University of Texas at El Paso, USA -Uttam Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, USA -Amin Hassanzadeh, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Lei Ding, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Kaiqi Xiong, University of South Florida, USA -Sarada Prasad, Old Dominion University, USA -Mohammad Wazid, Mainpal Institute of Technology, India -Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA -Charles Kamhoua, Army Research Lab, USA -Kimberly Gold, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA -Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University, USA -Saad Bani-Mohammad, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan -Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore -Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy -Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy -Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia -Giovanni Livraga,University of Milan, Italy -Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg,Germany -Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan,Italy -Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain -Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan -Xin Liao, Hunan University, China -Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China -Xin Yao, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to: Qin Liu, Hunan University, China; gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University, USA; sshetty(a)odu.edu -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, ITALY
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Apologies for multiple copies] --- IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING (SMARTCOMP 2020) Bologna, Italy 22-25 June 2020 http://www.smart-comp.org Call for workshop proposals ------------------------------- Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, SMARTCOMP 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. The Workshops Committee of SMARTCOMP 2020 invites proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to SMARTCOMP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications and Smart Grid. Papers presented in the SMARTCOMP 2020 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include the following: * the name of the workshop; * the names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers; * a brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the workshop’s focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time; * the names of potential Program Committee members; * the planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees; * if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s); * if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees; * if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees; * a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible); * a description of the plans for publicity and Workshop Web site. Submission Method ------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than 23 November 2019, in PDF format by email with the subject line "SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Proposal" to the Workshop Chairs: Dario Bruneo (dbruneo(a)unime.it) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (eirini(a)unm.edu) Important Dates ------------------------------- Proposal for workshop submission deadline: 8 December 2019 Notification of workshop acceptance: 20 December 2020 Paper submission deadline: 6 April 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: 30 April 2020 Submission of camera-ready deadline: 15 May 2020 SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Chair Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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Call for Papers: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, Italy
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Apologies if you have received multiple copies [SMARTCOMP 2020]: Call for papers -------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020 Call for Papers 22-25 June 2020, Bologna, Italy http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier IEEE conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge cloud computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of edge cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2020 is the 6th edition of the conference and will be held in the historical city of Bologna, Italy, hosted by the University of Bologna, the holdest University of the western world. SMARTCOMP 2020 will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, edge cloud computing, sensor networks, IoT, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living. Submission Guidelines -------------------- Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that), through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26894) Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected high quality papers accepted in IEEE SmartComp 2020 will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2020 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest: SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND ALGORITHMS: ----------------------------------------------- Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Edge computing algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES: ------------------------ Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments Cloud/Edge/Fog computing technologies for Smart Systems Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT technologies for Smart Systems Smart Networking Technologies Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Smart Precision Agriculture Smart Transportation Smart FinTech Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis Smart Health Smart Communities Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities Smart Energy Management and Analytics Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy) Publicity Co-Chairs: Shameek Bhattacharjee (Western Michigan University, USA) Sanjay Purushotham (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China) Riccardo Venanzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Web Co-Chairs: Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy) Francesco Di Rienzo (University of Pisa, Italy) Workshop Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC (In Progress) --- Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Ana Aguiar (University of Porto, Portugal) Christine Bassem (Wellesley College, USA) Shuvra Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland, USA) Dario Bruneo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Alessandra De Paola (University of Palermo, Italy) Pranita Dewan (IBM, USA) Sujit Dey (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ashutosh Dhekne (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jonathan Fink (Portland State University, USA) Angelo Furno (IFSTTAR, ENTPE, Université de Lyon, France) Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA) Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA) Hassan Ghasemzadeh (Washington State University, USA) Jason Hallstrom (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Salil Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Fanxin Kong (Syracuse University, USA) Ulf Kulau (DSI Aerospace Technology, Germany) Francesco Longo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Sudip Mittal (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Marco Morana (University of Palermo, Italy) Abhishek Mukherji (Cisco Systems Inc., USA) Paolo Nesi (DSI, University of Florence, Italy) Biplab Pal (MachineSense, USA) Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Kyung-Joon Park (DGIST, Korea) Lucas Pereira (M-ITI / LARSyS, Portugal) Dirk Pesch (University College Cork, Ireland) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Carlo Puliafito (University of Florence, Italy) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Maryam Rahnemoonfar (University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Reinhardt (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Nirupam Roy (UMD College Park, USA) Vijay Shah (Virginia Tech, USA) Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA) Neeraj Suri (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA) Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy) Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Desheng Zhang (Rutgers University, USA) Eugenio Zimeo (University of Sannio, Italy) Nilavra Pathak (Expedia Group, Seattle, USA) Amrita Anam (Amazon, USA) Jorge Ortiz (The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA) Archan Misra (Singapore Management University) Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island, USA) Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA) Jiaqi Gong (UMBC, USA) Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, Ohio, USA) H M Sajjad Hossain (Microsoft AI, Cambridge MA, USA) Daniele Riboni (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudio Cicconetti (CNT-IIT, Pisa) Important Dates --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: 17 January 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: 24 January 2020 Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2020 Camera Ready Deadline: 30 April 2020 Venue ----- The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2020) will be held in Bologna, Italy. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy or Carlo Vallati. Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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CFP The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020)
by Henry Q 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020) June 6-8, Zhengzhou, China http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartblock/2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: *January 15th, 2020* Author notification: April 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: April 15th, 2020 Registration: April 15th, 2020 Conference date: June 6th-8th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*Recent rapid development of blockchain has attracted a giant attention by both academia and the industry. Migrating a centralized computing to decentralized computing seems to be a main stream to establish a trust and secure storage and trading environment. However, it is actually too early to make a solid statement about the adoption of blockchain technology, since there are many unsolved problems in the field. The success of blockchain technique in Bitcoin does not mean the technique can be successfully deployed in all domains. This international conference aims to gather most updated papers in the field of blockchain and provides a platform for both scholars and practitioners. The scope of SmartBlock conference involves a broad range related to blockchain realms, from privacy-preserving solutions to designing advanced blockchain mechanism, from empirical studies to practical manuuals. All high quality updated work is highly welcomed. smartblock 2020 will be held in Zhengzhou, Henan, China and its conference proceedings publisher is Springer. - - Blockchain theory - 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 - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Permissioned and permissionless blockchains - Privacy and anonymity-enhancing techniques in blockchain - Security, privacy and trust of blockchain - Blockchain performance optimization - Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impacts in blockchain - Lightweight protocols and algorithms of blockchain - Forensics and monitoring in blockchain - Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data - Blockchain based IoT security and privacy - Blockchain in cyber physical systems - Attacks on blockchain based systems - Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing - Fraud detection and financial crime prevention in blockchain - Trust management in blockchain - Smart Blockchain and token economy - Smart Blockchain and applications - Smart Blockchain and digital economy

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Springer(LNCS)-11th Int.Symposium on Software Quality@University of Cagliari, Italy.
by Sanjay Misra 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

ISSQ 2020 : 11th International Symposium on Software Quality[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sq.covenantuniversity.edu.ng When Jul 1, 2020 - Jul 4, 2020 Where Cagliari Submission Deadline Feb 29, 2020 Notification Due Apr 15, 2020 Final Version Due May 8, 2020 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software quality assurance <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20assurance> quality standards <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20standards> quality models <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20models> quality practics <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20practics> Call For Papers ISSQ 2020: Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality(Springer-LNCS) in conjunction with ICCSA 2020 (The accepted papers of ISSQ 2020 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and extended version of all papers will be invited to publish in several International Journals- All Web of Science/SCOPUS Indexed Journals,A special issue of a SCIE Journal(Information Technology and Control-Impact Factor-0.800) is also confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2020). Following the grand success of SQ 2019 (in Saint Petersburg, Italy), SQ 2018 (in Melbourne, Australia), SQ 2017 (in Trieste, Italy), SQ 2016 (in Beijing, China), SQ 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SQ 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SQ 2013 (in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), SQ 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SQ 2011 in conjunction with ICCSA 2011 (in Santander, Spain), and SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 (in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus), the Eleventh International Workshop on "Software Quality SQ" (SQ 2020) will be held in conjunction with the 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020) on July 1-4, 2020, in collaboration with University of Cagliari, Italy. Submission deadline: February 29, 2020 About the Workshop and Topics This symposium extends the discussion of software quality issues in modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of the process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving quality objectives. It includes a quality management process, the role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, the role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations. Topics include (related to quality issues in software, software applications in any related area-cloud, agile, IoT, Big data, smart applications) but not limited to: 1. Software development fundamentals, 2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum, 3. Software requirements techniques, 4. Software testing & QA fundamentals, 5. Software testing models and approaches, 6. Software testing tools and frameworks, 7. Software test design, 8. Types of software maintenance, 9. Software maintenance process models, 10. Software maintenance standards, 11. Software maintenance tools 12. Software Reviews (SR) 13. Software Metrics (SM) 14. Software Process Assessment (SPA) 15. Software Process Improvement (SPI) 16. Software Standardization and Certification ISSQ: 2020 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to ISSQ 2020 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings (after registration) and presented orally at the conference. Publication All contributions will be peer-reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2020 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all SCIE/Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal*. *A special issue of an SCIE Journal- Information Technology And Control(IF 0.800) is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2020). Submission Please submit your paper through the ICCSA 2020 conference website. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please check the track of your submission "12th International Symposium on Software Quality (ISSQ 2020)" Important Dates Feb 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission 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:SEPA 2020@ ICCSA 2020 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering, Covenant University Contact: ssopam(a)gmail.com Programme Committee Chair Dr. Luis Fernandez Department of Computer Science University De Alcala, Spain International Programme Committee Members Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Spain Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Robertas Damasevicius Kaunas University of Technology Antonio de Amescua Seco, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey P. Debba, CSIR, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia, UNICEN University, Argentina Osman Abul, PhD, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) - Brazil -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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IHPCES 2020 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to February 7)
by Dominik Bartuschat 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** Tenth International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2020) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2020/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2020, the 10th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2020 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from June 3-5, 2020. 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 do not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2020, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: February 7, 2020 Paper Submission Due (final extension) March 12, 2020 Author Notification April 2, 2020 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2020 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: Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, 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 2020. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2020 co-chairs

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020)
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

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

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ICCSA 2020: COA Workshop
by Ana Rocha 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 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 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 ================ February 15, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA 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 COA 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 =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt) Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Centro ALGORITMI (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt) Economics Faculty (University of Coimbra), 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 2020 organizers)

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CFP: The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020
by Amro NAJJAR 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020 --------------- http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=97474&copyownerid=… The Humanities and the Rise of AI Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science (University of Luxembourg) We invite paper presentations of 20 minutes in one of our 4 sections (see below): Submission deadline for abstracts (up to 2 pages) January 31, 2020 - please send to: cfp(a)endsofthehumanities.com<mailto:cfp@endsofthehumanities.com> Travel grants for early career researchers are available. For further information, please visit http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/travel-grants/ Digitization and the rise of artificial intelligence forecast radical change on all aspects of human practice, especially given the ever-improving abilities of algorithms in tasks like pattern recognition and their practical application. Powerful technology arises from AI research, opening the gate for various forms of cultural and societal engineering, i.e., a reshaping of culture and society by dint of algorithmic models and ‘intelligent’ applications. Although the development of artificial intelligence is still in its beginnings, it has already triggered an enormous rush of utopian and dystopian thinking. While some dream of immortality and the vanquishing of poverty, disease, and warfare, others foresee a grim future for those parts of humanity that will find themselves outpaced by technology. Potential consequences of the changes imposed by technological advancement on human practice reach from the level of the individual, through cultural techniques, to the organization of society as a whole, raising fundamental questions which we will address in the four sections of the conference resp. special events. Special events are planned by the AI-team around the topics "Social robotics" and "A technological roadmap for AI after 2050". We consider a special issue of a high-ranked journal for extended versions of high-quality computer-science-oriented contributions. More information will be provided in the coming months. Invited speakers include, among others: -------------------------------------- - Armin Grunwald (Head of Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, KIT, Karlsruhe ) - Koen V. Hindriks (Prof. Artificial intelligence, VU Amsterdam, focusing on Social Robotics, Co-Founder "Interactive Robotics") - Lyse Langlois (Scientific director of the International Observatory of the Societal Impact of AI and Digitization, Université Laval) Luís Moniz Pereira (Prof. emeritus of Computer Science at the New university of Lisbon, author of several books on Machine Ethics) - Giuseppe Longo (Prof. emeritus, Centre Cavaillès, CNRS, Collège de France & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) - Jan Broersen (Professor of logical methods in AI, University of Utrecht, ERC on Responsible Intelligent Systems 2013-18) - Raja Chatila (Sorbonne, Paris, Professor and director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics) - Marija Slavkovik (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway, Advisory group on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues of CLAIRE) Conference sections: -------------------- • Section I – Mind and Consciousness: How does artificial intelligence impact our understanding of the human mind, especially in relation to the role of its computational equivalents that reach more and more aspects of everyday life (e.g., chatbots, driverless mobility, risk assessment software in the banking and insurance sector)? • Section II – Learning and Inventing What are the consequences of digitization and machine learning algorithms for education and our understanding of learning and creativity (e.g., in schooling through adaptive tutors, but also against the background of our current notion of creativity as a unique human ability)? • Section III – Reading and Data Modeling How will the increasing use of computational methodology change the ways we relate to the past and envision the future (e.g., by reading), both in academia and in society? How can the enrichment of algorithmic models with methods and results from the humanities shape and improve computational assessment of human practice (e.g., data mining of big text corpora, automated translation, racial bias in neural networks)? • Section IV – Complexity and Control: How does the use of artificial intelligence in all domains of human practice influence how we deal with complexity (e.g., of society) and human control thereof? Can computational methods help to reduce, organize, and analyze cultural complexity, or do they pose a threat to human control over different aspects of the lifeworld (e.g., security and network technology, automation of industrial production, autonomous weaponry)? Against the background of such questions, the conference aims to foster an open and critical reflection on the consequences of cultural and societal engineering. The conference investigates not only opportunities and shortcomings of AI research, but also implications and potential structural effects of technological innovation for the organization of societal practice (e.g., work) and techniques of cultural self-reflection (e.g., history). It will not only ask what technologies can do (or will be able to do in the future), but also how these capabilities can be compared and related to their human equivalents, e.g., perception, cognition, and communication. The original general CfP can be found at http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CfP-Humanities… Dr. Amro Najjar AI RoboLab FSTC / CSC UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG CAMPUS BELVAL 6, avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette T (+352) 46 66 44 5473 amro.najjar(a)uni.lu<mailto:amro.najjar@uni.lu> / www.uni.lu<http://www.uni.lu>

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CFP - IEEE INFOCOM: The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20)
by Peter Mueller 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 optimizations. 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 Paper Submission: Jan. 20th, 2020 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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Advanced Transport Tools and Methods at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 1st call
by Massimiliano Petri 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '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): Sustainable Mobility, Innovation in Mobility, MaaS-Mobility as a Service, Transport Modelling Methods and Techniques, BigData in Transport, Logistic and Freight Transport, Transport Planning IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 29, 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 and Antonio Pratelli (A2TM 2020 organizers)

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

08 Jan '20

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

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

08 Jan '20

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

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

02 Jan '20

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

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

02 Jan '20

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

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

19 Dec '19

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

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

19 Dec '19

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

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

19 Dec '19

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

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

19 Dec '19

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

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

18 Dec '19

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

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

15 Dec '19

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

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[simu-conf] EXTENDED DEADLINE + JOURNAL OPPORTUNITY. Theory and Foundations of Modeling & Simulation (TMS) - George Mason University, VA, USA – May 2020
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

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

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Final CFP: CCGrid 2020, Melbourne, Australia (Extended Deadline December 17th, 2019)
by Bahman Javadi 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ Deadline Note: We will let authors to submit/update their papers in EasyChair up to December 17th, 2019 (any timezone in the world). So, please create account and submit/update your paper's current version to take advantage of this. ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 17 December 2019 ***see note below** Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 Note: Deadline Note: We will let authors to submit/update their papers in EasyChair up to December 17th, 2019 (any timezone in the world). So, please create account and submit/update your paper's current version to take advantage of this. =====================================================================

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Last call for join to CVML live Web lecture series: Web lecture 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision', 14th December 2019, 11:00 EET
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear Computer vision/machine learning, students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, AUTH is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Top scientists internationally will deliver these lectures, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge on various CVML topics. The 1-hour lectures will take place on Saturdays, to avoid conflicts with other intended registrant schedules/duties: a) Saturdays 11:00 EET (17:00 Beijing time) and b) Saturdays 20:00 EET (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Each lecture will be announced at least 1 week in advance in various relevant email lists and in the www page: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ 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. The first web lecture on 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision' by Professor Ioannis Pitas (see attached abstract and CV), will take place on 14th December 2019, 13:00 EET only. Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Fast convolution algorithms for computer vision and machine learning 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, 1D/2D/3D convolution 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^2), O(N^4) and O(N^6) respectively their fast execution is a must. This lecture will overview 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. Finally, optimal Winograd 1D and 2D convolution algorithms will be presented having theoretically minimal number of computations. Emphasis will be on 1D convolution algorithms, as there will be another lecture on 2D convolution algorithms soon. Prof. I. Pitas was lucky to have done his PhD degree on fast convolution algorithms more than 30 years ago. Now this topic re-emerged as key technology for deep learning and computer vision, primarily to address fast CNN training and inference, thanks to advances primarily in GPU programming, but also in multicore CPU programming. 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 leads the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. 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>

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Post-doctoral Position in Cyber Security - H2020 FORESIGHT
by Xavier Bellekens 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear All, ** Sorry for cross posting ** We have a position for a post-doctoral Research Associate opened at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Communications. The position is part of the Horizon 2020 FORESIGHT project addressing the creation of a federated cyber-range platform for simulation and training of critical infrastructure operators (Naval, Avionics, Power) against complex cyber-attacks. We invite highly skilled, enthusiastic and ambitious researchers with a background in cyber-security, machine learning to apply ! The closing date for applications is the 13th of January 2020. https://academicpositions.co.uk/ad/university-of-strathclyde/2019/research-… Feel free to share with anyone that might be interested or to contact me at xavier.bellekens [at] strath.ac.uk<http://strath.ac.uk> for further information on the role. Kind Regards, Xavier — Dr Xavier Bellekens Lecturer - Chancellor’s Fellow Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University Of Strathclyde, Royal College Building 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW Scotland Mobile: +44 (0) 7548 71 7049 email : xavier.bellekens(a)strath.ac.uk Special Issue : MDPI Information Special Issue on Machine Learning for Cyber Security http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/ML_Cybersecurity

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Jan 2020 Issue of IJHCITP(Web of Science & SCOPUS Indexed)
by Sanjay Misra 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) Editor-in-Chief: Sanjay Misra <https://www.igi-global.com/affiliate/sanjay-misra/346944/> (Covenant University, Nigeria) Indexed In: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, INSPEC and 9 more indices <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> Published: Quarterly |Established: 2010 ISSN: 1947-3478|EISSN: 1947-3486|DOI: 10.4018/IJHCITP Description The *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* focuses on the IT field from the outlook of industry professionals and covers multidisciplinary themes such as human resource management, sociology, psychology, and management along with technology itself. Representing IT professionalism from the human capital point of view, the journal publishes original research papers, research notes, reviews, and cases on all aspects of IT professionalism, technology-related careers, personnel empowerment, organizational management and cutting edge technologies affecting IT practitioners. This journal emphasizes articles linking theory with application or critically analyzing cases with the objective of identifying good practice in the management of IT human capital. Topics Covered - Competence management within the IT profession - Ethics, as well as professional and social responsibilities of IT professionals - Human capital within the IT industry - Human resource management in the IT sector - IT careers - IT personnel in new production environments (software factories, offshoring, and nearshoring) - IT profession - IT professional associations - IT professionalism - IT professionals assessment methods - IT professionals roles - IT professionals under the scope of IT governance - Licensing and certifying of IT professionals - Mentoring, coaching, and counseling of IT professionals - Personnel issues in IT standards, models, and frameworks - Recruiting, staffing, retaining, and rewarding IT professionals Mission and ScopeThe mission of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* is to offer an outlook on the state of the IT profession from the perspective of economic value based on labor performance. Providing a forum for the exchange of research ideas and practices, this journal is a reference convergence point for professionals, managers, and researchers in the IT field. Table of Contents and List of Contributors Search this Journal: Reset Open Access Articles Volume 11: 4 Issues (2020): 1 Released, 3 Forthcoming Volume 11, Issue 1 Article 1 Employer Branding Practices Amongst the Most Attractive Employers of IT and Engineering Sector <https://www.igi-global.com/article/employer-branding-practices-amongst-the-…> (pages 1-16) Lea Gregorka, Susana Silva, Cândida Silva Employer branding is a marketing strategy that helps employers stay competitive in their markets. Although it is a concept used for over 20 years, its process and co...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239591&ptid=227328&t=Emp…> $37.50 This item has been added to your shopping cart. Check out <https://www.igi-global.com/shopping-cart/> | Continue Shopping Article 2 Fuzzy Driven Decision Support System for Enhanced Employee Performance Appraisal <https://www.igi-global.com/article/fuzzy-driven-decision-support-system-for…> (pages 17-30) Oluwasefunmi 'Tale Arogundade, Bolanle Ojokoh, Mojisola Grace Asogbon, Oluwarotimi Williams Samuel, Babatope Sunday Adeniyi Employee performance appraisal is often considered a core management task in most standard organizations because it could potentially inspire an employee towards the...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239592&ptid=227328&t=Fuz…> $37.50 Article 3 Information Technology Governance in a Higher Education Institution: An IT Professionals' Perception Analysis <https://www.igi-global.com/article/information-technology-governance-in-a-h…> (pages 31-46) Rodrigo Franklin Frogeri, Daniel Jardim Pardini, Gustavo Rodrigues Cunha This study characterizes and analyzes information technology governance in a Brazilian institution of higher education. The methodological aspects included the quant...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239593&ptid=227328&t=Inf…> $37.50 Article 4 Investigating the Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing on Employee Engagement: Evidence from a Developing Nation <https://www.igi-global.com/article/investigating-the-mediating-role-of-know…> (pages 47-63) Ibrahim M. Al-Jabri This article proposes a research model that explores the social factors affecting knowledge sharing and employee engagement and examines the mediating role of knowle...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239594&ptid=227328&t=Inv…> $37.50 Article 5 IT-Governance Framework Considering Service Quality and Information Security in Banks in India <https://www.igi-global.com/article/it-governance-framework-considering-serv…> (pages 64-91) Ranjit Singh, Bhartrihari Pandiya, Chandra Kant Upadhyay, Manas K Singh This study proposes an IT-Governance framework for the Indian Banking Industry. This research explores the factors predicting customer loyalty in retail banking. The...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239595&ptid=227328&t=IT-…> $37.50

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[Journals] Call For Papers- Journal of Real Time Image Processing
by Pourya Shamsolmoali 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Special Issue on Advances in Deep Learning for Real-Time Image and Video Reconstruction and Processing (ADLIR) Journal of Real-Time Image Processing This Special Issue opens to innovative ideas, the latest research and development of deep learning for real-time image and video processing. Papers on the design of new computational tools and methods for real-time image and video reconstruction and processing are welcome. Hence, the target of this special issue is to provide a forum for researchers to focus on computational methods for real-time image reconstruction and processing. To do this, we invite papers (including survey papers) in modeling, algorithm, software optimization, and application of deep learning-based real-time image processing to establish the latest efforts of relevant researchers. [ https://www.springer.com/journal/11554/updates/17230436 | https://www.springer.com/journal/11554/updates/17230436 ] The list of possible topics, but are not limited to: * Real-time image and video reconstruction algorithms * Real-time face reconstruction from depth images * New deep learning models for real-time image reconstruction and processing * New objective functions of deep learning for real-time image reconstruction * Real-time MRI and X-ray image processing * Real-time 3D image reconstruction, processing or segmentation * Deep learning and hybrid models for real-time computational methods * Optimization algorithms for real-time image and video reconstruction and processing * Survey /review of deep learning in real-time image reconstruction and processing Submission Guideline: 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 three independent reviewers (the papers will be reviewed following standard peer-review procedures of the Journal). Manuscripts are requested according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP) at [ https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx | https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx ] . We invite prospective authors to submit their manuscript, via the online submission system on the main journal page. Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue (ADLIR). Important Dates: * Paper submission due: March 31, 2020 * First notification: May 31, 2020 * Revision submission due: July 15, 2020 * Final decision: September 30, 2020 * Publication date: October 2020 (Tentative) Note: accepted papers are made available online soon after acceptance.

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CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020
by Qin Liu 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

******************************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 We appreciate your great help if you forward this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to your colleagues and friends. ******************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives Track (SPTI) of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020) Venue & Dates: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 3 - August 6, 2020 Conference Website: http://www.icccn.org/icccn20/index.html Introduction Recent advances in computer communications and networking techniques in technologies such as, Internet of Things, 5G, AI, etc., has resulted in emerging challenges in realizing security, privacy, trust and incentives. There is a need to develop protocols and systems that can preserve security and trust, without violating privacy and providing incentives to participate and collaborate. The 'Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives' (SPTI) track of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), welcomes submissions of original papers from researchers and practitioners working in the fields of security, privacy, and trusted systems as well as incentive mechanisms. The track seeks novel contributions on algorithm and system design, implementation, and evaluations. Track Topics of interest include but not limited to: -Anonymization and privacy -Blockchain based decentralized trust management -Cloud security -Computer and network forensics -Data and application security -Information hiding and watermarking -Incentives and game theory -IoT Security -Private information retrieval -Privacy-preserving trust management -Smart cards and secure hardware -Trust and reputation models -Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis Submission and Publication Information Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2020) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5×11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 9 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay extra charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 11 pages in total in IEEE format). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2020 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail addresses. Note: If a submission is not accepted as a regular paper, it may be accepted as a "short paper". All accepted papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The paper’s abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Important Dates Paper Submission Due: March 2nd, 2020 Acceptance Notification: April 27th, 2020 Camera-Ready Due: May 11th, 2020 TPC List: -Deepak Tosh, University of Texas at El Paso, USA -Uttam Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, USA -Amin Hassanzadeh, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Lei Ding, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Kaiqi Xiong, University of South Florida, USA -Sarada Prasad, Old Dominion University, USA -Mohammad Wazid, Mainpal Institute of Technology, India -Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA -Charles Kamhoua, Army Research Lab, USA -Kimberly Gold, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA -Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University, USA -Saad Bani-Mohammad, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan -Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore -Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy -Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy -Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia -Giovanni Livraga,University of Milan, Italy -Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg,Germany -Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan,Italy -Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain -Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan -Xin Liao, Hunan University, China -Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China -Xin Yao, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to: Qin Liu, Hunan University, China; gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University, USA; sshetty(a)odu.edu -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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Final CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ Deadline Note: We will let authors to update their papers in EasyChair up to one week after the submission deadline, i.e., up to December 17th, 2019. So, please create account and submit your current version to take advantage of this. ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 ***see note below** Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 Note: We will let authors to update their papers in EasyChair up to one week after the submission deadline, i.e., up to December 17th, 2019. (Time zone: anywhere in the world)! =====================================================================

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Data-Driven Security Workshop (DDSW 2020)
by DDSW 2020 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

*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* *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 15,2020 - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: DDSW2020(a)gmail.com <DDSW2020(a)gmail.com>*

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HPCES 2020 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to January 6)
by Dominik Bartuschat 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** Tenth International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2020) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2020/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2020, the 10th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2020 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from June 3-5, 2020. 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 do not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2020, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: January 6, 2020 Paper Submission Due February 14, 2020 Author Notification March 6, 2020 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2020 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 Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia 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 2020. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2020 co-chairs

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CFP: The 2nd Int. Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain
by Deep-BDB 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------- The 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DEEP-BDB 2020) 24-26 August 2020, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/deep-bdb/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deep and machine learning are the state-of-the-art at providing models, methods, tools and techniques for developing autonomous and intelligent systems which can revolutionize industrial and commercial applications in various fields such as online commerce, intelligent transportation, healthcare and medicine, security, manufacturing, education, games, and various other industrial applications. All such fields produce and consume massive amount of big data, which include, for example, online commerce data (marketing data, customer reviews, customer relationship), transportation data (road sensors, cameras, GPS), and data about healthcare, social media, and various other applications. Deep learning techniques and big data techniques yield useful outputs in predicting, discovering and acquiring insights and deeper knowledge about events for better and efficient decision making. The groundbreaking technology of blockchain technology also enable decentralization, immutability, and transparency of data and applications. It has been exploited in modern research and industrial domains in order to achieve high level of trust, security and reliable execution of applications and data which are shared across a network of computers. The International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockcain (DEEP-BDB) aims to enable synergy between these areas and to provide a leading forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, and professional from public sectors and industries in order to meet and share latest solutions and ideas in solving cutting edge problems in modern information society and economy. The conference focuses on specific challenges in deep (and machine) learning, big data and blockchain. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Deep/Machine learning based models - Statistical models and learning - Data analysis, insights and hidden pattern - Data analysis and decision making - Data wrangling, munching and cleaning - Data integration and fusion - Data visualization - Data and information quality - Security threat detection - Visualizing security threats - Enhancing privacy and trust - Data mining; Information extraction; - Sentiment analysis - Data classification and clustering - Knowledge acquisition and learning - Clustering, classification and regression - Supervised and unsupervised learning - Blockain security and trust - Blockchain data management - Data & application reliability - Blockchain and data distribution - Blockain and finacial transactions - Blockchain and Bitcoin applications - Blockain and NoSQL databases - Protocols for blockchain - Cryptography, Cryptocurrency - Fraud detection and prevention - Blockchain and Internet of Things - Scalability of blockchains Application areas: - Finance, business and retail - Intelligent transportation - Healthcare and clinical decision support - Bioinformatics and biomedical informatics - Computer vision - Human activity recognition - Cybersecurity - Natural language processing - Recommender systems - Social media and networks Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 12 March 2020 Authors Notification: 20 May 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2020 Paper Submission: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 4-6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by Conference Publishing Service (CPS). Submition of papers are done through the EasyChair submission system. See conference website for further details.

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CFP: The 8th Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2020)
by FiCloud Conference 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

----------------------Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------ The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2020) 24-26 August 2020, Rome, Itlay http://www.ficloud.org/2020/ Technical co-sponsorship: IEEE-CS TCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cloud is a modern computing platform for delivering on-demand computing services to service consumers over the Internet. Computing services include, for example, storage, memory, compute power, databases, and networking among others. Cloud services are generally provided using SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Unlike conventional distributed computing, cloud offers flexibility, scalability, efficiency and elasticity in service provisioning. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: 1. Cloud Services Models 2. Security, Privacy and Trust 3. Software Systems, Models and Architectures 4. Blockchain in Cloud and IoT 5. Data and Knowledge Management 6. Context-aware Systems 7. Software-defined Networking 8. Performance Evaluation and Modelling 9. Networking and Communication Protocols 10. IoT Services and Applications 11. Smart Environment 12. Machine learning in Cloud and IoT 13. Energy Efficiency 14. Federation and Virtualization 15. Fog and Edge Computing 16. Industry Track 17. General Track – Future IoT and Cloud Computing Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 12 March 2020 Authors Notification: 20 May 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2020 Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2020/) All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see conference website).

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Open positions (PostDoc and MSc/PhD) on Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Web in France
by Ciortea, Andrei 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Dear all, We have two open positions on Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Web, and Linked Data: Post-Doctoral researcher on architectural styles and ontologies for Hypermedia Multi-agent Systems: https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2019-02101 Internship proposal for master students at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (can be converted in a Doctoral Position): https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/jobs/M2_HyperAgents_2020.html Kind regards, Andrei Ciortea

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CVML live Web lecture series: Web lecture 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision', 14th December 2019, 11:00 EET
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dear Computer vision/machine learning, students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, AUTH is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Top scientists internationally will deliver these lectures, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge on various CVML topics. The 1-hour lectures will take place on Saturdays, to avoid conflicts with other intended registrant schedules/duties: a) Saturdays 11:00 EET (17:00 Beijing time) and b) Saturdays 20:00 EET (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Each lecture will be announced at least 1 week in advance in various relevant email lists and in the www page: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ 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. The first web lecture on 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision' by Professor Ioannis Pitas (see attached abstract and CV), will take place on 14th December 2019, 13:00 EET only. Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Fast convolution algorithms for computer vision and machine learning 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, 1D/2D/3D convolution 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^2), O(N^4) and O(N^6) respectively their fast execution is a must. This lecture will overview 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. Finally, optimal Winograd 1D and 2D convolution algorithms will be presented having theoretically minimal number of computations. Emphasis will be on 1D convolution algorithms, as there will be another lecture on 2D convolution algorithms soon. Prof. I. Pitas was lucky to have done his PhD degree on fast convolution algorithms more than 30 years ago. Now this topic re-emerged as key technology for deep learning and computer vision, primarily to address fast CNN training and inference, thanks to advances primarily in GPU programming, but also in multicore CPU programming. 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 leads the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. 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>

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[Extended Deadline] Call for Papers Special issue on Granular Computing [Algorithms, MDPI]
by Alessio Martino 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dearest Colleagues, I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Editor for a Special Issue titled: "Granular Computing: From Foundations to Applications" to appear in “Algorithms” MDPI journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing> 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 manuscript submissions has been extended: 31 March 2020. 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. “Algorithms” (ISSN 1999-4893) is an EI, Scopus and ESCI indexed, Open Access journal of computer science, theory, methods and interdisciplinary applications, data and information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, automation and control systems, and is published online monthly by MDPI. Best Regards --- <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C17PBN> Alessio Martino / PhD Research Fellow alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) - University of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C4HZQK> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C6NBHT> 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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Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, Italy, 2020
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

[Apologies for multiple copies] --- IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING (SMARTCOMP 2020) Bologna, Italy 22-25 June 2020 http://www.smart-comp.org Call for workshop proposals ------------------------------- Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, SMARTCOMP 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. The Workshops Committee of SMARTCOMP 2020 invites proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to SMARTCOMP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications and Smart Grid. Papers presented in the SMARTCOMP 2020 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include the following: * the name of the workshop; * the names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers; * a brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the workshop’s focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time; * the names of potential Program Committee members; * the planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees; * if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s); * if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees; * if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees; * a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible); * a description of the plans for publicity and Workshop Web site. Submission Method ------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than 23 November 2019, in PDF format by email with the subject line "SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Proposal" to the Workshop Chairs: Dario Bruneo (dbruneo(a)unime.it) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (eirini(a)unm.edu) Important Dates ------------------------------- Proposal for workshop submission deadline: 8 December 2019 Notification of workshop acceptance: 20 December 2020 Paper submission deadline: 6 April 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: 30 April 2020 Submission of camera-ready deadline: 15 May 2020 SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Chair Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156.

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Call for five assistans professors in mathematics for AI
by Natalie Pintar 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hello, We would like to give a tip about the following call for five assistant professors in mathematics for AI, tenure track: https://wasp-sweden.org/positions/assistant-professors-in-mathematics-for-a… Med vänlig hälsning Natalie Pintar Kommunikatör [Linköpings universitet] Universitetsförvaltningen 581 83 Linköping Telefon: 013-28 24 81 Mobil: 0700-89 64 97 Besöksadress: VALLA, Key, Ingång Key, Rum 3225 Besök oss gärna på: www.liu.se<http://www.liu.se>

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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CfP Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [IEEE WCCI 2020]
by Alessio Martino 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Fellow Colleagues, following the experience of the previous edition, we propose our Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology also at IEEE WCCI 2020 (Glasgow, UK). Bioinformatics and Computational Biology deal with a wide range of problems and applications which, in recent years, have been successfully solved by means of Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques. Moreover, due to technological progress, huge amounts of data concerning biological organisms are gathered and collected (e.g. genes transcript, protein structures and the like), thereby demanding the use of parallel and distributed computing for facing Big Datasets and/or high-throughput application requirements. Further, in such fields, data usually encodes complex information, which is natively represented by structured records, such as sequences, graphs and images, most of which lie in so-called “non-metric spaces”, i.e. input spaces for which a meaningful (dis)similarity measure might not be metric, making the problem more challenging since ad-hoc (dis)similarity measures or embedding functions need to be defined. This Special Session aims at collecting the latest research in Computational Intelligence applications for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with emphasis on parallel/distributed computing and non-metric spaces analysis, by means of different (or hybridization of) Computational Intelligence techniques, from evolutionary meta-heuristics to neural computation, from pattern recognition to fuzzy systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Network and Systems Biology • Gene expression, gene regulatory networks • Sequence analysis, alignment and comparison • Biological complex systems modelling • Predictive medicine and medical image analysis • Network medicine • Large-scale data mining and pattern recognition • Distributed and parallel computing systems for machine learning and data mining • Network generative models • Graph kernels and string kernels in biology • Exact/inexact motifs and pattern matching • Granular computing approaches for non-metric space analysis • Protein folding/function prediction • Analysis of metabolic pathways • RNA/protein structure prediction More info here: https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home <https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home> Needless to say, you are all invited to join. King regards --- <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C17PBN> Alessio Martino / PhD Research Fellow alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) - University of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C4HZQK> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C6NBHT> 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 - The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) at IEEE Infocom'20
by Peter Mueller 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 optimizations. 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: Paper Registration and Abstract Submission: Jan. 8th, 2020 Full Paper Submission: Jan. 15th, 2020 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 Insititute of Technology Steering Committee Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Alok Choudhary (Northwerstern University, USA) Lydia Y. Chen, Distributed System Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Martin Schmatz (IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland) Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State University, USA) Larry Xue (Arizona State University, USA) Contact: Peter Mueller - pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com

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Research fellow/Assistant professor in Optimization for Machine Learning at Linkoping university
by Oleg Burdakov 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi, I would be grateful if you could post the appended advert to Computational Science Mailing List. Many thanks and best regards, Oleg Burdakov, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization Methods & Software (OMS) http://www.tandfonline.com/goms Division of Optimization, | Phone: +46 13 281473 Department of Mathematics, | Mobile: +46 (0)70 0895219 Linkoping University, | E-mail: Oleg.Burdakov(a)liu.se SE - 58183 Linkoping, Sweden | http://users.mai.liu.se/olebu87/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY (LiU) hereby advertises a position as Research fellow/Assistant professor in Optimization for Machine Learning at the Division of Optimization of the Department of Mathematics. The application deadline is December 9, 2019. Starting date: by agreement. The major task for this position is fundamental research in the area of mathematical optimization theory and novel techniques for machine learning. Examples of research topics are: sparse optimization, saddle point search, multi-objective learning, and stochastic quasi-Newton methods. Although the expertise should primarily be in optimization, the applicant should ideally also have experience in machine learning. Duties include research, teaching, supervision and some administrative duties. The position is for 5 years, of which 80% is for research and 20% for pedagogical qualification/teaching. The financing of the position, established through WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, https://wasp-sweden.org) includes support for not only the position holder’s own salary, but also a research group with two postdocs (2 years each) and one PhD student (4 years). Being a researcher at LiU will allow you to choose living on the countryside while commuting to work in only 15 min. Furthermore, working at LiU, you will own your entire research results and Intellectual Property Rights yourself, enabling own startups and other commercial activities that are even supported by the university. For further details, including how to apply, see: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=d7a66… We look forward to receiving your application!

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Deadline Extended (29th November): The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Sydney, Australia
by Bahman Javadi 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

===================================================================== The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) April 21-24, 2020, Sydney, Australia Website: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) is targeted to be a premier conference on cloud computing, which represents a paradigm shift for the use and delivery of information technology (IT) and has been revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale, and dynamic sourcing options. IC2E provides a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. The conference brings together experts who work on different levels of the cloud stack—systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications. IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. IC2E-2020 invites submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully-developed results, and ongoing foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret “cloud engineering” very broadly—everything from engineering principles to practical experiences, at and across different levels of the cloud stack, from both academia and industry. --------------TOPICS-------------- We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics: * Cloud Infrastructure - Processors, accelerators for Cloud processing: interactive, batch, and streaming - Cloud storage and databases - Programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Mobile cloud computing - Multimedia cloud computing - Cloud Networking, 5G - Runtimes, virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless - Platforms and services for data and analytics - Operational analytics and DevOps solutions - Economics of cloud * Cloud services - X as a Service: Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, - Platform, Security, Software, Storage, etc. - Microservices in the cloud - Support for mobility - Accelerators at the edge and core - Edge to core/data center - AI at the core and edge - Edge and fog computing - (Near) Real-time applications and services - Blockchain in support of Cloud Services * Cloud management - Big data management, platforms, analytics - Energy management in cloud centers - Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust - SGX, Trust zone, hardware security support - Hybrid cloud integration - Metering, pricing, and software licensing - Resource management and optimization - Service lifecycle management, automation - Performance, dependability, SLAs - Workload deployment and migration - Resource management and accounting - Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration * Practice and Experience - Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms - Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings - Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns - Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques - Experience with management systems, tools, and integration --------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------- Abstract submission deadline : Extended to November 22nd 2019, 23:59 GMT Full paper submission deadline : Extended to November 29th 2019, 23:59 GMT Author notification:January 31st 2020 Camera-ready deadline:March 20th 2020 --------------SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS-------------- Please submit full (and short) papers by the full paper submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form. All papers should be double blind. Full research/industry track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, and tables. References can be additional pages. We do not distinguish research and industry, there is a unified track. Short papers are limited to 6 pages, not including references. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title. The manuscripts may not exceed 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style). --------------REVIEW PROCESS & PUBLICATION-------------- All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal. After review, some full paper submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed).

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Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 - deadline Mon 25 Nov 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 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 Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Monday 25 November 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 1 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Monday 25 November 2019. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together by the end of November. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 25, 2019, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to your proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site (see URL above). [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html> #AdaFOSDEM #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2020

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CFP: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020)
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Dear colleague, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ that will be held in Beijing, China, on July 7-11, 2020. We apology if you got multiple copies of it. Best regards, Shangguang Wang and Claudio Ardagna on behalf of CLOUD 2020 Organizing Committee ================================================== 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) July 7-11, 2020 - Beijing, China Website: https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 ================================================== Important Dates * Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019 * Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020 * Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC) * Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020 * Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020S Context and Scope IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including Network, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function. IEEE CLOUD 2020 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service * IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS * Function as a Service * Network as a Service * Storage as a Service * Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing System & Architectures * Edge Computing System & Architectures * Cloud-centric Network Architectures * Storage & Data Architectures * Hybrid-clouds & Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications * 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications * Social & Mobile Cloud Applications * Innovative Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations * Distributed & Parallel Query Processing * Resource, Energy & Data Management * Cloud Metering & Monitoring * Containers & Serverless Computing * SDN, NFV, & Data Center Network * Cloud Service Adaptation & Automation * Cloud Federation & Service Composition Cloud Trustworthiness * Access Control, Authorization, & Authentication * Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance * Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Reliability * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols * Cloud Security and Privacy * Trusted Cloud Environments Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Please submit your paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 Please visit website at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/cfp/ for more information. Organization General Chairs: Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Huang, Peking University Program Chairs: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications Technical Program Committee https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/committee/ =============================================

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[News] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki MULTIDRONE video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage
by Ioannis Mademlis 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

== Public video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage == The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is making publicly available a video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage (Annotations_eights_DW_raw), under the auspices of the MULTIDRONE research and development project (https://multidrone.eu/) It consists of 3 HD videos (720p - 1280 x 720) subsamplbed at 25 frames per second. An annotation file is included along with each video file. Directions for accessing and using the dataset can be found at www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/LAB_PROJECTS/MULTIDRONE/AUTH_MULTIDRONE_Dataset.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Ioannis Mademlis, Ph.D. Research Assistant Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab (AIIA) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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[Call for Participation] SC19 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum
by Tumeo, Antonino 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] SC19 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms https://hpc.pnl.gov/BOF/ November 20, 2019 5:15 - 6:45 PM Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO Room 605 -------------------- Program -------------------- Government agencies, industry, and academia are demanding a new generation of tools to efficiently solve large scale analytics problems in a variety of business, scientific and national security applications. This BoF aims at gathering the community of people interested in frameworks and workflows for large scale graph analytics, surveying the current approaches, identifying new challenges and opportunities, and laying a path toward future interoperable infrastructures. As in previous editions, we will invite the GraphBLAS community to participate in a discussion of the current state and evolution of GraphBLAS, with the goal of developing requirements and recommendations for future tools. Organizers: Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Jose Moreira (IBM), Aydin Buluc (LBNL), Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), Tim Mattson (Intel), John Feo (PNNL) -------------------- Program -------------------- 5:15 - 5:20 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Jose Moreira (IBM) 5:20 - 5:30 GraphBLAS updates Scott McMillan (CMU-SEI) 5:30 - 5:40 Towards a C++ Graph Standard Library Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) 5:40 - 5:50 The Challenges in Benchmarking Graph Algorithms John Feo (PNNL) 5:50 - 6.45 Panel: "We need good benchmarks for graph algorithms" Moderator: Bruce Hendrickson (LLNL) Panelists: Joe Eaton (NVIDIA), John Feo (PNNL), Alice Koniges (Hawaii University), Tim Mattson (Intel)

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[Call for Participation] IA^3 2019 - Program announced
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO Room 505 In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Program -------------------- 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, John Feo, Vito Giovanni Castellana 9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Khronos SYCL: Heterogeneous Programming with Modern C++ and Machine Learning Micheal Wong (Codeplay) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 1: Distributed Systems and Irregular Applications - Chair: Ryan Friese (PNNL) Conveyors for Streaming Many-To-Many Communication Maley, DeVinney Extending a Work-Stealing Framework with Priorities and Weights Nakashima, Yoritaka, Yasugi, Hiraishi, Umatani RDMA vs. RPC for Implementing Distributed Data Structures (short) Brock, Chen, Yan, Owens, Buluç, Yelick 11:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Mixed Precision and new memory hierarchies for Irregular Applications - Chair: Sayan Ghosh (PNNL) A Mixed Precision Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grids on GPUs Walden, Nielsen, Diskin, Zubair Mixed-Precision Tomographic Reconstructor Computations on Hardware Accelerators Doucet, Ltaief, Gratadour, Keyes Metall: A Persistent Memory Allocator Enabling Graph Processing (short) Iwabuchi, Lebanoff, Gokhale, Pearce 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break (on your own) 14:00 - 14:50 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Sparse Linear Algebra in Facebook's Deep Learning Models Jongsoo Park (Facebook) 14:50 - 15:00 Session 3: Dealing with Irregular Algorithms - Chair: Vinay Amatya (PNNL) iPregel: Strategies to Deal with an Extreme Form of Irregularity in Vertex-Centric Graph Processing (short) Capelli, Brown, Bull 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 15:55 Session 3 (continued): Dealing with Irregular Algorithms - Chair: Vinay Amatya (PNNL) Stretching Jacobi: A Two-Stage Pivoting Approach for Block-Based Factorization Thuerck 15:55 - 16:40 Session 4: Hardware evaluation and mechansims for Irregular Applications - Chair: Tania Lorido Botran (PNNL) A Hardware Prefetching Mechanism for Vector Gather Instructions Takayashiki, Sato, Komatsu, Kobayashi Performance Impact of Memory Channels on Sparse and Irregular Algorithms (short) Green, Fox, Young, Shirako, Bader Cascaded DMA Controller for Speedup of Indirect Memory Access in Irregular Applications (short) Kashimata, Kitamura, Kimura, Kasahara 16:40 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: Flavio Vella (Free University of Bozen) Proposition: "Programming abstractions can greatly simplify the expression of complex workflows of data analytic applications, but make it difficult to customize source code for heterogeneous computer systems. Unfortunately, it is an either or situation --- easy expression or fast performance" Panelists: Nesreen Ahmed (Intel), Jonathan Beard (ARM), Tyler Sorensen (Princeton University), Ana Lucia Verbanescu (University of Amsterdam) -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Flavio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moreto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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Call for Submissions - WHPC Summit: 29 Apr-02 May 2020
by Jana Makar 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Hello -- I’m emailing on behalf of the Women in HPC (WHPC) 2020 Summit, currently seeking submissions of papers, posters and tutorials. Participation from the members of this mailing list is encouraged, and please feel free to circulate the invite to colleagues beyond this list. Details are posted below. Questions can be directed to info(a)womeninhpc.org. Thank you! Jana Makar Communications Manager New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) www.nesi.org.nz @NeSI_NZ ------------------------------------ Call for Submissions Women in HPC (WHPC) Summit Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada 29 April - 2 May, 2020 WHPC is an international organisation that actively addresses gender inclusion in the HPC/AI/Big Data workforce worldwide. The first WHPC Summit is designed to celebrate the contributions, careers and leadership of women in High Performance Computing (HPC). Submission Topics The WHPC Summit is seeking submissions of paper, tutorials and posters on a diverse range of technical topics, including but not limited to: Programming models and applications for HPC, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Architectures and accelerators on high performance platforms Computational Models and Algorithms for HPC, Big Data and AI Addressing cyber security issues in HPC, Big Data and AI Large-scale data analytics and machine learning trends Using machine learning to analyze large-scale system Performance modeling, analysis and benchmarking of HPC, AI and Big Data applications/architectures Intersection of cloud and HPC System software to accelerate the performance of data-intensive applications In addition to technical topics, WHPC is also soliciting submissions on topics related to diversity, inclusion and leadership, including but not limited to: Methods and techniques to create a diverse workforce Inclusive leadership and retention strategies Building diversity advocates and allies Dealing with unconscious bias and sexism in the workplace Achieving the right work/life balance Fostering creativity through diversity Statistics about women's representation in HPC community More information on paper, poster and tutorial submissions are available here. Important Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2019 Tutorial Submission Deadline: December 2nd, 2019 Poster Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2020 If you have any questions or would like more information about the Summit or submissions, please email: info(a)womeninhpc.org.

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CFP: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020)
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Dear colleague, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ that will be held in Beijing, China, on July 7-11, 2020. We apology if you got multiple copies of it. Best regards, Shangguang Wang and Claudio Ardagna on behalf of CLOUD 2020 Organizing Committee ================================================== 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) July 7-11, 2020 - Beijing, China Website: https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 ================================================== Important Dates * Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019 * Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020 * Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC) * Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020 * Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020S Context and Scope IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including Network, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function. IEEE CLOUD 2020 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service * IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS * Function as a Service * Network as a Service * Storage as a Service * Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing System & Architectures * Edge Computing System & Architectures * Cloud-centric Network Architectures * Storage & Data Architectures * Hybrid-clouds & Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications * 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications * Social & Mobile Cloud Applications * Innovative Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations * Distributed & Parallel Query Processing * Resource, Energy & Data Management * Cloud Metering & Monitoring * Containers & Serverless Computing * SDN, NFV, & Data Center Network * Cloud Service Adaptation & Automation * Cloud Federation & Service Composition Cloud Trustworthiness * Access Control, Authorization, & Authentication * Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance * Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Reliability * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols * Cloud Security and Privacy * Trusted Cloud Environments Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Please submit your paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 Please visit website at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/cfp/ for more information. Organization General Chairs: Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Huang, Peking University Program Chairs: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications Technical Program Committee https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/committee/ =============================================

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Quantum Computing Workshop: Call for Papers
by qcw2020＠agh.edu.pl 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Dear colleague, We hereby cordially invite you to submit a paper to the Quantum Computing Thematic Track which will take place on 3-5 June 2020 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands as part of the International Conference on Computational Science. Please also consider forwarding this invitation to potentially interested colleagues. 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. The deadline for submitting your paper is December 13th 2019. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The best papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (Impact Factor: 2.502) For more information and details on the call, please refer to: http://www.qcw2020.agh.edu.pl/ You can also contact the organizers directly by sending an email to qcw2020(a)agh.edu.pl With best regards, The QCW Track Organizers Katarzyna Rycerz, Department of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland Marian Bubak, Department of Computer Science AGH and Sano Center, Krakow, Poland

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HiPC 2019 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HiPC 2019 is the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It serves as a forum to present current work by top researchers in the field and to highlight the activities in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. ADVANCE PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE Full schedule of Technical Sessions, Keynote Sessions, Industry Research & User Symposium, and other meetings available at https://hipc.org/advance/

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Call for Participation: Women-in-HPC workshop at SC'19
by Misbah Mubarak 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

**** Women in HPC at SC19: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies **** Sunday, 17th November, 9AM – 5:30PM Room 601, Colorodo Convention Center, Denver, Colorodo, USA https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop/ The eleventh international Women in HPC workshop will take place at Supercomputing conference, Denver, USA. Once again Women in HPC, our advocates, allies, supporters, and anyone interested in improving diversity across the HPC community is welcome to join us to discuss the challenges the community faces, and how to improve the opportunities provided to women. Previous Women in HPC workshops at SC have been great successes, with over 100 attendees in the past two workshops, and over 25 submissions from early/mid-career women at SC18. This year, our keynote talk will be about butterfly effect of inclusive leadership by Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo. Additionally, we will focus on the following topics: Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace Mentoring: why we need it, best practices and business case for good mentoring programs. Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career Managing and resolving imposter syndrome Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt The workshop agenda is as follows: 09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: The Butterfly Effect of Inclusive Leadership. Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:30 Short Talks Session - Surviving difficult events & minimizing the impact on your career -- Hai Ah Nam, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome -- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Coping strategies for unconscious bias -- Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC - Being a parent, guardian & caregiver: dealing with guilt -- Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Dealing with sexism in the workplace -- AJ Lauer, NCAR 11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: Engaging Male Allies Panel Moderator Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services Panelist 1 Cory Snavely, NERSC Panelist 2 Ian Foster, U-Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Panelist 4 Patty Lopez, Intel corporation Panelist 5 Brendan Bouffler, Amazon Web Services 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 – 3:00 Early Career Lightning Talks Session 3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 – 5:00 Panel Discussion: Mentoring, why we need it, best practices and business case for great mentoring programs Panel Moderator Toni Collis, Women in HPC Panelist 1 Mariam Umar, Intel corporation Panelist 2 Zhe Bai (WHPC fellow), Raksha Roy (WHPC fellow), Priyanka Ghosh (WHPC fellow) Panelist 3 Sarvani Chadalapaka, Univ. of California, Merced Panelist 4 Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 05:00 – 05:15 Workshop closing and outcomes

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[Program available!] - CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********************* WORKS 2019 Workshop********************** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Denver, CO Room 708 Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ ************************************************************************** Call For Participation The program of the 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop is now available (http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/program.php) Program 9:00—9:10 Welcome. Sandra Gesing, Rafael Ferreira da Silva 9:10—10:00 Keynote: Priority Research Directions for In Situ Data Management: Enabling Scientific Discovery from Diverse Data Sources. Tom Peterka 10:00—10:30Coffee Break Session: “Provenance” 10:30—11:00Provenance Data in the Machine Learning Lifecycle in Computational Science and Engineering. Renan Souza, Leonardo Azevedo, Vítor Lourenço, Elton Soares, Raphael Thiago, Rafael Brandão, Daniel Civitarese, Emilio Brazil, Marcio Moreno, Patrick Valduriez, Marta Mattoso, Renato Cerqueira and Marco Netto Session:“Performance Analysis” 11:00–11:30 A Codesign Framework for Online Data Analysis and Reduction. Kshitij Mehta, Bryce Allen, Matthew Wolf, Jeremy Logan, Eric Suchyta, Jong Choi, Keichi Takahashi, Igor Yakushin, Todd Munson, Ian Foster and Scott Klasky 11:30—12:00 Top-Down Performance Analysis Methodology for Workflows: Tracking Performance Issues from Overview to Individual Operations. Ronny Tschueter, Christian Herold, William Williams, Maximilian Knespel and Matthias Weber 12:00—12:15 Data-Aware and Simulation-Driven Planning of Scientific Workflows on IaaS Clouds. Tchimou N'Takpé, Jean Edgar Gnimassoun, Souleymane Oumtanaga and Frederic Suter 12:15—12:30Exploration of Workflow Management Systems Emerging Features from Users Perspectives. Ryan Mitchell, Loïc Pottier, Steve Jacobs, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi and Ewa Deelman 12:30—14:00 Lunch (On your own) 14:00—14:30Incorporating Scientific Workflows in Computing Research Processes. Shantenu Jha, Scott Lathrop, Jarek Nabrzyski, Lavanya Ramakrishnan Session: “Workflow Applications I” 14:30—15:00 Comparing GPU Power and Frequency Capping: A Case Study with the MuMMI Workflow. Tapasya Patki, Zachary Frye, Harsh Bhatia, Francesco Di Natale, James Glosli, Helgi Ingolfsson and Barry Rountree 15:00—15:30 Coffee Break Session: “Workflow Applications II” 15:30—15:45 Inter-Job Scheduling for High-Throughput Material Screening Applications. Zhihui Du, Xinning Hui, Yurui Wang, Jun Jiang, Jason Liu, Baokun Lu and Chongyu Wang 15:45—16:00 Empowering Agroecosystem Modeling with HTC Scientific Workflows: The Cycles Model Use Case. Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Rajiv Mayani, Yuning Shi, Armen R. Kemanian, Mats Rynge and Ewa Deelman Session: “Heterogeneous Architectures” 16:00—16:30 A performance comparison of Dask and Apache Spark for data-intensive neuroimaging pipelines. Mathieu Dugré, Valérie Hayot-Sasson and Tristan Glatard 16:30—17:00On a Parallel Spark Workflow for Frequent Itemset Mining Based on Array Prefix-Tree. Xinzheng Niu, Mideng Qian, Chase Wu and Aiqin Hou 17:00—17:30 Panel: TBA

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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WSCG 2020 - CALL for PAPERS - 28 .Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

TO: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org From Skala - Call for Papers CfP - 28. WSCG 2020 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision >> Apologies for duplicates if any >> To be REMOVED from the list REPLY to: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE >> Sent via: WSCGconf(a)gmail.com Call for Papers --------------- WSCG 2020 - 28. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2020 Pilsen close to Prague, Czech Republic http://www.wscg.eu http://www.wscg.cz Conference rate: CORE B, Qualis B1, ERA B ------------------ WSCG 2020 (held annually at Pilsen [Plzen]-the CITY of BEER-since 1992) --------------- 28. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2020 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2020 page When: May 18 – 22, 2020 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen [Plzen] (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates & Submission: ----------------------------- December 10, 2019 - Workshops/Special sessions proposals (via e-mail) January 10, 2020 - Abstract (recommended) (via submission server only) January 31, 2020 - Full, Short, Poster papers (via submission server only) May 18 – 22, 2020 - venue Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). >> "Pay to publish" strategy submission is NOT acceptable. << >> At least one author has to present the paper at the conference. << >> Proceedings will be made after the conference << Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Accepted workshops/sessions: - Meshless methods in Computer Graphics and Visualization - Other agreements pending - still possibile a proposal submission Conference organizer & Chair --------------------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala Contact: http://www.VaclavSkala.eu, skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2020 c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic ---------------- To be REMOVED from the list: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE or REPLY to this mail with this email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to WSCG REMOVE (DO NOT REMOVE the @mail address in the mail we sent to you). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala WSCG Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision http://www.WSCG.eu http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic tel. (420) 37-763-2473 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Head of Computer Graphics and Visualization Center Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications

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CFP : International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
by abdallah abarda 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

*International Workshop on **Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence* *(IWSMAI 2020)* *April 6 - 9, 2020, Warsaw, Poland.* https://sites.google.com/view/iwsmai/home The aim of IWSMAI is to bring together researchers, professors and students from around the world to present their latest ideas and research results within the scope of IWSMAI 2020. This workshop will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence fields. The workshop will include presentations of contributed papers, poster sessions, and state of the art lectures by invited keynote speakers. *Topics:* · Artificial Intelligence · Statistical methods · Data Analysis and Data mining · Computational Statistic · Supervised and unsupervised learning · Statistical methodology · Bioinformatics · Medical statistics · Deep Learning · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Data Collection and Applications · Data Science and Blockchain Technology · Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Big Data · Mathematical Statistics · Economic intelligence · Statistical Software (R, SAS, Python) All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line (indexed by *Scopus)* [image: image.png][image: image.png] Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: -International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer: https://www.springer.com/journal/12652 - International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.69): https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and… - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504): http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index *Important Dates:* · Paper submission deadline: *December 15, 2019* · Notification of acceptance: *January 13, 2020* · Camera-ready submission: *February 10 **, 2020* · Final Manuscript Due : *April 6-9, 2019* *Contact :* Email: abdallah.abarda(a)uhp.ac.ma -- *Abdallah ABARDA*

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2020 at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Our 10th Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General Information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is ever increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2021. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps further increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized successful Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012-2016 [6-10], and in 2018-2019 [12]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8.5 schedulable hours between 10:30 and 19:00 in one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [13], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [14] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [14], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by end of November. So, please act ASAP, the sooner the better, but definitely by November 25, 2019 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html [14] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfC 25th Ada-Europe Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020 aka Ada-Europe 2020) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program and vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. The 2020 edition of the conference continues the major revamp in the registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 7 January 2020: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 20 March 2020: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2020: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers 30 April 2020: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 7 January 2020 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/advances-in-reliable-software-technologies *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 7 January 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chair Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2020 Publicity Chair *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 8-12, 2020 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2020

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Job Opening: Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University is presently offering BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, and invites outstanding applicants for the following position. *Research Assistant Professor (PR0166/19-20) * The position is created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointee will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty members in the Department. They are expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and have abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department's key research areas: (i) computational intelligence, (ii) databases and information management, (iii) networking and systems, and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. These key research areas have a special thematic focus on (a) health informatics, and (b) secure and privacy-awareness computing related applications. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract up to three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk More information about the Department can be found on its website at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. *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. Those 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 post advertised, and appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 25 November 2019 (or until the position is filled)* URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=540

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The SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Padova is hiring!
by Eleonora Losiouk 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Hi! The SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group <https://spritz.math.unipd.it/> at the University of Padova <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHz98-ERwTs> is hiring! We are a group of researchers very passionate in investigating security and privacy issues related to current and future technologies. Our group was founded in 2011 and is led by Prof. Mauro Conti <http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/>. Thanks to several ongoing and forthcoming projects, we are looking for smart and passionate people willing to join us. In our group we cover several research areas in CyberSecurity (e.g., Mobile Security, Adversarial Machine Learning, Authentication, Remote Attestation, Security for IoT, Cyber Physical System Security, Blockchain), but we are always open to start working in new areas! If you are interested, just fill in this form <https://forms.gle/E1yLudCjJnZkMnUY7>. Cheers, Eleonora Losiouk

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[Meetings] MESS 2020 :: Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data
by Mario Pavone 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

1st 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** 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. The courses will be held by world renowned experts in the field, and will be inspected practical aspects on complex combinatorial optimization problems, as well as examples of their successful real-world applications. The 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. MESS 2020 will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, therefore in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. Further, during the summer school the students will tackle homework, or project development. MESS 2020 will take place at the ?Palazzo delle Scienze?, today place of the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Catania. ** MESS 2020 Workshop 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. 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*. ** MESS 2020 Metaheuristics Competition All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups, they will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Further, the students, whose algorithms will rank in the 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. ** School Directors + 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 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 -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy --------------------------------------------- tel: +39 095 7383034 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/mfpavone Skype: mpavone =============================================

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CfP for Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)"
by Igor Kotenko 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)" on 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2020) Vasteras, Sweden 11-13 March 2020. http://www.pdp2020.com Paper submission deadline: 28th October 2020 Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: October 28, 2019 - Acceptance notification: November 30, 2019 - Camera ready paper due: December 12, 2019 - Registration: *** to be updated - Conference: March 11 - 13, 2020 Program Committee (TBD) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019) The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. 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 to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Session Chair of PDP 2020 Igor Kotenko Head of Laboratory of Computer Security Problems St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences ivkote1[AT]mail[DOT]ru ivkote[AT]comsec[DOT]spb[DOT]ru http://comsec.spb.ru/kotenko/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 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, applied 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 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 * Evaluating or developing new and promising 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 December 6, 2019. Letters of Reference are due December 9, 2019. Details of the application process can be found at https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/2020-luis-j-alvarez-and-admiral-grace-m-hopper-po….

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A tenure-track faculty position in IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR
by Jie Shen 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Michigan - Dearborn invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Applicants in the area of software engineering will be considered for the first position, while applicants in all areas of computer science, with preference given to areas related to emerging systems (including IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR, etc.), will be considered for the second position. The expected starting date is September 1, 2020. Although candidates at the Assistant Professor rank are preferred, exceptional candidates may be considered for the rank of Associate Professor depending upon experience and qualifications. We offer competitive salaries and start-up packages. The CIS Department offers several B.S. and M.S. degrees, and a Ph.D. degree. The current research areas in the department include artificial intelligence, computational game theory, computer graphics, cybersecurity, data privacy, data science/management, energy-efficient systems, game design, graphical models, machine learning, multimedia, natural language processing, networking, service and cloud computing, software engineering, and health informatics. These areas of research are supported by several established labs and many of these areas are currently funded by federal agencies and industries. Qualifications: Qualified candidates must have earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science or a closely related discipline by September 1, 2020. Candidates will be expected to do scholarly and sponsored research, as well as teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applications: Applicants should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of teaching and research interests, evidence of teaching performance (if any), and a list of three references through Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/68333 for the position in software engineering; http://apply.interfolio.com/68336 for the position in emerging systems or any other area of computer science. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until suitable candidates are appointed. The University of Michigan-Dearborn, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Jie Shen, Ph.D.

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Call for BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination (Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14 at Denver, Colorado, USA, prior to SC 19)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination ========================================================== The 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award Recognize a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.Awards: 3,000 US dollar. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- The BenchCouncil achievement award recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. Any member of this community is welcome to nominate an individual who is eligible for this award. Self-nomination is also encouraged. The recommender should write a short summary highlighting the nominee’s contribution. This year, the achievement award will be awarded on BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19, Nov 14-16, 2019 @ Denver, Colorado, USA). The award winner needs to give a 45-minute keynote speech on Bench 19. International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) is a non-profit research institute, which aims to promote the standardization, benchmarking, evaluation, incubation, and promotion of open-source chip, AI, and Big Data techniques. http://www.benchcouncil.org Nomination Submission ------------------------ Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth Nominees need to send an email to the following address for confirmation: zhanjianfeng(a)ict.ac.cn Bench 19 conference --------------------- The Bench 19 conference will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA.The conference provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. The main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 has three special events: BenchCouncil achievement award, which recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing ($3000), the AI benchmarking reports, and AI system and algorithm challenges. Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics. Website: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html Registration: https://eur.cvent.me/0QG1 Bench 19 Hotel Reservation ----------------- The Conference hotel is Courtyard by Marriott Denver Airport. We have negotiated a competitive group rate and we strongly encourage attendees to stay there, when possible. Notice that the banquet will also take place at the hotel. The reservation link: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1568131806319&key=GRP Start Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 End Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019 Last Day to Book: Friday, October 25, 2019 Room rate: $179/night + abound 15.75% taxes (Standard Room)

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[CALL FOR PAPERS] Uncertain Reasoning @ Flairs 33
by Alessandro Antonucci 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 33 - Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 33] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) May 17-20, 2020 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2019 Conference website: http://www.flairs-33.info Track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in turn foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'20 Special Track at the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) is the 25th in the series. As in the past years, UR'20 track seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision processes - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty, non-monotonic reasoning, similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : - Mohand Said Allili (Universit√© du Qu√©bec en Outaouais, Canada) - Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) - Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) - Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiegne, France) - Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Christophe Gonzalez (University of Paris 6, France) - Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) - Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) - Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) - Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) - Lalintha G. Polpitiya (MathWorks, US) - Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) - Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) - Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) - Gunasekaran Seetharaman (Navy Research Laboratory, US) - Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) - Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) - Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) - Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 33 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-33.info. Feel free to contact the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the UR’20 special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (in that they should not have been submitted and in review or in the process of being submitted for another conference/journal). FLAIRS-33 accepts two types of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; and short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. The submission deadline for both types of submissions is November 18, 2019. The 2020 FLAIRS-33 will employ a double-blind review process. Therefore, the author names and affiliations, and other identifying information, must be omitted when submitting papers for review. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the FLAIRS-33 main conference web site. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-33 will be published by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers presented within the track. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-33.

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek S. Abdelrahman 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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Call For Papers: The 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2019 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 9-12, 2019. Workshop webpage: https://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2019/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 15 (extended from Sep 20), 2019: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 5 (extended from Oct 15), 2019: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15 (extended from Nov 10), 2019: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 9-12, 2019: Workshops and conference *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 2. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 3. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware / software architectures for large-scale data 4. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Asif Iqbal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Igor Kotsiuba (Pukhov Institute for modeling in Energy Engineering) Inna Skarga-Bandurova (East Ukrainian National University) Junaid Arshad (University of West London) Mamoun Alazab (Charles Darwin University) Neminath Hubballi (Indian Institute of Technology Indore) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Microsoft) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** The authors are invited to submit: full-length papers (up to 10 pages IEEE 2-column format), short papers (4-6 pages IEEE 2-column format) or abstract papers (up to 4 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system. Page count includes references, figures and tables. Online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/bigdata19/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines: http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2019/files/Conference-LaTeX-template_7… ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Advanced Big Data Analytics for Cyber and Cyber-Physical Crime Investigations", international scientific journal of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), published online by MDPI, which Indexed in Ei Compendex, Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science). Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. More about the Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Advanced_Big_Dat… Moreover, The Best Paper Award is given to the best paper at the workshop. All participants who submitted a paper automatically qualify to enter, and the winner will receive 500 CHF. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Jan William Johnsen, Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar and Asif Iqbal Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

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ICCSA 2020 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

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ISC 2020 Call for Papers
by Carsten Trinitis 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ ISC 2020 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: Submission ends October 21, 2019 The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning. Submitted research paper proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2020 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, with Brad Chamberlain, CRAY, USA, as Deputy Chair as well as Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf as Proceedings Chair and with Hatem Ltaief , KAUST, as Proceedings Deputy Chair., as Proceedings Deputy Chair. The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the *Hans Meuer Award* and the *GCS Award*. Each accepted paper will be considered for the awards. The Hans Meuer Award winner will receive a *cash prize of 5,000 Euros*. *Free conference day pass for presenter* OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION All accepted research papers will be published in the Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS] series in Gold Open Access. Gold OA makes the final version of a research paper freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Paper submissions are required to be within 18 pages in LNCS style. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. Volumes published as part of the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH.] AREAS OF INTEREST The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into eight tracks this year. Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure - Future design concepts of HPC systems - Multi-core & many-core systems - Heterogeneous systems - Other paradigms (including data flow computing, FPGAs, etc.) - Network technology - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies - Trends in the HPC chip market - Exascale computing Data Storage & Visualization - From big data to smart data - Memory systems for HPC & big data - File systems & tape libraries - Data-intensive applications - Databases - Visual analytics - In-situ analytics HPC Applications - Highly scalable applications - Convergence of simulations & big data - Scalability on future architectures - Workflow management - Coupled simulations - Industrial simulations - Implementations on GPUs & other accelerators HPC Algorithms - Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous - Algorithmic-based fault tolerance - Communication-reducing & synchronization-reducing algorithms - Time-space trade-offs in algorithms - Energy-efficient algorithms Programming Models & Systems Software - Parallel programming paradigms - Tools and libraries for performance & productivity - Job management - Monitoring & administration tools - Productivity improvement - Power & energy management & scheduling - Resilience Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Neural networks & HPC - Machine learning & HPC - AI & machine learning-oriented hardware? - Devising benchmarks for machine learning - Use cases Performance Modeling & Measurement - Performance models - Performance prediction & engineering - Performance measurement - Power consumption - Energy measurement & modelling Emerging Technologies - Quantum computing architecture - Software for quantum computing - Quantum algorithms - Quantum annealing NOTE: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the eight above for your submission. Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/ research-papers-2020.html for full submission guidelines. Furthermore all terms & conditions stated on the website apply to submissions. AWARDS The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award. IMPORTANT DATES Full Submission Deadline: October 21, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE Author Rebuttals: January 13 - January 18, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2020 Research Paper Sessions: June 22 - June 24, 2020 TRACK CHAIRS Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure | Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, United States of America Data, Storage & Visualization | Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America HPC Applications | Dirk Pleiter, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany HPC Algorithms | Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France Programming Models & Systems Software | Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology CAS, China Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling & Measurement | Felix Wolf, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Emerging Technologies | Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America OTHER SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES Calls are also open for: - Research Posters - PhD Forum - Project Posters - Tutorials - Workshops - Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/overview.html for details. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: Saday Sadayappan, ISC 2020 Research Papers Chair, and Brad Chamberlain, ISC 2020 Research Papers Deputy Chair research-papers-2020(a)isc-events.com

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Women In Computing
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 Women In Computing Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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Final Call - HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Final Call. Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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INSIGHT 2020 - Call for Submission
by Brandstoetter, Mathias 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce this year's call for submission of the INSIGHT 2020 Exhibition. The next INSIGHT Exhibition will take place in April 2020 in Vienna (Austria). Please find the call and more information at www.insight2020.at<http://www.insight2020.at>. The application process is really simple. The main idea is still that scientific data is being visualized and presented in pictures that are a) aesthetic and b) insightful (i.e. help the understanding of the underlying problem / data) Here a few example pictures from previous exhibitions: [cid:image001.jpg@01D574B4.39CE62E0] Kind regards, Mathias Brandstötter --- Dr. Mathias Brandstötter Deputy Director _________________________________________________________________ JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH ROBOTICS - Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics Lakeside B08a, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria phone: +43 316 876-2005 mobil: +43 664 602 876-2005 fax: +43 316 8769-2005 e-mail: mathias.brandstoetter(a)joanneum.at<mailto:mathias.brandstoetter@joanneum.at> web: www.joanneum.at/robotics<http://www.joanneum.at/robotics> _________________________________________________________________ This message and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any publication, transmission or other use of the information by a person or entity other than the intended addressee(s) is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions as a result of the transmission. Please consider the environment before printing this page.

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek Abdelrahman 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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SDM 2020 Call for Papers
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining May 7 - May 9, 2020, Cincinnati, OH, USA ======================================== SDM 2020 - http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm20 Call for Papers Scope ===== Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data - the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form and are also made available on the SIAM web site. Topics of Interest ================== *Methods and Algorithms -Anomaly & Outlier Detection -Big Data & Large-Scale Systems -Classification & Semi-Supervised Learning -Clustering & Unsupervised Learning -Data Cleaning & Integration -Deep Learning & Representation Learning -Frequent Pattern Mining -Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimensionality Reduction -Mining Data Streams -Mining Graphs & Complex Data -Mining on Emerging Architectures & Data Clouds -Mining Semi Structured Data -Mining Spatial & Temporal Data -Mining Text, Web & Social Media -Online Algorithms -Optimization Methods -Parallel and Distributed Methods -Probabilistic & Statistical Methods -Scalable & High-Performance Mining -Other Novel Methods *Applications -Astronomy & Astrophysics -Automation & Process Control -Climate / Ecological / Environmental Science -Customer Relationship Management -Data Science -Drug Discovery -Finance -Genomics & Bioinformatics -Healthcare Management -High Energy Physics -Intelligence Analysis -Internet of Things -Intrusion & Fraud detection -Logistics Management -Recommendation -Risk Management -Social Network Analysis -Supply Chain Management -Other Emerging Applications *Human Factors and Social Issues -Ethics of Data Mining -Intellectual Ownership -Interestingness & Relevance -Privacy and Fairness Models -Privacy Preserving Data Mining -Risk Analysis and Risk Management -Transparency and Algorithmic Bias -User Interfaces and Visual Analytics -Other Human and Social Issues Submission URL ============== https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SDM2020 Workshop and Tutorials ====================== The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2020 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2019 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm19/ Organization ============ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason Univeristy, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, USA Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia TUTORIALS CHAIR Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIRS Matteo Riondato, Amherst College, USA Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College, USA PANELS CHAIR Zhenhui Jessie Li, Penn State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS Xiang Ren, University of Southern California, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT, Kharagpur, India AWARDS CHAIR TBA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ping Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Important Dates (tentative) =========================== Abstract Submission: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Paper Submission: October 11, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Workshop Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Tutorial Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time)

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CFP - Extended Deadline - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in M&S (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 12th, 2019 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 sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). 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: 12 October 2019 Acceptance notification: 30 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 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=pdp2020 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. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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[Call for AI Challenges] 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges (Award Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR CHALLENGES ========================================================== 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html Awards: 500,000 CNY (about 70,000 US dollar) ========================================================== Introduction ------------------------ BenchCouncil 2019 International AI system and algorithm challenges are organized by International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil), and the main purpose is to advance the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice algorithms on different systems or architectures, i.e., RISC-V, Cambrian chip, and X86_64, and solicit new approaches to advance the state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice algorithms. The challenge tracks use AIBench as baseline, which is publicly available from http://www.benchcouncil.org/AIBench/index.html . BenchCouncil provides the tesbed for reproducing performance numbers. The competition team can apply for nodes through http://www.benchcouncil.org/testbed/index.php . 2019 AI challenges have four tracks: • International AI System Challenge based on RISC-V • International AI System Challenge based on Cambrian Chip • International AI System Challenge based on X86 Platform • International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Challenge Challenges manuals ------------------------ http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/handbook-en.pdf Communication Tool ------------------------ The discussion groups are hosted on Xinxiu---a dedicated communication tool for science and education. Discussion group site: https://app.ic3i.com/org/benchcouncil/en/ Important Dates ------------------------ Now the AI challenge is beginning! Registration deadline: Sep. 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Performance numbers finalized: October 1, 2019, anywhere on earth The code should be submitted to BenchHub for reproducing performance numbers and code review. Submission site: http://125.39.136.212:8090 Preliminary paper version submitted: October 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Paper submission： https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Camera-ready version submitted: November 10, 2019 Awards ------------------------ Special Award (Only one): 100,000 CNY The First Prize: • 30,000 CNY (one for every track) The Second Prize: • 20,000 CNY (two for every track) The Third Prize: • 10,000 CNY (three for every track) Awards Presentation ------------------------ The award presentation is on Bench 19 conference ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ), which will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA. Every team should submit their paper to BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19). The award-winners must submit a paper to Bench 19 conference and give a presentation. Bench19 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) • XIaoyi Lu (OSU) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) AI Challenge Tracks ------------------------ (1) International AI System Competition based on RISC-V Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on RISC-V, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Targets • Implement the forward calculation stage • Minimize external dependences (e.g., OpenMP, Boost) • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metrics • Maximize the execution performance (number of instructions) • Minimize the binary file, e.g., compiled executable file (2) International AI System Competition based on Cambrian Chip Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on Cambrian, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Target • Implement the forward calculation stage • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metric • Maximize the execution performance---the shorter the prediction time on test data, the better the performance (3) International AI System Competition based on X86 Platform Goal • The implementation and optimization of matrix decomposition based collaborative filtering task on X86 platform, using MovieLens dataset and ALS-WR algorithm Target • Implement ALS-WR training algorithm • Can use external libraries supported by the platform Metric • Maximize the execution performance-reduce training time (30 rounds) (4) International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Competition Goal • Innovative algorithm for 3D Face Recognition Targets • The competitors need to submit the model file and test file • Description file, source code • External data for training is allowed, but need description Metrics • ROC and AUC value

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DEADLINE 9/17: Diversity Focused Opportunity for Faculty to Explore Research Collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Don't miss this opportunity to visit Berkeley Lab to explore potential research collaboration for the summer of 2020 for faculty and students from underrepresented backgrounds APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, SEPT 17, 2019! What: Sustainable Research Pathways Matching Workshop Description: Matching workshop for faculty working with undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to explore research collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff. Matched and funded faculty and/or their students conduct research at Berkeley Lab during the summer of 2020. Workshop applicants must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited U.S. degree-granting institution of higher education. We are especially interested in working with minority serving institutions, community, women’s, and liberal arts colleges, as well as high research institutions. Many teams have presented their research at major computational science and engineering conferences, won awards, and continued their collaborations in subsequent years. For more information, visit: http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/

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HiPC 2019 Women In Computing - Call for Papers
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

********************************************************************** 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 2019 WOMEN IN COMPUTING https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/ 18 December 2019 – Hyderabad, India Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever-increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. CALL FOR PAPERS Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. We invite submissions of papers on original work in interdisciplinary domains with methodologies spanning across data science and high-performance computing. Topics of interest related to methodologies include, but are not limited to the following: * IoT-based, and/or data-driven analysis, * Real-time decision making for edge computing, * Visual analytics for large-scale and/or high-dimensional data, * Machine learning or deep learning algorithms or systems, * Artificial intelligence and/or robotics, * Distributed and cloud-based systems. These methodologies must be used in solutions stemming from unique ideas to solve pertinent socially relevant problem scenarios. Scenarios in interdisciplinary domains of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Traffic planning and control, * Monitoring infant health in primary health centers, * Large-scale medical diagnosis for reducing the requirement of skilled doctors, * Low-cost ways of determining air/water quality and improving the quality, * Food processing methods that reduce wastage of produce, * Methods to reduce pesticide usage, * Solid waste collection, and management, * Women safety, * Accessibility and differently-abled inclusivity. MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page at this page for details. 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, the 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. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the event is a requirement of publication. Papers will be selected for full-paper and short-paper types. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in the proceedings of HiPC Workshops. We require that the submission include at least one female author. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 After entering the above-mentioned Easychair page, use the hyperlink on “enter as an author”, which will redirect to a list of tracks in HiPC. Choose “Women in Computing” to make your submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Nitya Hariharan, Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Chitra P, Thiagarajar College of Engineering Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Please contact wichipc2019(a)gmail.com for any queries.

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Student Research Symposium (SRS) HiPC 2019 - Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

*********************************************************************************************** STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (SRS) HIPC 2019 DEADLINE APPROACHING *********************************************************************************************** *** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. 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); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: 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): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of 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); and • 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks 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 the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • 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 the 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); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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); • Design of 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); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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Data Science for Future Energy Systems (HiPCW 2019) Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in 10 Days - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. 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. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshop Submission Deadlines Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. Paper Submission: September 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ Abstract Submission: September 22, 2019 Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2018 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2020 (Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020), 14th International Scientific Conference, March 31 – April 2, 2020, Perm, 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, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 14th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020) to be held in Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020. The main purpose of the PCT’2020 conference is to provide an opportunity to discuss the future of parallel computing as well as to report the results achieved by leading research groups in solving science and equipment issues using supercomputer technologies. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of high performance computing in science and technology such as applications, hardware and software, programming languages, etc. The 32th 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’2020 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 (cf. guidelines at the conference website http://agora.guru.ru/pavt2020/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020 by December 1, 2019. 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 1, 2019 * Submission of the papers: December 2, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2020 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2020 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2020 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2020 * Conference: March 30: arrival date March 31 – April 2, 2020: conference work dates April 3: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020. 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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CFP for book "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution"
by José Santos Reyes 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

The submission of one or more original research or review chapter(s) for the upcoming hardcover edited collection entitled "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution" is open. The book is edited by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (novapublishers.com) Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • New DE schemes. • Automatic control of diversity and fast convergence with DE. • New approaches for self-adaptation of DE parameters. • Hybrid approaches between DE and other metaheuristics. • Niching techniques integrated with DE for multimodal optimization. • Dynamic optimization problems with DE. • DE in combinatorial optimization, in discrete and binary optimization problems. • DE for constrained optimization problems. • DE approaches for multi-objective optimization. • Parallel approaches of DE. • Optimization of real-world applications with DE. The deadline for the abstract is September 10, 2019 and for the completed chapter December 10, 2019. Please send the abstract and the chapter to Stella Rosa at nova.main(a)novapublishers.com (with copy to jose.santos(a)udc.es) Inclusion in Nova's edited collections is without charge to authors. The only exceptions are color figures if required and an English editing fee if it is determined to be necessary. Regards, José Santos University of A Coruña

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N2Women Fellowship Available for DySpan 2019
by 俞嘉地 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Dear Chairs, I am reaching out to you on behalf of the N2Women Fellowship Board. The N2Women community has been holding meeting events at Networking conferences that are organized by N2Women fellows and we are excited that this year we will be to fund a fellow to organize an event at DySpan 2019. The N2Women fellowship provides $1000 to a young female researcher, who is in turn responsible for organizing the event. If possible we would like the following call[1] to: 1. be forwarded to the authors of accepted papers and posters. 2. be forwarded to all travel grant applicants (since this can be an alternate/complimentary source of funding) 3. be publicized on the conference web site. The submission deadline is on Oct 7th 2019, and we would appreciate if you could help us to spread the word. We thank you in advance for your help. Please let us know if you require any further information. Best regards, Mariam Kiran, Niky Riga, Chelsea Dobbins, and Yanjiao Chen N2Women Fellowship Co-chairs http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > [1] Fellowship call: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher’s travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held. In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task. Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE CS TCCC, Microsoft Research, HP Labs, Google Research and Facebook. To apply for a fellowship or for more information, please see: http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > and click the Fellowships link. *The deadline for applications for DySpan is* **** Oct 7th 2019 **** ---------------

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The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020)
by Peter Mueller 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2020) Brno, Czech Republic, March 30-April 3, 2020 http://www.di.ubi.pt/sac2020/ ********************************************************* For the past thirty four years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/ TRACK ON NETWORKING ******************* A special track on Networking will be held at SAC 2020. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in all aspects of computer communications, networks and services. Original and unpublished papers and tutorials (half or full day) are invited in all areas of networking. The Track will emphasize on the design, implementation, management and applications of computer communications, networks and services. Topics of theoretical nature are also welcome, provided there is a clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - 5G networks and beyond - Big data for networking - Cloud computing/Mobile cloud computing - Cognitive radio networks - Content-based network services - Cross-layer optimization and control - Cyber-physical systems - Datacenter networking - Edge and fog computing/networking - Energy efficient network infrastructures - Network fault tolerance, reliability and survivability - Green communications - High-speed networks - Internet of Things - Internet services and Applications - Machine learning for networks - Middleware support for networking - Mobility management - Multimedia communications - Network architectures - Network control and management - Network measurements and analysis - Network modeling and simulations - Network performance - Network protocols - Network security and privacy - Network virtualization and softwarization - Optical networks - Protocols, architectures and applications for the Internet of Vehicles - Quality of service and quality of experience - Resource allocation and management - Routing and switching - Security and privacy issues in Internet of Vehicles - Self-organizing networks - Social computing and networks - Software defined networking - Technologies for V2X communications (DSRC/WAVE, 5G, LTE, Wifi, others) - Traffic engineering and characterization - Transport protocols - Ubiquitous networks - Vehicular ad-hoc networks - Virtual and overlay networks - Wireless sensor networks GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Original and unpublished papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. The file format should be PDF. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-references should be written in the third person tense, in order to allow double blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Papers must be formatted according to the template which is available at the SAC 2020 website. Paper size is limited to eight pages (covered by the registration fee) plus two additional pages (at extra charge), resulting in the total of ten pages maximum according to the above mentioned template. For papers accepted as posters, the length is three pages (covered by the registration fee) plus one additional page (at extra charge), resulting in the total of four pages maximum. A few key words should be provided. A paper cannot be sent to more than one track. Original manuscripts should be submitted in an electronic format through the conference web site: Online Submission Procedure for Regular Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac2020 Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. For any other question regarding this Track, please contact the Chairs at sac2020(a)di.ubi.pt IMPORTANT DATES: September 15, 2019: Paper Submission Deadline November 10, 2019: Author Notification November 25, 2019: Camera-Ready Paper Due STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (SRC) PROGRAM The SAC 2020 SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2020 Tracks. This program is open for graduate students currently enrolled in University or College and having active ACM and SIGAPP student membership. Abstracts must be authored by students only. Faculty advisor(s) cannot be listed as authors on the submission or on the final poster presentation. No group projects are allowed. The work must not be submitted to any another SRC program, journal or conference while it is under consideration for SAC 2020 SRC Program. Students are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format) of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in the above areas covered by the Track on Networking. Accepted abstracts are limited to 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format, no additional pages. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. The abstracts are reviewed by reviewers who review paper submissions to that track. The Track Chairs (TCs) manage the review process. Upon the review results, The SRC Chair and Program Committee select the best abstracts and invite their authors to participate in SAC 2020. For more details, please visit SAC 2020 website (Student Research Competition). Student research abstracts can be submitted through the SAC 2020 webpage: Online Submission Procedure for SRC Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac-src2020 Important Dates for SRC Program: September 15, 2019: SRC Abstract Submission November 10, 2019: SRC Author Notification November 25, 2019: SRC Camera-Ready Paper Due TRACK CHAIRS: Mário M. Freire Instituto de Telecomunicações e Departamento de Informática, University of Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal mario(a)di.ubi.pt http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario Marília Curado Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal marilia(a)dei.uc.pt https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/people/show/2122 Ivan Ganchev University of Limerick, Ireland / University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria Ivan.Ganchev(a)ul.ie https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Ganchev Mohamed Mosbah LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France mohamed.mosbah(a)u-bordeaux.fr https://www.labri.fr/perso/mosbah/index-english.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal André Aquino, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Eva Hladká, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Fernando Ramos, University of Lisboa, Portugal Giacomo Tanganelli, University of Pisa, Italy Giovanni Giambene, Universita' degli Studi di Siena, Italy Imen Jemili, University of Carthage, Tunisia Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal José Luís Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil Leandro Villas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Marco Roccetti, Università di Bologna, Italy Máirtín O’Droma, University of Limerick, Ireland Marie-José Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France Nicolas Hautière, IFSTTAR, France Pedro Inácio, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qin Xin, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Roger Immich, University of Campinas, Brazil Rossitza Goleva, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Rui Valadas, IST, University of Lisboa, Portugal Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Vinicius Borges, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Xavi Masip, Technical University of Cataluña, Spain Zoubir Mammeri, Université Paul Sabatier, France

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PACT 2019 - FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : PACT 2019 http://www.pactconf.org The organizing committee of PACT'19 invites you to join us in Seattle from September 23-25, 2019 for the 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2019). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENSION The early registration deadline has been extended to September 3, 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM PACT is a long-running conference at the intersection of classical parallel architectures and compilers that brings together researchers from architecture, compilers, programming languages, and applications to present and discuss their latest research results. This year's program reflects many of the exciting advances being made in our field, particularly around topics related to heterogeneity: The continuing evolution of general-purpose accelerators and the rise (the return?) of domain-specific/ special-purpose hardware. The program also features a machine learning as a driving application class for architectural innovation. See the full program at https://pactconf.org/conf-program/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kathryn McKinley, Google, Resource Efficiency and Performance in the Cloud Luis Ceze, University of Washington and OctoML Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Models and “the Metal” with Apache TVM & VTA Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame The 3rd Wall and the need for Innovation in Architectures ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS In addition to the main conference program, tutorials on selected topics will be offered Sep 21-22, including o) Programming with Lightweight Threads: Argobots o) Bambu: Productive FPGA Programming for Complex Parallel Applications o) GPU Programming with OpenMP o) Introduction to the Kokkos C++ Parallel Programming Framework o) The Structural Simulation Toolkit Further information can be found https://pactconf.org/wt-program/ (and be sure to check back at this site for any additional tutorials). ---------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS Through the generosity of Pacific Northwest National Lab and Sandia National Lab, funds are available to help defray the costs for students attending PACT'19. Information about the application process can be found on the conference website at https://pactconf.org/travel-grants/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine, PNNL and the University of Washington Program Chair: Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP IEEE Computer Society (in cooperation with ACM). -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!NEWS!!!! - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 AoE IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 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 9, 2019 (EXTENDED!) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 9, 2019 (EXTENDED) Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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 including figures, tables and 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. 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. This additional page is voluntary, 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. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. 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 Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moreto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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SDM 2020 Call for Papers
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining May 7 - May 9, 2020, Cincinnati, OH, USA ======================================== SDM 2020 - http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm20 Call for Papers Scope ===== Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data - the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form and are also made available on the SIAM web site. Topics of Interest ================== *Methods and Algorithms -Anomaly & Outlier Detection -Big Data & Large-Scale Systems -Classification & Semi-Supervised Learning -Clustering & Unsupervised Learning -Data Cleaning & Integration -Deep Learning & Representation Learning -Frequent Pattern Mining -Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimensionality Reduction -Mining Data Streams -Mining Graphs & Complex Data -Mining on Emerging Architectures & Data Clouds -Mining Semi Structured Data -Mining Spatial & Temporal Data -Mining Text, Web & Social Media -Online Algorithms -Optimization Methods -Parallel and Distributed Methods -Probabilistic & Statistical Methods -Scalable & High-Performance Mining -Other Novel Methods *Applications -Astronomy & Astrophysics -Automation & Process Control -Climate / Ecological / Environmental Science -Customer Relationship Management -Data Science -Drug Discovery -Finance -Genomics & Bioinformatics -Healthcare Management -High Energy Physics -Intelligence Analysis -Internet of Things -Intrusion & Fraud detection -Logistics Management -Recommendation -Risk Management -Social Network Analysis -Supply Chain Management -Other Emerging Applications *Human Factors and Social Issues -Ethics of Data Mining -Intellectual Ownership -Interestingness & Relevance -Privacy and Fairness Models -Privacy Preserving Data Mining -Risk Analysis and Risk Management -Transparency and Algorithmic Bias -User Interfaces and Visual Analytics -Other Human and Social Issues Submission URL ============== https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SDM2020 Workshop and Tutorials ====================== The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2020 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2019 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm19/ Organization ============ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason Univeristy, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, USA Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia TUTORIALS CHAIR Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIRS Matteo Riondato, Amherst College, USA Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College, USA PANELS CHAIR Zhenhui Jessie Li, Penn State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS Xiang Ren, University of Southern California, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT, Kharagpur, India AWARDS CHAIR TBA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ping Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Important Dates (tentative) =========================== Abstract Submission: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Paper Submission: October 11, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Workshop Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Tutorial Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time)

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11th International Women in HPC workshop at SC'19
by Mariam Umar 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

**11th International Women in HPC Workshop: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies** Sunday November 17th 2019 Denver, Colorado, USA https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop # Call for Lightning Talks Women-in-HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women and male allies from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 11th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC19 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. ## Sessions will focus on the following areas: - Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome - Building an effective professional network - How to get a new job or promotion - Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias and micro-aggression - Dealing with the guilt while being a parent, guardian and caregiver - Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace **Call for Lightning Talks: Now Open!** Deadline for submissions: August 14th 2019 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a lightning talk. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. 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. For details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/submit/ # Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services, USA - Co-chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC co-founder and director - Invited Talks Chair: Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA - Poster and Lightning Talks Chair: Mariam Umar, Intel Corporation, USA - Posters & Lightning Talks Vice Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh,UK - Mentoring chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK # Program Committee (for Early Career Lightning Talks) - Elsa Gonsioworski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Raquell Holmes, Improvscience, USA - Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services, USA - Mozghan Kabiri, University of Sheffield, UK - Karen Divine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Hadia Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Debbie Bard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Rosa Filgueira, EPCC, UK -Mahwish Arif, CAM, UK - Baiou Shi, PSU, USA - Neelofer Banglawala, EPCC, UK -- Regards, Mariam Umar

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Final CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Final Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women
by Uwe Aickelin 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

The Melbourne School of Engineering has introduced the Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships to attract, or to retain, outstanding female doctoral graduates and provide a career pathway to a global Teaching and Research academic career at the University of Melbourne. We are currently looking for accomplished, enthusiastic, and interested early-career female doctoral graduates for multiple fellowships within the three schools of MSE: * Computing and Information Systems * Chemical and Biomedical Engineering * Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering More details can be found here: LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1441685438> Seek<https://www.seek.com.au/job/39782535?searchrequesttoken=9e11c449-42dd-4296-…> University of Melbourne Careers<http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/900626/doreen-thomas-postdoctoral-fel…> Applications close Sunday 13 October 2019. About Doreen Thomas “Professor Emeritus Doreen Thomas is a leading academic whose work has spanned the fields of mathematics and electrical and mechanical engineering. Her career at the University of Melbourne has lasted over 40 years and practical applications of her research have had significant commercial impact. Doreen is a powerful advocate for women in engineering and mathematics. She chairs the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Forum at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. While at the University of Melbourne’s School of Engineering, she helped create nine research fellowships to launch and accelerate the careers of female academics. In 2006, she was appointed the University of Melbourne’s first female professor in engineering. She was the first woman at the university to become head of each of the departments she led, and the first woman in Victoria to become head of two different university departments. Doreen’s long and distinguished career has been inspirational for other women in mathematics and science. She has made significant contributions to knowledge with real-world impact, promoted the next generation of women in STEM disciplines, and taught mathematics to generations of engineering students.” – Vic.gov.au 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

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - Deadline approaching!
by Tumeo, Antonino 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC Proceedings published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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. -------------------- 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 including figures, tables and 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. 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. This additional page is voluntary, 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. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. 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 Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems HiPC Workshop 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. 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. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshops' Paper Deadlines in Less Than 1 Month
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER DEADLINES ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops with deadlines to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2019 SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call For Papers - 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

*** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. 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); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: 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): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of 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); and • 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks 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 the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • 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 the 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); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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); • Design of 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); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 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, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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 including figures, tables and 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. 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. This additional page is voluntary, 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. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. 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 Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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Reminder: Call for nomination deadline Aug. 15 - 2019 IEEE CS Early Career Researcher Award in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Call for Nominations: 2019 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 +IBM- these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2019 - Results Notification:September 15, 2019 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: - Lin Gan, Tsinghua University and National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China - Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK (Chair) - Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA - Christine Morin, Inria, France - Irene Qualters, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India - Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 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 SC19 conference that will be held in Denver, CO, USA during November 18-21, 2019. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc19.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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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop ********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 26 August 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; 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, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are 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 Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 26 August 2019 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 20 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Challenges in HPC workshop, Canberra Sep 2-6: final call
by Peter Strazdins 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Registration closes Mon Aug 19, Abstracts for contributed talks close Fri Aug 16 for: Challenges in High Performance Computing 2-6 September 2019 Location: Hanna Neumann Building (145), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Website: https://maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/challenges-high-performance-com… About: Scientific computing is often termed as the "third way to do science", alongside theory and experiments. The focus of the workshop is to investigate the current challenges of solving large scale problems on high performance computers. To achieve optimal performance it is critical to incorporate techniques that are at the forefront of both the mathematical and computer sciences. Consequently, the workshop has a strong multidisciplinary focus covering the five important areas of: Algorithms, Applications, Middleware, Resilience and Software. Each day of the conference will address one of these topics. A review lecture will be given in the morning by an eminent researcher in that area. Participants are invited to give more specialised talks in the afternoon, followed by a discussion session. The major aim of the workshop is to foster cooperation and communication between members of each of these five different communities, as well as to strongly encourage student participation. Invited Speakers: Algorithms: David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Resilience: Ulrich Ruede,Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Software: Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory Applications: Raquel Salmeron, Airservices Australia Middleware: George Boscila, University of Tennessee Organising committee: Brendan Harding, University of Adelaide Stuart Hawkins, Macquarie University Lilia Ferrario, Australian National University Linda Stals, Australian National University Peter Strazdins, Australian National University Contact: Brittany Joyce admin.research.msi(a)anu.edu.au Part of the Special Year 2019: Computational Mathematics https://maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/event-series/special-year-2019-computa… -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JoDS Special Issue on Big Data Semantics
by Paolo Ceravolo 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

# JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS ## SPECIAL ISSUE: BIG DATA SEMANTICS https://homes.di.unimi.it/ceravolo/Call-BDS-JDS.pdf ### Call for papers The complexity of Big Data applications in conjunction with the lack of standards for representing their components, computations, and processes, have made the design of data-intensive applications a failure prone and resource-intensive activity. One of the reasons behind it can be identified in a lack of sound modeling practices. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g. data analytics and reporting. We believe that a major challenges of Big Data research requires - even more than developing new analytics - devising innovative data management techniques capable to deliver functional and non-functional properties like among others: data quality, data integration, metadata discovery, reconciliation and augmentation, model compliance, or regulatory compliance. Data Semantics research can address such challenges in future research according to the FAIR principles, for implementing design procedures that generate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to this goal. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, for example, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles into Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. representing the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. This special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics aims at sharing research and practical achievements in the field of Big Data integration, storage, and processing. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: • Big Data Management • Metadata Management • Big Data Persistence and Preservation • Big Data Quality and Provenance Control • Big Data Storage and Retrieval • Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques • Data Source Discovery • Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery • Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories • Caching and Materializing Query Results • Quality of Big Data Services • Big Data Service Performance Evaluation • Big Data Service Reliability and Availability • Reproducibility of Big Data Services • Verifiability of Big Data Services • Assurance in Big Data Services • Big Data Visualization • Real Time Visualisation • Visualization Analytics for Big Data • Big Social Media Mining • Big Data Security and Privacy • Big Data System Security and Integrity • Big Data Information Security • Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics • Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data • Performance of Big Data Architectures • Query Optimization • Optimal Selection of Analytics • Physical Structures ## Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Sylvio Barbon Junior, State University of Londrina, Brazil ## Editorial Board Antonia Azzini, Consortium for the Technology Transfer (C2T), Italy Clodis Boscarioli, State University of West Paraná - UNIOESTE, Brazil Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lyon 2, France Omar Boussaid, Université Lyon 2, France Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jerome Darmont, Université Lyon 2, France Luke Immes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento, Italy Marcello Leida, StrabioDB, Spain M. Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University of Beirut, Lebanon Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany Darja Solodovnikova, University of Latvia, Latvia Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Fadi Zaraket, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina, Brazil ## Timetable: - 10 Nov 2019 - paper submission - 25 Jan 2020 - author notification - 15 Mar 2020 - revision submission - 25 Apr 2020 - final acceptance notification - 10 Jun 2020 - camera-ready submission ##Submission Guidelines JoDS is looking for high-quality papers on any topic relevant to the journal, including regular papers, survey papers, industry papers, short papers, position papers, and reports. Submissions should contain original material that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. The submission should include an abstract and keywords, authors, and specify which author serves as contact author. All submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal’s guidelines at http://www.springer.com/13740 and have to be uploaded into Springer’s Electronic Management System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods JoDS is abstracted/indexed in: Google Scholar, DBLP, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. Selected sample articles are available at http://www.springer.com/13740 ISSN: 1861-2032 (print version) ISSN: 1861-2040 (electronic version) Any questions should be addressed to the Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it Robert Wrembel, robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl Sylvio Barbon Junior, barbon(a)uel.br

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Job Opening: Research Assistant Professor in Data Science and Engineering at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offering BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, invites outstanding applicants for the following position. *Research Assistant Professor in Data Science and Engineering (PR0059/19-20)* The Research Assistant Professor position is created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointee will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty in the Department. He/she is also expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the following areas: (i) data analytics and information management; (ii) data security and privacy. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of two to three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Prof Jianliang Xu (email: xujl(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk. More information about the Department can be found on its website ( http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk) *Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with *PR* number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview four 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 post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 30 August 2019 (or until the position is filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=532

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CfP: 5th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2019) at SC19: Submission Deadline Aug. 15
by BAKOS, JASON 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC 2019) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2019 and In cooperation with the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) ========================================================================== Sunday, November 17, 2019 (ALL DAY) Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 (4- and 8- page papers) Accepted 8-page manuscripts published/archived by IEEE (See below for descriptions of submission tracks.) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier-to-use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Much of the work in FPGA-based deep learning is built on these frameworks. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its fifth year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on how newly-available high-level programming models, including OpenCL, are already empowering HPC software developers to directly leverage FPGAs, and to identify future opportunities and needs for research in this area. ========================================================================== Submission Tracks and Contribution Selection: ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited for two tracks: Track 1: Full-length papers (8 pages) for 25-minute oral presentation and publication in proceedings archived by IEEE TCHPC. Track 2: Extended abstracts (4 pages) for 15-minute oral presentation without publication. Track 1 is targeted at technical papers containing a high level of implementation detail and analysis discussion of experimental results. Track 1 is suited for members of the academic and national lab community who prefer to have their work peer-reviewed, indexed and archived by IEEE. Track 2 is targeted at industrial contributions that describe new capabilities and opportunities offered by emerging technologies and products, or work in progress presentations by the academic and national lab community. The emphasis of this track is to initiate a discussion with the audience. All submissions are reviewed and evaluated by at least three members of our technical program committee. From the TPC evaluation of each submission, the organizing committee will select papers for presentation based on a criteria that equally weighs scientific merit and level of interest and relevance to the HPC community. ========================================================================== Topics: ========================================================================== 1. Improvement of performance or efficiency of HPC or data center applications with FPGAs 2. System integration of FPGAs in clouds and HPC systems 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2019 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 11, 2019 Workshop Date: November 17, 2019 ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Christian Plessl, Paderborn University, Germany ========================================================================== Technical Program Committee: ========================================================================== David Andrews, University of Arkansas Rizwan Ashraf , Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Hans Eberle, Nvidia Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research Xin Fang, Northeastern University Alan George, University of Pittsburgh Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Martin Herbordt, Boston University Zheming Jin, Argonne National Laboratory Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Tiffany Mintz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Yaman Umuroglu, Xilinx Research -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 5 August 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; 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, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are 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 Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 5 August 2019 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee(Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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SC'19: Posters Deadlines Extended!
by Stefano Markidis 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

SC19 Posters Deadlines Extended New Deadlines AoE: ACM Student Research Competition Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Doctoral Showcase Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Research Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 14, 2019 The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, November 17-22, 2019 Denver, CO, USA. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> We invite submissions of posters for Supercomputing 2019. Posters offer an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students, doctoral students, and researchers to present their work and get feedback from your peers in the community. SC19 posters consist of four different submission types based on the type of content and student status. Awards and travel support may be available for selected students. ACM Student Research Competition: SC hosts the ACM Student Research Competition, an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase original research. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea…> Research Posters: SC’s Research Posters is an opportunity for researchers in industry, academia (including students), and government to present cutting-edge research ideas and late-breaking results. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions> Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase (SciViz): SC’s SciViz provides a venue for sharing the most instrumental videos in expressing the latest in HPC. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual…> Doctoral Showcase (DS): SC’s DS is a forum for students nearing completion of doctoral program to present a summary of their dissertation work through a thesis canvas (poster) and a talk. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase…> The authors of accepted submissions will be invited to display and present their posters at the SC Conference. Partial travel support for students may also be available. Visit the SC19 Posters page for details: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> Submit now!

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CFP Special Collection: Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, SAGE Journal, JCR 2.203 (Q2)
by José Luis Guisado 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

[Apologies for any cross posting] CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== SPECIAL COLLECTION: PARALLEL COMPUTING IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOINFORMATICS https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… Journal: Evolutionary Bioinformatics JCR Impact Factor (2018): 2.203 (Q2) Publisher: SAGE Publishing, USA Accepted papers will be published continuously from Aug. 2019 to Aug 31, 2020. Publication in approximately 4-5 weeks after final acceptance. ===================================================================== In the last decade, the omics revolution and the application of deep AI technologies to evolutionary bioinformatics have significantly boosted the computing power and storage demands of this field. At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has also 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. In addition, cloud computing techniques can also contribute to foster the application of bioinformatics algorithms by turning them into a service (Bioinformatics as a Service, BaaS). The aim of this Special Collection is to present the state of the art on the emerging challenges and achievements regarding the use of parallel computing hardware and software techniques applied to evolutionary bioinformatics and computational evolutionary biology. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the application of the following hardware or software techniques to accelerate evolutionary bioinformatics applications: • Multicore and manycore CPUs • Clusters • Emerging hardware accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs • Cloud computing • Grid computing • Parallel deep learning • Neuromorphic computing • Unconventional computing techniques GUEST EDITORS: Dr. José Luis Guisado Lizar, University of Seville, Spain. Email: jlguisado(a)us.es Dr. Juan Antonio Gómez Pulido, University of Extremadura, Spain. Email: jangomez(a)unex.es Dr. Fernando Díaz del Río, University of Seville, Spain. Email: fdiaz(a)us.es ABOUT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: A Special Collection is an opportunity for an open access journal to cultivate a collection of articles around a specific topic, meeting/conference, or a newsworthy development, much in the way a Special Issue functions for a subscription journal. Special Collections are highlighted on the homepage for increased visibility and in most cases receive their own dedicated marketing efforts. OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE (APC) INFORMATION: 50% off of the current standing APC. Evolutionary Bioinformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. There is no fee for submitting an article. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable. Articles invited to submit to a Special Collection are eligible for a discounted Article Processing Charge (APC). Should your article be accepted, you will receive 50% off of the current standing APC, which you can find listed on the journal homepage. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION: Please select the Special Collection title when prompted during the submission process to indicate your interest in publishing in this Special Collection. Follow the guidelines in the Special Collection web page: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… --- Dr. José Luis Guisado Associate Professor, tenured (Profesor Titular de Universidad) Computer Architecture and Technology Department School of Computer Engineering University of Seville 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

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EuroMPI 2019, Zurich, Switzerland - Call for Posters
by HOLMES Daniel 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

** Submission deadline is the end of this week ** ===================================== || EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters || ===================================== http://eurompi19.inf.ethz.ch/node/13 Important Dates Posters submissions due date: 27th July 2019 (AOE) Posters notification date: 11th August 2019 Conference dates: 11th-13th September 2019 The poster session at the EuroMPI 2019 conference is an excellent opportunity to engage with the community by discussing new ideas and latest results that are not yet ready to be full papers. We are soliciting poster submissions for EuroMPI 2019 that show-case work on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) or work that is related to message-passing parallel computing. We particularly encourage graduate students to publicise their ongoing work. We invite submissions from users of MPI, developers of MPI, and researchers in the broader field of message-passing parallel computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues * Implementation improvements towards exascale computing, such as many-core, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures. * Performance bugs in MPI implementations. * Interaction between message-passing software and new high-performance hardware architectures. * New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations. * Programming Models * API limitations of MPI; extensions to MPI. * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming; combining MPI with other interfaces. * MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications. * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. * New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces. * MPI parallel programming in clouds. * Applications and Performance * Performance evaluation for MPI or MPI-based applications on HPC machines or using cloud resources. * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. * Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. * Applications using message passing, for example, in computational science and scientific computing. * New parallel algorithms expressed in the message-passing paradigm. Submission Instructions http://eurompi19.inf.ethz.ch/node/13 Poster submissions should be submitted to the EuroMPI 2019 poster chairs via email to: Daniel Holmes <d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk> and to Stefano Markidis <markidis(a)kth.se>. All poster submissions must include: * A short abstract (175 word maximum). * An extended abstract (3 pages maximum, including figures and references, and formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template)) * A poster draft. Note that complete results are not necessary. It is acceptable to have placeholders for last-minute results. * Poster format should be A0 page size (either portrait or landscape). See the attached size guide instructions for more details. The abstracts and posters will NOT be published in the conference proceedings by ACM-ICPS. In case of acceptance, posters will be presented at the conference and, if the authors agree, they will be published on the EuroMPI'19 poster web page. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate if you could forward this email to interested colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[CFP] First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC)
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC) In conjunction with SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Sunday afternoon November 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA. In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. https://www.urgenthpc.com ======================================================================== Paper submission deadline: August 14, 2019 (AoE) Author notification: September 10, 2019 Camera ready deadline: September 30, 2019 Scope ===== Responding to disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, extreme flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, winter weather conditions, and accidents; technological advances are creating exciting new opportunities that have the potential to move HPC well beyond traditional computational workloads. Whilst HPC has a long history of simulating disasters, whatís missing to support emergency, urgent, decision making is fast, real-time acquisition of data and the ability to guarantee time constraints. Our ability to capture data continues to grow very significantly, and combining high velocity data and live analytics with HPC models can aid in urgently responding to real-world problems, ultimately saving lives and reducing economic loss. It's not just responding to disasters, but also making urgent decisions addressing more general issues such as human health emergencies and global diseases. The challenges here are significant, but if HPC can be proven as a tool in responding to these real-world issues, the impact for our community is huge. Leveraging HPC for urgent decision making requires expertise in a wide range of areas, from dealing with real-time data, to experience in generating results within a specific time frame (real-time constraints), and generating visualizations enabling front-line decision makers to make correct choices first time, every time. It isn't just technical challenges, but also policy issues that also need to be considered such as utilizing our HPC machines in a more interactive manner to enable the urgent exploration of numerous disaster responses. This workshop will bring together stakeholders, researchers and practitioners from across the HPC community to identify and tackle issues involved in using HPC for urgent decision making. Success stories, case-studies and challenges will be shared, with the goal of further building up a community around leveraging HPC as an important tool in urgently responding to disasters and societal challenges. Call for Papers ============ We invite you to submit both full and hot-topic research papers detailing original work in the area of using HPC for making urgent decisions. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): * Example use-cases and case-studies that use HPC for urgent decision making * Techniques for integrating HPC workflows with real-time data * Approaches to verify and validate unreliable real-time data, for instance from sensors, IoT and satellites * System design for data reduction and pre-processing at source, for instance using edge computing and heterogeneous resources such as FPGAs * The use of data formats and conversion techniques to support the handling of data from numerous and diverse sources * Algorithmic techniques to guarantee result generation in specific time frames, such as result refinement which generates more accurate results as time progresses * Studies of leveraging HPC for workloads with real-time time constraints * Changes to existing HPC technologies and policies that are required to support using HPC interactively * The ability for HPC codes to adapt their resource requirements dynamically, for instance via elastic compute * Visualization and presentation techniques to support rapid and accurate urgent decision making by the end user * Reduction and feature extraction of results to highlight critical issues of interest * Complimenting results with provenance data for additional context and certainty * Data analysis techniques for making urgent decisions in response to disasters Paper Submission Guidelines ====================== * Papers should be submitted electronically via the SC19 Submission Page (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) * All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers published via IEEE TCHPC * Papers will be published via IEEE TCHPC and as such they must follow the IEEE formatting, templates available athttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.h… * Full paper submissions are limited to 10 pages and hot-topic submissions 4 pages. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. * Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. * In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop. Questions? ========= There is more information available at https://www.urgenthpc.com and please feel free to email any questions to Nick Brown (n.brown(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:n.brown@epcc.ed.ac.uk>) Organizers ========== * Nick Brown (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh) * Vinay Amatya (PNNL, DoE) * Deidre Brucker (NCAR) * Thierry Goubier (CEA) * Vyacheslav Olshevsky (KTH) Program Committee ================= * Guillaume Colin de Verdière (CEA) * Robert Rallo (PNNL) * Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University * Gordon Gibb, EPCC at the University of Edinburgh * Stefano Markidis, KTH * Andreas Gerndt, DLR * Johannes Guenther, Intel * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University * Peter Messmer, NVIDIA * John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Steven W.D. Chien, KTH * Sergio Rivas-Gomez, KTH * Piero Poletti, FBK * Giorgio Guzzetta, FBK Supporting projects & organizations =================================== This workshop is supported by the VESTEC and LEXIS EU FET H2020 projects, along with PNNL and NCAR

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC) In conjunction with SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Sunday afternoon November 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA. In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. https://www.urgenthpc.com ======================================================================== Paper submission deadline: August 14, 2019 (AoE) Author notification: September 10, 2019 Camera ready deadline: September 30, 2019 Scope ===== Responding to disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, extreme flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, winter weather conditions, and accidents; technological advances are creating exciting new opportunities that have the potential to move HPC well beyond traditional computational workloads. Whilst HPC has a long history of simulating disasters, whatís missing to support emergency, urgent, decision making is fast, real-time acquisition of data and the ability to guarantee time constraints. Our ability to capture data continues to grow very significantly, and combining high velocity data and live analytics with HPC models can aid in urgently responding to real-world problems, ultimately saving lives and reducing economic loss. It's not just responding to disasters, but also making urgent decisions addressing more general issues such as human health emergencies and global diseases. The challenges here are significant, but if HPC can be proven as a tool in responding to these real-world issues, the impact for our community is huge. Leveraging HPC for urgent decision making requires expertise in a wide range of areas, from dealing with real-time data, to experience in generating results within a specific time frame (real-time constraints), and generating visualizations enabling front-line decision makers to make correct choices first time, every time. It isn't just technical challenges, but also policy issues that also need to be considered such as utilizing our HPC machines in a more interactive manner to enable the urgent exploration of numerous disaster responses. This workshop will bring together stakeholders, researchers and practitioners from across the HPC community to identify and tackle issues involved in using HPC for urgent decision making. Success stories, case-studies and challenges will be shared, with the goal of further building up a community around leveraging HPC as an important tool in urgently responding to disasters and societal challenges. Call for Papers ============ We invite you to submit both full and hot-topic research papers detailing original work in the area of using HPC for making urgent decisions. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): * Example use-cases and case-studies that use HPC for urgent decision making * Techniques for integrating HPC workflows with real-time data * Approaches to verify and validate unreliable real-time data, for instance from sensors, IoT and satellites * System design for data reduction and pre-processing at source, for instance using edge computing and heterogeneous resources such as FPGAs * The use of data formats and conversion techniques to support the handling of data from numerous and diverse sources * Algorithmic techniques to guarantee result generation in specific time frames, such as result refinement which generates more accurate results as time progresses * Studies of leveraging HPC for workloads with real-time time constraints * Changes to existing HPC technologies and policies that are required to support using HPC interactively * The ability for HPC codes to adapt their resource requirements dynamically, for instance via elastic compute * Visualization and presentation techniques to support rapid and accurate urgent decision making by the end user * Reduction and feature extraction of results to highlight critical issues of interest * Complimenting results with provenance data for additional context and certainty * Data analysis techniques for making urgent decisions in response to disasters Paper Submission Guidelines ====================== * Papers should be submitted electronically via the SC19 Submission Page (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) * All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers published via IEEE TCHPC * Papers will be published via IEEE TCHPC and as such they must follow the IEEE formatting, templates available athttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.h… * Full paper submissions are limited to 10 pages and hot-topic submissions 4 pages. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. * Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. * In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop. Questions? ========= There is more information available at https://www.urgenthpc.com and please feel free to email any questions to Nick Brown (n.brown(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:n.brown@epcc.ed.ac.uk>) Organizers ========== * Nick Brown (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh) * Vinay Amatya (PNNL, DoE) * Deidre Brucker (NCAR) * Thierry Goubier (CEA) * Vyacheslav Olshevsky (KTH) Program Committee ================= * Guillaume Colin de Verdière (CEA) * Robert Rallo (PNNL) * Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University * Gordon Gibb, EPCC at the University of Edinburgh * Stefano Markidis, KTH * Andreas Gerndt, DLR * Johannes Guenther, Intel * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University * Peter Messmer, NVIDIA * John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Steven W.D. Chien, KTH * Sergio Rivas-Gomez, KTH * Piero Poletti, FBK * Giorgio Guzzetta, FBK Supporting projects & organizations =================================== This workshop is supported by the VESTEC and LEXIS EU FET H2020 projects, along with PNNL and NCAR

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through 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, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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 including figures, tables and 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. 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. This additional page is voluntary, 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. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. 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 Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zürich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunia, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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CFP - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2019 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 sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). 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 Paper submission: 15 September 2019 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 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=pdp2020 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. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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Call For Papers - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC 2019 Workshop
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** First Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17-20 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. 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. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research & Innovation, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2019 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call for IRUS Session Leads - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR IRUS Session Leads ********************************************************************** BACKGROUND ON CONFERENCE HiPC, Data and Analytics is Asia's premier IEEE international annual conference on computational and data sciences. The 26th edition (https://hipc.org/) of this conference will be held in Hyderabad during December 17-20. BACKGROUND ON SYMPOSIUM Industry Research and User Symposium (IRUS) brings together solution providers and users of HPC, cloud and data platforms, providing a venue where they can share their challenges and successes and discuss relevant technology issues related to computational and data sciences. Previous IRUS sessions* had tremendous participation from conference attendees and included senior speakers from industry like Amazon, Flipkart, Intel, Microsoft, Shell and Xilinx, academia like CERN, IISC and TIFR and start-ups such as Khosla Labs and Forus Health. *PREVIOUS IRUS SESSION LINKS 2018: https://hipc.org/hipc2018/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2017: https://hipc.org/hipc2017/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2016: https://www.hipc.org/hipc2016/irus.php CALL FOR IRUS SESSION Leads We are looking for Leaders from industry or academia to help put together a great IRUS session on a relevant topic in computational and data sciences. As a session lead, you are responsible to organize an IRUS session (~2 hours) during a suitable slot in the conference duration. You will have freedom on the contents and panelists you wish to invite – you will be supported by the HiPC team in local logistics. WHAT'S THERE FOR YOU? * Opportunity to lead session in an area of your interest within computational and data science * Help shape the agenda amongst leading industry practitioners and academic experts from around the world * Engage with student and young researchers showcase your ideas and develop as a thought leader HOW TO APPLY (LAST DATE: JULY 31, 2019) Drop a line to: Chiranjib Sur (HiPC 2019 Conference General Chair) – sur.chiranjib(a)hipc.org Laks Raghupathi (HiPC 2019 IRUS Chair) – laks.aarthi(a)gmail.com

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CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications
by Sandro Fiore 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] ============================================================================ ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications September 10, 2019 in Prague https://sites.google.com/cmcc.it/parco2019-reprod-symposium/home <https://sites.google.com/cmcc.it/parco2019-reprod-symposium/home> ============================================================================ Overview Meaningful advances in science and engineering are increasingly predicated on data-driven decision making. For these decisions to be valid, it is essential that the one not only record the process by which results were produced, but be able to reproduce the data involved at every step in the process. While we are all used to tracking source code revisions, and keeping track of program inputs and outputs, the increased complexity of end-to-end computing pipelines, coupled with new big-data and machine learning algorithms, imposes significant complexity on tracking all of the steps and associated data that went into producing a result. For example, keeping track of exactly what data use used for a training set vs. an evaluation set, what cleaning was done, what analysis was done on the results to evaluate performance, and what additional experiments were performed. With the ever-increasing number, size, and complexity of the data used in data-intensive applications, reproducing results from these types of investigations becomes increasingly difficult. While no-one deliberately sets out to create un-reproducible results, recent surveys of the literature shows that the ability to reproduce data-intensive results are the exception and not the rule. For these reasons, a symposium on issues, tools and infrastructure for data intensive applications is highly germane to the ParCo community. In this symposium, we propose to review current state of the art in reproducibility in data-intensive computing applications. We will cover three primary topic areas: - Reproducibility challenges that are specific to science and engineering activities that have data-intensive computing as a core aspect of the process - Infrastructure, tools and methods that are currently available for reproducible data-intensive applications, and gaps and challenges that need to be addressed. - How to increase the adoption of methods for reproducible data-intensive applications across the research community. Dates: - Submission of extended abstracts/draft papers: 31 July 2019 - Notification of acceptance for presentation at the Symposium: 10 August 2019 - Submission of full papers: 10 September 2019 - Symposium: 10 September, 2019 - Notification of acceptance of full papers for publication: 30 September 2019 - Deadline for submission of full papers for proceedings: 31 October 2019 Submission guidelines: - Extended abstracts should be ca. 2 pages. Full papers are allowed the same number of pages as all other papers included in the proceedings, i.e. 10 pages. - Contributions should be submitted by e-mail to the Symposium organisers at: sandro [dot] fiore [at] cmcc [dot] it , foster [at] uchicago [dot] edu , carl [at] isi [dot] edu - Please specify in the subject of your email: [Symposium contribution] Organizers: - Sandro Fiore Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - Ian Foster University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory - Carl Kesselman University of Southern California Useful Information about ParCo2019 - Location and dates: Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 September 2019 - Conference website: https://www.parco.org/ <https://www.parco.org/> - Symposium page: https://www.parco.org/symposia.html <https://www.parco.org/symposia.html> *********************************************** Sandro Fiore, PhD Head of the Data Science and Learning Research Team Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation) Via Augusto Imperatore 16 - 73100 Lecce (Italy) http://www.cmcc.it/ <http://www.cmcc.it/> email: sandro.fiore(a)cmcc.it <mailto:sandro.fiore@cmcc.it> Linkedin: https://it.linkedin.com/pub/sandro-fiore-ph-d/8/ba3/80 <https://it.linkedin.com/pub/sandro-fiore-ph-d/8/ba3/80> GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTh7jcAAAAJ&hl=en <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTh7jcAAAAJ&hl=en> ************************************************

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Call for Papers - CCGrid 2020
by C.-H. Hsu 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ---------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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Call for Papers: NLPCC 2019 - Explainable AI Workshop
by Feiyu_Xu 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! Call for Papers ********* NLPCC 2019 Explainable AI Workshop ********* Oct 12, 2019 | Dunhuang, China Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2019 http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/xai.php <http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/xai.php> ** Overview ** Though deep learning has made a big progress in recent years, it appears weak in interpretability of the reasoning process and decision results. Some people consider deep learning in the current stage as alchemy, instead of science. It would raise a big concern while deep learning is applied in mission-critical scenarios. For this reason, the explainable AI have received a great attention from research to industry. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing the insights about explainable AI, exchanging the state-of-the art of explainable AI research and applications, discussing future direction and further work in this area. ** Topics ** The scope of this workshop will include but not limited to: - Algorithms, tools, frameworks for Explainable AI - Modified deep learning models with interpretable features - Structured, interpretable, causal models - Inferring an explainable model from any model as a black box - Evaluation for explainablity, metrics and measurement - Combination of human intelligence (HI) and machine intelligence (MI) - Explanation interfaces - Business applications of explainable AI - Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in AI - Ethical aspects and law, legal issues and social responsibility ** Paper Submission ** The manuscripts are expected to be formatted in accordance with Springer style sheets [LaTeX, http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/llncs2e.zip <http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/llncs2e.zip>] [Microsoft Word, http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/splnproc1703.zip <http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/splnproc1703.zip>], in PDF format, and submitted electronically through the website https://www.softconf.com/j/xai2019/ <https://www.softconf.com/j/xai2019/>. For first submission, a full paper of 8-12 pages is preferred and an abstract of 1-3 pages is also welcome. After confirmation, the abstract needs to be extended to full paper as final version. All submissions will be peer reviewed by two members of our international program committee. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop orally or as poster and published in the NLPCC 2019 proceedings. ** Important Dates ** - Paper/Abstract submission deadline: July 20, 2019 - Notification: Aug 5, 2019 - Camera-ready submission: Aug 15, 2019 ** Workshop Organizers ** - Feiyu Xu, Lenovo Research - Dongyan Zhao, Peking University - Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University ** Program Committee ** - Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Haojin Yang, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany - Jörn Hees, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany - Sven Schmeier, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany - Freddy Lecue, CortAIx, Thales, Canada & INRIA, France - Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University, China - Hang Su, Tsinghua University, China - Mengchen Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Science, China - Jin Zhang, Nankai University, China ** Local Organizing Committee ** - Yangzhou Du, Lenovo Research, China - Gang Chen, Lenovo Research, China

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[CfP] - DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 07 - 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2019)
by Thiago Genez - Cam 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ============================================================ 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2019) co-located with ALGO 2019 9-10 September 2019, Munich, Germany Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): July 7, 2019 https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/index.php/menue-algocloud/algocloud-overview ============================================================ ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/index.php/menue-algocloud/algocloud-overview) is an annual international forum bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD 2019 is co-located with the ALGO 2019 (https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/index.php/menue-algo) a leading international event of researchers working on algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles and high-quality survey papers. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modelling, practices for building and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. *** TOPICS Submissions should focus on aspects of cloud-based systems and their algorithms, including (but not limited to) the following areas: - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures - Resource Management and Scheduling - Data Center and Infrastructure Management - Privacy, Security and Anonymization - Cloud-based applications - Virtualization and containers - Performance Models - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Novel programming models - Storage management - Fog and Edge Computing - Economic models and pricing - Energy and Power Management - Big Data and the Cloud - Network management and techniques - Caching and Load Balancing *** PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings published by Springer it its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) *** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format, excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2019) By submitting a paper, the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance, at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2019 and/or ALGOCLOUD 2019, and present the paper. *** IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: July 7 (AoE) , 2019 - Author notification: July 22, 2019 - Symposium: September 10, 2019 *** INVITED SPEAKER (to be decided) *** PROGRAM COMMITTEES Olivier Beaumont (INRIA Bordeaux, France) Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil) Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) (co-chair) Valeria Cardellini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Katerina Doka (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Fanny Dufosse (INRIA Grenoble, France) Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Thiago Genez (University of Cambridge, UK) (co-chair) Sarunas Girdzijauskas (KTH, Sweden) Anastasios Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Raffaele Montella (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Alessandro Papadopoulos (MDH, Sweden) Ilia Pietri (Intracom SA, Greece) Guido Proietti (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw, Poland) Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) (co-chair) Rafael Brundo Uriante (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) *** STEERING COMMITTEES Spyros Sioutas University of Patras, Greece) Peter Triantafillou (University of Warwick, UK) Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece) _______________________________________________

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CfP: 5th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2019) at SC19: Submission Deadline Aug. 15
by BAKOS, JASON 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC 2019) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2019 and In cooperation with the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) ========================================================================== Sunday, November 17, 2019 (ALL DAY) Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 (4- and 8- page papers) Accepted 8-page manuscripts published/archived by IEEE (See below for descriptions of submission tracks.) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier-to-use high-level programming models for FPGAs, and much of the work in FPGA-based deep learning is built on these frameworks. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its fifth year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on how newly-available high-level programming models, including OpenCL, are already empowering HPC software developers to directly leverage FPGAs, and to identify future opportunities and needs for research in this area. ========================================================================== Submission Tracks and Contribution Selection ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited for two tracks: Track 1: Full-length papers (8 pages) for 25-minute oral presentation and publication in proceedings archived by IEEE. Track 2: Extended abstracts (4 pages) for 15-minute oral presentation without publication. Track 1 is targeted for technical papers containing a high level of implementation detail and analysis discussion of experimental results. Track 1 is suited for members of the academic and national lab community who prefer to have their work peer-reviewed, indexed and archived by IEEE. Track 2 is targeted for industrial contributions that describe new capabilities and opportunities offered by emerging technologies and products or work in progress presentations by the academic and national lab community. The emphasis of this track is to initiate a discussion with the audience. All submissions are reviewed and evaluated by at least three members of our technical program committee. From the TPC evaluation of each submission, the organizing committee will select papers for presentation based on a criteria that is equally weighted between scientific merit and level of interest and relevance to the HPC community. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== 1. Improvement of performance or efficiency of HPC or data center applications with FPGAs 2. System integration of FPGAs in clouds and HPC systems 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2019 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 11, 2019 Workshop Date: November 17, 2019 ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Christian Plessl, Paderborn University, Germany -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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IEEE/ACM Workshop: Deep Learning on Edge (EdgeDL 2019) | CHASE Conference
by Hari Dubey 30 Jun '19

30 Jun '19

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of organizers, let me extend our warm invitation to submit your research papers at the EdgeDL 2019 workshop to be held in Washington D.C., USA during September 26, 2019. Kindly help us spread the word. IEEE/ACM CHASE 2019 Workshop on EdgeDL: Deep Learning on Edge for Smart Health and Wellbeing Applications Washington D.C., USA, September 26, 2019 EDAS Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26564 CFP Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/edgedl-ieee-acm-chase-2019/home We look forward to welcoming you at the workshop and arrange an exciting Technical Program and keynote speaker from industry. Thank you, Workshop organizers Harishchandra Dubey, Microsoft, USA [hadubey(a)microsoft.com<mailto:hadubey@microsoft.com>] Kunal Mankodiya, University of Rhode Island, USA [kunalm(a)uri.edu<mailto:kunalm@uri.edu>] Amir M. Rahmani, University of California Irvine, USA [a.rahmani(a)uci.edu<mailto:a.rahmani@uci.edu>] Utsav Drolia, NEC Laboratories America Inc., USA [utsav(a)nec-labs.com<mailto:utsav@nec-labs.com>] -Best, Hari Dubey, on behalf of Kunal Mankodiya, Amir M. Rahmani and Utsav Drolia

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Update about Ada-Europe Conferences 2019 and 2020
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Subject: Update about Ada-Europe Conferences 2019 and 2020 The 24th edition of Ada-Europe's International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies took place on 11-14 June in Warsaw, Poland, with considerable success. The conference, graciously hosted by the Institute of Aviation, had nearly 100 participants, enjoyed a rich technical and social program, and saw much active interaction between participants, presenters, and exhibitors. For your information, the following material is now available online: - the "Conference Booklet" in PDF, which contains the abstracts of all presentations in the core program (see first section on [1]); - copies of conference presentations (see "Download" links in "Conference Core Schedule" table on [1]); - copies of DeCPS workshop presentations (see "Download links in "Program" table on [2]); - pictures of the exhibition booths (see final part of [3]). [1] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/overview.html [2] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html [3] www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/sponsors.html As announced in Warsaw, next year's conference will be held in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June 2020. The preliminary Call for Contributions is already available on the (mini) conference web site at [4]. More details will follow later. [4] www.ada-europe.org/conference2020/ On this occasion, the Ada-Europe Board announces a slight update of the name of its conference series: - the complete name is "25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies"; - the short name is "Ada-Europe Conference 2020"; - the acronym is "AEiC 2020". Hence on social media when referring to the Ada-Europe organization we'll use #AdaEurope, and when referring to next year's Ada-Europe Conference we'll use #AEiC2020. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe 2019 & 2020 Publicity Chair

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【Deadline Extended】 Bench'19 (http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html) Call for Papers
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being's lives. This symposium (Bench 19) is organized by International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil), and the main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Bench 19 has two special events: the AI benchmarking reports (benchmarks, performance numbers), and the AI system and algorithm competitions ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html ). Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics. We provide two submission opportunities. For regular submission, we solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **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: ** Testbed 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 For the AI system and algorithms challenge( http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html ), each team is welcomed to submit a paper describing their work. Their paper will be reviewed for further recommendation. For the winner final lists, each team has to submit a paper and presents their work at Bench 19. Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (no more than 4 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references) are encouraged, and the authors can extend their short paper to 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references, in the final publication. If a full paper is submitted, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 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, revised papers will be published by Springer (Pending). Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bench19 Improtant Dates --------------------- Regular submission Paper Submission July 15, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance Notification Aug 20, 2019 AI competitions Paper submission: Sep 1, 2019 Acceptance Notification: Sep 15, 2019 Awards ---------- At Bench'19, 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 System Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a group of scientists and engineers who has made significant contributions to the design, implementation of a state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice system. * BenchCouncil Contribution Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. * 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. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin) Xiaoyi Lu (The Ohio State University) TPC Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Publications Chair Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Competition Chairs Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua University) Xiaoyi Lu (The Ohio State University) Wanling Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Publicity Chairs Zhen Jia (Princeton University) Wanling Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Web Chair Jiahui Dai (Beijing Academy of Frontier Sciences and Technology) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Haiying Shen, University of Virginia Woongki Baek, UNIST Zheng Cao, Alibaba Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Li Zha, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zhen Jia, Princeton University Weijia Xu, The University of Texas at Austin Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Saliya Ekanayake, Virginia Tech Zujie Ren, Zhejiang University Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Guang R Gao, Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory, Unversity of Delaware

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[simu-conf] Theory and Foundation for Modeling & Simulation (TMS) - George Mason University, VA, USA – April 2020
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

# PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Theory and Foundation for Modeling & Simulation (TMS) (Part of the 2020 Spring Simulation Conference) George Mason University, VA, USA – April 2020 ## Aims and Scope: The TMS track aims to provide a forum to present the most recent advances in the Theory and Foundations of Modeling and Simulation. The focus is on the M&S concepts, methods, methodology, practice, and toolkits, as well as related lessons learned and challenges. This track welcomes unpublished papers, and not under consideration in other venues, on the topics below as well as others that can help deepen and expand the M&S Theory and Foundations for better understanding and development of computing, physical, and human systems. * Modeling & Simulation Formalisms (Agents, DEVS, Petri nets, Statecharts, etc.) * Multi-Paradigm/Multi-Domain Modeling, Multi-Resolution/Multi-Scale Modeling * Model Composition, Hybrid Modeling Languages, Multi-Modal Modeling * Model Checking, Formalism-Based Model Debugging, Model Transformation * Modular Hybrid, Spatially Distributed, and Ultra Large Scale Systems * Embedded, IoT, and Fog Computing Systems * Parallel, Distributed, Real-Time, Cloud-Based, and Interactive Simulation * Co-simulation, Interoperability, Simulation Languages, Numerical Solvers * Simulation and Model Development Visualization Tools * Model Libraries, Repositories, and Data Formats Conference proceedings will be submitted to the ACM Digital Library, for archiving and indexed in DBLP and SCOPUS. SpringSim is co-sponsored by SCS, ACM and IEEE. ## Organizers General Chair: Joachim Denil, University of Antwerp, Belgium General Co-Chair, Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA Program Chair, Cristina Ruiz-Martin, Carleton University, Canada Program Co-Chair, Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada ## Information about Previous Editions: https://msdl.uantwerpen.be/conferences/tmsdevs/2019/ [apologies for duplicated postings – problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters
by HOLMES Daniel 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

===================================== || EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters || ===================================== Important Dates Posters submissions due date: 27th July 2019 (AOE) Posters notification date: 11th August 2019 Conference dates: 11th-13th September 2019 The poster session at the EuroMPI 2019 conference is an excellent opportunity to engage with the community by discussing new ideas and latest results that are not yet ready to be full papers. We are soliciting poster submissions for EuroMPI 2019 that show-case work on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) or work that is related to message-passing parallel computing. We particularly encourage graduate students to publicise their ongoing work. We invite submissions from users of MPI, developers of MPI, and researchers in the broader field of message-passing parallel computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues * Implementation improvements towards exascale computing, such as many-core, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures. * Performance bugs in MPI implementations. * Interaction between message-passing software and new high-performance hardware architectures. * New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations. * Programming Models * API limitations of MPI; extensions to MPI. * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming; combining MPI with other interfaces. * MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications. * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. * New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces. * MPI parallel programming in clouds. * Applications and Performance * Performance evaluation for MPI or MPI-based applications on HPC machines or using cloud resources. * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. * Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. * Applications using message passing, for example, in computational science and scientific computing. * New parallel algorithms expressed in the message-passing paradigm. Submission Instructions Poster submissions should be submitted to the Euro MPI 2019 poster chairs via email to: Daniel Holmes <d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk> and to Stefano Markidis <markidis(a)kth.se>. All poster submissions must include: * A short abstract (175 word maximum). * An extended abstract (3 pages maximum, including figures and references, and formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template)) * A poster draft. Note that complete results are not necessary. It is acceptable to have placeholders for last-minute results. * Poster format should be A0 page size (either portrait or landscape). See the attached size guide instructions for more details. The abstracts and posters will NOT be published in the conference proceedings by ACM-ICPS. In case of acceptance, posters will be presented at the conference and, if the authors agree, they will be published on the EuroMPI'19 poster web page. Cheers, Dan. — Dr Daniel Holmes PhD Architect (HPC Research) d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 131 651 3465 Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 524 088 Address: Room 2.09, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Central Area, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT — The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. —

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CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 15 July 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; 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, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are 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 Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 15 July 2019 Paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee(Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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LOD 2019: Submit Your Paper/Abstract/Poster and Meet prominent speakers in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Tuscany! Deadline: June 30
by Ludovico Montalcini 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 5th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science LOD - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders, this September 10-13 at the Certosa di Pontignano. https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz LOD 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: - Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK - Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy - Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK - Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK - Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland - Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt - Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA - Richard E. Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Submit your Paper/Abstract/Poster by June 30 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 Sessions - LOD 2019 Big-Data Challenge: Our sponsor, Neodata Lab, will offer a prize of €2000 to the applicant who develops the most accurate algorithm to process an “approximate SQL-like query answering system” on a real dataset. https://lod2019.icas.xyz/industrial-session/ - Deep Neuroevolution Workshop https://lod2019.icas.xyz/deep-neuroevolution-workshop/ - Multi-Task Learning - Reinforcement Learning - Deep Learning - Generative Adversarial Networks - Networks with Memory - Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models - Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn - Chatbots and Conversational Agents - Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud - Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems - Data-centric Engineering - Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR - Economic Data Science https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz

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Last Call - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Last Call - HiPC Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2019 will be the 26th 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. High Performance Computing tracks: 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); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: 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): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of 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); and * 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks 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); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: 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); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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) * Design of 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); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 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 IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. 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. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. 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 Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. 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 is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 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) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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CFP OLA'2019 Int. Conf. on Optimization and Learning @Spain
by El-ghazali Talbi 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2020 International Conference on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications 17-19 Feb 2020 Cadiz, Spain http://ola2020.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2020 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages Important dates: =============== Submission deadline Sept 20, 2019 Notification of acceptance Nov 9, 2019 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a post-conference SCOPUS indexed Springer book and a special issue in a Journal are planned to be published. Participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration. -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2020 Int. Conference on Optimization and Learning 17-19 Feb 2020, Cadiz, Spain http://ola2020.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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Abstract Deadline Today - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 21 Jun '19

21 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2019 will be the 26th 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. High Performance Computing tracks: 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); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: 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): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of 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); and * 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks 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); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: 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); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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) * Design of 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); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 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 IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. 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. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. 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 Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. 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 is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 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) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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MSc on "Digital Media - Computational Intelligence"
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

The School of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will offer the MSc Course Programme on "Digital Media - Computational Intelligence" the forthcoming academic year. This MSc covers a range of advanced topics related to digital media. Digital media collectively refer to content found in audio, images, video, written and aural speech, biosignals, graphics, and virtual reality. To analyze the aforementioned content, one needs good foundations in signal processing, computer vision, graphics, pattern recognition/machine learning and computational intelligence, including associated enabling technologies (e.g., language technologies, deep learning, computer animation, brain computer interfaces). The MSc provides an excellent opportunity to develop the skills required for careers in some of the most dynamic fields in processing and analysis of big data extracted from multimedia, social networks, the web, the internet of things, without excluding complex adaptive systems of social life and robotics. This programme builds on the internationally recognized research strengths of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory <https://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/> within the School of Informatics <http://www.csd.auth.gr> at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This research team conducts pioneering research in the required aforementioned fundamental disciplines and work areas. The laboratory is well equipped with first-class computational facilities and state-of-the-art measurement equipment, including multiple cameras, microphone arrays, motion capture magnetic sensors, brain interfaces, and drones. The MSc provides in-depth training in design, analysis, and management skills relevant to the theory and practice of related industry. Foreign students are welcome! Courses are taught in English. We are proud to quote 2019 U.S. News Education University Rankings of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Subjects Computer Science (#181 tied) and Engineering (#152 tied) under Best Global Universities https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/aristotle-universi ty-of-thessaloniki-506056 Stay informed and submit the application now at http://dmci.csd.auth.gr/admissions/ Deadline for application submission: September, the 10th, 2019. Contact details: Professor Constantine Kotropoulos, Director of the MSc Programme Email: costas(a)csd.auth.gr <mailto:costas@csd.auth.gr> Follow us in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmci.eng.csd Brochure https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vbePAGd6ttoApeR4pTFWjAmkrzaOS35s

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 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, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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 including figures, tables and 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. 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. This additional page is voluntary, 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. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. 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 Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zürich, CH 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, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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[CFP - WORKSHOPS ESORICS 2019]: 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS ESORICS 2019 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 Website: https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers are solicited for the workshops held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. Find below the list of workshops and their respective websites. Workshops will publish accepted regular papers in the companion Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings of ESORICS 2019 by Springer Nature. - ADIot (Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things) Web: http://adiot2019.compute.dtu.dk/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - CBT (Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology) Web: http://cbtworkshop.org/ Deadline: June 25, 2019 - CSITS (Cyber Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems) Web: https://cyber.bgu.ac.il/esorics_csits2019/ Deadline: June 20, 2019 - CyberICPS (Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems) Web: https://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2019/ Deadline: June 24, 2019 - DPM (Data and Privacy Management) Web: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2019/ Deadline: June 17, 2019 - ETAA (Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication) Web: https://www.iit.cnr.it/etaa2019 Deadline: June 15, 2019 - FINSEC (Security for Financial Critical Infrastructures and Services) Web: https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/finsec19 Deadline: June 28, 2019 - IOSEC (Information & Operational Technology (IT & OT) security systems) Web: http://iosec2019.ics.forth.gr/ Deadline: June 15, 2019 - ISSA (Interplay of Security, Safety and System/Software Architecture) Web: https://www.irit.fr/issa/ Deadline: June 21, 2019 - MSTEC (Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity) Web: https://www.threat-arrest.eu/html/mstec/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - SECPRE (SECurity and Privacy Requirements Engineering) Web: http://samosweb.aegean.gr/secpre2019/ Deadline: June 28, 2019 - SIoT (Secure Internet of Things) Web: http://siot-workshop.org Deadline: June 25, 2019 - SPOSE (Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering) Web: https://spose-ws.github.io Deadline: June 14, 2019 - STAST (Socio-Technical Aspects in SecuriTy) Web: http://www.stast.uni.lu/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - STM (Security and Trust Management) Web: https://stm2019.uni.lu/ Deadline: June 17, 2019 ====================================================================== For further details, visit https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ or contact jgalfaro(a)ieee.org

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Research Fellow in Medical Data Mining
by Uwe Aickelin 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi, We seek a Research Fellow for a two-year appointment with expertise in computational algorithms, machine learning driven analytics and advanced data mining approaches for medical and health data. You will be working closely with other researchers in biomedical datamining projects, in particular in the analysis of electronic healthcare records. Job no: 0048228 Work type: Full-time, Fixed Term for 2 years Location: Parkville – Melbourne - Australia Department/School: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: the appointment for this position will be either at a Level A Research Fellow ($89,251- $95,800 p.a) or a Level B Research Fellow ($100,849 - $119,753 p.a), commensurate with experience relevant to the role, plus 9.5% superannuation. Applications close: 12 Jul 2019 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time Full details: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/899634/research-fellow-in-medical-dat… To apply: https://secure.dc2.pageuppeople.com/apply/422/aw/applicationForm/initApplic… 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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Research Fellow position at Middlesex University, London, UK
by Ramona Trestian 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

=========================================================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email =========================================================================== Research Fellow in Digital Twin Modeling for Automation, Maintenance and Monitoring in Industry 4.0 Smart Factory ** Deadline for applications: July 15th, 2019 ** The relevant information to apply is available in the following link: https://jobs.mdx.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCT244 The successful candidate is expected to work with a team at Middlesex University and collaborate with several other teams from the UK (Festo/Siemens) and India (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City) to conduct research in Digital Twin and machine learning technology to develop a digital counterpart (a Digital Twin model) of Industry 4.0 Smart Factory facilities to replicate their functionalities, data, communications, feedback, emergency and safety aspects. The proposed digital twin for industry 4.0 will also enable development towards self-correcting smart process control facility. Applicants will hold a PhD in a relevant area. The post will be a full-time role with fixed term contract of 18 months, based in Hendon, London. Middlesex University is working towards equality of opportunity. Applications from under-represented sections of the community are welcomed. Interested candidates can contact Associate Professor Dr Huan X Nguyen via email: H.Nguyen(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:b.barn@mdx.ac.uk> or phone +44 (0) 20 8411 4885 Kind Regards, Ramona Dr. Ramona Trestian Senior Lecturer in Computing and Communications Engineering Design, Engineering and Maths | Faculty of Science and Technology Middlesex University The Burroughs, Hendon London NW4 4BT Room: T115, Town Hall Tel: +44(0)20 8411 2901 Web: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/trestian-ramona Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramona_Trestian

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Deadline Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2019 will be the 26th 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. High Performance Computing tracks: 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); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: 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): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of 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); and * 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks 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); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: 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); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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) * Design of 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); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 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 IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. 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. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. 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 Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. 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 is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 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) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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CFP: CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil / Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy/ Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita’ di Napoli, Italy - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway /Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain / Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Rajan, Newcastle University, UK Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Call for Participation: 11th Women-in-HPC workshop at Supercomputing (SC)
by Mariam Umar 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

================================================================= 11th International Women in HPC workshop: Diversifying the HPC community and Engaging Male Allies Sunday November 17th 2019 — Denver, Colorado, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop ================================================================= Women-in-HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women and male allies from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 11th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC19 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions will focus on the following areas: - Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome - Building an effective professional network - How to get a new job or promotion - Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias and micro-aggression - Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt - Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace Call for lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 14th 2019 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a lightning talk. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC co-founder and director - Poster and Lightning Talks Chair: Mariam Umar, Intel corporation, USA - Posters & Lightning Talks Vice Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh,UK - Mentoring chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career lightning talks) - Elsa Gonsioworski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Raquell Holmes, Improvscience, USA - Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services, USA - Mozghan Kabiri, University of Sheffield, UK - Karen Divine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Hadia Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Debbie Bard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Rosa Filgueira, EPCC, UK Regards, Mariam Umar

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CFP: 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing
by Ilia 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2019) co-located with ALGO 2019 9-10 September 2019, Munich, Germany Submission Deadline: June 28, 2019 https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/index.php/menue-algocloud/algocloud-overview ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD is an annual international forum bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD 2019 is co-located with the ALGO 2019 (https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/) a leading international event of researchers working on algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles and high-quality survey papers. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modelling, practices for building and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. TOPICS Submissions should focus on aspects of cloud-based systems and their algorithms, including (but not limited to) the following areas: - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures - Resource Management and Scheduling - Data Center and Infrastructure Management - Privacy, Security and Anonymization - Cloud-based applications - Virtualization and containers - Performance Models - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Novel programming models - Storage management - Fog and Edge Computing - Economic models and pricing - Energy and Power Management - Big Data and the Cloud - Network management and techniques - Caching and Load Balancing PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format, excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2019) By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2019 and/or ALGOCLOUD 2019, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: 28 June 2019 - Author notification: 22 July 2019 - Symposium: 10 September 2019 INVITED SPEAKER (to be decided) COMMITTEES Program Committee Olivier Beaumont (INRIA Bordeaux, France) Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil) Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) (co-chair) Valeria Cardellini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Katerina Doka (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Fanny Dufosse (INRIA Grenoble, France) Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Thiago Genez (University of Cambridge, UK) (co-chair) Sarunas Girdzijauskas (KTH, Sweden) Anastasios Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Raffaele Montella (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Alessandro Papadopoulos (MDH, Sweden) Ilia Pietri (Intracom SA, Greece) Guido Proietti (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw, Poland) Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) (co-chair) Rafael Brundo Uriante (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas University of Patras, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Warwick, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications
by Sandro Fiore 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

============================================================================ ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications September 10, 2019 in Prague https://sites.google.com/cmcc.it/parco2019-reprod-symposium/home ============================================================================ Overview Meaningful advances in science and engineering are increasingly predicated on data-driven decision making. For these decisions to be valid, it is essential that the one not only record the process by which results were produced, but be able to reproduce the data involved at every step in the process. While we are all used to tracking source code revisions, and keeping track of program inputs and outputs, the increased complexity of end-to-end computing pipelines, coupled with new big-data and machine learning algorithms, imposes significant complexity on tracking all of the steps and associated data that went into producing a result. For example, keeping track of exactly what data use used for a training set vs. an evaluation set, what cleaning was done, what analysis was done on the results to evaluate performance, and what additional experiments were performed. With the ever-increasing number, size, and complexity of the data used in data-intensive applications, reproducing results from these types of investigations becomes increasingly difficult. While no-one deliberately sets out to create un-reproducible results, recent surveys of the literature shows that the ability to reproduce data-intensive results are the exception and not the rule. For these reasons, a symposium on issues, tools and infrastructure for data intensive applications is highly germane to the ParCo community. In this symposium, we propose to review current state of the art in reproducibility in data-intensive computing applications. We will cover three primary topic areas: - Reproducibility challenges that are specific to science and engineering activities that have data-intensive computing as a core aspect of the process - Infrastructure, tools and methods that are currently available for reproducible data-intensive applications, and gaps and challenges that need to be addressed. - How to increase the adoption of methods for reproducible data-intensive applications across the research community. Dates: - Submission of extended abstracts/draft papers: 31 July 2019 - Notification of acceptance for presentation at the Symposium: 10 August 2019 - Submission of full papers: 10 September 2019 - Symposium: 10 September, 2019 - Notification of acceptance of full papers for publication: 30 September 2019 - Deadline for submission of full papers for proceedings: 31 October 2019 Submission guidelines: - Extended abstracts should be ca. 2 pages. Full papers are allowed the same number of pages as all other papers included in the proceedings, i.e. 10 pages. - Contributions should be submitted by e-mail to the Symposium organisers at: sandro [dot] fiore [at] cmcc [dot] it , foster [at] uchicago [dot] edu , carl [at] isi [dot] edu - Please specify in the subject of your email: [Symposium contribution] Organizers: - Sandro Fiore Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - Ian Foster University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory - Carl Kesselman University of Southern California Useful Information about ParCo2019 - Location and dates: Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 September 2019 - Conference website: https://www.parco.org/ - Symposium page: https://www.parco.org/symposia.html *********************************************** Sandro Fiore, PhD Head of the Data Science and Learning Research Team Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation) Via Augusto Imperatore 16 - 73100 Lecce (Italy) http://www.cmcc.it/ email: sandro.fiore(a)cmcc.it Linkedin: https://it.linkedin.com/pub/sandro-fiore-ph-d/8/ba3/80 GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTh7jcAAAAJ&hl=en ************************************************

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CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 15 July 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; 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, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are 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 Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 15 July 2019 Paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee(Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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CFP - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2019 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 sixth edition which will take place in Västerås (Sweden). 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 Paper submission: 15 September 2019 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 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=pdp2020 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. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <http://www.unical.it/5x1000>

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EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters
by HOLMES Daniel 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

===================================== || EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters || ===================================== Important Dates Posters submissions due date: 27th July 2019 (AOE) Posters notification date: 11th August 2019 Conference dates: 11th-13th September 2019 The poster session at the EuroMPI 2019 conference is an excellent opportunity to engage with the community by discussing new ideas and latest results that are not yet ready to be full papers. We are soliciting poster submissions for EuroMPI 2019 that show-case work on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) or work that is related to message-passing parallel computing. We particularly encourage graduate students to publicise their ongoing work. We invite submissions from users of MPI, developers of MPI, and researchers in the broader field of message-passing parallel computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues * Implementation improvements towards exascale computing, such as many-core, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures. * Performance bugs in MPI implementations. * Interaction between message-passing software and new high-performance hardware architectures. * New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations. * Programming Models * API limitations of MPI; extensions to MPI. * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming; combining MPI with other interfaces. * MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications. * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. * New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces. * MPI parallel programming in clouds. * Applications and Performance * Performance evaluation for MPI or MPI-based applications on HPC machines or using cloud resources. * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. * Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. * Applications using message passing, for example, in computational science and scientific computing. * New parallel algorithms expressed in the message-passing paradigm. Submission Instructions Poster submissions should be submitted to the Euro MPI 2019 poster chairs via email to: Daniel Holmes <d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:d.holmes@epcc.ed.ac.uk>> and to Stefano Markidis <markidis(a)kth.se<mailto:markidis@kth.se>>. All poster submissions must include: * A short abstract (175 word maximum). * An extended abstract (3 pages maximum, including figures and references, and formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template)) * A poster draft. Note that complete results are not necessary. It is acceptable to have placeholders for last-minute results. * Poster format should be A0 page size (either portrait or landscape). See the attached size guide instructions for more details. The abstracts and posters will NOT be published in the conference proceedings by ACM-ICPS. In case of acceptance, posters will be presented at the conference and, if the authors agree, they will be published on the EuroMPI'19 poster web page. Cheers, Dan. — Dr Daniel Holmes PhD Applications Consultant in HPC Research d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:d.holmes@epcc.ed.ac.uk> Phone: +44 (0) 131 651 3465 Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 524 088 Address: Room 2.09, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Central Area, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT — The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. —

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Bench'19 (http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html) Call for Papers
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

---Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP--- Bench'19 (2019 International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing) Call for Papers Web: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html November 14-16, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA >>> Introduction Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being's lives. This symposium (Bench 19) is organized by International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil), and the main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Bench 19 has two special events: the AI benchmarking reports (benchmarks, performance numbers), and the AI system and algorithm competitions ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html ). Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics. >>> Call for papers Accordingly, we provide two submission opportunities. For regular submission, we solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **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: ** Testbed 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 For the AI system and algorithms challenge(http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html), each team is welcomed to submit a paper describing their work. Their paper will be reviewed for further recommendation. For the winner final lists, each team has to submit a paper and presents their work at Bench 19. >>> Paper Submission: Papers must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (no more than 4 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references) are encouraged, and the authors can extend their short paper to 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references, in the final publication. If a full paper is submitted, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 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, revised papers will be published by Springer (Pending). Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bench19 >>> Improtant Dates Regular submission Registration of abstract June 15, 2019 Paper Submission June 30, 2019 Acceptance Notification Aug 20, 2019 AI competitions Paper submission: Sep 1, 2019 Acceptance Notification: Sep 15, 2019 >>> Organization General Chairs Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin) Xiaoyi Lu (The Ohio State University) TPC Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Publications Chair Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) BenchCouncil Achievement Award This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. ($3,000) BenchCouncil System Award This award recognizes a group of scientists and engineers who has made significant contributions to the design, implementation of a state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice system. ($3,000) BenchCouncil Contribution Award Chair This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. ($1,000) BenchCouncil best paper award Chair This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. ($1,000) Publicity Chairs Zhen Jia (Princeton University) Wanling Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Web Chair Jiahui Dai (Beijing Academy of Frontier Sciences and Technology) >>>Technical Program Committee Haiying Shen, University of Virginia Woongki Baek, UNIST Zheng Cao, Alibaba Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Li Zha, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zhen Jia, Princeton University Weijia Xu, The University of Texas at Austin Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Saliya Ekanayake, Virginia Tech Zujie Ren, Zhejiang University Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Guang R Gao, Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory, Unversity of Delaware

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Call for submissions: SC19 Posters, DEADLINE: Wednesday, 31 July 2019
by Stefano Markidis 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

=================================================================== SC19 Posters call for submissions The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, November 17-22, 2019 Denver, CO, USA. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday, 31 July 2019, 11:59 pm AoE =================================================================== We invite submissions of posters for Supercomputing 2019. Posters offer an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students, doctoral students, and researchers to present their work and get feedback from your peers in the community. SC19 posters consist of four different submission types based on the type of content and student status. Awards and travel support may be available for selected students. ACM Student Research Competition: SC hosts the ACM Student Research Competition, an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase original research. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea…> Research Posters: SC’s Research Posters is an opportunity for researchers in industry, academia (including students), and government to present cutting-edge research ideas and late-breaking results. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions> Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase (SciViz): SC’s SciViz provides a venue for sharing the most instrumental videos in expressing the latest in HPC. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual…> Doctoral Showcase (DS): SC’s DS is a forum for students nearing completion of doctoral program to present a summary of their dissertation work through a thesis canvas (poster) and a talk. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase…> The authors of accepted submissions will be invited to display and present their posters at the SC Conference. Partial travel support for students may also be available. Visit the SC19 Posters page for details: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> Submissions close Wednesday, 31 July 2019. Submit now!

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Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 *** Check out tutorials and workshop! *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html *** Exhibition Opening & Welcome Aperitif on Tuesday *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 24th Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Warsaw Warsaw, Poland (5 June 2019) - Ada-Europe together with EDC (the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation), organize from 11 to 14 June 2019 the "24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019" in Warsaw, Poland. The event is in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda), on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. This year's conference offers tutorials and a workshop, two keynotes, a technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Two tutorials are scheduled on Tuesday, targeting different audiences: "An Introduction to Ada", for those who want to understand the benefits of using Ada; and "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol", for those willing to develop Ada programs that control external hardware devices. On Friday the conference hosts for the 6th consecutive year the workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019): registration is complementary for conference participants. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday mid-afternoon in the networking area and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector, and Ada-Europe. All tutorial and conference participants are invited to the exhibition opening, as well as to the Welcome Aperitif afterwards. Two eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program: Michael Klemm (OpenMP, Germany), on "OpenMP API: A Story about Threads, Tasks and Devices"; and Tucker Taft (AdaCore, USA), on "A 2020 View of Ada". The technical program on Wednesday and Thursday presents 9 refereed technical papers and 8 industrial presentations in sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, and Real-Time Systems. Also included is a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada", and vendor presentations. Peer-reviewed papers will be published in an open-access journal, industrial presentations and tutorial abstracts in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The social program includes on Tuesday evening a Welcome Aperitif on the terrace of the Institute of Aviation, enjoying a wonderful view of the Warsaw airport and city center, accompanied by drinks and typical Polish snacks. On Wednesday evening will be the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music, in the restaurant "Przepis na kompot" in the town where Chopin was born. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 12-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019-Final-Program.pdf> Check out the tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are lower than ever and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019> or go directly to <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html>. A printed Conference Booklet with abstracts of all technical papers and industrial presentations will be included in every conference handout. Help promote the conference by advertising for it: <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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Paper Deadline Extended - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

********************************************************************** 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 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 HiPC 2019 Call For Papers HiPC 2019 will be the 26th 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. High Performance Computing tracks: 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); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: 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): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of 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); and * 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 applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks 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); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: 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); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. 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) * Design of 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); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 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 IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. 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. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. 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 Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. 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 is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 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) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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Summer School on Signal Processing-Machine Learning at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
by nmyrsini＠csd.auth.gr 31 May '19

31 May '19

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) 1st EURASIP-GAIPDM Seasonal School on” Learning from Signals, Images and Video” https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/ July 15th- 19th, 2019 Thessaloniki, Greece EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 20th, 2019 https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/registration/ The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) https://www.eurasip.org/ and the Greek Association for Image Processing and Digital Media (GAIPDM) https://gaipdm.web.auth.gr/ invite you to attend the 1st Seasonal School on “Learning from Signals, Images, and Video”. The school aims at introducing practitioners to all the aspects of current and future digital media processing and analysis, employing associated technologies. Digital media refer to content found in audio, images, videos, written or aural speech, and biosignals. To analyze the aforementioned content, one needs to step into the fields of Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition/ Machine Learning, and Computational Intelligence. These fields are exactly addressed in the school. Besides theoretical advances, the attendees will gather practical experience through hands-on workshops and participation to hackathons. The workshop provides the attendees an excellent opportunity to develop skills in some of the most dynamic fields in processing and analysis of big data extracted from multimedia, social networks, and the web. Information for keynote speakers, topics taught, and hackathons can be found at the website https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/. The school is sponsored by the PROMOTE project (https://promote.web.auth.gr/) the MSc Program on Digital Media-Computational Intelligence (https://dmci.csd.auth.gr) and the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/) Contact Us: gaipdm.schools(a)gmail.com Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/summer-school-on-learning-from-signals-imag…

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CFP Cybersecurity and Biometrics 2019 in conjunction with CW 2019, Kyoto, Japan, October 2-4, 2019
by Marina Gavrilova 24 May '19

24 May '19

CALL FOR PAPERS 6rd International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Biometrics 2019 in conjunction with ACM/IEEE 2019 International Conference on CyberWorlds CW 2019 http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/ October 2-4, 2019 Kyoto, Japan Workshop Description International Conference on CyberWorlds is a well-established key international event in the field of virtual worlds and computer graphics. The conference is designated as ACM SIGGRAPH small conference, and is supported by Eurographics and IEEE, with proceedings published by IEEE-CS. Recently, the research focus has shifted towards security and privacy aspects in virtual worlds, with cybersecurity emerged as one of the emerging research directions. Security research domain has recently witnessed tremendous growth in respect to all aspects of information access and sharing. There has been notable progress in developing successful approaches to tackle the problem of user authentication. Among those approaches, biometric-based authentication firmly established itself as one of the most reliable, efficient, and versatile tools for providing discretionary access control to a secure resource or system. While state-of-the art methods for biometric authentication are becoming increasingly more popular and better understood, the same unfortunately cannot be said about security of users populating on-line communities or cyberworld. The workshop invites high-quality, original and previously unpublished research in all areas of biometric and cyber security, including both theoretical foundations, system design, empirical studies on individual and multi-modal biometrics, as well as emerging biometric research trends. Image processing, machine intelligence, cognitive sciences and information fusion provide strong theoretical foundations and drive current state-pf-the-art biometric research. Biometric template protection, on-line security, social biometrics, context-based biometrics, cancelable biometrics, robotic biometrics are emerging areas of biometric, which fit perfectly with overall Cyberworlds Conference themes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Security protocols; Authentication protocols; Privacy protocols; Password security; Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights management; Risk and reputation management; Identity and trust management; Privacy, security and trust in social media; Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics; Performance evaluation of biometric systems; Multi-biometrics; Biometric fusion; Cancelable biometrics: Quality of biometric data; Biometric template protection; Presentation attack detection; Cloud computing and Biometrics; Emerging biometrics For information on paper submission and to submit your paper please go to CW'19 web site and chose Biometric Security Workshop. All workshop papers will undergo rigorous refereeing, accepted papers will be published as part of main Cyberworlds Conference IEEE-CS Proceedings and indexed by major citation engines. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus, and SCI SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of all accepted full papers: Computers & Graphics (Elsevier); The Visual Computer (Springer); Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS); Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier); Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier); International Journal of Art, Culture, and Design Technologies (IGI Global) IMPORTANT DATES: ? Paper submission: May 31 ? Papers (Full/Short) notification : Jul 1 ? Poster papers submission : Jul 6 ? Poster papers notification : Jul 15 ? Author registration : Jul 24 ? Camera-ready papers submission : Jul 24 Workshop Organizers Christophe Rosenberger, christophe.rosenberger(a)ensicaen.fr Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CFP: Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019)
by Sanjay Chaudhary 24 May '19

24 May '19

Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) December 17-20, 2019, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Website: http://bda2019.org Dear Colleagues, The 7th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) will be held during December 17-20, 2019 at Ahmedabad University, India. *********************************************** Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials *********************************************** BDA2019 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends. BDA 2019 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * Analytics as a Service * Architectural Design for Big Data * Big Data Analytics for Governance * Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics * Clustering of Big Data * Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics * Data Models for Big Data Analytics * Domain-specific Analytics * Index Structures for Big Data Analytics * Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics * Machine Learning techniques for Big Data * Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis * Model Discovery from Big Data * NoSQL and non-standard Data Models * Physical Data Organization for Big Data * Predictive Modelling * Pattern and Rule Mining from Big Data * Scalability and Performance issues * Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data * Semantics of Big Data * Streaming Data Analytics * Summarization and Materialized views * Topic Modelling * Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining Publication: The proceedings of BDA2019 will be published in Springer LNCS series (approval pending) Research track submissions: Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one author of the accepted paper must register for the conference. LaTeX and Word Templates & Submission Guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 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 is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in Springer LNCS series. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bda20190 Journal Special Issue: Selected papers from BDA conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for possible publications in Special Issue of Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. Important Dates: Abstract submission: July 5, 2019, 23:59 PST Full paper submissions: July 19, 2019, 23:59 PST Author notifications: September 16, 2019, 23:59 PST Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2019, 23:59 PST The call for tutorials is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/tutalks.html The call for workshops is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/workshops.html Chief Patrons Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT, Gandhinagar General Chair Sanjay Chaudhary, Ahmedabad University, India Steering Committe Chair: P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Members: S.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Raj K. Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, Australia H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Anirban Mondal, Ashoka University, India Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee Chairs Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Philippe Fournier-Viger, Herbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China Organizing Chair Mehul Raval, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India Kumar Shashi Prabh, Ahmedabad University, India Sponsorship Chair Anil Roy, DA-IICT, India Financial Chair Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University, India Publication Chair P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Workshop Chair Srikrishnan Divakaran, Ahmedabad University, India Tutorial Chairs Mukesh Mohania, IBM, Australia Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Publicity Chairs Shelly Sachdeva, NIT Delhi, India M. T. Savaliya, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, India Panel Chairs TBD Website Chair Pratik Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, India Organizing Committee Barbara Moraswka, Ahmedabad University, India Anurag Lakhlani, Ahmedabad University, India C K Bhensdadia, Dharmsinh Desai University, India Amit Ganatra, CHARUSAT, India Sanjay Sampat, Government Polytechnic College - Surat, India Rahul Bhathiji, Ahmedabad University, India Aman Dave, Ahmedabad University, India Kruti Yadav, Ahmedabad University, India Manav Shah, Ahmedabad University, India Contact: Admin Office, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009 E-mail: bda2019conference(a)gmail.com Phone: +91 79 61911111/ 61911112 <http://seas.ahduni.edu.in/people-details/faculty-list/sanjay_chaudhary> <http://ict.ahduni.edu.in/>

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CFP BSC 2019 (Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019)
by Marina Gavrilova 24 May '19

24 May '19

BSC 2019 (Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019) The 1st international Workshop on Biometrics for Smart Cities in Conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019 https://ucalgary.ca/btlab/bss-avss-2019 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results related to biometrics for Smart Cities at the BSC Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Biometrics is a rapidly expanding research area in the field of computer science and has become a ubiquitous term in industrial and governmental problems in different disciplinary fields such as privacy, security, engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications. The goal of the Biometrics for Smart Cities Workshop (BSC19) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Biometrics, Intelligent Sensor and Technology. BSC19 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Biometrics and Smart Sensors. BSC19 will be held on Sep. 21, 2019, as a part of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) in Taipei, Taiwan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Face, Iris, Fingerprint and Ear - Periocular - Palm Prints - Multi-Modal and Multi-Spectral Biometrics - Mobile-based biometrics - Template protection - Gait and gesture - Soft biometrics (including marks, scars and tattoos) - Template design, selection and update - Finance-related applications - Database, protocol and benchmarking - Large scale ID - Law enforcement and forensic applications - Performance modelling and prediction - Ethical, social and legal issues - Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation - Security applications - Biometrics in healthcare and societal applications ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Research Article: Paper Submission July 07, 2019 Author Notification July 26, 2019 Camera‐ready submission August 2, 2019 ------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via The CMT system under the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BSC2019/Submission/Index IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html<https://deref-web-02.de/mail/client/-k3LY0g-PVY/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=htt…> ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- Workshop Organizers Gee‐Sern Jison Hsu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, jison(a)mail.ntust.edu.tw Moritz Sontheimer, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, D10703815(a)mail.ntust.edu.tw Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, syanshk(a)ucalgary.ca Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Orly Yadid‐Pecht, University of Calgary, orly.yadid‐pecht(a)ucalgary.ca

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CFP - DPM 2019 (Data Privacy Management), ESORICS 2019, Springer, LNCS
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 23 May '19

23 May '19

[apologies for cross-posting] DPM 2019 14th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM 2019) Co-located with ESORICS 2019 (Luxembourg, September 26-27, 2019) http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2019/ IMPORTANT DATES ================== Full paper submission: ** June 17, 2019 ** Short paper submission: ** June 17, 2019 ** Notification to authors: July 25, 2019 Camera ready: August 06, 2019 ************************************************************************* DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data privacy management. DPM 2019, the 14th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, will be held in Luxembourg, in conjunction with the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019). SCOPE ===== The aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange the ideas related to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Privacy Information Management * Privacy Policy-Based Infrastructures and Architectures * Privacy-Oriented Access Control Languages and Models * Privacy in Trust Management * Privacy in Cryptocurrencies * Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance * Privacy Services * Cryptography and Cryptanalysis * Privacy Policy Analysis * Query Execution over Privacy-Sensitive Data * Privacy Preserving Data Mining * Privacy for IntegrityBased Computing * Privacy Monitoring and Auditing * Privacy in Social Networks * Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications * Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security * Privacy in Computer Networks * Privacy and RFIDs * Privacy and Big Data * Privacy in Sensor Networks * Privacy in Cloud Computing * Privacy in the IoT 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. Papers can be submitted as Full Papers or Short Papers. Full papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Short papers should be at most 8 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so papers should be intelligible without them. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2019) Authors must indicate whether they are submitting a full or short paper by selecting the appropriate choice in the EasyChair submission form. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Accepted conference papers will be published by Springer in their LNCS series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The LNCS template can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: ================== Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ================== Archita Agarwal (Brown University) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Jordi Castellà-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Mauro Conti (University of Padua) Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne) Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (IMT Atlantique) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Christian Duncan (Quinnipiac University) José M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal) Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis) Marit Hansen (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein) Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Marc Juarez (KU Leuven) Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London and TU Berlin) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University) Alptekin Küpçü (Koç University) Maryline Laurent (Institut Mines-Telecom) Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Anna Monreale (University of Pisa) Jordi Nin (BBVA Data & Analytics, Universitat de Barcelona) Melek Önen (EURECOM) Javier Parra-Arnau (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit) Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt) Ruben Rios (University of Malaga) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan) David Sanchez (University Rovira i Virgili) Claudio Soriente (NEC Laboratories Europe) Iraklis Symeonidis (SnT/APSIA) Vicenç Torra (Maynooth University) Yasuyuki Tsukada (Kanto Gakuin University) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (De Montfort University) Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Nicola Zannone (<Eindhoven University of Technology)> This call for papers and additional information about the workshop can be found at http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2017/

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CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD 2019)
by Zoltán Mann 23 May '19

23 May '19

2nd Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD 2019) Co-located with ECSA 2019, the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture 9-10 September 2019, Paris, France Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2019 http://www.bdva.eu/node/1262 BACKGROUND ========== Software systems managing big data have very challenging architectural requirements, e.g., in terms of performance, flexibility, and reliability. Big data systems often embody a number of technologies, such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular machine learning (ML). These technologies come with their own technical limitations and constraints that also impact the architecture of big data systems. Enforcing security, privacy, transparency, and ethics are also concerns of increasing importance, with potential architectural implications. OBJECTIVES ========== The Big Data Value Association (BDVA, http://www.bdva.eu/) initiated the SACBD workshop series to provide a forum for discussing all aspects of the software architecture challenges of big data systems. The workshop welcomes the contributions of practitioners and researchers alike. The workshop is open to all, both BDVA members and non-members. Technical issues and challenges related to software architecture are well covered by the European Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (http://www.bdva.eu/SRIA) Such software architecture trends are facilitating new data-driven operations and services which are at the core of the new economy revolving around big data value. As organizations become more and more data-centric, they need to re-design their software architectures accordingly. For example, data-intensive systems and applications need to be put in place and properly integrated with traditional systems (e.g. web applications). This affects not only the architecture design but also its implementation and non-functional aspects. For example, performance and data protection are paramount when dealing with Big Data. This situation creates a need for new methods and tools to design and reason about software architectures in Big Data scenarios and paves the way for various research directions. For example, how to design software architectures when dealing with Big Data? Which are the typical architectural patterns? How to assess the performance or the privacy risk of Big Data architectures? The workshop will focus on these and many others aspects of software architectures in the Big Data era. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of software architecture for big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software architectures in genuine big data scenarios * Architectural patterns for big data * Architectures of big data systems (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop) * Integration of Big Data systems with other business systems * Non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, privacy, reliability) * Combining big data with IoT, HPC, cloud computing, fog computing * Applying machine learning to big data scenarios, big data integration with artificial intelligence * Fostering business with big data and analytics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== Original, high-quality papers are solicited, from researchers and practitioners alike. Both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages) will be considered. All papers must be written in English and follow the ACM formatting instructions and templates for conference papers, as specified under https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. Independently from the length, several types of papers will be considered (experience reports, new approaches, review or analysis of existing approaches, empirical studies, theoretical results, negative results, position papers, vision papers). The contribution of a paper must be commensurate with its length. Submitted papers must be original, not submitted and not published elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the ECSA companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the online submission system under the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacbd2019. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics. FURTHER INFORMATION =================== SACBD 2019 will be co-located with ECSA 2019, the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture (https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.fr/) The workshop will take place on 9-10 September 2019 in Paris, right before the main ECSA conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the workshop, and present the work. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the ECSA 2019 conference. Workshop website: http://www.bdva.eu/node/1262 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper submission: May 31, 2019 Notification: June 26, 2019 Camera-ready: July 5, 2019 Workshop: September 9-10, 2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Zoltán Ádám Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Daniel Alonso Román, Technology Institute of Valencia, Spain Michele Guerriero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Ali Serdar Atalay, BitNet, Turkey Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Arne Berre, SINTEF, Norway David Bowden, DELL, Ireland Sergio Campos, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain Alexandru Costan, IRISA / INSA Rennes, France Carlos E. Cuesta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Omar Elloumi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland Ibai Laña, Tecnalia, Spain Daphne Lopez, Vellore Institute of Technology, India Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ignacio Olabarrieta Palacios, Tecnalia, Spain Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden Zoheir Sabeur, Bournemouth University, UK Andrey Sadovykh, Innopolis University, Russia Angel Serrano Sánchez de León, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands Ana Isabel Torre, Tecnalia, Spain Anwar Vahed, Meraka Institute, South Africa Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

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OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019
by Kenneth Tan 18 May '19

18 May '19

The Event: OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019 =============================== OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 2 — 3 October 2019. 2018 marked the beginning of a new era as the OpenStack Foundation announced their full support to all adjacent open source communities dedicated to building and operating open infrastructure. The Foundation changed the name of their community gathering to Open Infrastructure Summit, encouraging wide spread collaboration with communities such as Ansible, Ceph, Docker, Kata Containers, Kubernetes, ONAP, Open cSwitch, OPNFV, StarlingX, Zuul and more. As a satellite event to the Open Infrastructure Summit, and as supporters of the new and improved mission, it is now our turn to head in the same direction. This is why we are officially changing the name of this event and extend a warm welcome to the entire Nordic open infrastructure community. Let’s all help create, experience, learn and improve both our community and all of the open infra solutions and technologies we are dedicated to! For more info: https://openinfranordics.com Ticket deals ========= As with many other aspects of this event, we have also changed the ticket deals. Gone are the various species of birds and instead we encourage early registration through a single set of discounts. 30% OFF for 30 This deal is valid for the first 30 attendees and has no expiry date. Students We keep 50 student tickets reserved until 2019-08-30. Call for papers =========== Call for papers is open and as usual, we are relying on our fantastic community to help fill this event with great content. If you haven’t yet considered hosting a presentation, here is what you need to know: Our attendees are eager to learn and explore new areas of open source infrastructure using OpenStack, Kubernetes, and 30+ other technologies. A good presentation free of sales content is the best and most valued presentation. Submit your presentations: https://papercall.io/oidn-stockholm-2019 Exhibit for free! ============ We came up with something new and we quite simply call it for what it is. The Southwest Community Corner. We are determined to make this event an extraordinary meeting place for the Nordic open infrastructure community. This space serves to recognise all of the hard working community teams, charitable organisations and student projects in the open source space. The actual Southwest corner of the marketplace will host a total of 8 charitable organisations, community project teams and student projects a chance to exhibit at the event for free! These opportunities are applied for, in contrast to sponsorships which are sold on a first come – first served basis. Applications are then reviewed and approved by the advisory team. Exhibitors to the Southwest Community Corner will be selected continuously. Read more and apply now: https://openinfranordics.com/southwest-community-corner/ Kenneth Tan ----------------- Kenneth Tan cjtan(a)sardinasystems.com | +421948251435‬ www.sardinasystems.com | @sardinasystems | https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardina-systems

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Ada-Europe 2019 - early registration until May 20
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 16 May '19

16 May '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Add a tutorial or workshop to your conference registration *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html *** EARLY REGISTRATION discount until MAY 20 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 visits Poland, for the first time, and is hosted in Warsaw from the 11th to the 14th of June. The conference is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of Ada and Reliable Software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is on the conference web site, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The 12-page Advance Program brochure is available there as well. The 2019 edition of the conference features a number of important innovations: - lower registration fee for conference, unified for all participants; - further reduced fee for all authors; - lower registration fee for all tutorials; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - an educational tutorial offered especially for those new to Ada; - more compact program with two core days (Wed & Thu); tutorials on Tuesday, then exhibition opening mid-afternoon, followed by welcome aperitif for all participants; - full-day DeCPS workshop on Friday, complementary with conference registration. Quick overview - Tue 11: tutorials, opening exhibition + AE GA, welcome reception - Wed 12 & Thu 13: core program - Fri 14: workshop Venue - Engineering Design Center (EDC), Warsaw, Poland - EDC is a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions Proceedings - peer-reviewed papers in open-access journal - industrial presentation and tutorial abstracts in Ada User Journal Conference & Program Chair - Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Keynote speakers - Michael Klemm, OpenMP, Germany "OpenMP API: A Story about Threads, Tasks and Devices" - Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA "A 2020 View of Ada" Workshop (full day) - 6th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019) - registration is complementary for conference participants Tutorials (full day) - "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol" Philip Munts, Sweden - "An Introduction to Ada" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Papers and Presentations - sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, Real-Time Systems - 9 refereed technical papers - 8 industrial presentations and experience reports - a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada" - submissions by authors from 11 countries, and accepted contributions from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector; some exhibition slots still available - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday afternoon: opening of exhibition & Ada-Europe General Assembly, Welcome Aperitif on terrace overlooking Warsaw Airport - Wednesday evening: transportation to restaurant in town where Chopin was born, banquet with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration - online registration is open at <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html> - early registration discount until Monday May 20, 2019 - special low fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - extra discount for students - registration includes coffee breaks and lunches - full conference registration includes all social events - tutorial fees substantially reduced - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - see registration page for all details Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019 - 12-page Advance Program brochure online at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019%20AP.pdf> - support Ada-Europe 2019 with promotional poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in June 2019! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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Deep NeuroEvolution Workshop@LOD2019: Submit Your Paper by May 31 * Deep Neuroevolution: the new Deep Learning *
by Ludovico Montalcini 11 May '19

11 May '19

Deep NeuroEvolution Workshop @ LOD 2019 5thInternational Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science LOD, September 10-13, Siena (Tuscany) Italy https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz Deep NeuroEvolution: A Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning The quest to evolve and optimize artificial neural networks through evolutionary computation. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/neuroevolution-a-different-kind-of-deep-learn… In last two years, the use of deep neuroevolution has enabled researchers to extend reinforcement learning techniques to solve increasingly complex learning tasks. The emerging field of deep neuroevolution has led to remarkable empirical results in rich and varied domains like strategy games and robotics. This workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of deep learning, evolutionary computation, optimization and reinforcement learning, and it will help interested researchers outside of the field gain a high-level view about the current state of the art and potential directions for future contributions. Submit your Deep Neuroevolution Paper by May 31 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 Moreover, LOD 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: · Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK · Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy · Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK · Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK · Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland · Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt · Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA · Richard E. Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Submit your Paper by May 31 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 · Late Breaking Papers · Poster Presentation · Talk · Deep Neuroevolution Workshop LOD 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology and applications in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Optimization. Sessions · LOD 2019 Big-Data Challenge: Our sponsor, Neodata Lab, will offer a prize of €2000 to the applicant who develops the most accurate algorithm to process an “approximate SQL-like query answering system” on a real dataset. · Multi-Task Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning · Generative Adversarial Networks · Deep Neuroevolution · Networks with Memory · Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models · Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn · Chatbots and Conversational Agents · Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud · Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modelling of Complex Systems · Data-centric Engineering · Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR · Economic Data Science See you in Siena in September! https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz

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[CFP] 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing - Abstract deadline approaching
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 May '19

10 May '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!!! NEWS: DEADLINES EXTENDED!!! - Abstract registration: May 12 Paper submission May 20 Call for Papers 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing Part of IEEE Rebooting Computing Week 6-8 November 2019 San Mateo, California http://icrc.ieee.org/ http://icrc.ieee.org/cfp/ The 4th IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2019) will be held November 6-8 in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. ICRC is a premier venue for novel computing approaches. ICRC grew out of the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative (RCI), which was founded in 2012 to catalyze rethinking of the computer at all levels of the technology stack. The Rebooting Computing Committee represents thirteen IEEE Societies and Councils, and the membership in the Rebooting Computing Technical Community is approaching three thousand. For more information on the RCI please visit the Rebooting Computing Portal (http://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org) Now in its 4th year, the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing is the premier venue for forward looking computing, including algorithms and languages, system software, system and network architectures, new devices and circuits, and applications of new materials and physics. This is an interdisciplinary conference that has participation from a broad technical community, with emphasis on all aspects of the computing stack. The broad scope of ICRC extends to many areas of interest, including novel device physics and materials for post-Moore, beyond CMOS, and non-von Neumann computing paradigms. ——————————————— Topics of interest ——————————————— *Future computing approaches, including neuromorphic, brain-inspired computing, approximate and probabilistic, analog computing; computing based on novel device physics and materials (e.g., spin-based electronics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos); energy-efficient computing including reversible, adiabatic, and ballistic computing, superconductor and cryogenic computing; quantum computing; optical computing; biological and biochemical computing; Non-von Neumann computer architectures (e.g., in-memory processing, memory-based computing, cellular automata, or cellular neural networks). *Future computing design aspects, including extending Moore’s law and augmenting CMOS; error-tolerant logic and circuits; future of design automation. post-CMOS, 3D, heterogeneous integration and packaging; future impact on performance, power, scalability, reliability, supportability *Future Software and Applications, including beyond von Neumann system software issues (operating systems, compilers, security, and resource management); future computing programming paradigms and languages; applications suitable for and driving next generation computing (e.g., machine learning, deep learning.) *Future computing use cases and prototypes, including ethics in design, implementation, and use; new technologies impacting the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS); cybersecurity in future computing systems. ——————————————— Organizing Committee ——————————————— General co-Chairs: Cullen Bash (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Institute of Technology) Program co-Chairs: Jim Ang (PNNL) and Paolo Faraboschi (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) Full committee list: http://icrc.ieee.org/committee ——————————————— Submission information ——————————————— The ICRC 2019 paper website (https://icrc19.labs.hpe.com/icrc19/) is now open and we are accepting submissions. Authors can submit a REGULAR or a SHORT paper. REGULAR paper submissions are EIGHT (8) pages maximum, EXCLUSIVE of bibliography. SHORT paper submissions are FOUR (4) pages maximum, EXCLUSIVE of bibliography. Additional instructions (format, etc.) are available at the submission website. Authors’ guidelines: http://icrc.ieee.org/authors-guidelines Paper submission link: https://icrc19.labs.hpe.com/icrc19/ (NOW OPEN!) ——————————————— Important dates - UPDATED!!!! ——————————————— *Paper abstract submissions due: MAY, 12 2019 (11:00 pm EDT) (EXTENDED!) *Paper submissions due: May 20, 2019 (11:00 pm EDT) (EXTENDED!) *Author notification of acceptance: August 7, 2019 *Final copies of papers due: September 6, 2019

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Call for Participation: 2019 NIH iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop
by Wang, Lei 10 May '19

10 May '19

2019 NIH iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop (October 26, 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) Call for Participation The 6th iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop is calling for participation from the academia and the industry to showcase state-of-the-art privacy technologies for protecting real-world biomedical data analysis. In the past 5 years, the iDASH competition has been serving as a bridge between the privacy/security research and the biomedical research, challenging the security community to come up with the best solutions that can offer practical supports for privacy-preserving biomedical computing. It has been widely considered to be a benchmark for evaluating data privacy technologies, particularly when they are applied to biomedical data analysis, and a key source for the biomedical and genomics researchers to seek usable solutions for protecting their data and computing tasks. This year's competition is characterized by 4 tracks as described below. Competition Tasks Track 1: Distributed Gene-Drug Interaction Data Sharing based on Blockchain and Smart Contracts The competitors are asked to develop smart contracts on a blockchain network to share gene-drug interaction data in a distributed way. Track 2: Secure Genotype Imputation using Homomorphic Encryption The competitors are required to develop a homomorphic encryption (HE) based method for performing genotype imputation Track 3: Outsourcing Privacy-preserving Machine Learning as a Service through TEE The competitors are expected to implement a trained deep learning model for disease prediction under the protection of SGX, Intel's trusted execution environment, so the model can work on encrypted genomic data uploaded by the user. Track 4: Privacy-preserving machine learning The competitors are tasked to train a machine learning model on gene expression data for breast tumors, with all the data secretly shared across multiple servers. Time line 1. Competition start (May 13) 2. Solution due (Aug. 16) 3. Winner announcement (Oct. 1) 4. Workshop day (Oct. 26) 5. Publication submission deadline (Nov. 30) 6. Publication notification (TBD) Evaluation The outcomes of the competition will be evaluated by interdisciplinary teams at Indiana University, UC San Diego, and UT Health, based upon the performance of a solution and its privacy guarantee. Organization General Chairs: Haixu Tang and XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana University) Organization Committee: XiaoFeng Wang (IU), Haixu Tang (IU), Xiaoqian Jiang (UT Health), Miran Kim (UT Health), Arif Harmanci (UT Health), Tsung-Ting Kuo (UCSD) and Lucila Ohno-Machado (UCSD) Publication Winning results will be published a special issue of a journal. Contact Track 1 (UCSD): Tsung-Ting Kuo (tskuo(a)ucsd.edu<mailto:tskuo@ucsd.edu>), Lucila Ohno-Machado (lohnomachado(a)ucsd.edu<mailto:lohnomachado@ucsd.edu>) Track 2 (UT Health): Arif Harmanci (Arif.O.Harmanci(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Arif.O.Harmanci@uth.tmc.edu>), Miran Kim (Miran.Kim(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Miran.Kim@uth.tmc.edu>), Xiaoqiang Jiang (Xiaoqian.Jiang(a)uth.tmc.edu<mailto:Xiaoqian.Jiang@uth.tmc.edu>) Track 3 (IU): Haixu Tang (hatang(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hatang@indiana.edu>), XiaoFeng Wang (xw7(a)indiana.edu<mailto:xw7@indiana.edu>) Track 4 (IU): Haixu Tang (hatang(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hatang@indiana.edu>), XiaoFeng Wang (xw7(a)indiana.edu<mailto:xw7@indiana.edu>) Best, 2019 iDASH Privacy & Security Workshop organizers

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI
by Francesco Rizzi 09 May '19

09 May '19

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2019: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X Held in conjunction with SC 19, Denver, CO <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary Supercomputers are becoming increasingly complex due to the prevalence of hierarchy and heterogeneity in emerging node and system architectures. As a result of these trends, users of conventional programming models for scalable high-performance applications increasingly find themselves writing applications using a mix of distinct programming models—such as Fortran90, C, C++, MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA—which are also often becoming more complex and detail-oriented themselves. These trends negatively impact the costs of developing, porting, and maintaining HPC applications. Meanwhile, new programming models and languages are being developed that strive to improve upon the status quo. This is accomplished by unifying the expression of parallelism and locality across the system, raising the level of abstraction, making use of modern language design features, and/or leveraging the respective strengths of programmers, compilers, runtimes, and operating systems. These alternatives may take the form of parallel programming languages (e.g., Chapel, Fortran 2018, Julia, UPC), frameworks for large-scale data processing and analytics (e.g., Spark, Tensorflow, Dask), or libraries and embedded DSLs that extend existing languages (e.g., Legion, COMPSs, SHMEM, HPX, Charm++, UPC++, Coarray C++, Global Arrays). The PAW-ATM workshop is designed to explore the expression of applications in scalable parallel programming models that serve as an alternative to the status quo. It is designed to bring together applications experts and proponents of high-level programming models to present concrete and practical examples of using such alternative models and to illustrate the benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming. Scope and Aims The PAW-ATM workshop is designed as a forum for exhibiting studies of parallel applications developed using high-level parallel programming models serving as alternatives to MPI+X-based programming. We encourage the submission of papers and talks that describe practical distributed-memory applications written using alternatives to MPI+X, and include characterizations of scalability and performance, expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in such models. Our hope is to create a forum in which architects, language designers, and users can present, learn about, and discuss the state of the art in alternative scalable programming models while also wrestling with how to increase their effectiveness and adoption. Beyond well-established HPC scientific simulations, we also encourage submissions exploring artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging application areas. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using high-level parallel programming languages and frameworks. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from artificial intelligence, data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using alternatives to MPI+X and comparisons to standard programming models. * Novel algorithms enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: 1) Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submitted papers must describe original work that has not appeared in, nor is under consideration for, another conference or journal. Papers shall be eight (8) pages minimum and not exceed ten (10) including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative dependencies, namely the Artifact Description (AD) and Artifact Evaluation (AE), are not included in the page count. 2) Extended abstracts summarizing preliminary/published results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended to propose timely communications of novel work that will be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that would be of interest to the PAW-ATM audience in terms of topic and timeliness. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. When deciding between submissions with similar merit, ties will be broken by giving weight to full-length paper submissions over extended abstracts. In addition, submissions whose focus relates more directly to the key themes of the workshop (application studies, computing at scale, high-level alternatives to MPI+X) will be given priority over those that don't. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submissions must use 10pt font in the IEEE format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC19. For more information, please refer to: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/ http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Olivier Aumage - Inria * Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Vicenç Beltran - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * John Biddiscombe - CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Marta G. Gasulla - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Magne Haveraaen - University of Bergen * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Swaroop S. Pophale - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Jason Riedy - Georgia Institute of Technology * Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2019 * Author Notification: September 1, 2019 * Camera Ready: October 1, 2019 * Workshop Date: November 17|18|22, 2019

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24th Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 09 May '19

09 May '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** PROGRAM SUMMARY *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Online registration open *** *** Early registration discount until May 20 *** *** Extensive info available on conference web site *** *** Highly recommended to book your hotel ASAP *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 visits Poland, for the first time, and is hosted in Warsaw from the 11th to the 14th of June. The conference is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of Ada and Reliable Software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is on the conference web site, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The 12-page Advance Program brochure is available there as well. The 2019 edition of the conference features a number of important innovations: - lower registration fee for conference, unified for all participants; - further reduced fee for all authors; - lower registration fee for all tutorials; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - an educational tutorial offered especially for those new to Ada; - more compact program with two core days (Wed & Thu); tutorials on Tuesday, then exhibition opening mid-afternoon, followed by welcome aperitif for all participants; - full-day DeCPS workshop on Friday (complementary with conference registration). Quick overview - Tue 11: tutorials, opening exhibition + AE GA, welcome reception - Wed 12 & Thu 13: core program - Fri 14: workshop Proceedings - peer-reviewed papers in open-access journal - industrial presentation and tutorial abstracts in Ada User Journal Conference & Program Chair - Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Keynote speakers - Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA, "A 2020 View of Ada" - other keynote to be confirmed (see conference web site) Workshop (full day) - 6th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019) Tutorials (full day) - "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol" Philip Munts, Sweden - "An Introduction to Ada" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Papers and Presentations - sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, Real-Time Systems - 9 refereed technical papers - 8 industrial presentations and experience reports - a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada" Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector; some exhibition slots still available - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday afternoon: opening of exhibition & Ada-Europe General Assembly, Welcome Aperitif on terrace overlooking Warsaw Airport - Wednesday evening: transportation to restaurant in town where Chopin was born, banquet with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration - online registration is open at <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html> - early registration discount until Monday May 20, 2019 - special low fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - extra discount for students - registration includes coffee breaks and lunches - full conference registration includes all social events - tutorial fees substantially reduced - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - see registration page for all details Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019 - 12-page Advance Program brochure online at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019%20AP.pdf> - support Ada-Europe 2019 with promotional poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in June 2019! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2017 - Papers due May 5
by Christian Engelmann 08 May '19

08 May '19

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> in conjunction with the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28 - September 1, 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es> 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), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. 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 2017 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> - Resilience 2017 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops> - Euro-Par 2017 website: <http://europar2017.usc.es> 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 - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 5, 2017 - Workshop author notification: June 16, 2017 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2017 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2017 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA - Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore 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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LOD 2019: Submit Your Paper and Meet prominent speakers in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Optimization in Siena!
by Ludovico Montalcini 08 May '19

08 May '19

Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 5thInternational Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science LOD - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders, this September 10-13 in Siena. https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz LOD 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: · Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK · Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy · Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK · Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK · Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland · Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt · Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA · Richard E. Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Submit your Paper by May 10 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2019 LOD 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology and applications in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science and Optimization. Sessions · LOD 2019 Big-Data Challenge: Our sponsor, Neodata Lab, will offer a prize of €2000 to the applicant who develops the most accurate algorithm to process an “approximate SQL-like query answering system” on a real dataset. · Multi-Task Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning · Generative Adversarial Networks · Deep Neuroevolution · Networks with Memory · Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models · Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn · Chatbots and Conversational Agents · Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud · Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modelling of Complex Systems · Data-centric Engineering · Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR · Economic Data Science https://lod2019.icas.xyz lod(a)icas.xyz

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8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2019)
by Panangadan, Anand 08 May '19

08 May '19

8th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2019) https://parlearning.github.io/ August 5, 2019 Anchorage, Alaska, USA In conjunction with the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019) Scaling up machine-learning (ML), data mining (DM) and reasoning algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) for massive datasets is a major technical challenge in the time of "Big Data". The past ten years have seen the rise of multi-core and GPU based computing. In parallel and distributed computing, several frameworks such as OpenMP, OpenCL, and Spark continue to facilitate scaling up ML/DM/AI algorithms using higher levels of abstraction. We invite novel works that advance the trio-fields of ML/DM/AI through development of scalable algorithms or computing frameworks. Ideal submissions should describe methods for scaling up X using Y on Z, where potential choices for X, Y and Z are provided below. Scaling up - Recommender systems - Optimization algorithms (gradient descent, Newton methods) - Deep learning - Distributed algorithms and AI for Blockchain - Sampling/sketching techniques - Clustering (agglomerative techniques, graph clustering, clustering heterogeneous data) - Probabilistic inference (Bayesian networks) - Graph algorithms, graph mining and knowledge graphs - Graph neural networks - Autoencoders and variational autoencoders - Generative adversarial networks - Generative models - Deep reinforcement learning Using - Parallel architectures/frameworks (OpenMP, CUDA etc.) - Distributed systems/frameworks (MPI, Spark, etc.) - Machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.) On - Various infrastructures, such as cloud, commodity clusters, GPUs, and emerging AI chips. Important Dates - Paper submission: May 12, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth) - Author notification: June 1, 2019 - Camera-ready version: Jun 8, 2019 Organization - General Chairs: Arindam Pal (TCS Research and Innovation, Kolkata, India) and Henri Bal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Program Chairs: Azalia Mirhoseini (Google AI, Mountain View, CA, USA) and Thomas Parnell (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)

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SSBSS 2019: Submit Your abstract and Meet prominent speakers in the fields of synthetic and systems biology in Pisa!
by Ludovico Montalcini 07 May '19

07 May '19

Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 6thInternational Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School SSBSS 2019, this July 22-26 in Pisa. https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz SSBSS 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the synthetic biology and systems biology. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers: ADAM ARKIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA ANDREA CALIFANO, Columbia University, USA JASON CHIN, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK VIRGINIA CORNISH, Columbia University, USA DOMITILLA DEL VECCHIO, MIT, USA JOHN GLASS, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA RODRIGO LEDESMA-AMARO, Imperial College London, UK PHILIP MAINI, University of Oxford, UK STEVE OLIVER, University of Cambridge, UK KAREN POLIZZI, Imperial College London, UK WILLIAM SHIH, Harvard Medical School, USA JOERG STELLING, ETH Zurich, Switzerland SARAH TEICHMANN, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL-EBI, UK DANIELLE TULLMAN-ERCEK, Northwestern University, USA RON WEISS, MIT, USA Submit your Abstract by May 31 https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ SSBSS 2019 will focus on advances in science, technology and applications in the fields of synthetic and systems biology. Sessions · Computational Synthetic Biology · Genetic Engineering · Metabolic Engineering · Reading and Writing Genomes · Synthetic Genomes · Synthetic Circuits and Cells · Artificial Tissues and Organs · Genomically Recoded Organisms · Genome Design · Pathway Design · Biological Design Automation and Biological CAD · Computational Systems Biology · Genome Engineering · Cellular Systems Biology · Experimental Synthetic Biology · Computational Synthetic Biology · Stochastic Gene Regulation · Gene Signaling · Quantitative Molecular Biology · High-throughput Techniques · Biological Engineering · Industrial Synthetic and Systems Biology https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz

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ISSEA 2019 : Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances
by Robertas Damaševičius 01 May '19

01 May '19

ISSEA 2019 : Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.s…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?e…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/s…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.show…> Link: https://icist.ktu.edu/ When Oct 10, 2019 - Oct 12, 2019 Where Vilnius, Lithuania Submission Deadline May 25, 2019 Notification Due Jun 17, 2019 Final Version Due Jun 28, 2019 *Categories* <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> artificial intelligence <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=artificial%20intelligence> computation intelligence <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=computation%20intelligence> intelligent systems <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=intelligent%20systems> software engineering <http://wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20engineering> Call For Papers The Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances (ISSEA) will be held at the 25th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST) scheduled on October 10-12, 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Scope: In the modern world each day brings more facts and information, and the need for efficient decision support systems is growing to assist in operation, user guiding, modeling, positioning, and solving complex problems. Today science concerns intelligent systems that use software engineering advances based Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Bio-Inspired Methods, etc. making them easily applicable in today’s world challenges. The combinations of these methods are crucial efficient computer technology that now is present in every aspect our lives, from simple machines and electronics to sophisticated computer systems. Continuous development, research and professional discussion devoted to these methods and techniques are important for further improvement.The session aims to cover topics in the latest achievements all aspects of computational intelligence and system engineering. The Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances (ISSEA) aims to cover topics dedicated to the latest achievements in computational intelligence and all IT related aspects of system engineering. The session aims at bringing together computer scientists, system engineers and IT researchers who are interested in the development of intelligent and efficient computer systems. We invite all prospective authors to submit a broad range of contributions related to the session topics. Topics: List of topics for the special session consists of all aspects related to Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances, and include, but are not limited to: - Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications - Modeling and Applied Mathematics in Various Aspects of Computational Intelligence - Computational Intelligence in Graphics, Multimedia and Vision Systems - Computational Intelligence in General Positioning, Civil Engineering, Bathymetric, Routing, Traffic, etc. - Computational Intelligence for Robotics and Automatics - Computational Intelligence for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Models and Applications - Code Quality, Data Management, Testing and Separation of Concerns (SoC) - Intelligent Software, Algorithms and Methods for Large Scale Systems Submission: Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system https://icist.ktu.edu Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the ICIST and ISSEA program committee, judged with respect to their quality, originality, and relevance to session topics. Publications: Proceedings will be published in ICIST volume in Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. Best papers in extended versions will be invited for publication in international journals. Chairs: Marcin Woźniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland Christian Napoli, University of Catania, Italy CONFERENCE CONTACTS E-mail: icist(a)ktu.lt Web site: https://icist.ktu.edu

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Deadline extension (May 13th): EUSIPCO 2019 Satellite Workshop on Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Autonomous Systems
by Nikos Nikolaidis 01 May '19

01 May '19

EUSIPCO 2019 SATELLITE WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER VISION AND DEEP LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS A CORUNA, SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 6th 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP SUMMARY During the last years we are witnessing a constantly increasing use and interest for Autonomous Systems (AS) such as UAVs, humanoid robots, cars, marine and underwater vessels, etc. This is due to their numerous applications in transport, surveillance, mapping, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, infrastructure inspection, cinematography etc. Successful deployment of autonomous systems involves tackling a number of interesting and challenging topics such as AS localization, planning, action and mapping, analysis of visual data coming from AS sensors for human centric or environment active perception and cognition, privacy protection technologies in AS data, 3D data (e.g. LIDAR) processing and analysis, communication issues for AS, sensor fusion, multimodal interfaces etc. These tasks can be addressed by using several methodologies from the areas of signal/image/video processing and analysis, computer vision and machine learning (including deep learning) provided that they respect several constraints and limitations inherent to AS, such as real-time operation, limited available computing resources on board the AS, need for robustness in real-life scenarios etc. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers and computer scientists working in the areas of signal/image/video processing and analysis, computer vision, and machine learning for AS to present and discuss recent developments and trends in this exciting area. The workshop will consist of 2-3 invited talks by prominent researchers and oral presentations featuring research papers. The workshop is technically sponsored by the H2020 Project MULTIDRONE (www.multidrone.eu) PAPER TOPICS Papers describing novel work are solicited in the following areas (non-exhaustive list): * Signal/image/video processing and analysis for autonomous systems * Machine learning for autonomous systems * Deep learning for autonomous systems * Computer vision for autonomous systems * Human centric active perception and cognition for autonomous systems (person/face/body part detection/recognition and pose estimation, person/face/body part tracking, human activity recognition, social signal -facial expressions, gestures etc- analysis and recognition, speech and biosignals analysis and recognition) * Environment active perception and cognition for autonomous systems (object detection/recognition and semantic scene segmentation and understanding, 2D/3D object tracking, 3D scene reconstruction, sensor information fusion) * Autonomous systems localization, planning, navigation, action and control * Embedded computing approaches for processing (computer vision, deep learning, etc) on autonomous systems * Intelligent cinematography using drones and other autonomous systems * Signal processing, computer vision and deep learning for autonomous systems safety (obstacle detection and avoidance, drone landing site detection, crowd and pedestrian detection and localization, road sign/lane detection/recognition etc) * Privacy protection and compliance to ethics regulations * Robust and secure mobile communications for autonomous systems * Signal enhancement, compression and transmission for autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Submission: May 13, 2019 (EXTENDED) * Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 31, 2019 * Camera Ready Papers: June 14, 2019 * Workshop: September 6, 2019 ENDORSEMENT This EUSIPCO satellite workshop is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and endorsed by the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI). The workshop is technically sponsored by the H2020 Project MULTIDRONE (www.multidrone.eu) SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCEDURE Prospective authors shall submit their papers using EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24822 ). Papers should adhere to the main conference guidelines to be considered and, eventually, be published in the proceedings. For more details please visit http://eusipco2019.org/paper-submission/ . All papers will go through a peer review process. Workshop proceedings will be handled by EURASIP and will be publicly available through the repository of EURASIP. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Nikos Nikolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, nnik(a)csd.auth.gr * Anastasios Tefas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, tefas(a)csd.auth.gr WORKSHOP TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain * Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * David Bull, University of Bristol, UK * Alberto Messina, RAI, Italy * Joao Costeira, IST, Portugal * Jesus Capitan, University of Seville, Spain * Rita Cunha, IST, Portugal INFORMATION For additional information regarding the workshop please contact one of the workshop organizers Nikos Nikolaidis (nnik(a)csd.auth.gr) and Anastasios Tefas, (tefas(a)csd.auth.gr) -- Nikos Nikolaidis, PhD Associate Professor School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece

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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) 10 (2)
by Sanjay Misra 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) 10(2)The contents of the latest issue of: *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* Volume 10, Issue 2, April - June 2019 Indexed by: INSPEC, SCOPUS, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) *For a complete list of indexing and abstracting services that include this journal, please reference the bottom of this announcement.* Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1947-3478; EISSN: 1947-3486Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA www.igi-global.com/ijhcitp <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> Editor-in-Chief: Sanjay Misra (Covenant University, Nigeria) *Note: The International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) has an Open Access option, which allows individuals and institutions unrestricted access to its published content. Unlike traditional subscription-based publishing models, open access content is available without having to purchase or subscribe to the journal in which the content is published. All IGI Global manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.* *ARTICLE 1* Impact of Informational Characteristics of the Recruitment Website on Graduating Students' Job Pursuit Intention: A Moderated Mediation Study Chetna Priyadarshini (IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, Hyderabad, India), Sreejesh S. (School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India), Rajneesh Ranjan Jha (IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, Hyderabad, India) The purpose of this article is to examine the dimensionalities, mechanisms, and the conditions under which information characteristics of the corporate employment website influence job seekers' job pursuit intention and recommendation intention. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, the data collected from 181 active job seekers posit that the effects of information characteristics, such as information relevancy, information accuracy, and information timeliness on organizational attractiveness are mediated by job seekers' attitudes towards the website, which in turn direct to create job pursuit intention and intention to recommend. Furthermore, it is also postulated that the relationship between the above-said characteristics and attitude towards the website is moderated by the perceived privacy concern of the job seekers. In addition, the article results also supported that the relationship between job seekers' website attitude and organizational attractiveness is moderated by perceived organizational reputation. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/impact-of-informational-characteristics-of-the-r… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=226297&isxn=9781522566472 *ARTICLE 2* Assessing the Value of Executive Leadership Coaches for Cybersecurity Project Managers Darrell Norman Burrell (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) With the complex nature of impacts of cybersecurity breaches, it is critical that organizational have cybersecurity project managers that can make sound managerial and leadership decisions. Often cybersecurity project managers act quickly with managerial decisions at work. When time is of the essence, strategic thinking, strategic communication, and strategic decision making are critical to organizational effectiveness and productivity. Decision making and strategic communications are just a few skills that executive leadership coaches can teach. This article explores the values and potential benefits of executive coaching as a leadership development tool for information technology and cybersecurity project managers. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/assessing-the-value-of-executive-leadership-coac… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=226298&isxn=9781522566472 *ARTICLE 3* Towards a Reference Framework for Generational Analyses on Information Technology Professionals Pedro Jácome de Moura Jr. (UFPB, João Pessoa, Brazil), Diogo Henrique Helal (FUNDAJ-MEC, Recife, Brazil) In light of the sociology of generations, this theoretical trial relates literature on information technology (IT) professionals, IT professional management, IT project teams, and generational studies to elaborate a reference framework that supports the research on the intergenerational dynamics of the field. The proposed framework offers a definition and structure for the concept of IT generation and contemplates the dimensions related to (1) technological contemporary changes, (2) culture bearers, (3) continuous nature of generational change, (4) generational succession, (5) knowledge transmission and sharing, and (6) intergenerational conflict, allowing future empirical research on the IT generational phenomena. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/towards-a-reference-framework-for-generational-a… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=226299&isxn=9781522566472 *ARTICLE 4* P-O Fit and Employee's Turnover Intentions: Examining the Mediation of Employee Engagement in Indian IT Sector Naman Sharma (Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Gandhinagar, India) Extant studies have established the relationship between person-organization fit and turnover intentions of employees. However, this article aims further to establish the role of employee engagement as a mediator between these variables. The sample used in the study consists of employees from Indian IT sector and data is analyzed with the help of correlation and regression analysis to test both direct and mediating effects. Results obtained confirm the partial role of employee engagement in mediating the above variables in context of Indian IT sector. The study confirms that person-organization fit affects the decision of employees to stay/not to stay with their organization and also that employees with higher levels of employee engagement would be less likely to leave their employer. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/p-o-fit-and-employees-turnover-intentions/226300 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=226300&isxn=9781522566472 ------------------------------ For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated *"InfoSci-Journals"* database: www.igi-global.com/isj <https://www.igi-global.com/e-resources/infosci-databases/infosci-journals/> . ------------------------------ *CALL FOR PAPERS* Mission of IJHCITP: The mission of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* is to offer an outlook on the state of the IT profession from the perspective of economic value based on labor performance. Providing a forum for the exchange of research ideas and practices, this journal is a reference convergence point for professionals, managers, and researchers in the IT field. Indices of IJHCITP: - ACM Digital Library - Bacon's Media Directory - Cabell's Directories - DBLP - Google Scholar - INSPEC - JournalTOCs - MediaFinder - SCOPUS - The Standard Periodical Directory - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Web of Science - Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) Coverage of IJHCITP: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: - Competence management within the IT profession - Ethics, as well as professional and social responsibilities of IT professionals - Human capital within the IT industry - Human resource management in the IT sector - IT careers - IT personnel in new production environments (software factories, offshoring, and nearshoring) - IT profession - IT professional associations - IT professionalism - IT professionals assessment methods - IT professionals roles - IT professionals under the scope of IT governance - Licensing and certifying of IT professionals - Mentoring, coaching, and counseling of IT professionals - Personnel issues in IT standards, models, and frameworks - Recruiting, staffing, retaining, and rewarding IT professionals Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-human-capital-inf… -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Call For Papers(Organizing Chair)- All SCOPUS, Web of Science(CPCI) and Core Indexed 1) Springer(LNCS)-11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=84204&copyownerid=…> , 2)(Springer-LNCS)Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=84205&copyownerid=…> , 3) IEEE Xplore 11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=84206&copyownerid=…> Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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Mediterranean Congress of Telecommunications 2019 (IEEE Conference) Call for Papers 24-26 October 2019 – Fez, Morocco
by Conférence CMT 2019 ENSA de Fès 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

We would like to invite you to submit your paper/poster/demo proposals for the *Mediterranean Congress of Telecommunications 2019 (IEEE Conference) * that will take place on *24th -26th October, 2019 in Fez, Morocco.* The 7th Mediterranean Congress of Telecommunications "CMT’2019" is dedicated to provide a platform for academic researchers and industry to exchange and share new technologies and trends in the field of Telecommunications and ICT. The three days congress will address through posters and presentations several current topics in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their applications. One third of the presentations will be related to the current socio-economic sector problems. Invited guest speakers will also give lectures in cutting edge technologies during the event. The "CMT’2019" edition will take place at the National School of Applied Sciences ENSA of Fez. This edition is organized by the Transmission and Information Processing Laboratory (LTTI) and The Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Physics Laboratory (LIPI) in collaboration with the Moroccan Association for Information Technlology (AMTI). *Important Dates: * *· Paper submission deadline: May 31 , 2019* *· Notification of acceptance : June 30, 2019* *· Camera Ready submission : July 31, 2019* *· Conference date : October 24 -26 , 2019* Complete details are available on the conference website : www.ensaf.ac.ma/CMT2019 All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and indexed by *IEEE Xplore Digital Library and Scopus. * Looking forward to your contributions. Best Regards,

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[CFP] 15th ACM* Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless Mobile Networks(ACM Q2SWinet 2019)
by Fulvio Frati 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

** ACM Q2SWinet 2019 ** [aplogies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 15th ACM* Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless Mobile Networks (ACM Q2SWinet 2019) Nov. 25th-29th, 2019 in Miami Beach, USA http://q2swinet.com/2019/ *Pending Upon Approval ************************************************************** SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ------------------ In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the QoS provisioning and the management of network security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless mobile networks. This symposium calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. Authors are encouraged to submit complete papers presenting new research related to theory or practice of all aspects of Quality of Service and Security issues in mobile and wireless systems. Topics of interest for ACM Q2SWinet 2018 include, but are not limited to: - QoS for wireless networks, - Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Privacy and authentication - QoS for wireless multimedia systems, VoIP QoS - Quality of control of wireless networks - Power and energy management - Wireless video surveillance networks - QoS in the Wireless Internet - QoS and Routing - QoS Metrics - QoS of Wireless Network Services - Wireless Network Survivability - QoS and Reliability - Image Quality in Wireless Video-Surveillance Networks - QoS provisioning in wireless multmedia systems. - Wireless and mobile systems and applications - Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. The maximum page limit for regular papers is 10 pages, double column, and must strictly adhere to the ACM template format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://q2swinet.com/2018/call-for-papers.html Submission is managed electronically through EDAS: http://edas.info/N25799 (please select Regular papers) At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the symposium in order for that paper to appear in the ACM proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Furthermore, authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the Symposium. SPECIAL ISSUE --------------- Best accepted papers will be selected for submission to a special issue of Springer Computing journal (https://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission: June 15th, 2019 Acceptance Notification: July 30th, 2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair - Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Technical Program Committee Chair - Ahmed Mostefaoui, University of Burgundy-Franche-Comte, France Program commitee - Rasool Asal, Chief Researcher at British Telecommunications Research and Innovation, UK - Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy - Anthony Busson, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France - Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece - Richard Chbeir, LIUPPA, University of Pau et Pays de l'Adour, France - Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy - Samir Chouali, University of Burgundy-Franche-Comte, France - Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - Claudio Farias, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy - Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy - Gabriele Giannini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Peter Pocta, University of Zilina, Slovakia - Stefano Secci, CNAM, France - Paul Yoo, CEWIC, Cranfield University, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham, UK

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---The 14th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS)
by SAOUSSEN CHEIKHROUHOU 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Call for papers The 14th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS) 29-31 October 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia http://crisis2019.redcad.org The International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems 2019 will be the 14th in a series dedicated to security issues in Internet-related applications, networks and systems. Internet has become essential for the exchange of information between user groups and organizations from different backgrounds and with different needs and objectives. These users are exposed to increasing risks regarding security and privacy, due to the development of more and more sophisticated online attacks, the growth of Cyber Crime, etc. Attackers nowadays do not lack motivation and they are more and more experienced. To make matters worse, for performing attacks have become easily accessible. Moreover, the increasing complexity as well as the immaturity of new technologies such as pervasive, mobile and wireless devices and networks, raise new security challenges. In this context, new security mechanisms and techniques should be deployed to achieve an assurance level acceptable for critical domains such as energy, transportation, health, defence, banking, critical infrastructures, embedded systems and networks, avionics systems, etc. The CRiSIS conference offers a remarkable forum for computer and network security actors from industry, academia and government to meet, exchange ideas and present recent advances on Internet-related security threats and vulnerabilities, and on the solutions that are needed to counter them. === TOPICS === The topics addressed by CRiSIS range from the analysis of risks, attacks to networks and system survivability, to security models, security mechanisms and privacy enhancing technologies. The authors are invited to submit research results as well as practical experiment or deployment reports. Industrial papers about applications or case studies are also welcomed in different domains (e.g., telemedicine, banking, e-government, e-learning, e-commerce, critical infrastructures, mobile networks, embedded applications, etc.). The list of topics includes but is not limited to: - Analysis and management of risk - Attacks and defenses - Attack data acquisition and network monitoring - Cryptography, biometrics, watermarking - Dependability and fault tolerance of Internet applications - Distributed systems security and safety - Embedded system security and safety - Empirical methods for security and risk evaluation - Hardware-based security and physical security - Intrusion detection and prevention systems - Organizational, ethical and legal issues - Privacy protection and anonymization - Risk-aware access and usage control - Security and risk assessment - Security and risks metrics - Security and dependability of operating systems - Security and safety of critical infrastructures - Security and privacy of peer-to-peer system - Security and privacy of wireless networks - Security models and security policies - Security of new generation networks, security of VoIP and multimedia - Security of e-commerce, electronic voting and database systems - Security of social networks - Security of industrial control systems - Smartphone security and privacy - Traceability, metrology and forensics - Trust management - Use of smart cards and personal devices for Internet applications - Web and cloud security === PAPER SUBMISSION === Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English and must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The papers that will be selected for presentation at the conference will be included in post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (prior to publication the papers should be revised according to the review comments). Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. Maximum paper length will be 16 printed pages for full papers or 6 pages for short papers, in LNCS style ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All paper submissions will be handled through the Easy Chair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crisis2019 === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: June 09, 2019 - Notification to authors: July 20, 2019 - Camera-ready versions: September 22, 2019 - Conference dates: October 29-31, 2019 === GENERAL CHAIRS === Nora Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Ahmed Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PC CHAIRS === Frédéric Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PUBLICATION CHAIRS === Nora Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Mohamed Mosbah, Bordeaux INP, France === PUBLICITY CHAIRS === Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Reda Yaich, IRT SystemX, France === LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE=== Nesrine Khabou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Fairouz Fakhfekh, University of Sfax, Tunisia Riadh Ben Halima, University of Sfax, Tunisia Ismail Bouassida, University of Sfax, Tunisia Hatem Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PROGRAM COMMITTEE(to be completed) === Takoua Abdellatif, University of Carthage, Tunisia Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, IRT Railenium, France Jocelyn Aubert, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Anis Bkakria, University of Bretagne Loire, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, University of Bretagne Loire, France Frédéric Cuppens, University of Bretagne Loire, France Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Wided Guedria, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Marc Lacoste, Orange labs, France Jean-Louis Lanet, LHS Rennes, France Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux, France Raja Natarajan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Michael Rusinowitch, Lorraine University, France Ketil Stoelen, University of Oslo, Norway Akka Zemmari, Université of Bordeaux, France Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada

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[CFP] 1st Model-driven Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity Workshop (MTSEC)
by Fulvio Frati 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

** 1st Model-driven Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity Workshop ** **************************************************************************** ************ 1st Model-driven Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity Workshop (MSTEC) within The European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019) Luxembourg - September 27, 2019 https://www.threat-arrest.eu/html/mstec/ **************************************************************************** ************ **** Abstract **** The 1st Model-driven Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity (MSTEC) addresses recent advances in the field of cyber modeling and simulation. It is aimed at providing a forum of practitioners and researchers to discuss cyber modeling and simulation (M&S) as well as its application to the development of cyber-security training scenarios and courses of action (COAs). Specifically, it will focus on the verification and validation (V&V) process, which provides the operational community with confidence in knowing that cyber models represent the real world, and will discuss how defense training may benefit from cyber models. It will also investigate advances in emulators, simulators and their potential combination. The workshop papers are expected to take a holistic approach to the overall system assurance process, presenting advances in the simulation of people, policies, processes, and technologies currently available in the field. The workshop aims to connect the multiple threads that currently compose cyber modelling and simulation into a coherent view of what is usable in order to train experts and non-computer-savvy users toward and assured operation of critical systems. The workshop will precede the ESORICS 2019 conference. MSTEC encourages systems security researchers to share early iterations of bleeding-edge ideas with the community, before they are further developed into full papers. Reciprocally, authors receive feedback to help steer and improve their research to its full potential. **** Topics of Interest **** We invite submissions of full research and survey papers as well as posters on related topics to cybersecurity, including but not limited to: - Cyber threat and training preparation models - Cyber models and training design - Cyber ranges for cybersecurity training and training facility - Training platforms and evaluation scenarios - On-line training procedures and courses of action (COAs) - Training adaptation and training for non-cybersecurity experts - Gamification and serious games - Modeling and simulation for cyber training (M&S) - Simulation and emulation of information systems, networks, and cyber attacks - Real-time monitoring and visualization - System assurance verification and validation (V&V) In accordance with the spirit of MSTEC, we also seek: - Quantified or insightful experience with existing systems - Reproduction or refutation of previous results - Negative results and early ideas **** Important dates **** Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2019 (AoE, UTC-12) Acceptance notification: June 30, 2019 Final paper due: July 31, 2019 **** Paper submissions **** Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template (available from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions are not anonymous. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics19 **** Committee **** Program Chair - Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH, Greece General Chairs - Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - Vassilis Prevelakis, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany - George Spanoudakis, Sphynx Technology Solutions AG, Switzerland - Michael Vinov, IBM Israel, Israel Web Chairs - Othonas Soultatos, FORTH, Greece

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MobiSPC 2019 CfPs: The 16th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing: FINAL Extension (April 30, 2019)
by Davidekova Monika 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

CallforPapers The 16th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, (MobiSPC'19) August 19-21, 2019, Halifax, Canada http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-19/ IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: April 30, 2019 (FIRM) - Acceptance Notification: May 25, 2019 - Final Manuscript Due: June 25, 2019 About 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-2019 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-2019 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. Publication All MobiSPC 2019 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 the following special issues: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504) (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) MobiSPC 2019 will be held in conjunction with The 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'19). http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/ Venue MobiSPC 2019 is co-organized & co-hosted by Acadia and Dalhousie Universities. MobiSPC 2019 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world. Conference Tracks Component-based IoT Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics Internet of Things (IoT) Mobile Cloud Computing Mobile Data Management Mobile Social Networking Pervasive Computing Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems Mobile Systems and Applications Committees General Chair Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chair Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Workshops Chair Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Local Chair Abdelouahed Gherbi, Quebec University, Canada Ahsan Habib, Dalhousie University, Canada Israat Haque, Dalhousie University, Canada Tracks Chairs Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Carmela Comito, National Research Council of Italy, Italy Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Camille Kamga, The City College of New York, USA Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Rahim Rahmani, Stockholm University, Sweden Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Qussai Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan International Journals Chair Atta Badii, Reading University, UK Publicity Chairs Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic B. B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India Advisory Committee Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-19/#programCommittees

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—Call for papers: 16th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2019)
by SAOUSSEN CHEIKHROUHOU 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

—Call for papers: 16th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2019). http://ictac2019.redcad.org (Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this call for papers) We are pleased to invite you to submit papers for the 16th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2019), which will be held from 30th October to 4th November 2019, in Hammamet, Tunisia. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between developing and industrial countries. The important dates are: Abstracts 5 May 2019 Papers 12 May 2019 Notification 21 July 2019 Final version 11 August 2019 Conference 30 October to 4 November 2019 Proceedings: The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer's LNCS series. Special issue: Authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit a revised and extended version to a special issue, to be published in Elsevier's Theoretical Computer Science. Invited Speakers: Thomas A. Henzinger, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Patrick Cousot, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA Dominique MÈry, University of Lorraine, France Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Languages and automata Semantics of programming languages Logic in computer science Lambda calculus, type theory and category theory Domain-specific languages Theories of concurrency and mobility Theories of distributed, grid and cloud computing Models of objects and components Coordination models Models of software architectures Autonomous systems Timed, hybrid, embedded and cyber-physical systems Static analysis Software verification Software testing Program generation and transformation Model checking and automated theorem proving Interactive theorem proving Verified software, formalized programming theory We solicit the following types of papers: - Regular papers, with original research contributions; - Short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges; - Tool papers, on tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design, and verification. Submissions must adhere to the LNCS format. Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages (excluding bibliography of maximum 2 pages). Short and tool papers should not exceed 10 pages. Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Each paper submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. All contributions to ICTAC 2019 have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2019)and have to follow the Springer LNCS paper format. One author of each accepted paper must attend the conference to present it, having paid the regular registration fee. The ICTAC committee will evaluate and select the best paper award winner. The winner will receive an award. Steering Committee: Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) (chair) Martin Leucker (Universit‰t zu L¸beck, DE) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, CN) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, DE) Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, US) General chairs: Mohamed Jmaiel, University of Sfax, Tunisia Walid Gaaloul, Paris-Saclay University, France Programme chairs: Robert M. Hierons, University of Sheffield, UK Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, FR Programme Committee (provisional/draft) Eric Badouel (IRISA, FR) Kamel Barkaoui (CEDRIC - CNAM, FR) FrÈdÈric Blanqui (INRIA, FR) Eduardo Bonelli (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, AR) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Uli Fahrenberg (LIX, FR) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT) Ahmed Hadj Kacem (University of Sfax, TN) Edward Hermann Haeusler (PontifÌcia Universidade CatÛlica do Rio de Janeiro, BR) Ross Horne (Nanyang Technological University, SG) David Janin (University of Bordeaux, FR) Jan Kretinsky (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, DE) Martin Leucker (Universit‰t zu L¸beck, DE) Radu Mardare (Aalborg Universitet, DK) Dominique MÈry (LORIA, FR) Mohammadreza Mousavi (University of Leicester, UK) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, DE) Maciej PirÛg (Wroclaw University, PL) Sanjiva Prasad (IIT Delhi, IN) Riadh Robbana (University of Carthage, TN) Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) Georg Struth (University of Sheffield, UK) Cong Tian (Xidian University, CN) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, IS / Tallinn University of Technology, EE)

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CIBB 2019 - Call For Papers (Submission deadline extended)
by Cibb2019 Cibb2019 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED: 15 MAY 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIBB 2019 - 16th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Bergamo, Italy, 4-6 September 2019 www.cibb2019.it The main goal of the 16th edition of the CIBB international conference is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum open to researchers interested in the application of computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems biology, synthetic biology, and medical informatics. Cutting edge methodologies capable of accelerating life science discoveries will be discussed. Following its tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together researchers from the international scientific community interested in advancements and future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. In addition, looking at current trends and future opportunities at the edge of computer and life sciences, the application of computational intelligence to systems and synthetic biology, and the consequent impact on innovative medicine, will be of great interest for the conference. Theoretical and experimental biologists are also invited to participate and present novel challenges to foster multidisciplinary collaborations. The scientific program of CIBB 2019 will include Keynote Speakers, tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions. TOPICS ----------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Next generation sequencing algorithms - Multi-omics data analysis - High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data - Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data - Software tools for bioinformatics - Methods for comparative genomics - Methods for functional classification of genes - Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data - Health-informatics and medical informatics - Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data - Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics - Algorithms for pharmacogenomics - Biomedical text mining and imaging - Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine - Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data - Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures - Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Bio-molecular databases and data mining - Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and synthetic systems - Computational simulation of biological systems - Methods and advances in systems biology - Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems - Network systems biology - Models for cell populations and tissues - Methods for the engineering of synthetic components - Modeling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems - Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology SPECIAL SESSIONS ----------------------------- We are pleased to announce that seven special sessions will take place at CIBB 2019. Additional information can be found on the website <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/specialsessions.html>. - Modeling and Simulation Methods for Computational Biology and Systems Medicine - Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence in Multi-omics and Medical Image Analysis - Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics and Medical Biology - Algebraic and Computational Methods for the Study of RNA Behaviour - Engineering Bio-interfaces and Rudimentary Cells as a Way to Develop Synthetic Biology - Intelligence Methods for Molecular Characterization and Dynamics in Translational Medicine - Soft Computing Methods for Characterizing Diseases from Omics Data KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------- Prof. M. Luz Calle, Biosciences Department, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Spain Dr. Ana Cvejic, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Prof. Uzay Kaymak, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Title and abstract of the talks can be found on the website <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/invited.html> GENERAL CHAIRS ----------------------------- Paolo Cazzaniga, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy Ivan Merelli, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Italy Daniela Besozzi, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy TECHNICAL CHAIR ----------------------------- Angela Serra, University of Tampere, Finland LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Riccardo Dondi, Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo, IT Stefano Beretta, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT Marco S. Nobile, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT Dario Pescini, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT Simone Spolaor, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2019, 15 May 2019 Acceptance notification: 1 June 2019 Camera ready due: 1 July 2019 Author registration due: 31 July 2019 Conference: 4-6 September 2019 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ----------------------------- Prospective authors should submit papers prepared according to the following instructions: - Papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format) - Papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages - We warmly recommend the use of the provided latex template and instructions <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/cibb2019-sample.zip>. Should this not be possible, authors should reproduce the format and style of the sample paper available in the latex template folder. - Papers should adhere, as much as appropriate, to the following structure and sections: 1. Scientific background 2. Materials and methods 3. Results 4. Conclusions 5. References The submission website is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibb2019 PUBLICATION ----------------------------- PDF versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. IMPORTANT: An accepted paper will be published in the proceedings only if the final camera-ready version is accompanied by the payment of at least one full registration for one of the authors. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we also plan to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions).

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ACM-BCB Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio)
by Mario Cannataro 28 Apr '19

28 Apr '19

I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement ======================================================================================== 8th International Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/parbio2019/ held in conjunction with ACM BCB 2019 The 10th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics Niagara Falls, NY Sept 7-10, 2019 http://acm-bcb.org/ ======================================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ======================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: June 15, 2019 Notifications sent to authors: July 1, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: July 8, 2019 Workshop date: TBD ======================================================================================== Due to the availability of high-throughput platforms (e.g. next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging), a recent trend in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine is the ever-increasing production of experimental and clinical data. Considering the complex analysis pipelines often used in biomedical research, there is a main bottleneck that involves the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks. While parallel computing and Grid computing may offer the computational power and the storage to face this overwhelming availability of data, Cloud Computing is a key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall model of biomedical research and health provision. High-performance infrastructures may offer the huge data storage needed to store experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST, mpiBLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. On the other hand, these technologies yet require great investments by biomedical and clinical institutions and are based on a traditional model where users often need to be aware and face different management problems, such as hardware and software management, data storage, software ownership, and prohibitive costs (different professional-level applications in the biomedical domain have an high starting cost that prevent many small laboratories to use them). The Cloud Computing technology, that is able to offer scalable costs and increased reachability, availability and easiness of application use, and possibility to enforce collaboration among scientists, is already changing the business model in different sectors and now it has begun to be adopted in the bioinformatics and biomedical domains. However, many problems remain to be solved, such as availability and safety of the data, privacy-related issues, availability of software platforms for rapid deployment, and the execution and billing of biomedical applications. The goal of ParBio 2019 is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance and cloud computing, computational biology and medicine to discuss, among the others, the parallel implementation of bioinformatics and biomedical applications and problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud. Moreover, big data analytics issues in healthcare and bioinformatics will be addressed. The workshop will focus on research issues, problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud, as well as on the opportunity to define guidelines and minimum requirements for a Biomedical Cloud. Moreover, the workshop will discuss about parallel and distributed management and analysis of molecular and clinical data that more and more need to be integrated and analyzed in a joint way. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main themes and research topics will regard the applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine, as well as Cloud Computing opportunities and problems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications - Data Science in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics - Big data analytics in healthcare and bioinformatics - Data Mining in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics - Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics - Sentiment Analysis in bioinformatics and healthcare - Affective Computing in bioinformatics and healthcare - Text mining of biomedical literature and clinical notes - Healthcare data quality, privacy, and security - High performance computing for computational biology - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of omics and clinical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation in healthcare and medicine - Cloud Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Cloud Computing for health systems - Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Internet of Things in bioinformatics and healthcare - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine PROGRAM The workshop will take place on (TBD) It is scheduled as half-day The program is not available yet. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION ParBio 2019 welcomes original submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. Papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates - http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. ParBio’s technical program committee will review all submitted papers. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. Authors of selected papers may be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit an online ACM Copyright Form. Authors will be contacted by ACM requesting this information. (Note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with NIH and similar open access policies, see http://authors.acm.org/main.html for more information.). Authors should submit papers using the ParBio2019 EasyChair Installation ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parbio2019) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: June 15, 2019 Notifications sent to authors: July 1, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: July 8, 2019 Workshop date: TBD WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Prof. Mario Cannataro Dep. of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro ITALY Prof. Wes J. Lloyd School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma USA Dr. Giuseppe Agapito Dep. of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro ITALY PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, PL, and University of Amsterdam, NL, - Barbara Calabrese, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy - Umit Catalyurek, The Ohio State University, USA - Jake Y. Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA - Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA - Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK - Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK - Ling Hong Hung, University of Washington – Tacoma, USA - Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA - Concettina Guerra, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy - Kamer Kaya, The Ohio State University, USA - Marianna Milano, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy - Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy - Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Shruti Ramesh, Micrsosoft, Redmond, WA USA - Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy - Giuseppe Tradigo, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy - Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy - Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Chiara Zucco, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy **************************************** Prof. Mario Cannataro, Full Professor of Computer Engineering and Bioinformatics, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Viale Europa (Località Germaneto), 88100 CATANZARO, ITALY, ****************************************

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Re: [computational.science] [CPF] [IEEE PACRIM 2019] 2019 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)
by aiisreal＠post.tau.ac.il 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Dear Professor Jimmy Yiming, VISUALIZATION is very important for your endeavors. Would you be interested in my giving a keynote talk or tutorial on "Visual Analytics for High Dimensional Data"? The visual exploration and analysis of data together with the applications to multivariate problems are very relevant and important to this conference. For further information please see (visuals attached) http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Coordinates-Multidimensional-Geometry-Applic… Among others this book was praised by Stephen Hawking who attended my lectures at Cambridge. The multidimensional visualization methodology described has been widely applied to the exploration and classification of real multivariate(some with hundreds of variables) datasets with stunning results (Ch. 10). There are other applications to Automatic Collision Avoidance for Air Traffic, Decision Support for Complex Systems, Multiobjective Optimization, Network Topology Visualization and Analysis, Intelligent Process Control. The patterns representing multivariate/multidimensional RELATIONS are compact and unambiguous providing a Topology for Proximity leading towards the visualization of BIG DATA. With best regards Alfred Alfred Inselberg, Professor School of Mathematical Sciences Tel Aviv University www.cs.tau.ac.il/~aiisreal Senior Fellow in Visualization at the San Diego Supercomputing Center Would you be interested in my giving a keynote talk or tutorial on "Visual Analytics for High Dimensional Data"? The visual exploration and analysis of data together with the applications to multivariate problems are very relevant and important to this conference. For further information please see (visuals attached) http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Coordinates-Multidimensional-Geometry-Applic… Among others this book was praised by Stephen Hawking who attended my lectures at Cambridge. The multidimensional visualization methodology described has been widely applied to the exploration and classification of real multivariate(some with hundreds of variables) datasets with stunning results (Ch. 10). There are other applications to Automatic Collision Avoidance for Air Traffic, Decision Support for Complex Systems, Multiobjective Optimization, Network Topology Visualization and Analysis, Intelligent Process Control. The patterns representing multivariate/multidimensional RELATIONS are compact and unambiguous providing a Topology for Proximity leading towards the visualization of BIG DATA. With best regards Alfred Alfred Inselberg, Professor School of Mathematical Sciences Tel Aviv University www.cs.tau.ac.il/~aiisreal Senior Fellow in Visualization at the San Diego Supercomputing Center Quoting Jimmy Yiming HUO <ymhuo(a)uvic.ca>: > [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal > Processing > Victoria, BC, Canada, August 21-23, 2019 > > Established in 1987, Pacific Rim Conference is the premier IEEE > biennial event in the Pacific Northwest. It is our pleasure to > invite you to participate in this event, which serves as an > international forum for experts, researchers, and practitioners from > academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas and new results > in the broad areas of communications, computers, and signal > processing. All accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore. > > The scope of PACRIM’19 encompasses but is not limited to: > > Communications > • Communication Theory > • Wireless Communications & Networking > • OFDM, Multicarrier & MIMO Systems > • Millimeter Wave Communications > • Cooperative & Collaborative Systems > • Channel Measurement & Modeling > • Cognitive Radio and Networks > • Resource & Mobility Management > • Network Architecture & Protocols > • Communication & Networking Testbeds > • Cross-layer Design > • Green Communications > • Optical Communications > • Satellite and Space Communications > • Smart Grid Communications > • Internet of Things > • Machine Learning for Communications > • Security and Cryptography > > Computers > • Computer Architecture > • Parallel and Distributed Computing > • Grid and Cloud Computing > • Web Applications and Mining > • Multimedia and Network Processors > • Data Mining and Knowledge Based Systems > • Embedded, Reconfigurable, and Power-Aware Systems > • Virtualization > • Cyber Security and Privacy > • Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms > • Application Specific Hardware Acceleration > • Multi-core Processors and Applications > > Signal Processing > • Signal Processing Theory and Methods > • Signal Processing for Medical and Biological Applications > • Signal Processing for Communications > • Machine Learning for Signal Processing > • Signal Processing for UAV Systems and IoT > • Graph Signal Processing and Applications > • Tensor Methods and Applications > • Video and Image Processing > • Speech and Audio Processing > • Multimedia Signal Processing > • Underwater Platforms and Sensors > • Array Signal Processing > • Sparse Signal Processing > • Information Forensics > • Computer Vision > > SUBMISSION GUIDELINES > Please check IEEE PacRim'19 website > (https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~pacrim/pacrim19 > <https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~pacrim/pacrim19>) for instructions on > manuscript format and submission. All papers should be submitted via > EDAS through the following link: https://edas.info/N26171 > <https://edas.info/N26171> > > Important Deadlines > Submission Due: May 20, 2019 > Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2019 > Camera Ready Version: July 15, 2019 > Registration by: July 21, 2019 > > Keynote Speaker: Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, an IEEE Life Fellow and an > IEICE Fellow. He was a recipient of the IEEE Vehicular Technology > Society Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, > Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004, Ericsson > Telecommunications Award 2008, Prime Minister Invention Award 2010, > KDDI Foundation Excellent Research Award 2012, C&C Prize 2014, IEEE > VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award 2017, and IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical > Recognition Award 2017. > > _______________________________________________ > computational.science mailing list > computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org > https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science > > Hosted by Sardina Systems: FishOS: AI-powered OpenStack > www.sardinasystems.com

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[CPF] [IEEE PACRIM 2019] 2019 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)
by Jimmy Yiming HUO 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing Victoria, BC, Canada, August 21-23, 2019 Established in 1987, Pacific Rim Conference is the premier IEEE biennial event in the Pacific Northwest. It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this event, which serves as an international forum for experts, researchers, and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange ideas and new results in the broad areas of communications, computers, and signal processing. All accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore. The scope of PACRIM’19 encompasses but is not limited to: Communications • Communication Theory • Wireless Communications & Networking • OFDM, Multicarrier & MIMO Systems • Millimeter Wave Communications • Cooperative & Collaborative Systems • Channel Measurement & Modeling • Cognitive Radio and Networks • Resource & Mobility Management • Network Architecture & Protocols • Communication & Networking Testbeds • Cross-layer Design • Green Communications • Optical Communications • Satellite and Space Communications • Smart Grid Communications • Internet of Things • Machine Learning for Communications • Security and Cryptography Computers • Computer Architecture • Parallel and Distributed Computing • Grid and Cloud Computing • Web Applications and Mining • Multimedia and Network Processors • Data Mining and Knowledge Based Systems • Embedded, Reconfigurable, and Power-Aware Systems • Virtualization • Cyber Security and Privacy • Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms • Application Specific Hardware Acceleration • Multi-core Processors and Applications Signal Processing • Signal Processing Theory and Methods • Signal Processing for Medical and Biological Applications • Signal Processing for Communications • Machine Learning for Signal Processing • Signal Processing for UAV Systems and IoT • Graph Signal Processing and Applications • Tensor Methods and Applications • Video and Image Processing • Speech and Audio Processing • Multimedia Signal Processing • Underwater Platforms and Sensors • Array Signal Processing • Sparse Signal Processing • Information Forensics • Computer Vision SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please check IEEE PacRim'19 website (https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~pacrim/pacrim19 <https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~pacrim/pacrim19>) for instructions on manuscript format and submission. All papers should be submitted via EDAS through the following link: https://edas.info/N26171 <https://edas.info/N26171> Important Deadlines Submission Due: May 20, 2019 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2019 Camera Ready Version: July 15, 2019 Registration by: July 21, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, an IEEE Life Fellow and an IEICE Fellow. He was a recipient of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004, Ericsson Telecommunications Award 2008, Prime Minister Invention Award 2010, KDDI Foundation Excellent Research Award 2012, C&C Prize 2014, IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award 2017, and IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award 2017.

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CFPs: MCWN@HPCS19 - Final Extension April 20, 2019
by Ramona Trestian 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] Call for Papers --------------- International Symposium on High Performance Mobile Computing & Wireless Networks for HPC (MCWN 2019) As part of The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019) 15 - 19 July 2019, Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia/symp03-mcwn All accepted and presented papers will be included in the HPCS 2019 conference proceedings. HPCS Proceedings are planned to be published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission (Firm Deadline): 20 April, 2019 Notification: 30 April, 2019 Camera-Ready: 10 May, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcwn2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the International Symposium on High Performance Mobile Computing & Wireless Networks for HPC (MCWN 2019) taking place in Dublin, Ireland. As a part of HPCS conference, MCWN 2019 will target original work focusing on modeling, performance analysis, testbeds, and simulation results in the areas of mobile and wireless networks, mobile computing, applications and systems. MCWN 2019 is aiming to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate cutting-edge research discussions among many academic researchers/scientists and industrial engineers/leaders from all around the world, especially with the intersection of mobility and future integrated HPC systems. Submission Instructions: ------------------------ Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the standard IEEE 2-column format. The IEEE template can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html The symposium accepts three types of submissions, specifically regular papers (5 to 8 pages), short papers (3 to 4 pages), and poster papers. The Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobility and High Performance Computing Systems Mobile Cloud Computing for High-availability Computing Mobility, Data Centers, and Data Analytics with HPC Environments Internet of Things and High Performance Computing Sensors Networks in High Performance Computing Mobile Message Passing Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks Machine Learning in mobile and wireless Communication Networks Novel Architectures, Middleware Support, Prototypes and Testbeds Communication Protocols Resilient High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Nets Middleware for High-performance Computing in Mobile Systems Real-time Wireless systems' simulation and Performance Analysis Using HPC HPC Based Self-configurable Mobile and Wireless Networks Large Scale Mobile Systems and Schemes for High-performance Computing Reliable Mobile and Wireless Applications and Services and High-performance Computing Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowdsensing Mobile Social Networking and Applications Context-aware Computing for High Performance Computing Systems Content-centric Architectures, Content management and Distribution for Mobile Users Resource Availability and Management for Mobile and Wireless High Performance Computing Modeling and Simulation of Complex Mobile and Wireless Networks System Prototypes, Measurements, Real Deployment, and Experiences Security and Privacy issues for Wireless and Mobile Computing Adaptive and Self-Organizing Networks Energy harvesting and green communication techniques in mobile and wireless networks Optical Networks and Interconnects Network Modeling and Simulation, Design and Evaluation SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS -------------------- Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Dr. Irina Tal, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Dr. Ramona Trestian, Middlesex University, London, U.K. Dr. Ioan-Sorin Comşa, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K. Kind Regards, Ramona Dr. Ramona Trestian Senior Lecturer in Computing and Communications Engineering Design, Engineering and Maths | Faculty of Science and Technology Middlesex University The Burroughs, Hendon London NW4 4BT Room: T115, Town Hall Tel: +44(0)20 8411 2901 Web: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/trestian-ramona Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramona_Trestian

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Human-oriented Intelligent Defence Against Malware Threats (HIDAMT) 2019
by Andrii Shalaginov 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) You are welcome to submit your contributions to the workshop on Human-oriented Intelligent Defence Against Malware Threats, which will be held as a part of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019. The conference will take place on the 10-16th of August 2019 in Macao, China. Workshop webpage and detailed information: https://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/hidamt2019/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** May 2, 2019 (extended from Apr 12): Due date for full workshop paper submissions May 22, 2019 (extended from May 10): Paper acceptance notification June 14, 2019 (extended from Jun 3): Final camera-ready papers submission Aug 10-12, 2019: Workshops and conference *** INTRODUCTION *** Recent cybersecurity incidents involving malware demonstrated how serious the consequences can be for both individual users and large organizations. McAfee report on malware threats shows that over four quarters of 2017 there were identified 690 millions of malware samples, which is an extreme number considering amount of manual work required to process even a tiny fraction of those. Many malware analysis across different security organizations spent hours trying to analyze and understand functionality of malware. At the same time overwhelming amount of malicious threats and malware forms cause considerable delays from the time malware has been discovered to the time a corresponding efficient signature was created. Moreover, the malware infection is no longer limited to personal computers, but now also hits such components as Internet of Things and Industrial Control Systems, which were previously unaffected and the cybersecirty impact was underestimated. From before Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence have demonstrated advantages of application in cybersecurity-related tasks. In particular, many researchers have been employing such techniques to mitigate obfuscation, polymorphous and encryption while building intelligent malware detection mechanisms. Intelligent malware analysis and detection is an emerging topic of cybersecurity that has to go in line with advancement of malware developers and consistent presence of zero-day attacks. Our focus is not only to build and effective Machine Learning-based malware protection, but also comprise models that are to be understood by human experts. Therefore, we believe that Machine Learning-aided human-oriented approaches will ensure timely response to malware threats. Moreover, those can serve as a stepping stone in faster and more efficient analysis of novel malware as well as similarity-based identification of adversarial attacks on Machine Learning. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Automated pre-processing phase - Efficient features identification and construction - Novel approaches for malware categorization - Human-understandable characterization of malware - Indicators of Compromise as successful identification tool - Information Fusion and Open Threats Intelligence 2. Advanced computational methods - Deep Learning models - Similarity-based analysis to avoid evasion - Big Data-oriented optimization of detection - Hybrid Intelligence and Soft Computing - Secure and robust models to avoid adversarial attacks 3. Combating malware in a wild - End-point implementations - Novel malware collection and sharing platforms - Applications in Decision Support Systems - Human reasoning in Machine Learning-aided malware detection - Real-time defence and online learning - Explainable rules derived from train Machine Learning models *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn, Center for Cyber and Information Security Sergii Banin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Oleksandr Semeniuta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Mamoun Alazab (Charles Darwin University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Igor Kotsiuba (Pukhov Institute for modeling in Energy Engineering) Mark Scanlon (University College Dublin) Piotr Andrzej Kowalski (AGH University of Science and Technology) Reza Parizi (Kennesaw State University) Mohammad Hamoudeh (Manchester Metropolitan University) Gregory Epiphaniou (University of Wolverhampton) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Microsoft) -- Best regards / Med vennlig hilsen, ―- Andrii SHALAGINOV, PhD Postoctoral Researcher in Digital Forensics Malware Analyst IEEE Member Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU | http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/andrii.shalaginov

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CFP: Deep-ML 2019 Deadline extended (Firm) 23 April 2019
by Deep ML 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Apologies for possible cross posting ---------------------- Call for Papers - Deadline Extended (Firm) 23 April 2019 ---------------------------- The International Conference on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Emerging Applications (Deep-ML 2019) 26-28 August 2019, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.ficloud.org/deep-ml-2019/ <http://www.ficloud.org/deep-ml-2019/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deep learning and machine learning are the state-of-the-art at providing models, methods, tools and techniques for developing autonomous and intelligent systems which can revolutionize industrial and commercial applications in various fields such as online commerce, intelligent transportation, healthcare and medicine, security, manufacturing, education, games, and various other industrial applications. Google, for example, exploits the techniques of deep learning in voice and image recognition applications, while Amazon uses such techniques in helping customers in their online purchase decisions. The International Conference on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Emerging Applications (Deep-ML) provides a leading forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, and professional from public sectors and industries in order to meet and share latest solutions and ideas in solving cutting edge problems in modern information society and economy. The conference comprises a set of tracks that focus on specific challenges in deep learning and machine learning and their applications in emerging areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) Deep and Machine Learning Models and Techniques: Novel machine and deep learning Active learning; Incremental learning and online learning Agent-based learning; Manifold learning Multi-task learning Bayesian networks and applications Case-based reasoning methods Statistical models and learning Computational learning; Evolutionary algorithms and learning Evolutionary neural networks Fuzzy logic-based learning Genetic optimization Clustering, classification and regression Neural network models and learning Parallel and distributed learning Reinforcement learning Supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning Tensor Learning 2) Deep and Machine Learning for Big Data Analytics: Deep/Machine learning based theoretical and computational models Novel techniques for big data storage and processing Data analysis, insights and hidden pattern Data analysis and decision making Data wrangling, munching and cleaning Data integration and fusion Data visualization Data and information quality, efficiency and scalability Security threat detection using big data analytics Visualizing security threats Enhancing privacy and trust Data analytics in complex applications – finance, business, healthcare, engineering, medicine, law, transportation, and telecommunication 3) Deep and Machine Learning for Data Mining and Knowledge: Data mining in the web and online systems Multimedia; images and video data mining Feature extraction and classification Information retrieval and extraction Distributed and P2P data search Sentiment analysis Mining high velocity data streams Anomaly detection in streaming data Mining social media and social networks Mining sensor and computer networks data Mining spatial and temporal datasets Data classification, clustering, and association Knowledge acquisition and learning Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge discovery in large datasets 4) Deep and Machine Learning Application Areas: Bioinformatics and biomedical informatics Finance, business and retail Intelligent transportation Healthcare, medicine and clinical decision support Computer vision Human activity recognition Information retrieval and web search Cybersecurity Natural language processing Recommender systems Social media and networks 5) Deep and Machine Learning for Computing and Network Platforms: Network and communication systems Software defined networks Wireless and sensor networks Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Computing Edge and Fog Computing Paper Submission: Full papers must be in English and should be between 12 to 14 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers must be formatted in Springer's LNCS format. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Important Dates: Submission Deadline (Extended - Firm): 23 April 2019 Authors Notification: 20 May 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 14 June 2019 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Edwin Lughofer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Program Co-Chairs: Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Hadi Larijani, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Local Organising Co-Chairs: Perin Ünal, Teknopar, Turkey Sezer Gören, Ugurdag Yeditepe University, Turkey Tacha Serif, Yeditepe University, Turkey Publication Chair: Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Journal Special Issue Coordinator: Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Publicity Chair: Esra N. Yolaçan, Osman Gazi University, Turkey

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Call For Papers- Journal of Real Time Image Processing
by POURYA SHAMSOLMOALI 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Special Issue on Advances in Deep Learning for Real-Time Image Reconstruction and Processing ( ADLIR ) Journal of Real-Time Image Processing The list of possible topics, but are not limited to: * Real-time image and video reconstruction algorithms * Real-time face reconstruction from depth images * New deep learning models for real-time image reconstruction and processing * New objective functions of deep learning for real-time image reconstruction * Real-time MRI and X-ray image processing * Real-time 3D image reconstruction, processing or segmentation * Deep learning and Hybrid models for real-time computational methods * Real-Time deep learning applications for image processing * Survey /review of deep learning in real-time image reconstruction Submission Guideline: 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 three independent reviewers (the papers will be reviewed following standard peer-review procedures of the Journal). Manuscripts are requested according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP) at https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx . We invite the prospective authors to submit their manuscript, via the online submission system in the main journal page. Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue (ADLIR). Important Dates: * Paper submission due: April 30, 2019 * First notification: June 30, 2019 * Revision submission due: August 15, 2019 * Final decision: October 30, 2019 * Publication date: December 2019 (Tentative) Note: accepted papers are made available online soon after acceptance. https://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1650125/application/pdf/CALL+FOR+…

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