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Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation at NUMTA 2019 - Crotone, Calabria, Italy
by William Spataro 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: NUMTA Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (NUMTA2019-HPCMS) TH Le Castella Village Le Castella – Isola Capo Rizzuto Crotone, Italy DEADLINE for One-page Abstract submission: March 18, 2019 ************************************************************************** Model development for the simulation of the evolution of artificial and natural systems is essential for the advancement of Science. 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. An important mission of the HPCMS Special Session within the NUMTA 2019 3rd International Conference and Summer School 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. The session 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, hydrology, medicine, ecology, 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, earth science and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation Submission One-page abstract should be submitted before March 18, 2019 EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=numta2019 (please follow the EasyChair hints to correctly prepare and submit your abstract). After acceptance, the authors can submit their full papers (end of May) as reported on the NUMTA main web page (http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php) More information about the HPCMS Workshop and the general NUMTA 2019 conference can be found at: http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php Organizers William Spataro – University of Calabria (Italy) Donato D’Ambrosio – University of Calabria (Italy) Rocco Rongo – University of Calabria (Italy) Andrea Giordano – ICAR-CNR (Italy) Scientific 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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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: extended to January 30, 2019 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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CGI'19 3rd CFP - June 17-20 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
by Marina Gavrilova 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CGI 2019 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 17-20 June, 2019 CGI 2019 website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi19 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, and explore new ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it was held in different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI 2019, the 36th annual conference will take place on June 17th - June 20th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the foothills of majestic Canadian Rockies. CGI 2019 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS. IMPORTANT DATES Conference, Tutorials and Workshops June 17 - 20, 2019 Visual Computer papers submission Submission deadline: February 12, 2019 Paper notification: March 24, 2019 Camera-ready April 7, 2019 CGI proceedings submission Submission deadline: March 25, 2019 Paper notification April 21, 2019 Camera-ready May 03, 2019 The scientific program of the conference will include full papers and short papers. 35 accepted full papers will be included in the Visual Computer journal published by Springer. Other accepted papers (full and short papers) will be included in the conference proceedings. KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: Rendering Techniques, Volume Rendering Geometric Computing Virtual and Augmented Reality Shape and Surface Modelling Physically Based Modelling Computer Vision for Computer Graphics Scientific Visualization Data Compression for Graphics Biometric Image and Signal Processing Medical Imaging Computation Geometry Image Based Rendering Computational Photography Computer Animation Visual Analytics Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Geometric Modelling Computational Fabrication Image Processing 3D Reconstruction & 3D Printing Solid Modelling Global Illumination Graphical Human-Computer Interaction Human Modelling Image Analysis Saliency Methods Shape Matching Sketch-based Modelling Robotics and Vision Stylized Rendering Textures Pattern Recognition Machine Learning for Graphics Conference Co-Chairs Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Hiroshi Ishikawa, Waseda University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Jian Chang, Bournemouth University, UK Local Organizing Chair Marina L. Gavrilova University of Calgary, Canada Local Organizing Committee Usman Alim, University of Calgary Ehud Sharlin, University of Calgary Tony Tang, University of Calgary

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ACDL 2019, Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - Early Registration March 31
by Ludovico Montalcini 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

ACDL 2019, Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & AI without Borders ACDL 2019 – A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & AI with the World’s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 15-19, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz acdl(a)icas.xyz ACDL 2018 Sold-out! Probably also ACDL 2019: Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three lessons on a specific topic. The Lecturers below are confirmed. Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Topic: Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning Phillip Isola, MIT, USA Topic: Generative Adversarial Networks Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Topic: Big Data Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University & AI Research at Apple, USA Topic: Deep Learning Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA Topics: Computational Cognitive Science, probabilistic generative models, and probabilistic programming Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel Topic: Theory of Deep Learning – Information Bottleneck Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Topic: Automatic machine learning Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2018 will be The Certosa di Pontignano — Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Località Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info(a)lacertosadipontignano.com http://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/ A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/accommodation/ Past Edition - ACDL 2018: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz ACDL 2019 Poster: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/11/poster-ACDL-20… REGISTRATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ We remind you that ACDL 2018 sold out a long time before the registration deadline! Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2019 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2019 Organizing Committee. acdl(a)icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz

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2nd CFP: SDM 2019 FEND Workshop, May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada
by Kai Shu 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for Papers Workshop on Data Mining for Fake News in Social Media: Propagation, Detection, and Mitigation (FEND'19), in conjunction with SDM'19 http://pike.psu.edu/fend19/ May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada Social media has become a popular means to consume news. However, the quality of news on social media is lower than traditional news organizations. Because it is cheap to provide news online and much faster and easier to disseminate through social media, large volumes of fake news, i.e., those news articles with intentionally false information, are produced online for a variety of purposes, such as financial and political gain. The extensive spread of fake news can have severe negative impacts on individuals and society. First, fake news can break the authenticity balance of the news ecosystem. For example, it is evident that the most popular fake news was even more widely spread on Facebook than the most popular authentic mainstream news during the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Second, fake news intentionally persuades consumers to accept biased or false beliefs for political or financial gain. For example, in 2013, $130 billion in stock value was wiped out in a matter of minutes following an Associated Press (AP) tweet about an explosion that injured Barack Obama. AP said its Twitter account was hacked. Third, fake news changes the way people interpret and respond to real news, impeding their abilities to differentiate what is true from what is not. Therefore, it's critical to understand how fake news propagate, developing data mining techniques for efficient and accurate fake news detection and intervene in the propagation of fake news to mitigate the negative effects. The objectives of this workshop are: - Bring together researchers from both academia and industry as well as practitioners to present their latest problems and ideas; - Attract social media providers who have access to interesting sources of fake news datasets and problems but lack the expertise in data mining to use data effectively; - Enhance interactions between data mining, text mining, social media mining, and sociology and psychology communities working on problems of fake news propagation, detection, and mitigation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and social media providers for understanding fake news propagation, improving fake news detection in social media and mitigation. Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - User behavior analysis and characterization for fake news detection - Text mining - mining news contents and user comments - Early fake news detection - Unsupervised fake news detection - Fact-checking - Tracing and characterizing the propagation of fake news and true news - Malicious account and bot detection, user credibility assessment - Visual analysis and exploration with images on the news - News event aggregation and detection - Building benchmark datasets for fake news detection in social media Paper Submission: Papers should be submitted as PDF, using the SIAM conference proceedings style, available at https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/Proceedings/soda2e_061418.zip?v…. Submissions should be limited to nine pages and submitted via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FEND2019. Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 1, 2019 Notification: March 15, 2019 SDM pre-registration deadline: April 2, 2019 Camera ready: April 15, 2019 Conference dates: May 2-4, 2019 Shall you have any questions, please email to szw494(a)psu.edu or kai.shu(a)asu.edu. Workshop Organizers: Suhang Wang Penn State University, USA Dongwon Lee Penn State University, USA Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA Workshop Publicity Chair: Kai Shu Arizona State University, USA

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CfP, 6th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2019, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Tuscany, Italy July 22-26
by Ludovico Montalcini 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

6th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2019 July 22-26, 2019 - Certosa di Pontignano - Siena - Tuscany - Italy https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz * Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters for SSBSS 2019. Together we will make SSBSS 2019 a great event! * The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Robinson College - University of Cambridge - UK on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment for students (from Master students to PhD students), Post-Docs, early career researches, academics and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results (with Oral Talks and Posters), and to interact with their peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. DEADLINES: Application: March 31, 2019 Oral Presentation/Poster Submission: March 31, 2019 Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: April 28, 2019 https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ SPEAKERS & TOPICS: * ADAM ARKIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA Topics: Systems & Synthetic Biology & Microbiology/Virology * ANDREA CALIFANO, Columbia University, USA Topics: Systems Biology, Cell Regulatory Networks, Cancer tumorigenesis & Drug Resistance * JASON CHIN, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Topics: Genetic Code Reprogramming * VIRGINIA CORNISH, Columbia University, USA Topics: Synthetic Biology, Chemical Complementation & Ribosome Chemistry * JOHN GLASS, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA Topics: Minimal Cell, Building and engineering of genomes and chromosomes * KAREN POLIZZI, Imperial College London, UK Topics: Synthetic Biology & In Vivo Biosensors * WILLIAM SHIH, Harvard Medical School, USA Topics: Design principles for self-assembling molecular machines * JOERG STELLING, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Topics: Computational Systems Biology * SARAH TEICHMANN, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL-EBI, UK Topics: Human Cell Atlas * DANIELLE TULLMAN-ERCEK, Northwestern University, USA Topics: Protein Engineering & Synthetic Biology SPEAKERS: * Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Imperial College London, UK More Speakers TBA CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 See you in Tuscany in July! The SSBSS 2019 Organizing Committee. ssbss(a)icas.xyz https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ Computational Synthetic Biology Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/ * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested *

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CfP: SafeComp 2019 (Int. Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security)
by Alexander Romanovsky 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security Turku, Finland September 10-13, 2019 https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/safecomp2019/ SPECIAL THEME: Safety and security of autonomous systems CALL FOR PAPERS SAFECOMP was established in 1979 by the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, Technical Committee 7 on Reliability, Safety and Security (EWICS TC7). Since then, it has contributed to the progress of the state-of -the-art in dependable application of computers in safety-related and safety- critical systems. SAFECOMP is an annual event covering the state-of-the-art, experience and new trends in the areas of safety, security and reliability of critical computer applications. SAFECOMP provides plenty of opportunities to exchange insights and experience on emerging methods, approaches and practical solutions. It is a single-track conference supporting great networking opportunities. The conference covers all aspects related to the development, assessment, operation and maintenance of safety-related and safety-critical computer systems. Topics include, but are not limited to * Development, verification and assessment of highly automated and autonomous dependable systems * Formal modelling, verification and validation of critical systems, software and hardware * Model-driven engineering and assessment of safety and security-critical systems and software * Resilient and fault-tolerant hardware and software architectures * Fault detection and recovery mechanisms * Distributed and real-time monitoring and control * Security and privacy protection mechanisms for safety-related and safety-critical systems * Safety/security co-engineering and risk assessment * Probabilistic verification and validation * Testing, verification and validation methods and tools for safety and security * Methods and tools for qualification, assurance and certification * Data-driven techniques for engineering dependable systems, software and hardware * Cyber-physical threats and vulnerability analysis * Safety and security guidelines, standards and certification of critical systems * Safety and security assurance cases * Safety and security issues of applied AI and machine learning in critical systems * Devops and agile development methods Domains of application include: * Railways, automotive, space, avionics, nuclear and process industries * Highly automated and autonomous systems, advanced robotics, construction engines and off-road vehicles * Telecommunications and networks * Safety-related applications of smart systems and IoT (Internet of Things, Smart Anything Everywhere) * Critical infrastructures, smart grids, SCADA * Medical devices and healthcare * Surveillance, defense, emergency & rescue * Logistics, industrial automation, off-shore technology * Education & training PAPER SUBMISSION The regular research papers (up to 14 pages) as well as practical and industrial experience reports and tool papers (up to 8 pages) should be electronically submitted via the EasyChair submission systems. Additional details are provided at the conference website: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/safecomp2019/ Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according the LNCS templates provided by Springer Verlag - https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission February 14, 2019 Paper submission February 17, 2019 Notification April 30, 2019 Camera ready June 5, 2019 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series by Springer Verlag. EWICS TC7 CHAIR Francesca Saglietti (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE) GENERAL CHAIR AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle Univ., UK) Elena Troubitsyna (KTH, SE and Åbo Akademi, FI) PUBLICATION CHAIR Friedemann Bitsch (Thales, DE) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ilir Gashi (City Univ., UK) Erwin Schoitsch (AIT, AT) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Elena Troubitsyna Minna Carla Christel Engblom Inna Vistbackka INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Bishop (UK) Friedemann Bitsch (DE) Jean-Paul Blanquart (FR) Sandro Bologna (IT) Andrea Bondavalli (IT) Jens Braband (DE) Simon Burton (DE) António Casimiro (PT) Mads Dam (SE) Peter Daniel (UK) Ewen Denney (US) Felicita Di Giandomenico (IT) Wolfgang Ehrenberger (DE) John Favaro (IT) Francesco Flammini (SE) Simon Fuerst (DE) Barbara Gallina (SE) Ilir Gashi (UK) Anatoliy Gorbenko (UK) Janusz Gorski (PL) Jérémie Guiochet (FR) Hans Hansson (SE) Mats Heimdahl (US) Maritta Heisel (DE) Constance Heitmeyer (US) Alexei Iliasov (UK) Chris Johnson (UK) Rajeev Joshi (US) Karama Kanoun (FR) Joost-Pieter Katoen (DE) Philip Koopman (US) Peter Ladkin (DE) Timo Latvala (FI) Silvia Mazzini (IT) Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (SE) Mattias Nyberg (SE) Frank Ortmeier (DE) Philippe Palanque (FR) Michael Paulitsch (AT) Holger Pfeifer (DE) Peter Popov (UK) Laurent Rioux (FR) Matteo Rossi (IT) Francesca Saglietti (DE) Christoph Schmitz (CH) Erwin Schoitsch (AT) Christel Seguin (FR) Håkan Sivencrona (SE) Oleg Sokolsky (US) Stefano Tonetta (IT) Kenji Taguchi (JP) Martin Törngren (E) Mario Trapp (DE) Tullio Vardanega (IT) Marcel Verhoef (NL) Helene Waeselynck (FR) Jonny Vinter (SE)

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Ada-Europe 2019 Conference - EXTENDED 28 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

The Ada-Europe 2019 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for all submissions is extended to Monday 28 January 2019. 3 weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE Ada-Europe 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) 10-14 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) *** Extended DEADLINE 28 JANUARY 2019 AoE *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) will take place in Warsaw, Poland, in the week of 10-14 June. The conference schedule at its fullest includes a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition of the conference inaugurates a major revamp in the registration fees, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 28 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** 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 Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 28 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** 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, of at least 1 page in length, by 28 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. 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), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted 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 within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted 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. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th 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), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). 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 2019 Publicity Chair *** Ada-Europe 24th Intl. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 10-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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ESORICS 2019 - Call for Workshop Proposals [24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Luxembourg, 2019]
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: 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. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: February 8, 2019 * Notification of decision: March 15, 2019 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org) The following application form should be used. (also available in Word format at http://j.mp/ESORICS19wsh) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2019 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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Call For Papers, Tutorial and Special Sessions - CIBB 2019
by Cibb2019 Cibb2019 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Call for Papers, Tutorials and Special Sessions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 Simone Spolaor, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Tutorials and Special Session proposals: 15 February 2019 Paper submission deadline: 1 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 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). TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ------------------------------ CIBB 2019 will run a number of Tutorials and Special Sessions. Any topic of interest for the conference is eligible for a tutorial. Tutorials typically last from one to three hours. Special sessions focus on a specific, possibly cutting-edge, topic of interest for CIBB 2019. Special session organisers will be responsible for call dissemination, the reviewing process, and organizing oral presentations. Typically, a special session will have at least 4 accepted papers and may have an invited speaker (to be negotiated). Tutorial proposals ----------------------------- - including tutorial’s title, a one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters - due by 15 February 2019 - send proposals to cibb2019(a)easychair.org Special Session proposals ----------------------------- - including the session’s title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at least 4 (possibly more) potential authors - due by 15 February 2019 - a special session is expected to have at least 4 accepted papers - send proposals to cibb2019(a)easychair.org

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worksop ICCSA2019 --Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA)
by Noelia faginas Lago 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Dear Colleague, this is an invitation to submit a contribution to the “Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA)” of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/ <http://www.iccsa.org/>) to be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg (Russia). All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs> series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission will be extended to Feb 17, 2019. The themes of the Workshop include (but are not limited to): • Molecular Dynamics simulations of complex systems; strategies for optimisation of the computing resources (parallel and distributed computing) • Basis sets for the quantum treatment of molecular dynamics and intermolecular interactions in gas phase and gas-surface systems • Simulations of energy transfer processes relevant for atmospheric chemistry, astrochemistry, gaseous flows and plasmas • Stereodynamics and chirality of molecular collisions • Dynamics and kinetics simulations reusing the computed electronic structure information generated by ab initio calculations from specific databases • Design and implementation of accurate and fast algorithms for parallel and distributed platforms (such as Grids and Clouds) to maximize performances extending the available information on molecular interactions • Quantum chemical calculations for molecular structure and dynamics (DFT, TDDFT, Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics....) Organizers: Noelia Faginas-Lago — noelia.faginaslago(a)unipg.it (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Andrea Lombardi Università degli Studi di Perugia) andrea.lombardi(a)unipg.it International Program Committee: Antonio Laganà, master-up srl, Vincenzo Aquilanti, Università di Perugia, Marzio Rosi, Università di Perugia, Nadia Balucani, Università di Perugia,Fernando Pirani, Università di Perugia, Federico Palazzetti, Università di Perugia, Stefano Evangelisti, Université de Toulouse III, Massimiliano Bartolomei, CSIC-Spain, Antonio Aguilar, Universitat de Barcelona, Cecilia Coletti, Università Chieti-Pescara, Roger Anderson, University of California Santa Cruz, Ricardo Gargano, Universidade de Brasília, Demetrio A. da silva Filho, Universidade de Brasília, See the attached file for author’s instructions. ==================================================================== To the authors: You can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ <http://ess.iccsa.org/>. Instructions to prepare and submit papers can be found on the web site (http://www.iccsa.org/ instructions-for-authors) If you are not registered, you must register before the submission. From the personal page authors are 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 paper can be updated until the submission deadline. If you have some doubts or problems do not hesitate to contact the organizers. ICCSA CONFERENCE: The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. ICCSA 2019 will be the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously held in Melbourne, Australia (2018), Trieste, Italy (2017), Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012), Santander, Spain (2011), Fukuoka, Japan (2010), Suwon, Korea (2009), Perugia, Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007), Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005), Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco, USA (2001). The first ICCSA conference was co-organized by C.J.K. Tan (UK) and M. Gavrilova (U of Calgary, Canada) in 2003. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science. This conference is sponsored by: Monash University, Australia; The University of Perugia, Italy; Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan; The University of Basilicata, Italy; University of Minho, Portugal --------- Before printing this e-mail ask yourself if you really need a hard copy. We are all responsible for the environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Noelia Faginas Lago Dipartimento di Chimica,Biologia e Biotecnologie Università di Perugia Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123, Perugia (Italy) tel: +390755855527 fax:+390755855606 e-mail: piovro(a)gmail.com <mailto:piovro@gmail.com> , noelia.faginaslago(a)unipg.it <mailto:noelia.faginaslago@unipg.it> Skype:noelia19750852 <skype:noelia19750852>

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[CFP] GrAPL 2019 - co-located with IPDPS 2019
by Tumeo, Antonino 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] GrAPL 2019: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning http://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl Co-Located with IPDPS 2019 May 20, 2019 Hilton Rio De Janeiro Brazil ----------------------------- 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 ----------------------------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Much of the recent focus in Data Analytics has emphasized machine learning. This is understandable given the success of deep learning over the last decade. However, 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 which is a natural outgrowth of the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. The objectives of this workshop are as follows: * Understand data analytics workflows and the mix of graph and machine learning algorithms they require * Understand the synergies between evolving device technology and graph analytics applications to drive: 1) the direction of emerging hardware and software architecture, 2) new graph analytics algorithms that better exploit the emerging hardware; and 3) application workflows that mix the large graph synthesis and analytics and machine learning. * Explore different frameworks, languages and libraries to support programming graph analytics and machine learning algorithms * Evaluate the performance and scalability of integrated platforms for large graph synthesis and analysis, and machine learning While each of these topics on their own are well addressed in other workshops, we are particularly interested in the cross-cutting synergies. For example, hardware and software architectures specialized for machine learning (and in particular deep learning) may be poorly suited for graph algorithms. Can we understand these conflicting needs and perhaps find an architecture jointly optimized for both? This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. We are particularly interested in papers that: * Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; * 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 the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; * Provide tractability performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows. Besides regular papers, papers 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 1, 2019 Notification: February 28, 2019 Camera-ready: March 15, 2019 Workshop: May 20, 2019 ----------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grapl2019 Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) pages, 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 Tim Mattson (Intel), timothy.g.mattson(a)intel.com Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov Program co-Chairs Ananth Kalyanaraman (WSU), ananth(a)wsu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Steering Committe David A. Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Technical Program Committee Aydin Buluç, LBNL, US Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, US Jana Doppa, Washington State University, US John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Oded Green, Georgia Institute of Technology & NVIDIA, US Jeremy Kepner, MIT, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Hao Lu, ORNL, US Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, US Rupesh Nasre, IIT Madras, IN John Owens, University of California, Davis, US Arnau Prat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, US P. Sadayappan, The Ohio State University, US A. Erdem Sarıyüce, University at Buffalo, US Arun Sathanur, PNNL, US Brian Van Essen, LLNL, US Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Yangzihao Wang, University of California, Davis, US Marinka Zitnik, Stanford University, US Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, US

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Springer(LNCS)-11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications@Saint Petersburg, Russia
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

SEPA 2019: 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ When Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg, Russia Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software> software engineering <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20engineering> software processes <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20processes> software applications <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20applications> Call For Papers SEPA 2019: 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications The accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ , http://www.iccsa.org/workshops Following the grand success of SEPA 2018(In Melbourne, Australia),SEPA 2017(in Trieste, Italy), SEPA 2016 (in Beijing, China), SEPA 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SEPA 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SEPA 2013 (in Ho Chi Ming, Vietnam),SEPA 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SEPA 2011 (in Santander,Spain), SEPA 2010 (in Fukuoka, Japan), SEPA 2009 (in Sowon, Korea), ) SEPA 2019 (in conjunction with ICCSA 2019) is scheduled to be held during July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline: Feb 17, 2019 About the Workshop and Topics Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA: 2019) is aimed to provide a forum to scientists/researchers/engineers/practitioners and academicians to share their ideas, experiences and researches in the field of software engineering process and applications. SEPA 2019 covers all the frontier issues and trends in the modern software development processes. It includes process models, the development process for different software platforms (e.g. social networks, cloud), the process for adaptive, dependable, embedded, systems, agile development, software engineering practices, requirements, system and design engineering including architectural design, component level design, formal methods, software modeling, testing strategies and tactics, process and product metrics, Web Engineering, project management, risk management, and configuration management. SEPA also invite papers for the development process of the software/software systems in application areas e.g. agriculture, aviation industry, business, cyber-crime, education, government, military etc. SEPA invites you to submit theme papers that describe original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to SEPA 2019 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal and should be 12 - 16 pages (LNCS style). Papers selected after peer review will be included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science published by Springer (only after completing registration) and presented orally (except unavoidable circumstances-like financial constraints) at the conference. Publication All contributions will be reviewed by international program committee members and judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SEPA 2019 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science as a book series of Computational Science and Its Applications: ICCSA. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must be registered and supposed to present the paper in the conference (virtual presentation is allowed for authors who cannot attend the conference). The extended version of selected papers will also be invited for the publication in several journals (All Web of Science and SCOPUS indexed journals) including best papers in SCIE indexed journal*. *A special issue of SCIE Journal- Information Technology and Control is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2019). Submission Please submit your paper through ICCSA 2019 conference web site. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py while submitting to the conference site, please select the track of your submission "Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA 2019)". February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference International Program Committee Organizing Chair (Contact) Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering Covenant University Contact: sanjay.misra(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng Programme Committee Chair Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Computer Science Department Østfold University College, Norway rcolomo(a)gmail.com International Programme Committee Members Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 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 Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand, 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 Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Brazil Ravin Ahuja, University Of Delhi, India Rinkaj Goyal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India -- 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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*Xplore(IEEE)-11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

TTSDP 2019 : 11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process[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://ttsdp.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ When Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg, Russia Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> tools & techniques <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=tools%20&%20techniques> software practitioners <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20practitioners> software industry <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20industry> industrial app & academia <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=industrial%20app%20&%20academia> Call For Papers TTSDP 2019 : 11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process in conjunction with The 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019) ttsdp.covenantuniversity.edu.ng Accepted papers will be submitted and published by IEEE Xplore The extended version of all presented papers will also be invited for the publication in International Scientific Journals(All indexed in SCOPUS/Web of Science/ECIE). 10th International Workshop on "Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019)" will be held in conjunction with the 2019 International Conference on Computational Sciences and Applications (ICCSA 2019). It is going to be held on during July 1- 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline Feb 17, 2019. About the Workshop and Topics The Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019) provides a forum for researchers, and practitioners to share their new achievements, tools and techniques in the field of the software development process. TTSDP especially invites the experience papers from industry and academia, short papers, reports, surveys, working papers/work in progress and industrial reports. Review/Comment papers are also welcome with the limitation that the paper should be on general problem/topic in the field (no comments are allowed on a particular paper). TTSDP covers all the aspects of the development process: process models, agile development, software engineering practices, requirements, system and design engineering including architectural design, software modeling, testing strategies and tactics, process and product metrics for each phase of software development, component-based software engineering, software quality, verification and validation techniques and software project management. TTSDP 2019 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all area of the software development process. The paper submitted to TTSDP 2019 must not submit elsewhere either in conference or journal and should be in IEEE style. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference. TTSDP 2019 invites you to submit three different types of session papers (5 to 11 pages long) on all above-mentioned topics: Research papers: Papers that describe original and significant contribution in all area of the software development process. Experience paper: papers from the field describing real-world experience related to the software development process. Short paper and reports: Papers that allows the explanation of ideas that are not yet fully validated. Review articles (not on a particular paper), comparative study and survey reports are also welcome. The paper submitted to TTSDP 2019 must not have been submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal and must be in IEEE style. Papers selected after review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference. Publication All accepted workshop (TTSDP) papers will be included in the proceeding of ICCSA 2019, published by IEEE Xplore. One of the authors of the accepted paper is required to register and expected to present the paper at the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please select the track of your submission "Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019)". Please follow the IEEE proceedings guidelines for preparing your paper. IEEE Proceedings Format: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer… Special ISSUES: In several countries, conference papers are not considered in the evaluation of academic performances. In this point of view, we have decided to publish the extended version of all presented papers in TTSDP in special issues of several international journals. The papers will also be selected for International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI: Published by IGI global), International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) (IGI Global, USA), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION (IJI-ESCI Indexed) and International Journal of Human Capital Information(IGI Global) with the condition that the papers should fall under the aim and scope of the said journals. Remaining papers will be accommodated in an international journal: CJICT (an Official Journal of Covenant University) and in several other journals from renowned publishers such as - Inderscience, IGI etc. We are highly thankful to the Management/Editor/Editorial committee of all these journals for accepting the special issues/papers from our workshops. A special issue of SCIE Journal is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2019. Important Dates February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering Covenant University sanjay.misra(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng Phone: +234 7030851086 Program Chair Prof. Robertas damasevicius Prof of Software engineering Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania robertas.damasevicius(a)ktu.lt International Programme Committee Members Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 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 Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand, 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 Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Brazil Ravin Ahuja, University Of Delhi, India Rinkaj Goyal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India -- 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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Springer(LNCS):Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality@Saint Petersburg, Russia
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

ISSQ 2019 : Tenth 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, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software quality assurance <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20assurance> various quality standards <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=various%20quality%20standards> software quality practices <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20practices> software quality models <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20models> Call For Papers ISSQ 2019 : Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality(Springer-LNCS) in conjunction with ICCSA 2019 (The accepted papers of ISSQ 2019 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 2019). Following the grand success of ISSQ 2018(In Melbourne, Australia), ISSQ 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 Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality (ISSQ 2019) will be held in conjunction with the 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2018), is scheduled to be held during July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline: February 17, 2019. About the Workshop and Topics This symposium extends the discussion of software quality issues in the 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 the 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: 2019 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 2019 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 2019 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 2019). Submission Please submit your paper through the ICCSA 2019 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 "Software Quality (ISSQ 2019)" Important Dates February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 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 Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada 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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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2019
by Ana Cristina Braga 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2019) https://cas2019.webnode.com/ Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 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 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2019 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) 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 2019 organizer)

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Reminder - CfP Ada-Europe 2019 Conference, Warsaw, Poland
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reminder - Call for Papers Ada-Europe 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) 10-14 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) *** DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2019 *** *** Web submission site open *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) will take place in Warsaw, Poland, in the week of 10-14 June. The conference schedule at its fullest includes a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition of the conference inaugurates a major revamp in the registration fees, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** 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 Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** 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, of at least 1 page in length, by 14 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. 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), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted 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 within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted 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. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th 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), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). 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 2019 Publicity Chair *** Ada-Europe 24th Intl. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 10-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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HPCS 2019 - The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by CisEdu.us 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

[Sorryif you get multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers and Participation The 2019 High Performance Computing& Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019) July 15 - 19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP (Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2019) (Other Conference tracks may have different submissiondeadlines - Please check the specific track of interest at links below.) You are cordially invited to participate in this internationalconference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special sessionorganization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, apanel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds moreappropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts fromacademia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentationsdescribing original work on the current state of research in high performanceand large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, languages,software and middleware in HPC systems, Cloud and Edge Computing, DataSciences, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling andsimulation, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia,workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoralcolloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. Inaddition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (may have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check thespecific track of interest (coming soon). So far we have the following tracks: Symposia: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia Workshops:http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops Special Sessions: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SPECIAL ISSUE Authorsof selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work forone or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCSProceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexingservices including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. ================================================================= ImportantDates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline———- February 21, 2019 Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ——————- —- February 28, 2019 Notification of Acceptance starts ———————-————-- —- March25, 2019 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due —————--——April 25, 2019 Conference Dates —————————————————--- —— July 15 - 19, 2019 ================================================================= Forfurther details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the conference organizers. Welook forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Dublin, Ireland in July. Thankyou very much. Happy Holidays and HappyNew Year. HPCS2019 Organizers

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ICCSA 2019 Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

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[DECON'19] Call for papers
by DECON'19 International Conference 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

[DECON\'19] Call for papers ww.decision-economics.net info(a)decision-economics.net (info@info@decision-economics.net) International Conference on Decision Economics University of Salamanca Ávila (Spain) | 26th - 22th June, 2019 SCOPE Decision Economics is a growing field of research which has been given much attention by several scholars in recent decades. The International Conference on Decision Economics (DECON 2019) is a multidisciplinary international forum dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving instruction in economics, business, computer science, psychology, quantitative methods and related disciplines. To pursue this mission, DECON 2019 will facilitate the development and dissemination of knowledge in the diverse disciplines of the decision sciences in the tradition of Herbert A. Simon’s interdisciplinary heritage. Herbert A. Simon was - and still is - one of the most influential founding father of the multidisciplinary fields of decision sciences: his contributions range across administrative behaviour and organisation theory, management science and operation research, behavioural decision theory, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Therefore, DECON 2019 focuses on theoretical, empirical and methodological investigations of socio-economic decisions made by several economic agents in a complex market economy, not entirely according to standard “rational” economic principles, but also in light of behavioural and cognitive factors, and bounded rationality. Such investigations can be methodologically focused on quantitative approaches, qualitative methods, or can take the form of insightful reviews and commentaries on best practices in social science research. DECON 2019 dedicates itself to the interdisciplinary study of decision-making in the recognition that important decision-making takes place in a range of critical subject areas and research fields, including Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Psychology, Small and International Business, Management, Operations, and Production. We are particularly interested in analytics as an emerging synthesis of sophisticated methodology and large data systems used to guide economic decision-making in an increasingly complex business environment. TOPICS The recent negative economic and financial events, which have hit the world economies in the last decade, call for new and innovative studies mainly in economics, business and finance, involving different research fields such as Economics, Psychology, or strictly related social sciences, leading source for original research on the interplay of those fields within Artificial Intelligence. The organisers and chairs of DECON strongly believe that this is a moral duty, as well as a scientific duty, for a prudent and wise economist aware of the complexity of the real world in which he/she lives and works in the Third Millennium. Indeed, the combination of economics and decision sciences is a field of studies which proves to be useful and, thus, should be fostered to academicians and practitioners interested in the application of quantitative and behavioural methods to the problems of society. The special session focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of economic analysis and policies within several major areas. Hence, papers are invited for the following areas of special interest which include but are not limited to: Experimental Research in Economics; Behavioural Game Theory; Cognitive Economics; Interrelations of Economics and Psychology with AI; Complexity of Behavioural Decision Processes; Microfoundations and Micro-Macro Relationships; Organisational Decision-Making; Computation and Computability in Economics; Decision Theory and the Economics of Uncertainty; Algorithmic Social Sciences Research; Decision Support Systems and Business Decisions; Business Intelligence Analytics and Decision-Making; Big Data, Data-Mining and Robotics; Managerial Decision-Making; Complex Business Environments; Information Technology and Operational Decision Sciences. COMMITTEE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Edgardo Bucciarelli University of Chieti-Pescara Italy Shu-Heng Chen National Chengchi University Taiwan Juan Manuel Corchado University of Salamanca Spain INVITED SPEAKERS V.S. Subrahmanian Dartmouth College (USA) Toshiharu Sugawara Waseda University (Japan) Marco Dorigo Free University of Brussels (Belgium) DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 4th February, 2019 11th March, 2019 29th March, 2019 26th-28th June, 2019 SUBMISSIONS Review process DECON welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference Submitting papers All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 8 pages (4 pages in Doctoral Consortium), including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the DECONconference management system. Publication Accepted papers will be included in DECON Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from DECON 2019 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in diffetent journals. JCR 2017: 6.639 JCR 2017: 3.317 JCR 2017: 2.475 JCR 2017: 2.475 JCR 2016: 2.110 SJR 2017: 0.62, Q2 ww.decision-economics.net info(a)decision-economics.net (info(a)decision-economics.net) Unsubscribe: info(a)decision-economics.net (info(a)decision-economics.net)

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[Deadline Extension] Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: extended to January 30, 2019 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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CfP for VHPC ‘19: HPC Virtualization Paper Registration due January 25, 2019 - 14th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop@ISC
by Michael Alexander 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2019 Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 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. 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 on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization 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 January 25, 2019 - Abstract Registration deadline Apr 19th, 2019 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA 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. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 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 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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CFP: 7th Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019)
by FiCloud Conference 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

----------------------Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------ The 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019) 26-28 August 2019, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.ficloud.org/2019/ Technical co-sponsorship: IEEE-CS TCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Cloud Models - SaaS, IaaS, PaaS - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software Systems, Models and Architectures - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Smart Environment - Enterprise and Business Models - Energy Efficiency - Federation and Virtualization - Fog and Edge Computing - Industry Track - General Track 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/2019/) 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). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 11 March 2019 Authors Notification: 20 May 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 14 June 2019 General Chairs: Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Program Chairs: Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chairs: Perin Unal, Teknopar, Turkey Sezer Gören Ugurdag, Yeditepe University, Turkey Tacha Serif, Yeditepe University, Turkey Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Publication Chair: Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Track Chairs: Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Khaled Aloufe, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia Marcin Bajer, ABB Corporate Research Kraków, Poland Marisa Catalan Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain Marwan Hassani, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Patience Anitta Namanya, Nettitude Group, UK Rafael Angarita, INRIA and Isep, Paris, France Ron Austin, Birmingham City University, UK R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Tacha Serif, Yeditepe University, Turkey Tuna Tugcu, Bogaziçi University, Turkey Vijay S. Rao, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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CFP for PDSEC ’19 Workshop and Special Track: Performance and Software Engineering in Scientific Computing
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Dear All: The 20th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing Workshop (PDSEC ’19) (http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec19/index.php) will be held on May 24, 2019 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The Call for Papers for the workshop can be found here (http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec19/cfp.php) Please note that this year there is a PDSEC special track in Performance and Software Engineering in Scientific Computing (https://sts.mb.uni-siegen.de/workshops/pdsec_2019/?lang=de) The deadline to submit papers to the workshop and to the special track is January 27, 2019. Best regards, Suzanne Dr. Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas Publicity Chair, PDSEC ‘19

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CFP: SI with IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
by 严珂 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Dear authors/professors/scientists, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) is a well reputable journal in the fields of computational biology, healthcare engineering, bio-medical research and bioinformatics. Based on evaluation on your existing publications in the related fields, we would like to invite you to contribute one article/review to the special issue: “Machine Learning for AI-Enhanced Healthcare and Medical Services: New Development and Promising Solution” with IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, IF=2.428, deadline: 30 Dec 2018). The topics of interest include, but not limited to the following topics: - AI enhanced clinical decision making; - Biomechanics, modeling and computing; - AI based computer vision topics on medical images; - Big data research and project experience in bio-medical and healthcare services; - Knowledge-based or agent-based models for biological systems; - Distributed systems in medical and healthcare services; - Intelligent devices and instruments for medical and healthcare services; - Machine learning in medicine, human biology, and healthcare; - Intelligent and process-aware information systems in human biology, healthcare and medicine; - AI and data science for human biology, medical and healthcare services; - AI in medical and healthcare education. To submit your works, simply log into the TCBB journal online submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcbb-cs) followed by selecting the option: ‘SI-MLHealth-2018’ by 30 Dec 2018. For detailed information, please refer to the CFP flyer attached to this email. Please kindly notice that all submissions to the SI will go through a formal review process with at least three professional reviewers in the related field. We will try our best to return the review comments to you within a month after your submission. Whether your paper will be accepted by the journal will strictly depend on the reviewers’ recommendation. Best regards, Ke Yan (Ph.D.) Leading/Corresponding guest editor, Associate Professor, China Jiliang University

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Special Issue on Finite Difference Methods: Recent Developments and Applications in Computational Science
by Bhaskar Chaudhury 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Special Issue on Finite Difference Methods: Recent Developments and Applications in Computational Science Computational Science is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field concerned with constructing mathematical models, numerical approximations of forward and inverse problems, quantitative analysis techniques, and using advanced computing capabilities to analyze, investigate and solve a wide range of complex problems in the natural and social sciences, medicine, and engineering, among others. Finite difference approximations of differential equations are one of the oldest and simplest methods which are frequently used for computing approximate solutions of the underlying equations modeling complex phenomenon. With the availability of ever more powerful computational resources, the large but finite algebraic system of equations arising from finite difference approximations can be easily solved on present day computers, and the resulting efficient algorithms provide gold standards to beat for other approximation techniques. Modeling and simulation tools based on Finite Difference techniques find increasing applications not only in fundamental research, but also in several real-world applications. However, the simplicity and efficiency of Finite Difference Methods comes at the cost of reduced accuracy and stability in the approximation of problems involving heterogenieties and nonsmooth interfaces. The objective of this special issue is to present recent important developments in the construction, analysis and simulation of approximation techniques based on the Finite Difference Method (FDM) that address these and other limitations of the FDMs and provide efficient solutions to advance research in this area. High-quality original contributions to this special issue are invited from researchers working in this area. TOPICS Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: · (High order) FDMs for Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic Problems · (High order) FDMs for Initial and Boundary Value Problems · Alternating Direction Implicit FDMs · Compact and Symplectic FDMs · Nonstandard FDMs, positivity-preserving, convexity preserving schemes · High Order Operator Splitting based FDMs; Mimetic FDMs · Adaptive Mesh Refinement in FDMs · Multiscale Methods based on FDMs · FDMs on unbounded domains and on domains with irregular geometry · Irregular Grid FDMs · Element-free and Meshless FDMs · Parallel FD methods, FDMs on GPUs · Applications of FDMs in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Finance andEngineering. IMPORTANT DATES · Sept 16, 2018: Call for papers. · April 1, 2019: Deadline for Initial Paper Submission. · June 30, 2019: Notification of First Round Decision. · July 30, 2019: Deadline for Revised Paper Submission. · August 30, 2019: Deadline 2nd review decision. · September 30, 2019: Deadline for 2nd revision. · October 30 , 2019: Deadline for final decision. · December 15, 2019: Target publication date. GUEST EDITORS Prof. Dr. Bhaskar Chaudhury ( bhaskar_chaudhury(a)daiict.ac.in ) DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Prof. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt ( ehrhardt(a)uni-wuppertal.de ) University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Prof. Dr. Vrushali Bokil ( bokilv(a)math.oregonstate.edu ) Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS Submitted papers should be original and are not be under consideration elsewhere for publication. The authors should follow the journal guidelines, regarding the manuscript content and its format when preparing their manuscripts. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers for their suitability in terms of technical novelty, scientific rigor, scope, and relevance to this special issue. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles. Please select article type name of “VSI: FDM-Computational Science ” during submission process. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computational-science/call-for…

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CompAstro Workshop within ICCSA 2019
by Marzio Rosi 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the Computational Astrochemistry (CompAstro) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2019, www.iccsa.org<http://www.iccsa.org/> ) to be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg (Russia). The format of the CompAstro Workshop is peculiar, as it does not feature a list of pre-selected invited speakers. Rather, the oral contributions will be selected only from the submitted papers. Please note that the submission of a short paper (and not of the mere abstract) is required by the deadline indicated in the ICCSA webpage (the deadline for submission might vary with respect to that originally indicated, presumably it will extend up to the end of March). 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. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP Since their first detection, the presence of relatively complex molecules in the interstellar medium, ISM, has posed the question of how they are formed. The harsh chemical environments of interstellar clouds (namely, very low temperature and very low number density), indeed, challenge the common notions that chemical synthesis requires energy to promote the weakening of the reactant bonds and frequent collisions to increase the number of reactive encounters. Since 1% of interstellar clouds is composed by small silicates or vitreous carbonaceous particles, interstellar grains covered by icy mantles are also invoked to play an important role in synthesizing interstellar molecules by acting as interstellar catalysts. One important drawback of astrochemical models, which include several thousands of molecular processes, is due to the uncertainty associated with the parameters which are used to quantitatively account for the importance of every step: many of those processes have never been investigated in laboratory experiments, many others have been investigated but under experimental conditions that do not reproduce the interstellar ones (either regarding the temperature or the pressure). For gas-phase reactions of the first kind, rate coefficients and their temperature dependence are mainly estimated with some chemical intuition or by drawing analogies with similar known processes. Small details in the molecular structure and in the potential energy surfaces, however, can induce a huge change in the chemical behavior and reasoning by analogy can cause severe mistakes. In the second case, the values obtained as a function of the temperature in a T range that does not encompass those of relevance in ISM are used, but this can also be very risky as a change in the reaction mechanism can alter the temperature dependence in non-Arrhenius reactions. The case of grain-chemistry simulation in laboratory experiments is even more complex, as no experiments are able to reproduce the size of interstellar particles, the exact composition of the grain icy mantle and the flux of particles and/or photons impinging on the grains. A theoretical characterization at the atomic/molecular level can help in extrapolating experimental data at the conditions of ISM or in estimating in a reliable way the kinetic parameters (e.g. cross sections, rate constants, branching ratios) associated with reactions that cannot be investigated in laboratory experiments. These theoretical characterizations, once used to interpret and understand the laboratory data, can assist in the extrapolation to the actual ISM conditions. When laboratory data are not available, instead, they can provide a reliable estimate of the relative parameters. In conclusion, a thorough theoretical characterization can be pivotal to the understanding of chemistry in space either in the presence or absence of experimental data. All these topics are covered by computational astrochemistry, which forms the subject of the present workshop. The themes of the Workshop include (but are not limited to): * Potential energy surfaces of reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Thermochemistry of reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Calculation of kinetic parameters associated with reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Modelling dust and icy grain structures and properties * Modelling processes at the grain surfaces * Theory for spectroscopy * Astrochemical models Organizers: Marzio Rosi - marzio.rosi(a)unipg.it<mailto:marzio.rosi@unipg.it> (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Dimitrios Skouteris – d.skouteris(a)master-up.it<mailto:d.skouteris@master-up.it> (Master-up, Perugia), Fanny Vazart – fanny.vazart(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr<mailto:fanny.vazart@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (Université Grenoble Alpes), Albert Rimola - Albert.Rimola(a)uab.cat<mailto:Albert.Rimola@uab.cat> (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Program Committee Members: Nadia Balucani, Università degli Studi di Perugia, nadia.balucani(a)unipg.it<mailto:nadia.balucani@unipg.it>; Cecilia Ceccarelli, Université Grenoble Alpes, cecilia.ceccarelli(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr<mailto:cecilia.ceccarelli@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>; Stefano Falcinelli, Università degli Studi di Perugia, stefano.falcinelli(a)unipg.it<mailto:stefano.falcinelli@unipg.it>; Piero Ugliengo, Università degli Studi di Torino, piero.ugliengo(a)unito.it<mailto:piero.ugliengo@unito.it>; Daniela Ascenzi, Università degli Studi di Trento, daniela.ascenzi(a)unitn.it<mailto:daniela.ascenzi@unitn.it> INFORMATION ABOUT THE ICCSA CONFERENCE The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2019) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. ICCSA 2019 will be the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously held in Melbourne, Australia (2018), Trieste, Italy (2017), Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012), Santander, Spain (2011), Fukuoka, Japan (2010), Suwon, Korea (2009), Perugia, Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007), Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005), Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco, USA (2001). The first ICCSA conference was co-organized by C.J.K. Tan (UK) and M. Gavrilova (U of Calgary, Canada) in 2003. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science. 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. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0> 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. The conference is organized in cooperation with: Saint Petersburg University<http://english.spbu.ru/>, Russia The conference is proudly sponsored by: <http://www.monash.edu.au/> University of Perugia<http://www.unipg.it/>, Italy<http://www.monash.edu.au/> University of Basilicata<http://www.unibas.it/>, Italy Monash University<http://www.monash.edu.au/>, Australia Kyushu Sangyo University<http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/>, Japan University of Minho<http://www.uminho.pt/en/home_en>, Portugal

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ICCSA 2019 Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

** We apologize if you received multiple copies of the present message ** ***************************************************************************** ********************* First Call For Papers ************************ ********************** Deadline February 17, 2019 ************************* ***************************************************************************** Call for Papers, Short Papers and PHD Showcase papers The 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia ICCSA 2019 July 1-4, 2019 http://www.iccsa.org ICCSA 2019 is the next event in the series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications, previously held in Melbourne - Australia (2018), Trieste - Italy (2017), Beijing - China (2016), Banff - Canada (2015), Guimaraes - Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam (2013), Salvador da Bahia - Brazil (2012), Santander - Spain (2011), Fukuoka - Japan (2010), Suwon - Korea (2009), Perugia - Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2007), Glasgow - United Kingdom (2006), Singapore - Singapore(2005), Assisi - Italy (2004), Montreal - Canada (2003), and, as ICCS, in Amsterdam - The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco - USA (2001). Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting ICT innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to bring together scientists of different disciplines, discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced solutions breeding new trends in Computational Science. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes for Computer Science and, as post-Conference proceedings, Conference Publishing System (CPS). The authors of a selected number of top quality papers will be requested to extend their papers for further review and publication as special issues in highly recognized international journals. ICCSA 2019 accepts paper submission in the following categories: main Conference theme papers and Workshop papers . The details for each paper submission category can be found at the URL http://www.iccsa.org/nstructions-for-authors and the list of Workshops at the URL: http://www.iccsa.org/workshops. Conference Themes ----------------- The ICCSA 2019 Conference themes, grouped in five tracks, are the following (but are not limited to): 1. Track: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Application Computational Biology Computational Combustion Computational Chemistry Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Physics Computational Geometry Computational Mathematics Computational Mechanics Computational Electro-magnetics Numerical Methods and Algorithms 2. Track: High Performance Computing and Networks Parallel and Distributed Computing Cluster Computing Supercomputing Cloud Computing Autonomic Computing P2P Computing Mobile Computing Grid and Semantic Grid Computing Workflow Design and Practice Computer and Network Architecture 3. Track: Geometric Modelling, Graphics and Visualization Scientific Visualization Computer Graphics Geometric Modelling Pattern Recognition Image Processing CAD/CAM Web3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality 4. Track: Advanced and Emerging Applications Biochemistry Bioinformatics Astrophysics Biometric Modelling Environmental, Climate and Weather Modelling Geology and Geophysics Nuclear Physics Financial and Economical Modelling Computational Journalism Geographical Information Systems 5. Track: Information Systems and Technologies Information Retrieval Scientific Databases Security Engineering Risk Analysis Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Data Mining Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies Web Based Computing Web 2.0 Workshops --------- For details visit http://www.iccsa.org/workshops 1) Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2019) 2) Advanced Computational Approaches in FracTals, WaveleT, EnTropy and DaTa mining applications (AAFTWTETDT 2019) 3) Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and Coding (AAILT 2019) 4) Affective Computing and Emotion Recognition (ACER-EMORE 2019) 5) Aimed Mobile Digital Forensics (AMDF 2019) 6) Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency management, risk assessment and mitigation based on the Resilience concepts (ASTER 2019) 7) Advances in Web Based Learning 2019 (AWBL 2019 8) Big and Not-So-Big Data (BANSO 2019) 9) Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Technologies and Applications (BDLTA 2019) 10) Bio and Neuro inspired Computing and Applications (BIONCA 2019) 11) Computer Aided Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (CAMSA 2019) 12) Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2019) 13) Cloud, High-Performance, Edge, and Fog Computing (CHEF 2019) 14) Computational Movement Analysis (CMA 2019) 15) Computational Mathematics, Statistics and Information Management (CMSIM 2019) 16) Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2019) 17) Computational Astrochemistry (CompAstro 2019) 18) Cities, Technologies and Planning (CTP 2019) 19) Database and Computerized Information Retrieval Systems (DCIRS 2019) 20) Econometric an multidimensional evaluation in urban environment (EMEUE 2019) 21) Future Computing System Technologies and Applications (FiSTA 2019) 22) Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" (GEOG-AND-MOD 2019) 23) Geomatics for Resource Monitoring and Control (GRMC 2019) 24) Software Quality (ISSQ 2019) 25) Land use monitoring for sustainability (LUMS 2019) 26) Mobile Communications 2019 (MC 2019) 27) Machine Learning for Space and Earth Observation Data (ML-SEOD 2019) 28) Machine Learning for Aviation (MLA 2019) 29) Mobile-computing, Sensing, and Actuation in Cyber Physical Systems (MSA4CPS 2019) 30) Quantum Chemical Modeling of Solids with Computers: from Plane Waves to Local Structures (QuaCheSol 2019) 31) Scientific Computing Infrastructure (SCI 2019) 32) Computational Studies for Energy and Comfort in Building (SECoB 2019) 33) Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA 2019) 34) Smart Factory Convergence (SFC 2019) 35) Smart City and Water. Resource and risk (Smart_Water 2019) 36) Is a smart city really smart? (Smart_Cities 2019) 37) Sustainability Performance Assessment: models, approaches and applications toward interdisciplinary and integrated solutions. (SPA 2019) 38) Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA 2019) 39) Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019) 40) Virtual Reality and Applications 2019 (VRA 2019) 41) Collective, Massive and Evolutionary Systems (WCES 2019) 42) Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) Paper Submission ---------------- To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: https://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. The submission may fall into the following five categories: Main Conference Theme Papers (LNCS), Special Session/Workshop Papers (LNCS or CPS), Short Papers (LNCS), and PHD Showcase Papers (CPS). MAIN CONFERENCE THEME PAPERS (LNCS) The submitted paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. Please consult the URL http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for formatting information and templates. WORKSHOPS PAPERS (LNCS or CPS) The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long for LNCS publication, or 7 to 11 pages for CPS publication (in such case as post-conference proceedings), and should be formatted according to the LNCS or CPS rules, respectively. Please consult the URL http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for formatting information and templates. SHORT PAPERS (LNCS) Reporting preliminary results of ongoing research. The submitted paper must be between 7 and 9 pages long formatted according to LNCS rules. The Short Papers will be presented during the conference and will be published by LNCS. PHD SHOWCASE PAPERS (CPS) Reporting ongoing research already achieving significant results and primarily carried out by Ph.D. students and junior researchers. The submitted paper must be between 6 to 8 pages long formatted according to CPS rules. The PHD Showcase Papers will be presented during the conference and will be published by CPS as post-conference proceedings. Each paper must deal with original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors). Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts in the relevant field (acceptance rate was 28% in 2005, 26% in 2006 and 28% in 2007, 29% in 2008, 30% in 2009, 29% in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 30% in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) ensuring the publication of only top quality contributions. When a paper is accepted at least one of the authors has to register to the conference and deliver the related talk. Failure to do so shall lead to rejection of the application to attend next year conference and the exclusion of the paper for the current year proceedings. Workshops/technical Sessions ---------------------------- Refer to the web page http://www.iccsa.org/workshops for the updated list of Workshops Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to one of the above listed Workshops, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. An author is enabled to change the workshop associated to a submitted paper until the submission deadline, by resubmitting the paper into the system. Important Dates --------------- February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission to the General Tracks (Workshops may select a different deadline) March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference Proceedings ----------- The proceedings of the Conference will be published both by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) and, as post-conference proceedings, by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). In particular: 1. The selected top quality Theme Papers and Session Papers having adopted LNCS, will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (paper length: 10-16 pages). 2. The selected top quality Session Papers having adopted CPS, will appear in the CPS post-conference Proceedings. 3. Short papers will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science ( LNCS) series (paper length: 7-9 pages) 4. PHD Showcase Papers will be published in the CPS post-conference Proceedings. For a selected number of top quality papers, after the Conference, the authors will be requested to extend the paper in order to be published as special issues in appropriate international journals. Conference policy ----------------- By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. Contact Information ------------------- Elena Stankova Universitetskii prospekt 35, Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia 198504, Phone: +7 (812) 428-71-59 Email: elenastankova <at> yandex <dot> ru URL: http://www.apmath.spbu.ru/en/staff/stankova/index.html Osvaldo Gervasi Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia Italy Phone: +39-075-5855048 Fax: +39-075-5855024 Email: osvaldo <dot> gervasi <at> unipg <dot> it URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it

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Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019
by José Santos Reyes 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019 (8th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation), Almeria (Spain), 3-7 June, 2019 http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/ Overview: Bio-inspired computing methods take inspiration from nature to develop optimization and search algorithms or metaheuristics, typically in order to tackle the search of optimal solutions of complex problems in science and engineering, which usually imply a high dimensionality of the search space. Apart from the traditional evolutionary computing methods, artificial immune systems, ant algorithms or particle swarm optimization, the session is intended to focus on new bio-inspired solutions such as swarm algorithm solutions based on bee colonies, algorithms based on firefly insect behavior, artificial algae algorithm and many more, together with their combination with local search strategies or other metaheuristics. The researchers in this field must be self-critical with the boom of such new solutions, contrasting what is new and what is included in other traditional search algorithms or what novelty is provided in a new bio-inspired metaheuristic. Besides, the proposals should be competitive with other methods in the state of the art. The aim is that the session provides a meeting point for IWINAC attendees and researchers who have a current or developing interest in bio-inspired approaches and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • Bio-inspired approaches based on animal behavior (Cuckoo search, Cat swarm, Artificial Bee Colony, Bat algorithm, Wolf search, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on plant behavior (artificial algae algorithm, flower pollination algorithm, PIBO, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on bacteria like BFO. • New approaches in evolutionary computing methods. • Combination of bio-inspired approaches with local search: Lamarckian strategies, Baldwinian strategies, memetic algorithms. • Combination of the bio-inspired approaches with artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems. • Applications with bio-inspired approaches. Full paper submission due: 31-01-2019 Submission guidelines: http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/paper-submission.html As in previous editions of the conference, we will try to organize a special issue of the Journal of Natural Computing. The authors of the best papers presented in the session would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to this special issue. Organizers: José Santos (Universidade da Coruña), jose.santos(a)udc.es Ramiro Varela (Universidad de Oviedo), ramiro(a)uniovi.es

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing
by Tommaso Cucinotta 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Please, consider submitting a research paper to the IEEE ISORC conference, to be held on May 7-9, 2019, in Valencia, Spain. The full call for papers can be found below. Please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. Regards, Tommaso Cucinotta -- *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 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, for the first time, ISORC 2019 will organize a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. Best papers from ISORC 2019 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. More information including submission guidelines can be found at: https://isorc2019.github.io/. IEEE ISORC 2019 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware, model maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches; stream correlation and sampling approaches. * System software: real-time kernel/OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics). * Time-sensitive social dispersed computing. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Arvind Easwaran, NTU, Singapore * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs * Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Mathias Pacher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, NTU, Singapore Organization Chair * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Poster/Demo Chairs * Di Liu, Yunnan University, China * Luis Lino Ferreira CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Web and Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy * Zhenkai Zhang, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline January 15, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 1, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 8, 2019 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline March 7, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 21, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 28, 2019 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc2019.github.io/ The ISORC 2019 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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IEEE ISORC 2019 Call for papers
by Tommaso Cucinotta 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Please, consider submitting a research paper to the IEEE ISORC conference, to be held on May 7-9, 2019, in Valencia, Spain. The full call for papers can be found below. Please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. Regards, Tommaso Cucinotta -- *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 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, for the first time, ISORC 2019 will organize a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. Best papers from ISORC 2019 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. More information including submission guidelines can be found at: https://isorc2019.github.io/. IEEE ISORC 2019 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware, model maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches; stream correlation and sampling approaches. * System software: real-time kernel/OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics). * Time-sensitive social dispersed computing. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Arvind Easwaran, NTU, Singapore * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs * Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Mathias Pacher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, NTU, Singapore Organization Chair * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Poster/Demo Chairs * Di Liu, Yunnan University, China * Luis Lino Ferreira CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Web and Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy * Zhenkai Zhang, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline January 15, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 1, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 8, 2019 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline March 7, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 21, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 28, 2019 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc2019.github.io/ The ISORC 2019 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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S&P faculty positions at PennState
by Liu, Peng 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Security and Privacy *** *** *** The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at any level, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor in security and privacy. We seek exceptional candidates with high quality research and publications to strengthen and complement our current research programs. Security and privacy are inherently interdisciplinary; we welcome applications from scholars at all ranks and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. We are looking for applicants with expertise spanning (a) the Computer & Information Science & Engineering aspects of security and privacy, and (b) the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences aspects of security and privacy. Successful candidates will develop an internationally competitive, externally funded research program, and contribute to graduate and undergraduate education and training through teaching. These positions will be responsible for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in residence and online, researching, and contributing to IST's service and outreach objectives. Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found here: https://ist.psu.edu/college/faculty_search

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019)
by Naercio Magaia 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

======================CALL FOR PAPERS============================== The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019) http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ Fukuoka, Japan, August 5-8, 2019 =================================================================== INTRODUCTION ============= The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing is a premier forum for researchers, practitioners and developers who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, the conference covers also innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be the fifth edition of the conference after the success of CBDCom 2015 in Beijing, CBDCom 2016 in Toulouse, CBDCom 2017 in San Francisco, and CBDCom 2018 in Guangzhou. It will continuously offer a platform for researchers to exchange novel studies, discuss important issues and explore key challenges in innovative cloud and big data for smarter world. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be held on August 5-8, 2019, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2019, IEEE DASC 2019 and IEEE PICom 2019, in Fukuoka, Japan. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Workshop/SS Proposal Due: January 20th, 2019 Regular Paper Submission Due: March 20th, 2019 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: April 20th, 2019 Authors Notification: May 25th, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: June 20th, 2019 Conference: August 5th-8th, 2019 ================ RESEARCH TRACKS ================ The 2019 edition of IEEE CBDCom will be organized in research tracks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Track 1 - Data Science & Analytics* - Big Data Fundamentals & Novel Paradigms - Big Data Algorithms, Applications & Services - Big Data Mining & Analytics - Big data Processing & Querying - Big Data Visualization - Big Data Computing & Recommendations *Track 2 - Big Data Infrastructure & Management* - Big Data Cloud, Grid, Stream Computing - High Performance Platforms for Big Data - NoSQL Data Stores & DB scalability - Energy-Efficient Computing for Big Data - Recommendation & Social Media Systems - Big Data Availability & Reliability *Track 3 - Big Data Tools & Applications* - Complex Big Data Processing - BD in Networks & Communications - Big Data as a Service - Data Warehousing over Big Data - BD Machine & Deep Learning - Innovative Applications & Experiences *Track 4 - Cloud Management & Virtualization* - Virtualization Technologies - Cloud Computing Platforms - Public, Private & Hybrid Clouds - Green & Energy Management - Cloudlet and Serverless Computing - Resource Management, Storage & QoS *Track 5 - Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy & Trust* - Security, Privacy & Reliability in Cloud & BD - Dependable/Trustworthy Big Data Processing - Security/Privacy/Trust as a Service - Blockchain in Cloud and Big Data Application - Cloud Attacks Detection and Prevention - Ethic Issues in Cloud & Big Data *Track 6 - Cloud/Big Data for IoT & Smart City* - Smart Data & Smart Environments - CBD for IoT & Cyber-Physical Systems - RFID & Related Technologies for IoT - M2M Communications and IoT - IoT and Smart City Infrastructures - Green Computing for Big Data & Smart City ============ 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 Proceedings format. IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (6-8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (4-6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (2-4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to CBDCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. All accepted papers in the main tracks and workshops will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). ======================== PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ======================== All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- Honorary Chairs Hamido Fujita, University, Japan Frank Hsu, Fordam University, USA General Chairs Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan General Executive Chairs Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada Program Chairs Shu Tao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Xiaoyan Wang, Ibaraki University, Japan Track 1. Big Data Science and Analytics Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada Track 2. Big Data Infrastructure and Management Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Track 3. Big Data Tools and Applications Dionisis Margaris, University of Athens, Greece Track 4. Cloud Management, Virtualization and Service Tsozen Yeh, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Track 5. Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA Track 6. Cloud/Big Data for IoT and Smart City Zhi Liu, Shizuoka University, Japan Workshop Chairs Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Shengli Pan, China University of Geoscience, China International Liaison & Publicity Chairs Naercio Magaia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Samia Bouzefrance, CNAM, France Michał Boroń, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Advisory Committee Georges Da Costa, lRIT, France Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA Andrzej Gościński, Deakin University, Australia Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jie Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Weishan Zhang, China Univ. of Petroleum, China Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, SFX University, Canada Huansheng Ning, Univ. Sci and Tech Beijing, China Julien Bourgeois, UBFC, France Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Please visit the IEEE CDBCom 2019 website http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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Postdoctoral researcher in computational science / computational nanoscience
by Kondov, Ivan (SCC) 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, The newly founded graduate school "Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience" (www.compnano.kit.edu) starting on 1 April 2019, addresses the development and application of multiscale approaches to the scientific challenges of friction, materials aging, material design and biological function. The specific projects will focus on modelling friction between inorganic and biological materials, reactions on semiconductor surfaces, electron and exciton migration in organic electronics, and biochemical reactions in proteins undergoing large structural changes. The models involve many different length- and timescales, therefore, methods of ab initio quantum chemistry, force-field and coarse-grained approaches up to phenomenological approaches will be combined. To enable such complex and computationally demanding simulations all projects will employ workflow technologies combined with high performance computing (HPC). We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in computational science for the following tasks: * Developing new, and extend and adapt existing scientific workflow methods to enable domain-specific solutions in computational nanoscience, in particular to improve usability and scalability of scientific workflow applications on HPC systems * Disseminating knowledge about workflow methods to application scientists in form of tutorials and in several collaborative projects within the graduate school * Deploying middleware (such as UNICORE, FireWorks, MongoDB) The successful candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or computational science and experience with workflow systems, workflow languages and/or high performance computing. We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step in computational science with focus on scientific workflow methodology. Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu) With my best regards, Ivan Kondov -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Simulation Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Phone: +49 721 608 28644 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu Web: www.scc.kit.edu KIT - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association Since 2010, the KIT has been certified as a family-friendly university.

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From Skala - Call for Papers - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision
by Vaclav Skala 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

>> Please, resend this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------- >> Call for Papers and Conference Announcement >> WSCG 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2019 (held annually since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (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: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - December 15, 2018 (via e-mail) January 31, 2019 - Abstract (recommended), February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers 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. Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Main topics (but not limited to) --------------------------- Computer graphics Scientific visualization Medical visualization Computer vision Image processing Pattern recognition GPU graphics Rendering and animation Virtual reality Haptic systems Medical imaging Graphical human computer interfaces Graphical interaction Computational photography Data compression for graphics Image based rendering Physically based modeling Mathematical methods for graphics and vision Geometric modeling Shape analysis Shape modeling Shape retrieval Surface and volume parametrization Parallel graphics CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and other related topics -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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LMTR suite for unconstrained optimization
by Oleg Burdakov 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

We are happy to announce the first release of the LMTR suite for unconstrained optimization. This package contains limited memory trust-region and line-search algorithms implemented in MATLAB. The algorithms are described in "On Efficiently Combining Limited Memory and Trust-Region Techniques", Mathematical Programming Computation (2017) Vol. 9, no 1, pp. 101-134, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-016-0109-7. To download the package, you may want to follow the link http://gratton.perso.enseeiht.fr/LBFGS/index.html The package contains the following algorithms: - LBFGS_TR.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS that takes a trial step along the quasi-Newton direction inside the trust region; - LBFGS_MTBT.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS based on the Moré-Thuente line search and the initial step is obtained using backtrack; - LBFGS_MT.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS based on the More-Thuente line search; - LMTR_BWX_MS.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm BWX-MS. It applies the Moré-Sorensen approach for solving the TR subproblem defined in the Euclidean norm. It is a modified version of the algorithm by Burke et al.; - LMTR_EIG_MS_2_2.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm EIG-MS(2,2) using the eigenvalue-based (2,2)-norm, with the Moré-Sorensen approach for solving a low-dimensional TR subproblem; - LMTR_EIG_inf_2.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm EIG(inf,2) using the eigenvalue-based (inf,2)-norm, with the exact solution to the TR subproblem in closed form. -- .................................................................... 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 70 0895219 Linkoping University, | E-mail: Oleg.Burdakov(a)liu.se SE - 58183 Linkoping, Sweden | http://users.mai.liu.se/olebu87/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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CfP Ada-Europe 24th Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Ada-Europe 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) 10-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED (pending), SIGPLAN (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) will take place in Warsaw, Poland, in the week of 10-14 June. The conference schedule at its fullest includes a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition of the conference inaugurates a major revamp in the registration fees, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** 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 Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** 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, of at least 1 page in length, by 14 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. 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), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted 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 within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted 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. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Cons., DK Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th 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), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). 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 2019 Publicity Chair *** Ada-Europe 24th Intl. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 10-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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Last Call For Papers - IEEE SOSE 2019 - NEW Deadline for Paper submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Last Call For Papers - IEEE SOSE 2019* *Important Dates* Paper Submission: *Dec. 14, 2018* Author Notification: *Jan 5, 2019* Camera-ready Submission and Conference Registration: *Jan 31, 2019* Conference: *Apr 4 - 9, 2019* http://www.ieeesose.net/index.html The 13th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering April 4 - April 9, 2019 - DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark-Fremont - Newark, California, USA Service-Oriented Computing exploits services as the fundamental elements of computer-based systems. It has been applied to various areas and promotes fundamental changes to the way software systems are being analyzed, architected, designed, implemented, tested, evaluated, delivered, consumed, maintained and evolved. Consequently, a new paradigm of software and system engineering discipline, i.e. Service-Oriented Engineering, has emerged and advanced rapidly in the past decade. Among many remarkable milestones in the development of this new paradigm are the wide adoption of the Micro-services architectural style supported by Docker and other container-based virtualization techniques in the design of cloud native application in the industry, and the DevOps movement in the organisation of development process supported by automated tools for continuous testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Recent advances in service oriented computing, in particular Internet-of-Things, Edge and Fog computing, mobile and cloud computing combined with Big Data analytics, robotics, block-chain and decentralized ledger applications, and application of artificial intelligence techniques, etc., have provided exciting opportunities to make significant progress in understanding and solving complex real-world challenges. Such challenges typically require a system-level approach that models a complex system at different levels of abstraction, helps to develop sound architectures for addressing separate system requirements and concerns, and integrates diverse sources of knowledge on the system’s components and their interactions. Therefore, the revolution of the software and system engineering paradigm brought by service-orientation is still unfolding, with each new technology development bringing new challenges and opportunities. Starting from 2005, SOSE is a pioneering IEEE sponsored international conference devoted to the research in engineering service-oriented systems. It covers all aspects of service-oriented engineering from architectures, techniques, tools and languages to methodologies. Continuing the tradition of the last twelve editions of SOSE Symposia, the 13th SOSE intends to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange latest observations, insights, achievements and visions in Service-Oriented System Engineering. SOSE 2019 invites original submissions in all the areas of the system engineering and software engineering methods, techniques, tools, applications, and experiments for software services. *Topics Of Interests* Regular Research Papers Research papers should be written in English and be no more than 10 pages in length. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Track 1: Advanced Models for Service Engineering - *Microservices architecture, deployment and management* - *Serverless Computing* - *DevOps and service engineering* - *Model-driven development of service-oriented systems* - *End-user development and mashup of software services* - *Lifecycle models, reusability, and scalability for services* - *Coordination and cooperation of services* - *Efficient scheduling of services* - *Services infrastructure for big data* - Track 2: Computing Environments and Virtualization - *Container-based virtualization* - *Programming models, languages, tools and platforms* - *Architecture of Internet-based virtual computing environments* - *Security, dependability, and reliability* - *Trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms* - *Large scale computing and analytics* - Track 3: Methods, Languages & Tools for process-based SOC systems - *Business process integration, alignment & management in SOAs* - *Methods, languages & tools for building process-based SOC systems* - *Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE* - *Runtime verification, validation, monitoring* - *Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution* - *Service mobility, scalability, elasticity, and security* - *Operation and governance for large-scale service-oriented systems* - *Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems* - *Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems* - *Service-oriented system engineering for large-scale analytics* - *Service-oriented engineering and clouds* - Track 4: Service-based Cyber-Physical Systems - *Edge computing and fog computing* - *Software and system engineering for CPS* - *REST APIs and services for CPS* - *Mobile services for CPS* - *System modelling and simulations* - *Data management for CPS* - *Dependable network and system architectures for CPS* - Track 5: Intelligent Services for a Smart World - *Smart home, smart office, smart city, smart industry* - *Intelligent services architectures and provisioning models* - *Smart systems programming models and methodologies* - *Swarm intelligence* - *Context-aware services* - *Nature-inspired intelligent services* - *Knowledge representation and reasoning* - *Quality of data (QoD)* - Track 6: Social Networking Services - *Location-based social networks* - *Human mobility modeling and mining* - *Recommendation systems for service computing* - *Human-centric sensing* - *Intelligent socially-aware and community-aware systems* - *Security, privacy, safety and legal issues* - *Event detection and predication in social networks* *Industry Practice / Case Study Papers* SOSE 2019 encourages papers reporting on industrial practice, case studies, empirical research and practical experiences in service engineering. Industry papers and case studies should be between 6-10 pages in length. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - *Enterprise business architecture and solution frameworks* - *Platforms and tools for system and software engineering* - *Case studies, experiments and evaluation of service-oriented system* - *Innovative service applications and experiences* *Survey And Emerging Subjects Tutorial Papers* In addition to regular research paper and industry practice/case study papers, SOSE 2018 will also invite some tutorial papers, which review the state-of-the-art of the research on services engineering as well as the related emerging paradigms and technologies. These papers should summarize the recent research advance in service engineering from different perspectives, identify the open issues and future trends and challenges in the field. SOSE 2018 also encourages vision papers which discuss future and emerging issues, including emerging paradigms, technologies and applications. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length. - *Theoretical and technical foundation of service-oriented systems* - *Methodology and engineering principles of service-oriented systems* - *Testing, verification, validation and QA in the development of service-oriented systems* - *Construction, deployment, operation and maintenance of service-oriented systems* - *Measurements and metrics of QoS in SOA-based application systems* - *Governance and policies in service-oriented software development* - *Engineering techniques and tools to support the publishing, discovery and composition of services* - *Architectural and detail designs of services and code generation of service software*

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Last Call for Papers - IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019 - Extended Deadline for Papers Submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Last Call for Papers - IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019* *Important Dates* Paper Submission: Dec. 14, 2018 Author Notification: Jan 5, 2019 Camera-ready Submission and Conference Registration: Jan 31, 2019 Conference: Apr 4 - 9, 2019 The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering April 4 - April 9, 2019 - DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark-Fremont - Newark, California, USA The integration of mobile computing and cloud services and engineering enables new applications that provide resources and services on an intelligent basis, process big data collected from mobile sensors, and support Internet of things (IoT) with massive cloud-based backend, where the 5G technology is expected to be an important enabler of this integration. Such applications will have tremendous impacts on almost every aspect of our daily life, including transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, safety and location privacy, smart home and smart city, social interaction, and many more. This conference will provide a great platform to allow researchers in academia and industry to share their latest research ideas and results, development activities, and the emerging industry technologies on mobile cloud computing, services, and engineering. The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for fast-track publication in a planned Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Computing. *Topics Of Interests* Topics of interest, embedded with the special interest on the annual theme, include, but are not limited to: - Theory, Modeling and Methodologies - Mobile cloud computing models, architectures, and platforms - Engineering on-demand mobile cloud systems and services - Design of energy-saving mobile cloud protocols - Cloud-IoT integration, cloud-centric IoT and software defined IoT - Mobile crowd sensing models and associated platforms - Mobile cloud resource management, provisioning, and migration - Mobile-aware cloud data management and data retrieval - Mobile cloud data centers, storage, and networking technologies for 5G - Mobile artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning - Virtualization techniques for mobile cloud computing and services - Security, reliability and privacy for mobile cloud computing - Applications and Industry Practice - Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services - Cloud-assisted human-centered applications based on wearable devices - Mobile commerce and cloud-based marketplace - Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications - Mobile cloud enabled pervasive learning and education - Research case studies and experimental reports - Industry reports on experience and lessons learned - Standardization on mobile clouds

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Last Call for Papers - IEEE AI Testing 2019 - Extended Deadline for Papers Submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Last Call For Papers - IEEE AI Testing 2019 *Important Dates* Abstract submission: Dec. 7, 2018 Full paper submission: Dec. 21, 2018 12:00 AOE (firm) Notification: Feb. 15, 2019 (firm) Final Paper and Registration: Feb. 28, 2019 (firm) Conference: Apr 4 - 9, 2019 *http://www.ieeeaitests.com/index.html <http://www.ieeeaitests.com/index.html>* The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing (2019 IEEE AITest) Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are widely used in computer applications to perform tasks such as monitoring, forecasting, recommending, prediction, and statistical reporting. They are deployed in a variety of systems including driverless vehicles, robot controlled warehouses, financial forecasting applications, and security enforcement and are increasingly integrated with cloud/fog/edge computing, big data analytics, robotics, Internet-of-Things, mobile computing, smart cities, smart homes, intelligent healthcare, etc. However, the quality assurance of existing AI application development processes is still far from satisfactory and the demand for being able to show demonstrable levels of confidence in such systems is growing. Software testing is a fundamental, effective and recognized quality assurance method which has shown its cost-effectiveness to ensure the reliability of many complex software-systems. However，the adaptation of software testing to the peculiarities of AI applications remains largely unexplored and needs extensive research to be performed. On the other hand, the availability of AI technologies provides an exciting opportunity to improve existing software testing processes, and recent years have shown that machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, constraint optimization, planning, scheduling, multi-agent systems, etc. have real potential to positively impact on software testing. Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interests in testing AI applications as well as application of AI techniques to software testing. It is, therefore, timely to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange novel research results, to articulate the problems and challenges from practices, to deepen our understanding of the subject area with new theories, methodologies, techniques, processes models, etc., and to improve the practices with new tools and resources. This is the aim of the IEEE conference on AI Testing. *Topics Of Interest* The conference invites papers of original research on AI testing and reports of the best practices in the industry as well as the challenges in practice and research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Testing AI applications - Methodologies for testing, verification and validation of AI applications - Process models for testing AI applications and quality assurance activities and procedures - Quality models of AI applications and quality attributes of AI applications, such as correctness, reliability, safety, security, accuracy, precision, comprehensibility, explainability, etc - Whole lifecycle of AI applications, including analysis, esign, development, deployment, operation and evolution - Techniques for testing AI applications - Test case design, test data generation, test prioritization, test reduction, etc - Metrics and measurements of the adequacy of testing AI applications - Test oracle for checking the correctness of AI application on test cases - Tools and environment for automated and semi-automated software testing AI applications for various testing activities and management of testing resources - Specific concerns of software testing with various specific types of AI technologies - Statistical machine learning and data mining - Symbolic machine learning, decision trees and random forests, reinforcement learning - Evolutionary methods and Genetic algorithms - Multi-agent systems - Heuristic search algorithms - Cognitive computing - Knowledge management, expert systems - Automatic reasoning and theorem proving - Constraint Programming and Constraint Optimization - Metaprogramming, high-order functions, high-order logic - Programming by example, programming synthesis, etc - Specific concerns of software testing for various types of AI applications - Computer vision and object recognition in image, audio and video - Personalized recommendation systems, and business intelligence - Driverless vehicles and autonomous robotics - Intelligent diagnostic systems - Decision-making support systems - Prediction and forecast systems - Smart cities, smart home, healthcare, and medicine, etc - Natural language processing, and intelligent human machine interactions, etc - Applications of AI techniques to software testing - Machine learning applications to software testing, such as test case generation, test effectiveness prediction and optimization, test adequacy improvement, test cost reduction, etc - Constraint Programming for test case generation and test suite reduction - Constraint Scheduling and Optimization for test case prioritization and test execution scheduling - Multi-agent systems for testing and test services - Crowdsourcing and swarm intelligence in software testing - Genetic algorithms, search-based techniques and heuristics to optimization of testing - Knowledge-based and expert systems for software testing - Data quality checking for AI applications - Testing and quality assurance for unstructured training data - Automatic validation tool for training unstructured data and big data - Large-scale unstructured data quality certification Submission Paper Submission We primarily invite submission of research papers, that describe original and significant work, but also papers which reports on case studies and empirical research. Papers must not be accepted for publication, or be under submission to another conference or journal. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee, using a single-blind reviewing procedure. All papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference system in PDF format. Each paper is limited to 8 pages including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings (two columns, single-spaced, 10pt font). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper would have to register for the conference and confirm that she/he will present the paper in person.

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Last Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2019
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Last Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2019 *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: * Dec. 14, 2019 * Notification: *Jan. 10, 2019* Final Paper and Registration: *Jan. 31, 2019* Conference: * Apr. 4 - 9, 2019* http://www.big-dataservice.net/index.html The Fifth IEEE International Conference On Big Data Service And Applications April 4 – 9, 2019, San Francisco, USA Big-Data computing and services have received significant attention in recent years. The IEEE BigDataService 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, latest research results, and practice experiences and lessons learned. Its major objectives include big-data applications in various domains such as healthcare, business and financing, education and learning, social networks and media, urban and environment, sensors and Internet of things as well as technology aspects of big data computing and services such as computing services and architecture, modeling, data mining and analytics. The conference will be co-located with *IEEE SOSE 2019 <http://www.ieeesose.net/>, IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019 <http://www.mobile-cloud.net/>, IEEE DAPPCON 2019 <http://www.dappcon.net/> **and** IEEE Artificial IntelligenceTesting 2019 <http://www.ieeeaitests.com/> * IEEE BigDataService 2019 will consist of main tracks and special tracks. The conference will include 3 International Workshops of *Smart City Big Data Analysis*, *Big Data in Water Resources, Environment, and Hydraulic from Engineering*, and *Industry Big Data and Signal Processing*. Workshop proposal is due 10/15/2018. The conference seeks the submission of high-quality papers limited to 10 pages (IEEE format) in length. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for extension and published in journals (SCI-Index). *TOPICS OF INTEREST (INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO)* - Big Data Foundations - Foundational theoretical or computational models for big data - Programming models, theories, and algorithms for big data - Standards, protocols, and quality assurance for big data - Big Data Platforms and Technologies - Innovative, concurrent, and scalable big data platforms - Data indexing, cleaning, transformation, and curation technologies - Big data processing frameworks and technologies - Big data services and application development methods and tools - Big data quality evaluation and assurance technologies - Big data system reliability and availability - Open-source development and technology for big data - Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) platform and technologies - Big Data Analytics and Services - Algorithms and systems for big data search, analytics and visualization - Artificial Intelligence for big data and based on big data - Visualization analytics for big data - Knowledge extraction, discovery, analysis, presentation, and visualization - Big Data Applications and Experiences - Innovative big data applications and services in industries and domains e.g. healthcare, finance, insurance, transportation, agriculture, education, environment, multi-media, social networks, urban planning, disaster management, security - Experiences and case studies of big data applications and services - Real-world and large-scale practices of big data - Emerging Topics - Sensor networks and Internet of Things - Networking and protocols - Smart City *SPECIAL TRACKS* - Special Track on Real-time Big Data Services and Applications - Models, algorithms, and technologies for real-time big data services and applications - Experiences, practices and case studies of real-time big data services and applications - Special Track on Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust - Models, algorithms and technologies for big data security and integrity - Practical security and privacy technologies and applications for big data - Special Track on Big Data and analytics for Healthcare - Models, algorithms, and technologies of big data for healthcare - Big data services and applications for healthcare - Experiences, practices and case studies of big data technologies for healthcare *Contact Information* Feel free to contact us for any questions or suggestions. *Simon Shim:* simon.shim(a)sjsu.edu *Fanjing Meng:* mengfj(a)cn.ibm.com

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[FGCS] Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges Computations (Submission deadline extended to Jan 15, 2019)
by Claudio A. Ardagna 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

***Submission deadline extended to January 15th, 2019*** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ****************************************************** Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) Computations ****************************************************** Current and future service-based software needs to remain focused towards the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for internet-based and intranet-based systems in organizations, as well to move to IoT integration and big data analytics. Today, service-based software covers a very wide range of application domains as well as technologies and research issues. This has recently found realization through the integration of cloud computing and IoT, forming a revolutionary paradigm, cloud-assisted Internet of things (CoT), that enables intelligent and self-con?guring (smart) IoT devices to be connected with the cloud through the Internet. However, huge volume of data generated from real-world applications leads to the operation difficulty of CoT paradigm. More specifically, while billions of connected devices will generate exabytes of data every day, moving all the data from comparably resource-constrained IoT devices to the cloud becomes a big challenge. Hence, the centralized CoT model is undergoing a paradigm shift towards a decentralized model termed as edge computing, where local and distributed edge devices such as smartphones, smart gateways, and local PC with weaker capability than the centralized cloud can offer cloud-like service for only a limited group of devices. While the centralized cloud is still inevitable for the heavyweight computation needs, in this emerging Cloud-Edges (CE) paradigm, the cloud, together with local edge devices jointly offer services and intelligence. CE paradigm complements traditional CoT paradigm in terms of high scalability, low delay, location awareness, and instant local client computing capabilities. Nonetheless, due to the multiple and even highly distributed roles in CE paradigm, vital elements in such CE paradigm are the notions of trust, security, privacy and risk management among the cloud, edge devices, and end devices. This special issue solicits submissions from both academia and industry presenting novel research in the context of trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) computations, presenting theoretical and practical approaches to cloud, big data, IoT and edge computing trust, security, privacy and risk management. This special issue will provide a special focus on the intersection between cloud paradigm, big data analytics, IoT integration and edge computing, bringing together experts from the four communities to discuss on the vital issues of trust, security, privacy and risk management in cloud computing, shedding the light on novel issues and requirements in domains of big data, IoT, and edge computing. Potential contributions could cover new approaches, methodologies, protocols, tools, or verification and validation techniques. We also welcome review papers that analyze critically the current status of trust, security, privacy and risk management in the cloud, big data, IoT, and edge computing. Papers from practitioners who encounter trust, security, privacy, and risk management problems, and seek understanding are finally welcome. Best papers from the 7th International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures - Cloud and Trusted Computing (http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/ctc-2018) will be also invited to submit to the special issue. The following themes are of particular interest: - Authentication, auditing and accountability in Cloud-Edges - Edge computing architectures and solution design patterns - Edge computing for IoT - Communication and networking protocols for Cloud-Edges - Fine-grained access control mechanism in Cloud-Edges - Privacy-preserving computation in Cloud-Edges - Trust and reputation issues in Cloud-Edges - Security architecture for Cloud-Edges - Key management in Cloud-Edges - IoT communication in Cloud-Edges - Data caching for big data in Cloud-Edges - Big data analytics in Cloud-Edges - Incentive models or techniques for data processing in Cloud-Edges - Privacy-Enhancing Cryptographic Techniques in Cloud-Edges - Secure Data Analysis and Private Learning - Outsourced or Verifiable Computation in Cloud-Edges - Secure Software-Defined Networking and Virtualization for in Cloud-Edges - Security for Crowdsourcing in Cloud-Edges IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript Due: January 15, 2019 *FIRM* - First Review Notification: April 15, 2019 - Revised Manuscript: May 31, 2019 - Second Review Notification: June 30, 2019 - Second Revised Manuscript: July 31, 2019 - Camera Ready Paper Due: August 31, 2019 - Publication Date: Third Quarter of 2019 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submission must be in the form of a PDF file and must be in English. All papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to the special issue. The journal editors will make final decisions about the acceptance of the papers. All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors available on FGCS homepage and submitted through the Editorial system (EVISE) located at https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/FGCS. Authors must select "VSI: Trusted Cloud-Edge Comp", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process at EVISE. GUEST EDITORS Claudio A. Ardagna University of Milan, Italy claudio.ardagna(a)unimi.it Mauro Conti University of Padova, Italy conti(a)math.unipd.it Ernesto Damiani Centre on Cyber-Physical Systems, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE ernesto.damiani(a)kustar.ac.ae Chia-Mu Yu National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan chiamuyu(a)nchu.edu.tw

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[FCDS] S.I. On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing
by Fulvio Frati 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

S.I. On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- FOUNDATIONS of COMPUTING and DECISION SCIENCES journal http://fcds.cs.put.poznan.pl/fcds2/ De Gruyter Publisher https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fcds Indexed by: Clarivate Analytics - Emerging Sources Citation Index ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- SPECIAL ISSUE: On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Guest editors: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Paolo Ceravolo Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel Poznan University of Technology, Poland Aims: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- The complexity of Big Data technologies and the variety of knowledge and skills needed to design Big Data applications have emphasized the relevance of systems for managing and documenting Big Data architectures. Documentation, reconfiguration, and verification are crucial tasks for a solid design of technological solutions, but are only partially supported in the current landscape of Big Data technologies. Rethinking data and metadata management in the context of Big Data technologies is then a primary goal for future research. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to the aformentioned issues. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, 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 in Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and to make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. Following the manifesto paper "Big Data Semantics" (J. Data Semantics 7(2), 2018), which identified the important and yet unsolved issues of managing semantics of Big Data, we continue research on this topic. The aim of this special issue of FCDS is to promote research on Big Data semantics and to create a common place for sharing contributions to this topic. 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 Timetable: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 20 Feb 2019 - paper submission 10 May 2019 - author notification 31 Jul 2019 - revision submission 31 Sep 2019 - final acceptance notification 10 Oct 2019 - camera-ready submission Submission information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- * Papers must be submitted via EasyChair using the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcdsspecialissue2019 * We encourage using Latex, the FCDS template can be downloaded from: http://fcds.cs.put.poznan.pl/FCDS/Files/fcds.zip * Max number of pages: 28 in the FCDS style

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Call for Participation: HiPC 2018 (Bengaluru, India 17-20 December)
by Anand Panangadan 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

HiPC 2018 - For Release 20 November 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Radisson Blu Hotel Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT PRE-CONFERENCE SATELLITE TUTORIALS The HiPC 2018 meeting will offer four tutorials covering topics of interest to the broader HPC and Data Science Communities. Two of the tutorials will be held on December 16th, the day before the conference begins. They are free but may require registration. See web for details. Satellite Tutorial 1: --FPGA-based Accelerated Cloud Computing (Xilinx) Satellite Tutorial 2: --Cloud Services for Performing Scientific Computing and Data Management (Microsoft) Conference Tutorials 3 and 4 (to be held on 20th December as part of conference) --HCLib: A Task based Parallel Programming Model --A Language and Framework for Prototyping and Experimenting with Edge Oriented IoT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE PROGRAM HiPC 2018 is the 25th edition of the IEEE 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 Asia in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. To mark the 25th anniversary of HiPC, a special lecture and several celebratory events are planned. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Thirty-three papers out of 149 submissions have been accepted for presentation at the conference (22% acceptance rate). The papers were submitted either to HPC tracks (Algorithms, Applications, Architecture and Software) or to Data Science tracks (Big Data Algorithms and Analytics, Big Data Systems and Software). Accepted papers will be presented in six technical sessions on days 2, 3 and 4: Learning, Graph Algorithms, GPUs, Linear Algebra and Fault Tolerance, Algorithms and Data Analysis, and Applications and System Tools. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Day 2 - Balaraman Ravindran, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Looking Under the Hood of Deep Neural Networks Day 3 - Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Future of Supercomputing Day 4 - Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Secure High-Performance Computer Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities WORKSHOPS Complementing the main technical program, six workshops with programs and speakers that help to broaden the technical scope of the conference will be held on day 1 (December 17th) of the conference: 1: Parallel Fast Fourier Transform (PFFT) 2: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 3: Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) 4: Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing (WDSHPC) 5: Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC&AI) 6: EduHiPC Workshop - Posters only STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM The meeting will also host the 11th Student Research Symposium (SRS) aimed at fostering student research and providing a forum for students to present their work in all areas related to HPC and Data Science. Twenty-one papers have been accepted for poster presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Industry Research & User Symposium (IRUS) and Industry Exhibits The theme for this year’s IRUS is the Impact of Computational and Data Science technologies on emerging Digital Economy. The symposium will be held on 19th December and will contain 3 speakers from established as well as emerging players. On days 2 and 3, there will be a full program of industry exhibits and events. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs: Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India and Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Program Chair, HPC: Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France Program Chair, Data Science: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steering Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP HiPC is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and the HiPC Trust, India In cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Industry sponsors & partners include: Microsoft (Titanium); Intel and Shell (Platinum); and Boston, Google, Infosys, NetApp, TATA, and Xilinx (Gold). Visit the HiPC website to see full listing of all industry partners and exhibitors.

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PETRA 2019 (June 5-7, 2019 - Greece) : Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by PETRA 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

[Image] Call for Workshop Proposals & Conference Papers: We invite you to submit workshops proposals by November 30, 2018. Workshops will be held in conjunction with PETRA'19. Authors are also invited to submit their original work as full, short, poster or workshop papers. The deadline for full and short papers is January 9, 2019. All submissions will be published with PETRA'19 proceedings in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program. Submission Guidelines are available at here<http://petrae.org/submit-system.html>. Aim and Scope: PETRA is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. Topics of Interest: Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: (Extended List<http://petrae.org/cfp.html>) * Healthcare Informatics * Big Data Management * Data Privacy and Remote Health Monitoring * Games for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation * User Interface Design and Usability * Reasoning Systems and Machine Learning * Affective Computing * Cyberlearning : Theory, Methods and Technologies * Human-Robot Interaction * Human-Centered Computing * Human monitoring * Haptics * Gesture and Motion Tracking * Cognitive Modeling * Wearable Computing * Interactions and the Internet of Things (IoT) Upcoming Deadlines * Workshop Proposals: November 30, 2018 * Conference Full/Short Papers: January 9, 2019 * Workshop Papers: February 25, 2019 * Conference Poster Papers: March 1, 2019 * Doctoral Consortium Applications: March 20, 2019 For any questions, please feel free to check our website www.petrae.org or contact us at petrae(a)uta.edu . Unsubscribe<http://petrae.org/unsubscribe.html> [Image] ********** To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit https://listserv.uta.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM3MDQ3IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwu…. **********

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CFP: SDM 2019 FEND Workshop, May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada
by Kai Shu 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Call for Papers Workshop on Data Mining for Fake news in Social Media: Propagation, Detection, and Mitigation (FEND'19), in conjunction with SDM'19 http://pike.psu.edu/fend19/ May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada Social media has become a popular means to consume news. However, the quality of news on social media is lower than traditional news organizations. Because it is cheap to provide news online and much faster and easier to disseminate through social media, large volumes of fake news, i.e., those news articles with intentionally false information, are produced online for a variety of purposes, such as financial and political gain. The extensive spread of fake news can have severe negative impacts on individuals and society. First, fake news can break the authenticity balance of the news ecosystem. For example, it is evident that the most popular fake news was even more widely spread on Facebook than the most popular authentic mainstream news during the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Second, fake news intentionally persuades consumers to accept biased or false beliefs for political or financial gain. For example, in 2013, $130 billion in stock value was wiped out in a matter of minutes following an Associated Press (AP) tweet about an explosion that injured Barack Obama. AP said its Twitter account was hacked. Third, fake news changes the way people interpret and respond to real news, impeding their abilities to differentiate what is true from what is not. Therefore, itâ€™s critical to understand how fake news propagate, developing data mining techniques for efficient and accurate fake news detection and intervene in the propagation of fake news to mitigate the negative effects. The objectives of this workshop are: - Bring together researchers from both academia and industry as well as practitioners to present their latest problems and ideas; - Attract social media providers who have access to interesting sources of fake news datasets and problems but lack the expertise in data mining to use data effectively; - Enhance interactions between data mining, text mining, social media mining, and sociology and psychology communities working on problems of fake news propagation, detection, and mitigation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and social media providers for understanding fake news propagation, improving fake news detection in social media and mitigation. Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - User behavior analysis and characterization for fake news detection - Text mining â€“ mining news contents and user comments - Early fake news detection - Unsupervised fake news detection - Fact-checking - Tracing and characterizing the propagation of fake news and true news - Malicious account and bot detection, user credibility assessment - Visual analysis and exploration with images on the news - News event aggregation and detection - Building benchmark datasets for fake news detection in social media Paper Submission: Papers should be submitted as PDF, using the SIAM conference proceedings style, available at https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/Proceedings/soda2e_061418.zip?v…. Submissions should be limited to nine pages and submitted via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FEND2019. Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 1, 2019 Notification: March 15, 2019 SDM pre-registration deadline: April 2, 2019 Camera ready: April 15, 2019 Conference dates: May 2-4, 2019 Shall you have any questions, please email to szw494(a)psu.edu or kai.shu(a)asu.edu. Workshop Organizers: Suhang Wang Penn State University, USA Dongwon Lee Penn State University, USA Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 Saturday 2 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 2 February 2019 at FOSDEM 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. This 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 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 2020. 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 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 very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6], 2013 [7], 2014 [8], 2015 [9], 2016 [10], and 2018 [11]. 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 schedulable hours between 11:00 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 [12], 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 [13] 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 either 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). 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 [13], 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 early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by Saturday December 1, 2018 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://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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30 months PDRA post in Computational Micromagnetism at Edinburgh University
by WILLIAMS Wyn 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

This is a 30 Month PDRA in Computational Micromagnetism at Edinburgh University, open to home and international applications. The link to the job description and application is at: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… Please contact Wyn Williams (<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk>wyn.williams(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk>) for informal enquiries. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Micromagnetic Modelling School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh Grade 7 Salary £33,199 to £39,609 Applications are invited for a 30 month post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) with extensive computational experience to join the mineral magnetism group at the School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh. The position is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council award “Determining ancient magnetic field strengths from the Earth and Solar System”, which is a collaborative project between Prof Wyn Williams (Edinburgh Univ.), Dr. Adrian Muxworthy (Imperial College), and Prof. John Tarduno (Univ. Rochester). The aim of the project is to better understand the magnetic recording fidelity of ‘non-ideal’ magnetic domain states and their ability to hold accurate recordings over periods of billions of years. Using the finite-element micromagnetic modelling software MERRILL (www.rockmag.org<http://www.rockmag.org>) you will develop detailed models of magnetic recording characteristics of particles of iron oxides and sulphides. These models will be compiled into a relational data-base and used to simulate ‘whole-sample’ magnetic recording properties of standard and single crystal paleomagnetic samples. The numerical models will be validated using high-resolution magnetic, mineralogical and tomographic experimental observations from project partners at Imperial College and University of Rochester. You will have a PhD (or near completion) in a physical or computational science with extensive experience of numerical modelling, preferably finite-element modelling and ideally micromagnetic modelling. You should have knowledge of FORTRAN and Python or similar. Experience in parallel programming and database management would be useful but not essential. You should also have a track-record of publishing peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and demonstrate enthusiasm to contribute to the aims of the overall project as part of a wider team. You will also have excellent communication, planning, and team working skills. The position is open from January 2019 with a latest possible start date of April 2019. Closing date: 3 Jan 2019 Wyn Williams Professor of Mineral Magnetism School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FE Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4909 Email: wyn.williams(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[Deadline Extension] Final Call for IEEE DAPPCON 2019
by Young Park 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019) https://dappcon.net The objective of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019) is to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchain, and related technologies. It can be already seen today that Blockchain is making a huge impact on the way digital payments are made. However, the potential implications of Blockchain technologies go far beyond their application as the technological backbone for cryptocurrencies. In recent years, Decentralized Applications (dApps) have emerged as a new model for building massively scalable services. dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor. While Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum are based on compute-intense consensus mechanisms, more recent approaches focus on voting- or staking-based algorithms that support higher transactions per second and are also better-suited to reflect proportions of majority ownership, which are required in many enterprise application scenarios. Also, the integration of Smart Contracts into Blockchains, for example, based on Ethereum or Hyperledger, leads to a plethora of possible use cases for dApps. DAPPCON 2019 will provide a high-quality forum for participants from research and industry. The conference will discuss key theories, algorithms, infrastructures, and significant applications for Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, as well as emerging research topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Blockchain theory - Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) - Decentralized Applications / Smart Contracts - Consensus protocols for Decentralized Applications - Infrastructures for Decentralized Applications - Communication protocols and standards for Decentralized Applications - Identity Management for Decentralized Applications - Token economy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain analytics - dApps/DLT/Blockchain governance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain interoperability - dApps/DLT/Blockchain privacy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain security - dApps/DLT/Blockchain scalability and performance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain policy/law - dApps/DLT/Blockchain applications in areas such as Internet of Things, Logistics, or Health - dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics Important Dates - Extended until Nov. 30, 2018: Abstract registration & paper submission deadline - Jan. 14, 2019: Author notification - Jan. 31, 2019: Camera-ready submission and conference registration - Apr. 5 - 8, 2019: Conference Invitation letters for visa applications will be available on the day of the author notification. Paper submission DAPPCON 2019 solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures. Both full and short papers can be submitted. All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts must include a title, an abstract with 200-250 words, and a list of 4-6 keywords. Each full paper is limited to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and references. Each short paper is limited to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double-column proceedings format. Please see: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html DAPPCON 2019 uses a double-blind review policy. Authors are required to remove their names, affiliation and other identifying information from the header of the manuscript. This also includes meta-data in the submitted document as well as acknowledgment sections. Papers that do not meet these anonymization requirements may be rejected without further review. Authors are encouraged, but not required, to cite their previous work in a neutral manner, for example, avoid “in our previous work [3]” and instead use “as shown in [3]”. The name(s) of the author(s) will not be visible to the reviewer of a paper. The name(s) of the author(s) will be visible in the submission system to the General Chairs and the Program Chairs. Authors are free to indicate any conflict of interest with the list of Technical Program Committee (TPC) members during submission of the manuscript, in which case the Program Chairs will exclude the corresponding TPC member(s) from reviewing the paper. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. Authors must submit their manuscripts using the EDAS conference system via the following link: http://edas.info/N25365 Paper submission is open until Friday, 30 November 2018, 23:59 PST (UTC -8). Paper publication All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in the IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered by one of its authors, and at least one author is required to attend and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be included in the final technical program and the IEEE Digital Library. Special issues The authors of the best papers will be invited to also submit their work (with at least 30% novel contents) to the following special issues: - IEEE Network: Special issue on Blockchains for Scalable IoT Management, Access and Accountability <https://www.comsoc.org/netmag/cfp/blockchains-scalable-iot-management-acces…> - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management: Special Issue on Blockchain Ecosystem: Technological and Management Challenges and Opportunities <http://www.ieee-tems.org/call-for-papers-blockchain-ecosystem/> -- Best Regards, Young. ---------------------------- Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department San Jose State University. Office Phone: 408-924-7854 Department Office Phone: 408-924-4150 Email: younghee.park(a)sjsu.edu -- Best Regards, Young. ---------------------------- Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department San Jose State University. Office Phone: 408-924-7854 Department Office Phone: 408-924-4150 Email: younghee.park(a)sjsu.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS -- IHPCES 2019
by Dominik Bartuschat 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2019) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2019/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2019, the 9th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2019 Conference in Faro, Algarve, Portugal, from June 12-14, 2019. 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 All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2019, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: January 1, 2019 Paper Submission Due (up to 14 pages) February 15, 2019 Author Notification April 5, 2019 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2019 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 Takashi Furumura - Universuty of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, USA Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The Universuty 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 receiving your contributions to IHPCES 2019. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2019 co-chairs

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Call for Book Chapter- Springer- Deep learning based approaches for sentiment analysis
by Basant Agarwal 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

*Call for Book Chapter- Springer* *Book Title*: Deep learning based approaches for sentiment analysis *The scope of the book:* With the exponential growth in the use of social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and many others, an astronomical amount of big data has been generated. A substantial amount of this user-generated data is in form of text such as reviews, tweets, and blogs that provide numerous challenges as well as opportunities to NLP (Natural Language Processing) researchers for discovering meaningful information used in various applications. Sentiment analysis is the study that analyses people's opinion and sentiment towards entities such as products, services, person, organisations etc. present in the text. Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the most popular and interesting research problem. In recent years, Deep Learning approaches have emerged as powerful computational models and have shown significant success to deal with a massive amount of data in unsupervised settings. Deep learning is revolutionizing because it offers an effective way of learning representation and allows the system to learn features automatically from data without the need of explicitly designing them. Deep learning algorithms such as deep autoencoders, convolutional and recurrent neural networks (CNN) (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have reported providing significantly improved results in various natural language processing tasks including sentiment analysis. Topics of Interest: This book solicits contributions from the field of sentiment analysis using deep learning. Each book chapter should cover the solutions with the state-of-the-art and novel approaches for the sentiment analysis problems and challenges. Topics to be discussed in this edited book include but not are limited to: 1. Introduction to the Deep learning algorithms and sentiment analysis 2. Recent trends and advances in deep learning based sentiment analysis 3. Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis of Short Texts 4. Learning word representations for sentiment analysis 5. Learning sentiment-specific word embeddings for sentiment analysis 6. Improving the performance of the sentiment analysis model using learning representation of out-of-vocabulary words 7. Deep neural network based sentiment analysis model for sarcastic tweets 8. A deep neural network for Cross-domain sentiment analysis 9. Financial Sentiment analysis using deep learning algorithms 10. Sentiment lexicon and knowledge-base construction for sentiment analysis 11. Aspect level sentiment analysis using deep neural network 12. Deep learning based Multi-Domain Sentiment Analysis 13. Fusion of linguistic and deep learning approaches for improved sentiment analysis model 14. Enhancing deep learning sentiment analysis with ensemble techniques 15. Transfer learning based sentiment analysis model for a specific domain 16. Spam Review analysis 17. Detecting hate speech in Twitter 18. Future Directions to research for Sentiment Analysis 19. Any other relevant deep learning based novel application Important Dates: Abstract Submission (abstract with TOC): December 31, 2018 Preliminary acceptance/rejection notification: January 15, 2019 Full chapter Submission: March 31, 2019 First review notification: May 15, 2019 Revised paper submission: June 15, 2019 Acceptance/Rejection notification: June 30, 2019 Camera Ready submission: July 15, 2019 *Editors* 1. Dr. Basant Agarwal, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology Mangt. & Gramothan, Jaipur, India Email: basant(a)skit.ac.in 2. Dr. Richi Nayak, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Email: r.nayak(a)qut.edu.au 3. Dr. Namita Mittal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur India. Email: nmittal.cse(a)mnit.ac.in 4. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Email: patnaik_srikanta(a)yahoo.co.in *Submission Guidelines:* Please send your one-page write up (with abstract of 300- 500 words and 6 keywords) of your Chapter along with tentative table of contents (TOC) through EasyChair portal at this link { https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlsentianalysis2019}. Upon acceptance of the proposal, further instructions for submission guidelines according to the Springer will be communicated. Please feel free to contact any editor if you have any query. “There are NO processing/publication charges for this Springer book” ~Best Regards Basant

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From Skala - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

>> Please, resend this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------- >> Call for Papers and Conference Announcement >> WSCG 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2019 (held annually since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (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: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - Decemeber 15, 2018 January 31, 2019 - Abstract, February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers 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). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Main topics (but not limited to) --------------------------- Computer graphics Scientific visualization Medical visualization Computer vision Image processing Pattern recognition GPU graphics Rendering and animation Virtual reality Haptic systems Medical imaging Graphical human computer interfaces Graphical interaction Computational photography Data compression for graphics Image based rendering Physically based modelling Mathematical methods for graphics and vision Geometric modelling Shape analysis Shape modelling Shape retrieval Surface and volume parameterization Parallel graphics CAD, CAGD and GIS systems -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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CAI 2019 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Ilias Kotsireas 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:56:24 +0100 (CET) From: CAI 2019 <cai2019(a)pmf.ni.ac.rs> Subject: CAI 2019 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CAI 2019 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CAI 2019: 8th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics Niš, Serbia, June 30 – July 4, 2019 http://www.pmf.ni.ac.rs/CAI2019/ CAI is the biennial conference serving the community interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science, algebra, and related areas. In 2019 it will feature invited presentations and a selective single-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 15, 2019 Notification: March 15, 2019 Final version: April 5, 2019 Registration: May 20, 2019 Submission Instructions CAI 2019 invites authors to submit high-quality manuscripts (in PDF format) reporting original unpublished research in the topics covered by the conference. Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair at the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cai2019 Submissions should be formatted according to the usual LNCS article style and should not exceed 12 pages (including all references). If additional space is needed, a clearly marked appendix can be added. The appendix will not be published, so the merit and results of the contribution should also be understandable without it. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. It is required that each accepted paper will be presented at the symposium by one of its authors. Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest (ordered alphabetically). Papers covering other areas will be given due consideration by the program committee. – abstract machines or systems – acceptors and transducers for discrete structures – algebraic and combinatorial methods in design theory – algebraic aspects of cryptography – algebraic characterization of logical theories – algebraic coding theory – algebraic semantics – algebraic specifications and algorithms – algorithms for construction and classification of designs – complexity problems in design theory – computational number theory – decision problems – evolutionary algorithms – exact algorithms – finite and infinite computations – formal power series – hybrid automata – implementation of symbolic algorithms – molecular computing – neural networks – process algebra – program construction and refinements – quantitative automata models – quantum computing – symbolic mathematical computation – term rewriting Invited Speakers – Paul Gastin (ENS Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France) – Bane Vasić (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) – Franz Winkler (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) Program Committee – Claude Carlet (Université Paris 8, France) – Miroslav Ćirić (University of Niš, Serbia, co-chair) – Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA) – Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, Germany, co-chair) – Zoltán Fülöp (University of Szeged, Hungary) – Dora Giammarresi (Università Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy) – Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland) – Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada) – Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) – Nataša Jonoska (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA) – Dino Mandrioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) – Miodrag Mihaljević (Mathematical Institute of the SASA, Belgrade, Serbia) – Benjamin Monmege (Aix-Marseille Université, France) – Lucia Moura (University of Ottawa, Canada) – Jean-Éric Pin (Université Paris-Diderot, CNRS, Paris, France, co-chair) – Dimitrios Poulakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – Svetlana Puzynina (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia) – George Rahonis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – Robert Rolland (Aix-Marseille Université, France) – Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) – Rafael Sendra (Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain) – Dimitris Simos (SBA Research, Vienna, Austria) – Branimir Todorović (University of Niš, Serbia) – Bianca Truthe (Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany) – Heiko Vogler (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) – Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) Proceedings The proceedings of CAI 2019 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the Elsevier’s journal Information and Computation, devoted to CAI 2019. Venue CAI 2019 will take place in Niš (Serbia), one of the oldest cities in the Balkans and Europe, which since ancient times has been considered a gateway between the East and the West. The conference is hosted at the University of Niš, and organized by the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics of this university. More information on the host can be found in the following websites: http://www.pmf.ni.ac.rs/CAI2019/other.html (Conference website) https://www.ni.ac.rs/en/ (University of Niš) http://visitnis.com/en/ (Tourism Organisation of Niš) Contact All questions should be emailed to the conference email address cai2019(a)pmf.ni.ac.rs, or directly to Miroslav Ćirić (Co-chair of the Program Committee): miroslav.ciric(a)pmf.edu.rs Jelena Ignjatović (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee): jelena.ignjatovic(a)pmf.edu.rs

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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1st CFP Computer Graphics International CGI 2019, Calgary, Canada
by Marina Gavrilova 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Apologies for Multiple Postings Call for Papers The 36th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics International 17-20 June 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi19<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cgs-n…> CGI 2019, the 36th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics International, will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, between 17-20 June 2019. Industry experts, researchers and academics are expected to gather together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related to Computer Graphics and their applications. It is the flagship conference of Computer Graphics Society. CGI 2019 offers you a conference with wonderful experience in Calgary. The main features of the conference include plenary speeches by world-leading academic and industrial experts, regular sessions and special sessions. Submission of Papers: The scientific program of the conference will include 35 selected full papers published in the Visual Computer journal published by Springer and selected papers for the ACM proceedings. Submission details can be found on CGI'19 web site. Keywords: We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: * Rendering Techniques, Volume Rendering * Geometric Computing * Virtual and Augmented Reality * Shape and Surface Modelling * Physically Based Modelling * Computer Vision for Computer Graphics * Scientific Visualization * Data Compression for Graphics * Biometric Image and Signal Processing * Medical Imaging * Computation Geometry * Image Based Rendering * Computational Photography * Computer Animation * Visual Analytics * Shape Analysis and Image * Retrieval * Geometric Modelling * Computational Fabrication * Image Processing * 3D Reconstruction & 3D Printing * Solid Modelling * Global Illumination * Graphical Human-Computer * Interaction * Human Modelling * Image Analysis * Saliency Methods * Shape Matching * Sketch-based Modelling * Robotics and Vision * Stylized Rendering * Textures Pattern Recognition * Machine Learning for Graphics Submission Schedule: Visual Computer journal papers submission: Submission deadline: February 12, 2019 Paper notification: March 24, 2019 Camera ready: April 7, 2019 ACM proceedings paper submission: Submission deadline: March 15, 2019 Paper notification: April 21, 2019 Camera ready: May 03, 2019 Wish you a fruitful and enjoyable stay in Calgary, Canada. Conference Co-Chairs: Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Hiroshi Ishikawa, Waseda University, Japan Program Co-Chairs: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Jian Chang, Bournemouth University, UK

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ANT-2019 Workshop on Activity Recognition in Smart Environements (ARISE)
by Bruno Bouchard 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure in my role of Chair to invite you to submit papers to our Workshop on Activity Recognition in Smart Environements (ARISE-19), which will be held in conjunction with the The 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, April 29 - May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. Topics and research questions to be explored This workshop aim to explore various topics including, but not limited to the following: * Algorithms for plan, activity, intent, or behavior recognition or prediction * Machine learning for activity recognition * Modeling and knowledge engineering for HAR * HAR and the real-time simulation of activities * High-level activity and event recognition * Activity recognition of multiple concurrent users * Results of real life experiments with HAR systems * Fine-grained activity recognition * Spatial and temporal features of HAR * Cognitive and others personalization models for activity recognition * Recognition of emotions of a user * Any pertinent topics related to the development of deployment of HAR systems Submission requirements The organizing committee is currently seeking technical papers up to 6 pages in the conference format, or else, either for poster presentations, authors should submit a short paper or extended abstract, up to 2 pages describing research relevant to the workshop. The submission guidelines are available here: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/#paperSubmissions Workshop website : http://www.uqac.ca/liara/ant19-workshop-arise.htm The submission process will be managed through easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arise2019 Best regards to all of you. Bruno Bouchard, Ph.D. Directeur du module d'informatique et de mathématique Professeur agrégé et chercheur, IEEE Senior Laboratoire d'Intelligence Ambiante et de Reconnaissance d'Activités (LIARA) Département d'informatique et de mathématique Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Québec, Canada Bureau P4-5180-1, Tél. : (418) 545-5011, poste 5611 http://liara.uqac.ca

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[Program available!] - CFP: 13th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2018 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 11 November 2018, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Dallas, Texas, USA. Room D173, Lower Lobby D. Held in conjunction with SC18, http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ ***************************************** Call For Participation The program of the 13th 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 and Rafael Ferreira da Silva 9:10-10:00 Ilkay Altintas (invited keynote talk) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Session "Scheduling and Resource Allocation" 10:30-10:55 Reduction of Workflow Resource Consumption Using a Density-based Clustering Model Qimin Zhang, Nathaniel Kremer-Herman, Benjamin Tovar, Douglas Thain 10:55-11:20 Flux: Overcoming Scheduling Challenges for Exascale Workflows Dong H. Ahn, Ned Bass, Albert ChuJim Garlick, Mark Grondona, Stephen Herbein, Joseph Koning, Tapasya Patki, Thomas R. W. Scogland, Becky Springmeyer, Michela Taufer 11:20-11:45 LOS: Level Order Sampling for Task Graph Scheduling on Heterogeneous Resources Carl Witt, Sam Wheating, Ulf Leser 11:45-11:55 Energy-Aware Workflow Scheduling and Optimization in Clouds using Bat Algorithm Yi Gu, Chandu Budati Session: "Provenance and Enhanced Monitoring" 11:55-12:20 A Practical Roadmap for Provenance Capture and Data Analysis in Spark-based Scientific Workflows Thaylon Guedes, Vitor Silva, Marta Mattoso, Marcos Bedo, Daniel Oliveira 12:20-12:30 End-to-End Online Performance Data Capture and Analysis for Scientific Workflows George Papadimitriou, Cong Wang, Karan Vahi, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Anirban Mandal, Zhengchun Liu, Rajiv Mayani, Mats Rynge, Mariam Kiran, Vickie E. Lynch, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ewa Deelman, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Ian T. Foster 12:30-14:00 Lunch Session: "Heterogeneous Architectures" 14:00-14:25 Planner: Cost-efficient Execution Plans Placement for Uniform Stream Analytics on Edge and Cloud Laurent Prosperi, Alexandru Costan, Pedro Silva, Gabriel Antoniu 14:25-14:50 Dynamic Distributed Orchestration of Node-RED IOT Workflows Using a Vector Symbolic Architecture Christopher Simpkin, Ian J. Taylor, Daniel Harborne, Graham Bent, Alun Preece, Raghu K. Ganti 14:50-15:00 Optimizing the Throughput of Storm-based Stream Processing in Clouds Huiyan Cao, Chase Q. Wu, Liang Bao, Aiqin Hou 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Session: "Workflow Tools and Support Environment" 15:30-15:55 DagOn*: Executing direct acyclic graphs as parallel jobs on anything Raffaele Montella, Diana Di Luccio, Sokol Kosta 15:55-16:20 WRENCH: A Framework for Simulating Workflow Management Systems Henri Casanova, Suraj Pandey, James Oeth, Ryan Tanaka, Frédéric Suter, Rafael Ferreira da Silva 16:20-17:30 Panel "The Future of Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities" (panelists will be announced soon)

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[SMARTCOMP 2019]: Call for papers
by Francesca Righetti 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2019 Call for Papers 12-15 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier 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 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 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 2019 is the 5th edition of the conference and will held in Washington, USA and will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, sensor networks, internet of things, 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). 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. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2019 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 platforms and algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS: ------------------------ Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- 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: Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Julie McCann (Imperial College London, UK) Workshops Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina, Italy) Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Keynote Co-Chairs: Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T J Watson Research Center) WIP and Demo Chair: Shiqiang Wang (IBM T J Watson Research Center) PhD Forum Chair: Nirupam Roy (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Publication Chair: TBC Registration and Finance Chair: Carmen Au (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Maciej Zawodniok (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Hesheng Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Local Arrangement Chair: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Web Chair: Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Anamika Paul Rupa (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC --- Christian Becker, University of Mannheim Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Dario Bruneo, University of Messina Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo Wan Du, University of California at Merced, USA Angelo Furno, IFSTTAR-France Mohammad Hajiesmaili, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Fanxin Kong, University of Pennsylvania Ulf Kulau, TU Braunschweig Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST Lucas Pereira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) Dirk Pesch, Nimbus Centre For Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County Nishanth Sastry, KCL Vijay Srinivasan, Samsung R&D Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Hwee-Pink Tan, Singapore Management University Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Carlo Vallati, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa Desheng Zhang, Rutgers Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio Important Dates --------------- Workshop Proposal Submission: 23 November 2018 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: 15 December 2018 Paper Registration Deadline: 14 January 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: 28 January 2019 Acceptance Notification: 29 March 2019 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 April 2019 Venue ----- The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019) will be held at Washington DC, USA. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti or Julie McCann.

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[Call for Participation] SC18 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum
by Tumeo, Antonino 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] SC18 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum http://hpc.pnl.gov/BOF/ Tuesday, November 13, 2017 5.15 PM - 6.45 PM Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center Room D166 Dallas, TX Theme 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: José Moreira (IBM), Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Aydin Buluç (LBNL), Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), John Feo (PNNL) Program 5.15 - 5.30 Future directions for the GraphBLAS C API Tim Mattson (Intel) 5.30 - 5.45 GraphBLAS case study and Lessons from the GraphChallenge Tim Davis (Texas A&M), Jeremy Kepner (MIT-LL) 5.45 - 6.00 Towards a Graph Standard Library Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL) 6.00 - 6.15 HPC Graph Toolkits for the DOE and the DOD Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), John Feo (PNNL) 6.15 - 6.45 Panel: "We can’t define appropriate abstractions for graph libraries, so everyone should do his own custom system" Moderator: Bruce Hendrickson (LLNL) Panelists: David Bader (Georgia Tech), Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL), Tim Mattson (Intel), Siva Rajamanickam (SNL)

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University of Georgia Tenure Track Faculty Position -- Security and Resilience in IoT/CPS
by Yang Shi 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

The College of Engineering at the University of Georgia is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor, associate professor, or professor with expertise in the area of security and resilience for Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Applications at all academic rank will be considered. The position has an expected start date of August 1, 2019 or earlier. To apply, candidates should submit an application at http://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/32653. Questions related to the position may be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. WenZhan Song (wsong(a)uga.edu) Please learn more at http://engr.uga.edu/uploads/main/CPS-IoT_Security_Position_Announcement_FIN…

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SC18 ASCR Meet & Greet
by DiBennardi, Kathleen A. 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Opportunity to meet with the ASCR Program Managers. If you schedule permits, please join the meeting.

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Call for participation: RESCUE-HPC @ SC18 with an open panel on automated and reproducible workflows
by Grigori Fursin 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

We are pleased to announce the final program for the 1st workshop on Reproducible, Customizable and Portable Workflows for HPC co-located with Supercomputing'18: http://rescue-hpc.org . The workshop will take place on November 11, 2018 (Sun) and will feature the keynote by Michael A. Heroux about "Making Reproducibility Indispensable: Changing the Incentives that Drive Computational Science" followed by five great presentations: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/session/?sess=sess167 . It will also have an open panel on automation, reproducibility and reusability of HPC research focusing on the Student Cluster Competition reproducibility challenge! Looking forward to see you in Dallas, Michela Taufer, Todd Gamblin and Grigori Fursin RESCUE-HPC organizers

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Call for Participation: Women-in-HPC workshop at Supercomputing (SC)
by Mubarak, Misbah 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

************************************************ Call for Participation 9th International Women in HPC Workshop: Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX Sunday, Nov. 11 9:00-5:30pm <https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/> ************************************************ Progam: Session I: Keynote 9:00-9:05 Misbah Mubarak- Argonne National Laboratory Welcome 9:05-10:00 Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Keynote Speaker "A Black Woman's Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering Lost History" Session II: Thriving at Work (Hot Topics Discussion) 10:00 - 10:10 Linda Akli - Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) "Being a diversity ally‹what it means and how you can help" 10:10 - 10:20 Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) "Telecommuting boss - being a successful remote employee" 10:20 - 10:30 Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center "Leadership strategies in HPC" 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:10 Lorna Rivera - Georgia Institute of Tech. "Effectively responding to discrimination" 11:10 - 11:20 Lucy Nowell - DoE Office of Science "Effective workplace communication" 11:20 - 11:30 Carissa Holohan - Argonne National Laboratory "Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center" Session II: Thriving at Work.. continued (Panel Discussion) 11:30 - 12:30 Christine Cuicchi - Department of Defense (Panel chair and panelist) Panel Discussion: "Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity" Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois (panelist) Lucy Nowell - Dept. of Energy Office of Science (panelist) Yvonne Yang - Intel Corporation (panelist) Session III: Early career lightning talks 2:00 - 3:00 Weronika Filinger and Gokcen Kestor (Chairs) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session IV: Developing workplace resilience & managing stress 3:30 - 4:30 Toni Collis - Appentra Hands on discussion session working through the 'resilience toolkit' 4:30 - 5:20 Toni Collis - Apentra (Panel chair) Panel Discussion: "How to build resilience" Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center (panelist) Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (panelist) Kaoutar El maghraoui - IBM Research (panelist) Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh - Univ. of Sheffield (panelist) 5:20 - 5:30 Misbah Mubarak (Argonne) & Toni Collis (Appentra) Workshop Outcomes and closeup Best Regards, Women-in-HPC Workshop Organizing Committee

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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SPNDS (in PDP2019) - Submission deadline extension till October 30, 2018 !
by Igor Kotenko 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

[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 (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 30th October 2019 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: 30th Oct, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 23th Nov, 2018 - Camera ready due: 19th Dec, 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 Program Committee Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia - session chair Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, France Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Gurtov, Linkoping University, Sweden Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Evgenia Novikova, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU), Russia Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea 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. 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[Call for Participation] IA^3 2018 @ SC18
by Tumeo, Antonino 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 12 November 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, TX Room D172 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC —————————————————— Workshop program —————————————————— 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, Vito Giovanni Castellana, John Feo 9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Photonic Interconnects for Extreme Scale Computing Madeline Glick (Columbia University) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:45 Session 1: Software optimizations for irregular applications Software prefetching for unstructured mesh applications Hadade, Jones, Wang, Di Mare A Fast and Simple Approach to Merge and Merge Sorting using Wide Vector Instructions Watkins, Green Impact of Traditional Sparse Optimizations on a Migratory Thread Architecture Rolinger, Krieger 11:45 - 12:35 Session 2: Graph Processing There are Trillions of Little Forks in the Road Choose Wisely! -- Estimating the Cost and Likelihood of Success of Constrained Walks to Optimize a Graph Pruning Pipeline -- Tripoul, Halawa, Reza, Sanders, Pearce, Ripeanu Scale-Free Graph Processing on a NUMA Machine Aasawat, Reza, Ripeanu 12:35 - 14:10 Lunch Break (on your own) 14:10 - 15:00 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Versal: The new Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP) Kees Vissers (Xilinx) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:45 Session 3: Irregular Kernels on GPUs - Chair: TBD Mix-and-Match: A Model-driven Runtime Optimisation Strategy for BFS on GPUs Verstraaten, Varbanescu, de Laat A Block-oriented, Parallel and Collective Approach to Sparse Indefinite Preconditioning on GPUs Thuerck, Naumov, Goesele, Garland High-Performance GPU Implementation of PageRank with Reduced Precision based on Mantissa Segmentation Grützmacher, Anzt, Scheidegger, Quintana-Ortí 16:45 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: John Feo (PNNL) Panelists: Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Omaha-Nebraska), Aydin Boluç (LBNL), Howie Huang (George Washington University), Martin Schulz (University of Munich).

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Scholarship: Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master´s Students in Computer Science, Deadline November 30, 2018 for the enrollment in 2018/2019
by Mihaela Rozman 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] Female students in the field of computer science (CS) who plan to pursue (or are currently pursuing) one of the masters programs in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology TU Wien taught in English are invited to apply for the annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend. The annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend for female master students is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. Professor Helmut Veith (1971-2016). The Helmut Veith Stipend has been established with generous support of TU Wien, Wolfgang Pauli Institute and with contributions by family and friends of the late Helmut Veith. BENEFITS -EUR 6000 per year -Waiver of tuition fees at TU Wien LOCATION OF MASTER STUDY For study in Austria, at Vienna University of Technology TU Wien FOR FIELD OF STUDY Applicants must be eligible for admission to one of the masters programs in computer science at Vienna University of technology - TU Wien that are taught in English. Link: http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/teaching/master Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Logic and Computation Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Business Informatics European <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Master in Computational Logic Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Computer Engineering (Technische Informatik) Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master/DataScience> Data Science Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master/medieninformatik> Media and Human-Centered Computing APPLICATION Applications for Helmut Veith Stipend can be filed after, before or in parallel with the admissions process (if the start of the master´s program is in the Summer of 2019). The applications must be submitted electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at as a single PDF document, by November 30, 2018. DEADLINE November 30, 2018. INQUIRES Electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at WEBSITE http://www.vcla.at/2018/05/call-for-applications-helmut-veith-stipend-for-fe male-masters-students-in-computer-science DOWNLOAD THE FLYER http://forsyte.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

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CFP 3rd Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL19)
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

CALL FOR PAPERS The 3nd International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-19) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies ANT 2019 and the European SarlCon 2019 April 29 - May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. Description =========== Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. SARL-18 provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. SARL workshop borns with the SARL agent programming language, but the scientific results presented in SARL-19 are not restricted to SARL; other languages and agent platforms may be presented. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration. These high-level features are now considered as the major requirements for an easy and practical implementation of modern complex software applications. We are convinced that the agent-oriented paradigm holds the keys to effectively meet this challenge. Considering the variety of existing approaches and meta-models in the field of agent-oriented engineering and more generally multi-agent systems, our approach remains as generic as possible and highly extensible to easily integrate new concepts and features. The goal of SARL-19 is to provides a place where the different points of view on the modeling and the simulation with agent platforms and agent programming languages may be discussed. SARL-19 will be held in Leuven, Belgium (April 29 - May 2, 2019) in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2019) and the European SarlCon 2019. Topics ====== The main topics of the SARL-18 workshop are (but not restricted to): * Methods and Models: * Agent based Modeling and Simulation * Agent programming language * Agent based Simulation * Agent oriented analysis and design methods * Ontologies and theories about large urban systems * Formal models of agent-based simulation * Organizational models * Applications: * Traffic/Transport * Crowds * Smard grids and smart buildings * Land-Use * Energy Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: December 6, 2018 * Notification: February 4, 2019 * Final date for camera-ready copy: March 1, 2019 * Workshop: April 29 - May 2, 2019 Submission ========== All workshop accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. You are invited to submit full length papers in PDF format on EasyChair, not exceeding 6 pages in length, in single-column format including diagrams and references, and following the Procedia Computer Science guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits. All papers will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics listed below. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to present the paper. Workshop Chairs =============== Stéphane GALLAND (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France) Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (Universidad Technologica National, Argentina) Program Committee ================= To be completed.

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Invitation to the 1st European Forum of the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon19)
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

INVITATION FOR PAPERS AND TALKS The European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-19) ------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with: * the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2019); * the 8th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS-19) * the 3nd International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-19) May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:EuSarlCon19 Description =========== The 2019 European SarlCon is the SARL user meeting that is organized in Europe in order to provide a place where SARL users and developers could exchange their experiences. It will be held on May 2, 2019, in Leuven, Belgium. That is the last day of the ANT-2019 conference, the ABMTRANS-19 and the SARL-19 workshops. Abstracts and/or short papers are due on December 1, 2018. The papers are expected to be very short (< 2500 equivalent words). ABMTRANS-19 and SARL-19 are providing an alternative for publishing longer papers. Abstracts and papers can be submitted to ABMTRANS-19, to SARL-19, to SarlCon19, or both. We will coordinate with the main conference so that papers are not presented twice. Submissions directly for the SarlCon should take the form of an abstract (< 1000 words), and are to be submitted before December 1, 2018, through EasyChair. SARL-related submissions to the main conference will as well be considered for inclusion in the SarlCon program. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: December 1, 2018 * Notification: January 4, 2019 * Forum: May 2, 2019 Submission ========== You are invited to submit the abstract in PDF format on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eusarlcon2019) not exceeding 1000 words in length. Organizer ========= Stéphane GALLAND (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France) Registration ============ Registration to the European SarlCon 2019 is free.

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Call for Workshops Proposals in conjonction with ANT-19
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

-------------- Call for Workshops Proposals ---------------------- The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2019) Leuven, Belgium April 29- May 2, 2019 Conference Website: [ http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/#workshop | http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/#workshop ] ********************************************************************** Important Dates =============== - Workshop Proposal Due: October 30, 2018 - Paper Submission: ~ December 6, 2018 - Acceptance Notification: ~ February 4, 2019 - Final Manuscript Due: ~ March 1, 2019 ANT-2019 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2019 and its related areas. Proceedings =========== All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2019 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2019 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. Proposal Format =============== - Title of the workshop - Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Full contact of workshop organizer(s) - Expected number of paper submissions - Draft Call for papers of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members Financial assistance ==================== To appreciate your hard work and support, the registration fees for one organizer of each workshop will be waived for workshops with more than eight registered papers. Please refer to (Important Dates) for the deadline for proposals. Workshops Chair =============== Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France (Email: [ mailto:stephane.galland@utbm.fr | stephane.galland(a)utbm.fr ] )

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Nov 2, 2018 (extended from Oct 10, 2018): Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 14, 2018 (extended from Nov 1, 2018): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 20, 2018 (extended from Nov 15, 2018): Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** 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 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. 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 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***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 Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** 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 Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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SPDNS 2019 (in PDP 2018) - Extension of submission deadline
by Igor Kotenko 21 Oct '18

21 Oct '18

[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 (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2019 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: 30th Oct, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 23th Nov, 2018 - Camera ready due: 19th Dec, 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 Program Committee Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia - session chair Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, France Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Gurtov, Linkoping University, Sweden Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Evgenia Novikova, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU), Russia Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea 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.

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CFP: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)
by Peter Mueller 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Call for Papers and Contributions The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Atlanta, USA, July 14-July 17, 2019 Introduction: As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 篓C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics: The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems隆炉 operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff - Performance analysis and optimization - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques - Smart contract and chain code - Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain - Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) - Blockchain in cyber physical systems - Blockchain in social networking - Blockchain in supply chain management - Blockchain in agriculture - Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles - Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing - Blockchain in mobile cellular networks - Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Submissions: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. 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. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues: 1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Journal 拢篓SCI拢漏 2. Digital Communications and Networks (Elsevier) 3. IEEE Blockchain Newsletter Important Dates: Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2019 Author Notification: April 07, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2019 Organization Committee: General Co-Chairs F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Dusit Niyato, SCSE, NTU, Singapore Peter Mueller, IBM Research, Switzerland Program Chairs Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi隆炉an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Universit篓陇 degli Studi di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Publication Co-Chairs Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA

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Extended Firm Deadline to Oct 30th - 6th Special Session on HPC in M&S - PDP 2019 - Pavia, Italy
by William Spataro 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Sixth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2019 (www.pdp2019.eu) The 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019 https://www.pdp2019.eu/hpcms.html Extended Deadline (FIRM): October 30th, 2018 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 we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Pavia (Italy). 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: 30 October 2018 Acceptance notification: 20 November 2018 Camera ready due: 19 December 2018 Conference: 13 - 15 February 2019 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=pdp2019 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 Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK 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 Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 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 Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy 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, 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/ammissione>

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18th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, SEA 2019 - CFP
by Ilias Kotsireas 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

--- CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2019) June 24-29, 2019, Kalamata, Greece http://www.caopt.com/SEA2019/ SEA (Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously known as WEA (Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of combinatorial optimization and its applications. The preceding symposia were held in Riga, Monte Verit?, Rio de Janeiro, Santorini, Menorca Island, Rome, Cape Cod, Dortmund, Ischia Island, Crete, Bordeaux, Rome, Copenhagen, Paris, St. Petersburg, London, and L'Aquila. SEA aims to attract papers from both the Computer Science and the Operations Research/Mathematical Programming communities. The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures. Submissions should present significant contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of (meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity of a problem. TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: Algorithm Engineering Algorithmic Libraries Algorithmic Mechanism Design Analysis of Algorithms Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies Algorithms for the World-Wide-Web Approximation Techniques Bioinformatics Branch-and-Bound Algorithms Combinatorial and Irregular Problems Combinatorial Structures and Graphs Communication Networks Complex Networks Computational Geometry Computational Learning Theory Computational Optimization Computer Systems Cryptography and Security Data Streams Data Structures Distributed and Parallel Algorithms Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments Experimental Techniques and Statistics Graph Drawing Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning Information Retrieval Integer Programming Logistics and Operations Management Machine Learning and Data Mining Mathematical Programming Metaheuristic Methodologies Multiple Criteria Decision Making Network Analysis Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines Online Problems Parallel Algorithms and Computing Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods Randomized Techniques Robotics Semidefinite Programming Simulation Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms Telecommunications and Networking SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 12 pages, including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a short abstract. References will not be counted in the page limit. At least 10-point font should be used. Authors are strongly advised to use the LaTeX style file supplied for the LIPIcs style here. Final proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly marked Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission limit, can be included and will be read at the referees? discretion. All submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for the conference at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2019 Authors are encouraged to include a link to the source code and/or datasets to increase confidence in the reproducibility of their experiments; the code may be read and/or executed at the referees' discretion. Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work or surveys of important results. At the time the extended abstract is submitted to SEA, and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: *** February 8, 2019 *** Full paper submission: *** February 15, 2019 *** Acceptance notification: *** March 29, 2019 *** Camera-ready version: *** April 12, 2019 *** Conference dates: *** June 24-29, 2019 *** PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) open-access series. A special issue of selected papers will be published in the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. VENUE Elite City Resort, Kalamata, Greece, http://elite.com.gr SEA 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), ikotsire(a)wlu.ca Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida (USA), pardalos(a)ufl.edu

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Call for Workshops Proposals in conjunction with ANT-2019
by Yazan Mualla 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

========================================================================================== The 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2019) Leuven, Belgium April 29 - May 2, 2019 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/ ========================================================================================== Important Date - Workshops Proposals Due: October 30, 2018 ANT-2019 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2019 and its related areas. ------------ Proceedings All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2019 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2019 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. ------------ Proposal Format - Title of the workshop - Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Draft call for paper of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members ------------ Workshops Chair - Dr.habil. Stéphane Galland, Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France (Email: stephane.galland(a)utbm.fr)

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Hiring assistant professors at the California State University, Fullerton
by Ryu, Christopher Taewan 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

Hi, The Department of Computer Science invites applicants for several full-time, tenure-track positions as Assistant Professors of Computer Science with the appointments beginning in August 2019. For a complete description of the department, the position, and other qualifications, please visit http://hr.fullerton.edu/diversity/job-openings/ft/10589BR_computer_science.…. To apply, go to: https://apps.fullerton.edu/facultyrecruitment to view all job listings and select 10589BR to begin the application process. Christopher Christopher Ryu, Ph.D. Chair & Professor Department of Computer Science California State University, Fullerton ________________________________

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Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019
by José Santos Reyes 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019 (8th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation), Almeria (Spain), 3-7 June, 2019 http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/ Overview: Bio-inspired computing methods take inspiration from nature to develop optimization and search algorithms or metaheuristics, typically in order to tackle the search of optimal solutions of complex problems in science and engineering, which usually imply a high dimensionality of the search space. Apart from the traditional evolutionary computing methods, artificial immune systems, ant algorithms or particle swarm optimization, the session is intended to focus on new bio-inspired solutions such as swarm algorithm solutions based on bee colonies, algorithms based on firefly insect behavior, artificial algae algorithm and many more, together with their combination with local search strategies or other metaheuristics. The researchers in this field must be self-critical with the boom of such new solutions, contrasting what is new and what is included in other traditional search algorithms or what novelty is provided in a new bio-inspired metaheuristic. Besides, the proposals should be competitive with other methods in the state of the art. The aim is that the session provides a meeting point for IWINAC attendees and researchers who have a current or developing interest in bio-inspired approaches and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • Bio-inspired approaches based on animal behavior (Cuckoo search, Cat swarm, Artificial Bee Colony, Bat algorithm, Wolf search, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on plant behavior (artificial algae algorithm, flower pollination algorithm, PIBO, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on bacteria like BFO. • New approaches in evolutionary computing methods. • Combination of bio-inspired approaches with local search: Lamarckian strategies, Baldwinian strategies, memetic algorithms. • Combination of the bio-inspired approaches with artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems. • Applications with bio-inspired approaches. Full paper submission due: 31-01-2019 Submission guidelines: http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/paper-submission.html Organizers: José Santos (Universidade da Coruña), jose.santos(a)udc.es Ramiro Varela (Universidad de Oviedo), ramiro(a)uniovi.es

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EIDWT-2019 Call for Papers
by Zahoor Khan 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2019) 26-29 February 2019 Fujairah, United Arab Emirates Conference Website: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2019/ OVERVIEW The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. EIDWT-2019 will discuss advances in information networking and exploitation of data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids and Clouds. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: November 5, 2018 Authors Notification: December 5, 2018 Author Registration: December 20, 2018 Final Manuscript: December 20, 2018 Conference Dates: February 26-28, 2019 SCOPE The main topic areas of EIDWT 2019 include, but are not limited to: • Internet Protocols, Modelling and Optimization • Network and Data Security, Trust and Reputation • Big Data and Cloud Computing • Mobile and Wireless Networks • P2P and Grid Computing • Distributed and Parallel Systems • Ontologies and Metadata Representation • Knowledge Discovery and Mining • Databases and Data Warehouses • Data Centers and IT Virtualization Technologies • Web Science and Business Intelligence • Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organizations • Data Management and Information Retrieval • Machine Learning on Large Data Sets & Massive Processing • Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools • Nature Inspired Computing • Data Sensing, Integration and Querying Systems and Interfaces • e-Science Data Sets, Repositories, Digital Infrastructures • Energy-aware and Green Computing in Data Centers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies series published by Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in ISI Proceedings, MetaPress, Springer Link and Scopus. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready and copyright form. Please submit the paper in EIDWT 2019 EDAS account using the URL: https://edas.info/N24622 SPECIAL ISSUES Presented papers at EIDWT 2019 will be considered for publication in some Special Issues in International Journals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zahoor Khan, PhD, SMIEEE, MCSc, MSc (CE), MSc (Elect.), BSc, CUTL, CCAI Division Chair Faculty of Computer Information Science (CIS), Applied Media Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah Campus, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971-(2)-206-1363<tel:+971%202%20206%209307> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> Zahoor.Khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@hct.ac.ae> --------------------------------------------------------- Adjunct Professor Department of Engineering Maths and Internetworking Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4R2 Zahoor.Khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@dal.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EIDWT-2019 Call for Papers
by Zahoor Khan 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT 2019) 26-29 February 2019 Fujairah, United Arab Emirates Conference Website: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/eidwt/2019/ OVERVIEW The 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging Internet, Data and Web technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. EIDWT-2019 will discuss advances in information networking and exploitation of data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids and Clouds. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: November 5, 2018 Authors Notification: December 5, 2018 Author Registration: December 20, 2018 Final Manuscript: December 20, 2018 Conference Dates: February 26-28, 2019 SCOPE The main topic areas of EIDWT 2019 include, but are not limited to: • Internet Protocols, Modelling and Optimization • Network and Data Security, Trust and Reputation • Big Data and Cloud Computing • Mobile and Wireless Networks • P2P and Grid Computing • Distributed and Parallel Systems • Ontologies and Metadata Representation • Knowledge Discovery and Mining • Databases and Data Warehouses • Data Centers and IT Virtualization Technologies • Web Science and Business Intelligence • Data Analytics for Learning and Virtual Organizations • Data Management and Information Retrieval • Machine Learning on Large Data Sets & Massive Processing • Data Modeling, Visualization and Representation Tools • Nature Inspired Computing • Data Sensing, Integration and Querying Systems and Interfaces • e-Science Data Sets, Repositories, Digital Infrastructures • Energy-aware and Green Computing in Data Centers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies series published by Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in ISI Proceedings, MetaPress, Springer Link and Scopus. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready and copyright form. Please submit the paper in EIDWT 2019 EDAS account using the URL: https://edas.info/N24622 SPECIAL ISSUES Presented papers at EIDWT 2019 will be considered for publication in some Special Issues in International Journals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zahoor Khan, PhD, SMIEEE, MCSc, MSc (CE), MSc (Elect.), BSc, CUTL, CCAI Division Chair Faculty of Computer Information Science (CIS), Applied Media Higher Colleges of Technology, Fujairah Campus, United Arab Emirates Phone: +971-(2)-206-1363<tel:+971%202%20206%209307> www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan> Zahoor.Khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@hct.ac.ae> --------------------------------------------------------- Adjunct Professor Department of Engineering Maths and Internetworking Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 4R2 Zahoor.Khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:Zahoor.Khan@dal.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[simu-conf] Symposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation 2019
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

=============================================================== CFP: Symposium of Theory of Modelling and Simulation Part of the Spring Simulation Conference April 29 - May 2, 2019 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona =============================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE The purpose of this track is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances in M&S foundations, theory, and practice. The main focus is on the modeling and simulation concepts, methodologies, and techniques enabling practices and tools to cope with the challenges that arise from understanding, building, and operating highly complex and ultra large systems, as well as lessons learned in application domains. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Dec. 16, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 8, 2019 Camera-ready Paper Submission: Feb 22, 2019 For additional and latest information please visit http://www.tmsdevs.org [apologies for multiple postings - if you need to unsubscribe reply to this email or contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Academic Vacancies at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Are you looking for an exciting academic career building on a sense of history? Did you know that the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne played the world’s first music on a computer (https://theconversation.com/how-australia-played-the-worlds-first-music-on-… Or that we commissioned Australia’s first computer and managed Australia’s first internet connections? But we don’t just have a great history, we are also currently ranked number 1 in Australia and 14th in the world in the latest 2018 QS World University Rankings. And we have ambitious plans for the future – we are supported by a 10-year strategic $1 Billion investment in people and infrastructure by the University of Melbourne. Do you want to join us? We are hiring academics across a range of areas in Computer Science and Information Systems, including Natural Language Processing, Security and Digital Health. We are also looking for female applicant in any area of Computing and Information Systems. More details are here: http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/departments/school-of-computing-and-inf… We review applications on a rolling basis as they come in. Final application deadline is 11 November 2018. Uwe Aickelin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Uwe Aickelin – Head of School School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia T. +613 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au <mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> W: http://aickelin.com<http://aickelin.com/> [signature_237791722]

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 22, 2018 (extended from Oct 10, 2018): Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 5, 2018 (extended from Nov 1, 2018): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 20, 2018 (extended from Nov 15, 2018): Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** 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 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. 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 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***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 Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** 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 Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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ICCSA 2019: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

-- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it Department Chair's delegate for Job Placement Deputy Director at The Document Foundation (TDF)

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[IEEE ICII] Last Call for Participation (Early registration deadline: 10/20/2018)
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

================================================================== C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N **** IEEE ICII 2018 **** Bellevue, Washington, U.S.A. October 21-23, 2018 http://www.ieee-icii.org ================================================================== Industrial Internet is ushering in a new wave of industrial revolution through the integration of networks, computing, industrial equipment and people. It will impact a broad industrial spectrum including manufacturing, aviation, transportation, power, oil and gas, healthcare, smart cities, and buildings. The 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII), which is the first research conference dedicated to the vibrant area of Industrial Internet, will be held in Bellevue, Washington, in October 2018. * Keynote speakers - Vint Cerf (VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Turing Award Laureate) Title: Musings on the Industrial Internet - Renwei Li (Chief Scientist and VP of Future Networks, Huawei) Title: What if We Reimagine a New Internet? More details of the keynotes can be found at http://www.ieee-icii.org/key.html * ICII program Selective single-track conference program including high-quality regular papers and invited contributions from leading experts. Program can be found at http://www.ieee-icii.org/pgm.html * Co-located events - Demo/poster session - International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems * Registration - Online registration is open (http://www.ieee-icii.org/atd.html) - Early registration deadline: October 20th, 2018 ORGANIZERS General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Program Co-Chairs * Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) * Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University and RISE SICS, Sweden) * Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA) Steering Committee * Vinton G. Cerf (Google, USA) * Mischa Dohler (King's College London, UK) * Mahmoud Daneshmand (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Jae H Kim (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) * Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA) * Dinesh Verma (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Anwar Walid (Nokia Bell Labs, USA) * Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA) Workshop Co-Chairs * Sanjeev Mehrotra (Microsoft Research, USA) * Honggang Wang (UMass-Dartmouth, USA) Panel Co-Chairs * Andreas Mueller (Bosch, Germany) * Ye Ouyang (Verizon Wireless, USA) Poster/Demo Co-Chairs * Soumya Datta (Eurocom, France) * JaeSeung Song (Sejong University, Seoul, Korea) * Shaoen Wu (Ball State University, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs * Fan Bai (General Motors, USA) * Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey, UK) * Madhanmohan Savadamuthu (Boeing India Technology Center, India) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publication Chair * Reza Malekian (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Event Co-Chair * Jiang Li (Howard Services, USA) * Wei Wang (Shenandoah Services, USA) Web Co-Chairs * Yinhao Xiao (The George Washington University, USA) * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) [We apologize if you receive multiple copies.] ________________________________ 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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GCSMES - 2019 - Call For Papers
by GCSMES6 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

[cid:image002.png@01D454E9.69F53DE0] The 6TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON SME, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SERVICE INNOVATION (GCSMES-6) 2019 المؤتمر الدولي السادس للمشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة، وريادة الأعمال والابتكار في مجال الخدمات 2019 (GCSMES-6) March 11-13, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN Conference Theme “SME, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SERVICE INNOVATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM” Conference Website, please visit: http://gcsmes6.uob.edu.bh OR: contact us on: gcsmes6(a)uob.edu.bh<mailto:gcsmes6@uob.edu.bh> IMPORTANT DATES • Full Paper or Extended Abstract Submission* December 31, 2018 • Early Bird Registration October 31, 2018 • Final Registration and Final Submission (Proceedings Ready) March 1, 2019 • Doctoral Colloquium and Industry Workshop March 11, 2019 • Presentations (Parallel Sessions) March 12 & 13, 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT ALL SUBMISSIONS TO BE MADE BY E-MAIL ATTACHMENT TO gcsmes6(a)uob.edu.bh<mailto:gcsmes6@uob.edu.bh> (with cc to admin(a)gcsmes.org<mailto:admin@gcsmes.org> ). Manuscripts must adhere to the following format: - Times New Roman - Maximum 10 Pages Single Spacing (for Full Paper) - APA Referencing Style PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings with ISBN. Selected high quality papers will be further processed for publication consideration in a research book or a special issue of top quality journals ________________________________ Uob Disclaimer Policy This e-mail message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy it, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents, but should return it to the sender immediately stating that you received the email in error, and then please delete the email from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely the personal views of the sender. The contents in this email message shall not commit or bind the University of Bahrain in any way.University of Bahrain cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended, please contact the sender.University of Bahrain shall not be liable for any loss or damage which results from opening this message and attachments thereto.

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Call for Workshop Proposals - IEEE EuroS&P 2019
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Stockholm, Sweden -- June 17-19, 2019 https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2019/ Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), which is organized every year in a European city. The 4th EuroS&P edition will be held on June 17-19, 2019 in Stockholm, at the KTH main campus. Pre conference workshops will take place on Sunday, June 16, 2019, and post conference workshops on Thursday, June 20, 2019. A workshop associated with IEEE EuroS&P can be a full or half day in length. Each workshop should provide a forum to address a specific topic at the forefront of security and privacy research. Submissions of workshop proposals must reach the workshop chairs by November 11, 2018. If proceedings are planned, the default option offered is publication through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2019 proceedings. Workshop registration will be done together with the main conference, allowing workshop-only registrations as well. Support for accepted workshops include: rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, and at least two free registrations for the full EuroS&P 2019 program. Other expenses must be covered by the individual workshops. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION A workshop proposal should contain at least the following (please fill in the template available on the conference web site): * Workshop title; * Aim and scope; * Proposed format; * Duration (half or full day); * Planned activities (e.g., invited speakers, panels); * Expected number of submissions, paper length (in IEEE conference proceedings format), and number of attendees * Program chair(s), and if available, tentative program and organisation committee; * Biographical sketch for each main organizer, describing relevant qualifications in research and conference/workshop organizing experience; * Past history of the workshop, if any, including number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and number of registered attendees for the most recent incarnation of the workshop, and past year websites; * Draft CFP articulating the scope and topics covered by the workshop; * Plan for the review process and the publication of proceedings PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA Each workshop proposal will be evaluated based on the following criteria: * Quality of proposal; * Timeliness and suitability for the EuroS&P community; * Novelty with respect to other workshops and forums; * Interest, impact, relevance of the topic; * Anticipated attendance level; * Organisers experience WORKSHOP CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yongdae Kim KAIST, Republic of Korea IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATES Workshop proposal submission: November 11, 2018 Notification of decision: December 3, 2018 CFP and Website for each workshop: December 17, 2018 Workshop papers submission: last week of February/first week of March 2019 Workshop notification date: no later than April 10, 2019 Workshop final papers (firm): April 22, 2019 Please send your workshop proposal to the Workshop Chairs (Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Yongdae Kim at sabrina.decapitani@unimi.it,yongdaek@kaist.ac.kr) by November 11, 2018

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018
by Andrii Shalaginov 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 10, 2018: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 1, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2018: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** 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 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. 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 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***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 Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** 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 Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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web designing and web development services
by Rohit Madhukar 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Hi, We are an India based Website Design &Development company and we offer services at modest rate. We have a dedicatedteam of 55 professional designers and developers with over 8 years ofexperience and we thrive on the idea that design makes a difference. Ourservices at a glance: - 1) Website development(Custom Website Development, PHP Programming, etc.) 2) Website designing (Logo Design, HTMLdesigning, corporate website design, PSD to XHTML/HTML, etc) 3) Open source customization/ CMS (Wordpress,Custom PHP, Magento etc) 4) E-commercewebsite development (Woo-commerce Magento, OS Commerce, Zen Cartintegration etc) 5) Web Programming Services (PHP MySQLDevelopment, PHP Frameworks, JavaScript Frameworks etc) 6) SeoServices. 7) MobileApps Development (Android and IOS) Do let meknow if you are willing to discuss a possible redesigning/redevelopment of yourwebsite or designing new website. I can send you more details on thepackages/action/Portfolio/past work details. I’m waiting for your reply. Kinds Regards, Rohit

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Slice electrophysiology postdoc and technician positions at Carnegie Mellon's Neurosciences Institute
by Pulkit Grover 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Dear Colleagues, As a part of a newly funded project, Grover, Chamanzar, Kainerstorfer, Barth, and Gittis labs at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) are actively looking for joint postdocs and technicians for slice electrophysiology experiments. Our team's goal is to develop novel methods for neural stimulation and recording in somatosensory and motor cortex for closed-loop experiments in rodents and in future in non-human primates. We aim to establish advanced theoretical techniques, closely with experimental validation, for invasive and noninvasive high-throughput neurostimulation, and recording with high spatiotemporal resolution for advancing diagnosis treatment of disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's, and brain injuries, as well as fundamental understanding of the brain. This is an ideal opportunity for a neuroscientist or a biomedical engineer who wants to be involved in developing next generation neural interfacing techniques and use these advanced methods for fundamental and applied neuroscience studies. The role of the technician is to perform surgeries and prepare brain slices and help with the experiments. The technician is expected to directly work with students and postdocs to design and conduct experiments. The postdoc will be affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, and will get the opportunity to work with a team of accomplished researchers from various disciplines ranging from Biological Sciences, ECE, BME at CMU as well as clinicians at University of Pittsburgh. This is an opportunity to work on a challenging scientific problem in a highly interdisciplinary and vibrant environment. *Requirements*: Prior experience with rodent surgeries, particularly mice. Interest in or experience with brain slice preparation and experiments. Experience with patch clamp recording and electrophysiology or voltage imaging in neurons is essential. The labs are committed to the professional development of the members, making this position a valuable preparation for those interested in academic, industrial or entrepreneurial careers. The position has no mandatory teaching or administrative duties. The ideal start date is as soon as possible (11/2018 or shortly thereafter), but application review will continue until the positions are filled. The position is initially for at least 12 months with the possibility of renewal. Compensation will be competitive, and commensurate with relevant experience. CMU has competitive benefits (including comprehensive medical insurance) and is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates should send a CV, a statement of research experience and interests, expected date of availability, and the contact information for three references to pulkit(a)cmu.edu, mchamanz(a)andrew.cmu.edu, and jkainers(a)andrew.cmu.edu with the subject line "Brain Slice Positions”. Please find the ads attached. Thanks Pulkit on behalf of CMU faculty: Pulkit Grover Maysam Chamanzar Jana Kainerstorfer Alison Barth Aryn Gittis -- Pulkit Grover Associate Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy) Center for Neural Basis of Cognition (by courtesy) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA -15213.

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СFP : PDP2019 - Special session SPDNS 2019
by Igor Kotenko 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Final Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2019 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: 15th Oct, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 15th Nov, 2018 - Camera ready due: 15th DEc, 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 Program Committee Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia - session chair Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST, France - Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, France Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Gurtov, Linkoping University, Sweden Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Evgenia Novikova, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU), Russia Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea 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.

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IEEE HPCS Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) - Ext Deadline
by Mario Cannataro 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ======================================================================================== Int. Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017/workshop17-bilis July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy held in conjunction with International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs17.cisedu.info/ ======================================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * EXTENDED Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters ======================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: --------------------------------- April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: --------------------------- April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: --------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 ======================================================================================== SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Incorporating new advancements of Information Technology (IT) in general and High Performance Computing (HPC) in particular in the domain of Life Sciences and Biomedical Research continues to receive tremendous attention of researchers, biomedical institutions and the rest of the biomedical community. Although medical instruments have benefited a great deal from the technological advances of the couple of decades, the impact of integrating IT advancements in addressing critical problems in biomedical research remains limited and the process of penetrating IT tools in the medical profession continues to be a very challenging problem. For example, the use of electronic medical records and Hospital Information Systems in improving health care remains fragmented. Similarly, the use of advanced computational tools seamlessly in the biomedical research cycle continues to be minimal. Due to the computational intensive problems in life sciences, the marriage between the Bioinformatics domain and high performance computing is critical to the advancement of Biosciences. In addition, the problems in this domain tend to be highly parallelizable and deal with large datasets, hence using HPC is a natural fit. The Bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Most methods used for analyzing DNA/Protein sequences are known to be computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computational systems with high throughput characteristics. Moreover, high-throughput wet lab platforms such as next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry, are producing a huge amount of experimental "omics" data. The increasing availability of omics data poses new challenges to bioinformatics applications that need to face in a semi-automatic way an overwhelming availability of raw data. Main challenges regard: 1) the efficient storage, retrieval and integration of experimental data; 2) their efficient and high-throughput preprocessing and analysis; 3) the building of reproducible "in silico" experiments; 4) the integration of analysis results with pre-existing knowledge usually stored into ontologies. As the storage, preprocessing and analysis of raw experimental data is becoming the main bottleneck of the analysis pipeline, parallel computing is playing an important role in all steps of the life sciences research pipeline, from raw data management and processing, to data integration and analysis, and to data exploration and visualization. Moreover, Cloud Computing is becoming the key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall business model of biomedical research and health provision. Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks In such a scenario, large-scale distributed databases and parallel bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine. In the current Information age, further progress of Medical Sciences requires successful integration with Computational and Information Sciences. The workshop attempts to attract innovative ways of how such integration can be achieved via Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics research, particularly in taking advantage of the new advancements in HPC systems. The focus of data analysis and data mining tools in biomedical research highlights the current state of research in the key biomedical research areas such as bioinformatics, medical informatics and biomedical imaging. Addressing performance concerns in managing and accessing medical data, while facilitating the ability to integrate and correlate different biomedical databases remains an outstanding problem in biomedical research. The amount of available biomedical data continues to grow in an exponential rate; however, the impact of utilizing such resources remains minimal. The development of innovative tools in HPC environments to integrate, analyze and mine such data sources is a key step towards achieving large impact levels. The workshop focuses on topics related to the utilization of HPC systems and new models of parallel computing and cloud computing in problems related to Biomedical Informatics and Life Sciences, along with the use of data integration and data mining tools to support biomedical research and Health Care. The BILIS Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: HPC for the Analysis of Biological Data Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications Ontologies in Biology and Medicine Integration and Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Data Parallel Bioinformatics Algorithms Algorithms and Tools for Biomedical Imaging and Medical Signal Processing Energy Aware Scheduling Techniques for Large Scale Biomedical Applications HPC for analyzing Biological Networks Next Generation Sequencing and Advanced Tools for DNA Assembly HPC for Gene, Protein/RNA Analysis and Structure Prediction Identification of Biomarkers Biomedical Visualization Tools Efficient Clustering and Classification Algorithms Correlation Networks in Biomedical Research Data Mining Techniques in Biomedical Applications Heterogeneous Data Integration HPC systems for Ontology and Database Integration Pattern Recognition and Search Tools in Biological and Clinical Databases Ubiquitous Medical Knowledge Discovery and Exchange HPC for Monitoring and Treatment Facilities Drug Design and Modeling Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Procedures Remote Patient Monitoring, Homecare Applications Mobile and Wireless Healthcare and Biomedical Applications Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics, Medicine, and Health Systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to HPC for Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Life Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop organizers via email as attachments to Hesham Ali: hali(a)unomaha.edu, Mario Cannataro: cannataro(a)unicz.it. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------ April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ---------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Prof. Hesham H. Ali Department of Computer Science College of Information Science and Technology University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182 USA Email: hesham(a)unomaha.edu Prof. Mario Cannataro Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro Viale Europa (Località Germaneto) 88100 Catanzaro, Italy Email: cannataro(a)unicz.it

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CFP : PDP2019 - Special session on Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations
by Laurent Lefevre 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

--- Call for paper --- 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2019), Special session on Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations - Pavia, Italy https://www.pdp2019.eu/energy.html This special session aims at gathering researchers working in the broad areas of energy-efficient computing and communication systems. This session seeks submissions addressing the different aspects of system management for energy efficient parallel applications and platforms. Emphasis is given to approaches and analyses targeting real-world energy-efficient system implementations as well as novel approaches to energy-efficient design. *** IMPORTANT DATES: *** Paper submission: 15th Oct 2018 (Final extension) Acceptance notification: 15th Nov 2018 Camera ready due: 15th Dec 2018 Conference: 13th - 15th Feb 2019 *** Topics *** Performance and power dissipation issues Energy, performance and quality of experience trade-offs Energy, thermal and power models for parallel applications and platforms Energy consumption profiling of applications and services Optimization approaches for dynamic energy management Hardware and application monitoring for energy efficiency Energy Efficient wired and wireless networking for distributed computing Design and analysis of energy/performance benchmarks Evaluation of approaches across domains, e.g., from embedded systems to server domains Energy harvesting methodologies, techniques, and systems Energy efficiency in the HPC-BigData convergence era Energy efficiency of HPC in Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Energy efficient computing for Financial Technologies and applications Innovative design and management methodologies for energy management *** Submission of Papers *** Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track or to Special Sessions through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019) with an indication of the main track or the name of the Special Session. Double-bind review: the first page of 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". *** Publications *** 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.

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE ISPA 2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications)
by Jesson Butt 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "ISPA 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to ISPA 2018. ISPA 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics (1) Systems and Architectures Track - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

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Postdoc : Tweet stream analysis for event detection and tracking
by EGYED-ZSIGMOND Előd 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

PostDoc Job Offer : Tweet stream analysis for event detection and tracking The IDENUM project aims to follow events on twitter. It is a transdisciplinary regional project among computer science, information and communication science and industrial partners. The scientific objectives of the postoc is to create and develop methods to dynamically follow an event by reformulating the set of keywords to collect on Twitter. The initial input is a set of keywords describing the event, eventually a pair of geographic coordinates precising a rectangular region. Multimodal stream clustering techniques, semantic resources, text, image, graph embedding methods are some of the covered domains. The corpus is composed of tweets with their metadata and attached images. All this information is to be considered it the dynamic tracking of events. We collaborate for this project with information and communication science who are interested in a more qualitative analysis of events on social network, focusing on visual and textual representation of the events. Your profile: • PhD degree in computer sciences or engineering. • Understand and write scientific English Competences that are good to possess: o experience in text mining, notions in image processing, o some French language knowledge We offer: - access to world class research facilities - entering a dynamic and diverse team of highly motivated students and scientists doing research in an interdisciplinary field. - a one-year contract Starting date before February 2019 Term of employment: Fixed-term (CDD) Location : LIRIS Lab, INSA Lyon, France -- Elöd EGYED-ZSIGMOND PhD, Maître de conférences HdR (Associate professor) Academic Exchange Coordinator LIRIS / Département Informatique, INSA Lyon Tél: 00 33 (0)4 72 43 62 97 – Fax : 04 72 43 15 36 email : elod.egyed-zsigmond(a)insa-lyon.fr URL : http://liris.cnrs.fr/elod.egyed-zsigmond

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Re: [computational.science] REMINDER: Faculty Apply to Explore Research Collaborations at Berkeley Lab
by Nika Kozhukh 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Hello! The Head of our laboratory of The Laboratory of Self-organization System Modeling of The State Scientific Institution "The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" (UIIP NASB) received recently letter, were was invitation to participate SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop (this letter is like reply on that mail). I am Veronica Kozhukh, one of ph.d. student in the laboratory, my science interests are corresponding to the laboratory researches in the field of self-organization of chaotic dynamic systems. In our department now we are going to start some new projects and we are interested in finding possible matches and potential collaborators. So the main question is if we can participate in SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop as scientific laboratory or maybe I can participate as phd student by my own, and if yes can we have funding opportunities. Here is links on our institute : http://uiip.bas-net.by/eng/ and laboratory: http://uiip.bas-net.by/eng/about/laboratories/self_org_system_modeling/inde… If You have some questions about laboratory or our projects I will be glad to answer! Your early reply will be appreciated. Sincerely, Veronica Kozhukh > ******************************************** > To:"Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D." <mleung(a)shinstitute.org> > REMINDER: Application Deadline Friday, September 21, 2018 > > Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) program is accepting applications > from faculty at US degree granting academic institutions. Come to > Berkeley Lab to learn about summer research opportunities for you and/or > your students at a Department of Energy National Laboratory. > > SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop > To facilitate the possible matching of faculty and/or their students > with lab research opportunities, selected faculty will be invited to a > workshop on December 3-4, 2018, at Berkeley Lab. Computing Sciences > staff and selected faculty applicants will discuss their research > projects and interests in order to determine possible matches and the > potential for research collaborations during the summer of 2019. > > This workshop, developed under a partnership between Sustainable > Horizons Institute and Berkeley Lab, is designed for faculty from any US > degree granting institution, including Minority Serving Institutions > (MSI) and women’s, liberal arts, and community colleges, which support > students such as: women, minorities, first generation scholars, and > people with disabilities as well as those from under-privileged > backgrounds. Faculty learn about opportunities to engage in > collaborative, cutting-edge research with Berkeley Lab computing > scientists. Matched faculty will be invited to apply for summer research > opportunities at Berkeley lab. > > Faculty Benefits > > * Pre-workshop webinar > * Travel funding for Matching and Exploratory Workshop > * Meetings with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff to discuss > possible research collaborations > * Potential to participate in summer research as: > > o Faculty/student teams > o Students on their own > > Preference is given to faculty/student teams > > Application requirements and other details can be found at > http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/ > > Application deadline: Friday, September 14, 2018 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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IEEE HiPC 2018: Conference program and important dates
by Anand Panangadan 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Radisson Blu Hotel Bengaluru, India http://www.hipc.org IMPORTANT DATES https://hipc.org/news-updates/ - Student Research Symposium (SRS) submission deadline extended to September 30 - Author Resources with links to CPS author kit to be posted by October 1 - Camera ready deadlines extended for HiPC (October 15) and HiPC Workshops (October 29) - Author registration deadlines for HiPC and HiPC Workshops extended to October 31 - Student Travel Support - application deadline (November 14) and notification (November 19) - Radisson Blu special HiPC rates guaranteed for reservations by November 20 - Advance Registration deadline - November 21 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ CONFERENCE PROGRAM & EVENTS HiPC 2018 is the 25th edition of the IEEE 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 Asia in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. To mark 25 years of HiPC, a special lecture and several celebratory events are planned. The conference technical program held on days 2, 3 and 4 will showcase three keynote speakers and three days of single track presentations of 33 peer reviewed papers from all over the world. Tutorials to be held on December 16 will be announced shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Secure High-Performance Computer Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities - Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign High-Performance Computing at the end of Moore’s Law PLENARY PANEL - Data Centers in India: Challenges and Opportunities: This session will include senior Government officials in India that are seeking to invite Cloud service providers to open Data centers in India and discuss available opportunities. Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others) will discuss some of the challenges they face with respect to regulation, guaranteed cheap electricity supply, skills, etc. The goal is to get broader discussion on important policy issues that help enable or cripple development of Warehouse scale Data centers in India. WORKSHOPS Six workshops to be held on the first day of the conference are planned. https://hipc.org/workshops/ - Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms (PFFT) - see September 30 deadline - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) - First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC&AI) - Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing (WDHPC) - Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHiPC) (Posters only: Submission deadline November 9) STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM SRS is 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 and will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. Submission deadline is September 30. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON IMPROVING RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION OUTCOMES HiPC and Microsoft along with IISc invites you to the workshop to be held at IISc. Registration and schedule at: https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKfor mID=0x4887561abcd Venue:CDS Department IISc- Indian Institute of Science CV Raman Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India September 21, 2018, 10AM - 4PM INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION The conference encourages industry participation in the main technical program and workshops, as well as the Industry, Research and User Symposium (IRUS) and vendor exhibition held on days 2 and 3. Various sponsorship opportunities are available as described at the conference website. Titanium and Platinum sponsors are also provided a forum to drive Industry BOF sessions. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs: Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India and Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Program Chair, HPC: Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France Program Chair, Data Science: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steering Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP HiPC is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and the HiPC Trust, India In cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Industry sponsors & partners include: Microsoft, Intel, NetApp, Google, and Boston. Visit the HiPC website to see full listing of all industry partners and exhibitors.

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Extended Deadline - 6th Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation - PDP 2019 - Pavia, Italy
by William Spataro 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Sixth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2019 (www.pdp2019.eu) The 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019 https://www.pdp2019.eu/hpcms.html Extended Deadline: October 5th, 2018 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 we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Pavia (Italy). 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: 5 October 2018 Acceptance notification: 15 November 2018 Camera ready due: 15 December 2018 Conference: 13 - 15 February 2019 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=pdp2019 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 Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK 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 Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 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 Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy 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, 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/ammissione>

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019)
by Demetris Trihinas 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

*Call For Workshops* The organizers of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid’19) call for proposals for workshops to be co-located with CCGrid’19. Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. The peer-reviewed accepted papers of organized workshops will be published in the CCGrid proceedings. Each paper must have at least two reviews for being eligible for publication. **Important Dates** Deadline for Workshop Proposals September 30, 2018 Notification of Acceptance October 15, 2018 **Chairs** • Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Monash University, Australia • Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA **Submission Requirements** http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfw.html

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Final Extension CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

Final Extension on Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 14, 2018 (11:59pm HST, final extension as requested by some authors.) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission 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/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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[FINAL EXTENSION] IA^3 2018 - Extended to September 8 (FINAL EXTENSION, HARD)
by Tumeo, Antonino 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!!NEWS!!!!: Deadline extended to September 8th. Final extension, hard deadline!!! IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 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. 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 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 -------------------- Position or Regular Paper Submission: SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 (HARD DEADLINE, FINAL EXTENSION). Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 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 workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- 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://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-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 pubblicly (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 flavio(a)dividiti.com. -------------------- ACM TOPC Special Issue -------------------- Authors interested in the topics of the workshop are also invited to submit papers to the thematic Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). We invite, in particular, authors of papers accepted to previous editions of the workshop, as well as authors of accepted papers to the upcoming edition, to submit exteded versions of their paper. Deadline for the submission to the special issue is October 31, 2018, i.e., after the notification for this year edition of the workshop, but slightly before the workshop itself. For more information on the TOPC Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications, including details on submissions and important dates, please consult the following link: http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio(a)dividiti.com -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, and LBNL, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora Uçar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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REMINDER: Faculty Apply to Explore Research Collaborations at Berkeley Lab
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

REMINDER: Application Deadline Friday, September 14, 2018 Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) program is accepting applications from faculty at US degree granting academic institutions. Come to Berkeley Lab to learn about summer research opportunities for you and/or your students at a Department of Energy National Laboratory. SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop To facilitate the possible matching of faculty and/or their students with lab research opportunities, selected faculty will be invited to a workshop on December 3-4, 2018, at Berkeley Lab. Computing Sciences staff and selected faculty applicants will discuss their research projects and interests in order to determine possible matches and the potential for research collaborations during the summer of 2019. This workshop, developed under a partnership between Sustainable Horizons Institute and Berkeley Lab, is designed for faculty from any US degree granting institution, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and women’s, liberal arts, and community colleges, which support students such as: women, minorities, first generation scholars, and people with disabilities as well as those from under-privileged backgrounds. Faculty learn about opportunities to engage in collaborative, cutting-edge research with Berkeley Lab computing scientists. Matched faculty will be invited to apply for summer research opportunities at Berkeley lab. Faculty Benefits * Pre-workshop webinar * Travel funding for Matching and Exploratory Workshop * Meetings with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff to discuss possible research collaborations * Potential to participate in summer research as: o Faculty/student teams o Students on their own Preference is given to faculty/student teams Application requirements and other details can be found at http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/ Application deadline: Friday, September 14, 2018

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THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019)
by Demetris Trihinas 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

**** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Doctoral Symposium, SCALE) CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters, and result in an outstanding impact to numerous aspects of the modern world. The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. CCGrid has travelled over the world. Its next stop is in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2019. Papers due: December 7, 2018 Author notifications: January 18, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfp.html CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. Deadline for Workshop Proposals: September 30, 2018 Notifications of Acceptance: October 15, 2018 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfw.html CALL FOR TUTORIALS CCGrid 2019 will feature state-of-the-art tutorials from leading experts in their fields. Topics will cover different levels, ranging from introductory to highly advanced skills. All tutorials will address highly important and relevant subject areas of cluster computing and grid technology. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, CCGrid 2019 solicits proposals for half day (3,5 hours) or full day tutorials. Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: January 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cft.html CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2019) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2019 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. Papers due January 15, 2019 Author Notification: February 15, 2019 More info at: http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/doctoral.html CALL FOR THE 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SCALABLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE (SCALE 2019) The 12th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2019) is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The objective of the SCALE Challenge is to highlight and showcase real-world problem solving using computing that scales. Effective solutions to many scientific and engineering problems require applications that can scale. There are different dimensions to application scalability. For example, applications can scale-up to a large number of cores on a compute unit, scale-out to utilize multiple distinct compute units, or exhibit elastic scaling to acquire and release resources on-demand, based on current need. The result may be an application that can solve a larger problem, increase throughput, and/or reduce execution time. In order to scale, applications need to be supported by tools, middleware, software cyber-infrastructure, programming frameworks, computing infrastructure, etc. The SCALE Challenge is concerned with advances in application development and their supporting infrastructure to enable scaling. All papers presented at the SCALE challenge and selected by the Scale Challenge Committee of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. Proposal submission: 31 Jan 2019 Moore info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/scale2019.html ***Organizing Committee*** **General Chairs:** Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria **Program Chairs:** Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:** Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Monash University, Australia Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA **Doctoral Symposium Chair:** Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA **SCALE Challenge Chairs:** Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria **Local Arrangement Chairs:** TBD **Publicity Chair:** Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus **Proceedings Chair:** Georgiana Copil, SAP, Romania **Registration & Finance Chair:** George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus **Sponsorships and Students Travel Award Chair:** Eliezer Dekel, Huawei, Germany **Web Chair:** Kyriakos Georgiades, EasyConferences, Cyprus **Vice Chairs:** Applications and Data Science Vasiliki Kalavri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Architecture and Networking Anne-Cecile Orgerie, IRISA, France Luis Veiga Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Cloud Computing Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece Autonomic Computing, Datacenters and Cyber-infrastructure: Georges DaCosta, IRIT, France Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Performance Modelling and Evaluation Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Programming Models and Runtime Systems Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Asterios Katsifodimos, TU Delft, The Netherlands Scheduling and Resource Management Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Storage and I/O Systems Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hillel Kolodner, IBM Haifa, Israel Edge Computing Ivana Podnar Žarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA ***Program Committee*** **Storage and I/O Systems** Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University Qingsong Wei, Institute of High Peformance Computing Bo Mao, Xiamen University Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Cao Qiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Yu Hua Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Ming Zhao, Arizona State University Qing Liu, New Jersey Institute of Technology Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Lei Tian, TINTRI Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Gala Yadgar, Technion Danny Harnik, IBM Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Philip Shilane, EMC Joseph Izraelevitz, University of Rochester **Programming Models and Runtime Systems** Patrizio Dazzi, ISTI-CNR Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dragi Kimovski, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Jan Hidders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Dan Holmes, The University of Edinburgh Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Jan S Rellermeyer, Delft University of Technology Marios Fragkoulis, TU Delft Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Alexandre Eichenberger, IBM Costin Iancu, LBNL Peter Thoman, University of Innsbruck Alexandre Denis, INRIA Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University Philipp Gschwandtner, University of Innsbruck Paris Carbone, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden Christoph Kessler, Linköping University Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux - Inria Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology Marcelo Pasin, Université de Neuchâtel Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory Roberto Gioiosa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alexandre Strube, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH Abdulrahman Kaitoua, Politecnico di Milano **Cloud Computing** Sébastien Monnet, University Savoie Mont Blanc Anastassios Nanos, OnApp Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University Suzanne McIntosh, New York University - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Data Science Adrien Lebre, INRIA Guillaume Pierre, IRISA / Université de Rennes 1 Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Michael Schoettner, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Thomas Lambert, University of Bordeaux Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory Alexandru Costan, INRIA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Isaac Triguero Velázquez, University of Nottingham Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology Yong Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania **Applications and Data Science** Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Lin Gan, Tsinghua University Kornilios Kourtis, IBM Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Princeton University Yi-Chao Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jedrzej Rybicki, Forschunszentrum Juelich Gmbh Long Cheng, University College Dublin Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences Adrian Jackson, The University of Edinburgh Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ian Cosden, Princeton University Curt Hillegas, Princeton University Katerina Antypas, NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Pat Martin, Queen's University Erlin Yao, ICT, CAS Vladimir Voevodin, RCC MSU Gregory Bauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Liagouris, ETH William M. Tang, Princeton University Massimo Quadrana, Politecnico di Milano Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica Research **Scheduling and Resource Management** Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas Liana Fong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest - UPB Wei Zheng, Xiamen University Ioannis Konstantinou, National Technical University of Athens Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology Oliver Sinnen, Parallel & Reconfigurable Computing lab, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Auckland Cesar De Rose, PUCRS Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology Ivona Brandic, TU Wien Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck Alex Delis, University of Athens Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame **Performance Modelling and Evaluation** Sameer Shende, University of Oregon Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Marc Perache, CEA,DAM,DIF Bogdan Ghit, Databricks Xing Liu, IBM Lauren Smith, US Department of Defense Mihai Capotă, Intel Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of Würzburg Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University Swaroop Pophale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools SAS Erwin Laure, KTH/PDC Simon Hammond, Sandia National Laboratories Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Didem Unat, University of California San Diego Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University Wenhong Tian, Uni. of Eletr. Sci. and Tech. of China Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science Animesh Trivedi, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Michele Weiland, The University of Edinburgh **Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Cyber-infrastructure** Shinobu Miwa, The University of Electro-Communications Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Technologies Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School for Information and Communication Technology Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Paul Renaud-Goud, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Beniamino Di Martino, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Harald Kornmayer. DHBW Mannheim Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago Rong Ge, Clemson University Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Olivier Richard, LIG Laboratory Grenoble Avi Mendelson, Technion Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University, Computer Information Systems Department Robert Ricci, University of Utah Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam NL Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha Nikolaos Chrysos, Foundation For Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Gianni Antichi, University of Cambridge Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg Soeren Sonntag, Intel Pedro Javier Garcia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Hubertus Franke, IBM Robert Birke, ABB Research Andreea Simona Anghel, IBM Research - Zurich Research Laboratory John Carter, IBM Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory Marco Chiesa, Universite catholique de Louvain Balazs Gerofi, The University of Tokyo John Thomson, OnApp Jonathan Eastep, Intel Warren Smith, The Weather Company, an IBM Business **Architecture and Networking** Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Fraunhofer Rolando Martins, University of Porto Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Bruno Schulze, LNCC Sven-Arne Reinemo, Simula Research Laboratory Dongyoon Lee, Virginia Tech Taylor Groves, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University Richard Graham, Mellanox Technologies Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS Abdel-Hameed Badawy, New Mexico State University Federico Silla, Universitat Politècnica de València Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Huiyang Zhou, NC State University Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics James Dinan, Intel Felix Freitag, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Hatem Ltaief, KAUST Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Lab Guillaume Mercier, ENSEIRB/INRIA **Edge Computing** Claudio Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Informatica Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Zhuozhao Li, University of Chicago Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University Chenxi Qiu, Department of Computer Science, Rowan University In Kee Kim, University of Georgia Tummalapalli Sudhamsh Reddy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center Yan Bai, University of Washington Xiaoqiang Ma, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon Omer Rana, Cardiff University Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara Haiyang Wang, University of Minnesota duluth Rafael Mayo, CIEMAT Jedrzej Musial, Poznan University of Technology Mario Südholt, IMT Atlantique (Nantes) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University Helene Coullon, INRIA Zahir Tari, RMIT University Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa Pierre Manneback, University of Mons Frederic Desprez, INRIA Jinwei Liu, Clemson University Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Husnu Narman, University of Oklahoma Kang Chen, Southern Illinois University Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Lutz Schubert, OMI, University of Ulm Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs Kejiang Ye, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ali Shoker, HASLab, INESC TEC & University of Minho -- Demetris Trihinas (PhD) Senior Researcher Laboratory for Internet Computing (LInC) Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus PO Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus Tel: +357 22 89 2723 email: trihinas(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy website: dtrihinas.info

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE ISPA 2016 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications)
by Jesson Butt 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Call for Poster and Demo: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 1 October 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2018 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2018 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2018 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "ISPA 2018 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the conference community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to ISPA 2018. ISPA 2018 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics (1) Systems and Architectures Track - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

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SPDNS 2019 - New Submission Deadline is September 10, 2019
by Igor Kotenko 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

To: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org Subject: [computational.science] SPDNS 2019 - New Submission Deadline is September 10, 2019 [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 (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 10th September 2017 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: 10th Sep, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 15th Oct, 2018 - Camera ready due: 18th Nov. 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 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.

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2019 (Kaliningrad, Russia, April 1-5, 2019)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT'2019), 13th International Scientific Conference, April 1-5, 2019, Kaliningrad, 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, Baltic Federal University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 13th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT'2019) to be held in Kaliningrad, Russia, April 1-5, 2019. The main purpose of the PCT'2019 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 30th 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'2019 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/pavt2019/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2019 by December 1, 2018. 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, 2018 * Submission of the papers: December 1, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2019 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2019 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2019 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2019 * Conference: April 1-5, 2019 April 1: arrival date April 2-4: conference work dates April 5: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2019. 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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Now accepting student applications for Broader Engagement program at SIAM CSE19
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

We are pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for travel grants for participation in the Broader Engagement program and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2019 Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) conference held in Spokane, Washington on February 25 - March 1, 2019. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2019 Computational Science and Engineering Conference Broader Engagement February 24 - March 1, 2019 Spokane Convention Center Spokane, Washington, USA The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2019 Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) conference Broader Engagement (BE) program will provide a rich scientific program, mentoring, and career and professional development to students from underrepresented and under-privileged backgrounds who aspire to broaden their experience in research-based professional activities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, first generation scholars, and others from under-privileged backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Conference Themes • Computational science and machine learning • Data science, analytics, and visualization • Statistical modeling, methods, and computation • Applications in science, engineering, and industry • Multiscale, multiphysics, and multilevel methods • Biological and biomedical computations • High performance software: packages and design • Scientific simulation and uncertainty • Algorithms at extreme scales • Numerical optimization: methods and applications • Tensor Computations • Reduced order modeling • High-order methods, novel discretizations, and scalable solvers • Emerging trends in CS&E education and training Come and join the community, advance your career, and explore your future possibilities. Benefits and Activities include: Travel support and conference registration Full technical program High Performance Computing Tutorials Community building activities Mentor Protégé Program Guided affinity groups to increase learning Professional and career development Application deadline: Friday, September 21, 2018 For more information, and to apply visit: http://shinstitute.org/siam-cse19-be-program/ -- A brighter scientific future is on the horizon... ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. President Sustainable Horizons Institute 36101 Bob Hope Drive, Suite E-5170 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 515-450-8190 office mleung(a)shinstitute.org http://www.shinstitute.org ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ITNAC 2018, UNW, SYDNEY, SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30 AUG 2018
by Kashinath Basu 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

CALL FOR PAPERS: ITNAC 2018 ============================================================== The 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2018) November 21-23, 2018 in Sydney, Australia http://www.itnac.org.au ============================================================== Technically co-sponsored by IEEE. Papers published on IEEE Xplore. Indexed by Ei COMPENDEX Paper Submission opens in January 2018 Full paper submission deadline: August 30, 2018 *SCOPE* With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenges to design new networking protocols, techniques, and applications are never ending. With the imminent deployment of 4G and 5G on the horizon, the demand for better service and quality has never been greater. ITNAC is a leading forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services and applications. ITNAC 2018 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and standardisation bodies that covers applications for and analysis of distributed, mobile, cognitive and cloud computing, computer and data communications, local and metropolitan networks, optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are welcome on all advanced research and particularly (but not limited to) the following topics: Mobile & Wireless Networks - Modelling and Simulation - Wireless access and routing protocols - Cross-layer design optimisation - Green, low power, energy efficient and sustainable networking - Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking - Network-based mobile positioning and tracking systems - Cognitive and cooperative principles for networking - Mobile social and ambient networks - Delay tolerant networks - Mobile and fixed wireless broadband access networks - 4G/5G networks - Wireless sensor networks - Vehicular Ad-hoc networks - Cognitive networks - Wireless mesh networks Internet Technologies and Applications - Network Modelling and Simulation - Software defined networking - Smart Cities and Smart Grids - Content-centric networks - Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control - Datacenter networks and Cloud Computing - Peer-to-peer networks and overlays - Novel network-enabled applications and services - Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts - IPv6 and its derivatives - High performance network virtualisation - Networking standards and regulations - QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management - Novel network-enabled applications and services Network Management, Privacy and Security - Next generation network regulation - Broadband network management - Intrusion detection and prevention - Key distribution and management - Large-scale attacks and defense - Security and privacy in wireless networks - Network security policy, theory and tools - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Trusted computing and management - World Wide Web security - Network resiliency and network security - Cyber security Optical Networking and Applications - Modelling and Simulation - Optical switching and routing - Optical Network on Chips - Visible light communication - Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet - WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON - Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV - Hybrid optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber - Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM - OFDM and advanced modulation formats in photonics - Energy efficient optical networks *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to IEEE conference proceedings format (template available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). We invite the following two types of submissions: - Full Papers (6 pages complementary, and up to 8 pages with over length charge) - Short Papers (3 pages complementary and up to 4 pages with over length charge). All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS *PUBLICATIONS* Accepted papers from this conference will be published in the proceedings (indexed by EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: 30 August, 2018 Acceptance Notification: 2 September, 2018 Camera-ready due: 15 October, 2018 Registration due: 1 November, 2018 Conference: 21-23 November, 2018 *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* General Co-Chairs Mark Gregory, RMIT University, AU Vijay Sivaraman - UNSW, AU Program Chairs Khandakar Ahmed, Victoria University, AU Keshav Sood, Deakin University, AU Leith Campbell, Melbourne University, AU Publicity Chair Shui Yu, Deakin University, AU Nazmus Nafi, Victoria Institute of Technology, AU Local Organising Committee Chair Vijay Sivaraman - UNSW, AU Steering Committee Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, AU Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, NZ Franco Davoli, University of Genova, Italy Mark Gregory, RMIT University, Melbourne, AU Krys Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, NZ Richard Harris, Massey University, NZ Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany ITNAC 2018 is pleased to announce there will be 10 AUD$600 travel assistance grants.

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6th Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation - PDP 2019 - Pavia, Italy
by William Spataro 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Sixth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2019 (www.pdp2019.eu) The 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019 https://www.pdp2019.eu/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2018 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 we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Pavia (Italy). 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: 20 September 2018 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2018 Camera ready due: 18 November 2018 Conference: 13 – 15 February 2019 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=pdp2019 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 Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK 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 Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 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, 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/ammissione>

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Final CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.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 Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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Invitation for the submission of extended version of the earlier published research papers/chapters for possible inclusion in the Book on Advanced Research on Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the IoT, IGI Global
by Brij Gupta 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Greetings! We trust this e-mail finds you well. We are currently in the process of editing a forthcoming publication that will be a summation of chapters from the extended version of the earlier published research papers. With the goal of creating a quality publication, we would like to invite you to enhance your research paper/chapter, for possible inclusion in this publication, Book on *Advanced Research on Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the IoT*. This will be a wonderful opportunity for you as the article author, to further develop your work and have your content benefit from increased exposure and recognition in the research community. It is imperative that your chapter be substantially enhanced in order to allow the readers (researchers and your academic peers) to benefit from the latest innovations/advancements that have taken place in the topic area since the first publication of your article. Should you accept this invitation, as the paper author, you will be expected to enhance the following aspects of your earlier published chapter/paper: · The reference and literature review sections so that they include the most current research findings related to the subject of your article. · Augment any discussions of the issues in the original article to include any recent findings on the coverage of the topic, in order to ensure that they are up-to-date. · Review and update any tables/graphs/figures that you find necessary to improve the discussion, and incorporate any new information. · Change the title of the article to incorporate and reflect the changes that you have made. · Modify the abstract to reflect the enhanced content. · Ensure that the paper adheres to IGI Global’s book chapter formatting guidelines. · You are also welcome to directly cite research content from* International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) *within the text and in your reference and additional reading sections. Please kindly notify us of your decision regarding this invitation no later than *September 02, 2018.* Kind Regards, B. B. Gupta (National Institute of Technology Kurukshtra, India) Dharma P. Agrawal (University of Cincinnati, USA) Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC)

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Bench'18 (Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018) Call for Papers
by gaowanling 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

---Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP--- Bench'18 (2018 International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing) Call for Papers URl: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/Bench18 Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018 December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA Introduction Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being’s lives. This symposium (Bench 18) is dedicated to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing complex systems, including (but not limited to) Big Data, AI, chainblock, datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing, high performance computing, Mobile Robotics, edge and frog computing，Big Scientific data, IoT, and the other miscellaneous things, i.e., education systems, financial systems, and power systems. In addition, we encourage publishing benchmark specifications and the summaries of the open-source benchmarking projects. Improtant Dates TimeEvent Sep 20, 2018Electronic submission of full papers Nov 9, 2018Notification of paper acceptance Nov 25, 2018Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-12, 2018Conference Paper Submission https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP0… Papers should be no more than 10 pages, and be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). Formatting Instructions 8.5" x 11" (DOC,PDF) LaTex Formatting Macros Topics of Interest We solicit papers in all areas related to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Big data domains Artificial intelligence NewSQL and distributed database systems Blockchain Datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing High performance computing Mobile Robotics Edge and fog computing Big scientific data Internet of Things (IoT) Education, financial and power system Program Committee Lizy K. John, The University of Texas at Austin USA Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas at Austin USA and Google Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University China Yunji Chen, ICT, CAS China Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee USA Rui Hou, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS China Yueguo Chen, Renmin University of China H. Peter Hofstee, IBM USA Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University China Junzhao Du, Xidian University China Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA Weining Qian, East China Normal University China Zheng Cao, Alibaba China Matthias Nicola, IBM Germany Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University China Bin Ren, College of William and Mary USA Hua Chen, ICT, CAS China Jiaquan Gao, Nanjing Normal University China Jiannan Ouyang, Facebook USA Xueming Si, Fudan University China Yanjun Wu, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Lucas Mello Schnorr, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Brazil Yunquan Zhang, ICT, CAS China Shengzhong Feng, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Zhen Jia, Princeton University USA Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Dapeng Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines USA Shaoliang Peng, National University of Defense Technology China Yong Qi, Xi'an jiaotong University China Gwangsun Kim, Arm Inc., Austin, Texas USA Zujie Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University China Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University USA Lei Wang, ICT, CAS China Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center, CAS China Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County USA Kenli Li, Hunan University China Rui Han, ICT, CAS China Jungang Xu, Chinese academy of sciences China Xu Liu, College of William and Mary USA Tong Wu, National Institute of Metrology, China Li ZHA, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Liu, ICT, CAS China

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[CFP] IA^3 2018 - Deadline extended to September 5
by Tumeo, Antonino 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] — NEWS: DUE TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS, WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS TO SEPTEMBER 5! — IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 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. 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 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 5, 2018 (EXTENDED) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 5, 2018 (EXTENDED) Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 Submissions Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org<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 workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- 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://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-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 pubblicly (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 flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com>. -------------------- ACM TOPC Special Issue -------------------- Authors interested in the topics of the workshop are also invited to submit papers to the thematic Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). We invite, in particular, authors of papers accepted to previous editions of the workshop, as well as authors of accepted papers to the upcoming edition, to submit exteded versions of their paper. Deadline for the submission to the special issue is October 31, 2018, i.e., after the notification for this year edition of the workshop, but slightly before the workshop itself. For more information on the TOPC Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications, including details on submissions and important dates, please consult the following link: http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov> John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov> Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com> -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, and LBNL, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora Uçar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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Final CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission 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/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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A Practical Introduction to Debugging Webinar
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

The Sustainable Horizons Institute Webinar Series Proudly Presents: "A Practical Introduction to Debugging!" Join us on Friday, August 24th, 2018 from 2:00 pm -3:00 pm CST. We are privileged to have Dr. Jeremy Melvin host a webinar on debugging. During this webinar, you will learn about strategies for handling bugs in your software, tools to aid in debugging, such as GDB (GNU Debugger) and other resources, and the opportunity to take part in an interactive debugging session using GDB. Dr. Jeremy Melvin is an ICES postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D in Computational Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. His research interests are focused on developing tools and models to improve the predictive capabilities of numerical simulations for turbulent flows in complex engineering problems. Register using the link below! https://goo.gl/forms/3P2sumYWEPwqw0Bz1 This webinar is part of a quarterly webinar series aimed toward students and early career professionals in STEM, and is organized through the Sustainable Horizons Institute. To contact the SHI Webinar Committee, please email shi.webinar(a)gmail.com

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2018 Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) Matching and Exploratory Research Collaboration Workshop
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

We are pleased to announce 2018 Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) program is now accepting applications from faculty at US degree granting academic institutions. Come to Berkeley Lab to learn about summer research opportunities for you and/or your students at a Department of Energy National Laboratory SRP Matching and Exploratory Workshop To facilitate the possible matching of faculty and/or their students with lab research opportunities, selected faculty will be invited to a workshop on December 3-4, 2018, at Berkeley Lab. Computing Sciences staff and selected faculty applicants will discuss their research projects and interests in order to determine possible matches and the potential for research collaborations. This workshop, developed under a partnership between Sustainable Horizons Institute and Berkeley Lab, is designed for faculty from any US degree granting institution, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and women’s, liberal arts, and community colleges, which support students such as: women, minorities, first generation scholars, and people with disabilities as well as those from under-privileged backgrounds. Faculty learn about opportunities to engage in collaborative, cutting-edge research with Berkeley Lab computing scientists. Matched faculty will be invited to apply for summer research opportunities at Berkeley lab. Faculty Benefits * Pre-workshop webinar * Travel funding for Matching and Exploratory Workshop * Meetings with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff to discuss possible research collaborations * Potential to participate in summer research as: o Faculty/student teams o Students on their own Preference is given to faculty/student teams Application requirements and other details can be found at http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/ http://cs.lbl.gov/careers/summer-student-program/ Application deadline: Friday, September 14, 2018 A brighter scientific future is on the horizon... ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. President Sustainable Horizons Institute 36101 Bob Hope Drive, Suite E-5170 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 515-450-8190 office 515-203-1298 cell mleung(a)shinstitute.org http://www.shinstitute.org ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

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[IEEE LPWANSys] Call for Papers
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

================================================================================ Call for Papers IEEE LPWANSys 2018 in Conjunction with IEEE ICPADS 2018 https://ntusg-iot.github.io/lpwansys/ Sentosa, Singapore ================================================================================ The 1st Workshop on LPWAN Systems and Applications (LPWANSys 2018) will be held in conjunction with The 24th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE ICPADS 2018) during December 11-13, 2018, in Singapore. * IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2018 Paper notification: September 26, 2018 Camera ready: October 1, 2018 * SCOPE The emerging low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies will largely increase the degree of connectivity of Internet of Things (IoT) and enable the deep penetration of smart objects into the territories that challenged the existing short-range wireless technologies, such as urban areas with dense buildings, underground structures, uninstrumented rural and wild areas, etc. With the increasingly available LPWAN platforms (e.g., LoRaWAN and NBIoT) and the relevant development tools, research shall explore the challenges, issues, and opportunities in the improvement and deployment of LPWANs. LPWANSys aims to be the premier workshop for the research on LPWAN systems and applications. It invites researchers to submit and present their original studies in various aspects of LPWAN as well as stories and learned lessons in deploying real-world LPWAN systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Narrowband channel profiling - Physical layer of LPWAN - Data link layer of LPWAN - Multi-gateway design - LPWAN performance profiling and analysis - LPWAN real-world applications - LPWAN deployment experiences - LPWAN with mobility - Security issues of LPWAN - Regulatory issues of LPWAN * SUBMISSION GUIDELINE Each submission must not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE 8.5“x11” two-column format with 10-point font, including tables, figures, and references. Submissions should be formatted using the template provided below and in PDF format. The review process is single-blind so the submissions should include author information. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee members. At least one author of the accepted paper should register the workshop and present the paper in the workshop in order for the accepted paper to be included into the IEEE digital library. All accepted papers will be included in IEEEXplore and indexed by EI. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpads2018 LaTeX template: http://icpads.sg/file/latex.zip MS Word template: http://icpads.sg/file/word.doc * ORGANIZERS - Program Co-Chairs Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Jiliang Wang (Tsinghua University) Jun Huang (Peking University) - Program Committee Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Ambuj Varshney (Uppsala University) Chenren Xu (Peking University) Gowri Sankar Ramachandran (University of Southern California) Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Mo Sha (Binghamton University) RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology) Shibo He (Zhejiang University) Wan Du (University of California, Merced) (More PC members to be added) - Web Chair Chaojie Gu (Nanyang Technological University) -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ________________________________ 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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Call for Workshop Papers and Student Research Symposium: 25th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC)
by Anand Panangadan 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC). The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS 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 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (SRS) SRS is 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. http://hipc.org/student-research-symposium/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile SPONSORSHIP: •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] IA^3 2018 - Deadline approaching & ACM TOPC special Issue
by Tumeo, Antonino 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 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. 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 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 22, 2018 Position or Regular Paper Submission: August 29, 2018 Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 Submissions Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org<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 workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- 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://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-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 pubblicly (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 flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com>. -------------------- ACM TOPC Special Issue -------------------- Authors interested in the topics of the workshop are also invited to submit papers to the thematic Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). We invite, in particular, authors of papers accepted to previous editions of the workshop, as well as authors of accepted papers to the upcoming edition, to submit exteded versions of their paper. Deadline for the submission to the special issue is October 31, 2018, i.e., after the notification for this year edition of the workshop, but slightly before the workshop itself. For more information on the TOPC Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications, including details on submissions and important dates, please consult the following link: http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov> John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov> Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com> -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, LBNL, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora Uçar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud2018 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Arne Wilston 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing ( BDCloud2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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 Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications 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/2018/bdcloud/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. General Chairs Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Co-Chairs Lina Yao, University of New South Wales, Australia Hongzhi Yin, The University of Queensland, Australia Weiqing Wang, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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4th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2018) at SC18: Extended abstracts due Aug. 15
by Jason D. Bakos 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 Sunday Morning, November 11, 2018 Dallas, TX http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 (1 to 4 page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== 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. 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 its fourth 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. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the cloud and data center 2. Cloud and data center applications 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 5. Implementation studies 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing 8. Community building ========================================================================== Special theme for 2018 ========================================================================== For this year's workshop we especially encourage the submission of papers on the topic of FPGA-based support for non-volatile memory and near-memory computing. Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as Flash and Phase-Change memory potentially facilitate shared storage in the microsecond regime. In emerging systems, NVM may serve as a new level of memory hierarchy or as a networked resource. To this end, early work in developing both system-level interfaces to NVM (such as NVMe) and network-level interfaces to NVM (such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet 2) rely heavily on FPGAs as low-latency intermediaries. ========================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit relevant contributions as an extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format of up to four pages. You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 18, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 15, 2018 Workshop Date: November 11, 2018 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: ========================================================================== H2RC is a half-day Sunday workshop. It will be comprised of: -- Keynote and invited talks -- Talks selected among paper submissions ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina ========================================================================== Technical Program Committee: ========================================================================== 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 Zheming Jin, Argonne National Lab Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Chistian Plessl, University of Paderborn Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano 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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CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission 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/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018
by Andrii Shalaginov 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/bdaccip2018 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 10, 2018: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 1, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2018: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** 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 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. 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 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***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. *** 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 Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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*Deadline extension (Aug.10)* JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (Nov. 26-28, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan)
by Kouji Kozaki 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

We have extended the deadline because we received many requests. The new deadline is as follow. -Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 August, 2018 -Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 17 August, 2018 Please consider to submit your paper! -------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers: JIST 2018 Regular Technical Papers *** JIST2018: The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference Nov. 26-28, 2018, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp * Abstract submission due: 10 August, 2018 <extended> * Paper submission due: 17 August, 2018 <extended> -------------------------------------------------------------------- The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is to bring together researchers in the Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic-related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. There are two tracks in JIST 2018 for Regular Technical Papers. *** Research Track *** JIST 2018 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Ontology and reasoning -Knowledge graph -Linked Data -Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration -Data streams and the Internet of Things -Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web -Semantic Web services and processes -Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web -Social Semantic Web -Natural language processing and semantics -Semantic multimedia -Novel applications of semantic technologies *** Special Session Track *** JIST 2018 special session track to discover and implement special topics that researchers in Semantic Technology are particularly interested in. We also intend to facilitate participation of potentially-related researchers in the JIST conference. Topics of special sessions are as follows: - Special Session on Government Open Data http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/government_open_data.html - Special Session on Question Answering and ChatBots http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/qa_chatbots.html - Special Session on Resource-aware Semantic Technologies http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/resource-aware_semantic_tech… - Special Session on Semantic Web for Life Sciences http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/sw_for_life_sciences.html *** Important Dates *** -Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 August, 2018 <Extended> -Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 17 August, 2018 <Extended> -Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018 -Camera-ready Deadline: 24 September, 2018 -Conference: 26-28 November, 2018 *** Submission *** Submissions to JIST 2018 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2018 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference (*). * Non peer-reviewed documents such as theses, tech reports, publications on preprint server (e.g. arXiv.org) are not considered prior publications. Thus JIST2018 authors are not precluded to submit papers on the same topic by the same authors. Submissions to JIST 2018 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee of either research track or special session track. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2018 submissions are not anonymous. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Regular paper submissions must be no longer than 16 pages, and short paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. Accepted papers of both research track and special session track will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2018 * Please select the corresponding track(s) when you submit your paper(s). *** Recommendation to Journal *** A number of best papers accepted at JIST 2018 will be invited to present at the Meet the Editor session of SCI indexed journals, including International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), for fast-track publication in a special issue in these journals. Up to five papers will be selected and published. *** Organizing Committee *** -General Chairs Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan -Program Chairs Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Freddy Lecue, Accenture Labs, Dublin, Ireland / INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France -Special Session Track Chairs Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, China Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan -Local Organizing Chair Atsuko Yamaguchi, Database Center for Life Science, Japan -Poster and Demo Chairs Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea Shinichi Nagano, TOSHIBA corp., Japan -Workshop Chairs Marut Buranarach, NECTEC, Thailand Ikki Omukai, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Tutorial Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan -Sponsorship Chair Takanori Ugai, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan -Publicity Chairs Takeshi Morita, Keio University, Japan Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2018 Organize Committee Website: http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/ Twitter: @jist2018 Contact: JIST2018<at>knowledge-graph.jp

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Job Openings: Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Research Assistant at University Research Cluster on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in X of HKBU
by COMP HKBU 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

The university research cluster on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in X <http://hkbu.ai/> of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) <http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/> is developing cutting-edge technologies on AI towards interdisciplinary research. The university’s AI cluster is now seeking outstanding applicants for the posts of Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Assistant to work on a collaborative project between the Department of Computer Science and School of Chinese Medicine. The aim of the project is to develop computational methods to explicitly model the multi-level regulatory network evolution in inflammation-induced cancer by analysing multiple, heterogeneous ‘omics’ data. *1. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PR0029/18-19) * The primary responsibilities for the candidates are to develop novel algorithms to model and analyse evolving multi-level regulatory network. The candidates are expected to have a PhD degree in computer science, electronic engineering, bioinformatics or a related field and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the following areas: (i) probabilistic graphical model; (ii) evolving network/graph analytics and mining; (iii) biomedical data mining. Proficiency in data mining and machine learning techniques and programming (e.g., Python, R, or MATLAB) is essential. Experience with ‘omics’ data analysis is a plus. Applicants should demonstrate great oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively work in a multidisciplinary research team. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed term contract of up to two years, starting in the Fall of 2018. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. *2. Research Assistant (PR0030/18-19) * The primary responsibilities for the candidates are to collect, preprocess ‘omics’ data and implement and evaluate proposed algorithms. The candidates are expected to have a BSc degree in computer science, electronic engineering, bioinformatics or a related field. Familiar with major data mining and machine learning techniques is required. Solid programing skills in one of the following languages: Java, C/C++, Python, R, MATLAB are essential. Experience with ‘omics’ data processing is a plus. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed term contract of one year, starting in the Fall of 2018. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please contact Dr. William Cheung (email: william [at] comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the AI cluster can be found at http://hkbu.ai. *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). Applicants not invited for interview 8 weeks after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. 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 then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 31 August 2018 *or until the position is filled Application Links: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PR0029/18-19) : http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/index.php?page_id=6&job_id=4358&f=job_details Research Assistant (PR0030/18-19): http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/index.php?page_id=6&job_id=4359&f=job_details

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High performance computing hardware workshop Bristol, UK - Call for Participation
by Jose Nunez-Yanez 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

11th of September, Bristol University, UK. Part of the Marionet UK Many-core Research Network This 1-day workshop includes invited presentations from industry and academia investigating how issues of performance and power have resulted in significant efforts done in new accelerator hardware designs and new ways to use available hardware originally not designed for HPC. Examples include novel use of embedded multi-core CPUs and hardware accelerators based on GPUs and FPGAs. Domain specific CPU architectures capable of delivering performance and ease of programmability are also the focus of intensive research and development together with innovative programming models and algorithms exploiting HPC hardware or software. The demand of techniques to handle the debugging and optimization of these systems are also increasing as the human capability of understanding complex software/hardware interactions reaches its limit. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~eejlny/nghpc/eehco.htm<https://fpl2018.org/> *************************************************************************** Registration Link (free, includes refreshments and lunch) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-on-next-generation-hardware-for-high-…<https://fpl2018.org/registration/> Workshop program is available at: https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~eejlny/nghpc/program.htm Thanks, Jose Nunez-Yanez

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Bench'18 (Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018) Call for Papers
by gaowanling 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

---Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP--- Bench'18 (2018 International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing) Call for Papers URl: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/Bench18 Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018 December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA Introduction Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being’s lives. This symposium (Bench 18) is dedicated to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing complex systems, including (but not limited to) Big Data, AI, chainblock, datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing, high performance computing, Mobile Robotics, edge and frog computing，Big Scientific data, IoT, and the other miscellaneous things, i.e., education systems, financial systems, and power systems. In addition, we encourage publishing benchmark specifications and the summaries of the open-source benchmarking projects. Improtant Dates There are two submission opportunities: Deadline for authors who need a U.S. visa TimeEvent August 20, 2018Electronic submission of full papers Oct 9, 2018Notification of paper acceptance Nov 25, 2018Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-12, 2018Conference Deadline for authors who do not need a U.S. visa TimeEvent Sep 20, 2018Electronic submission of full papers Nov 9, 2018Notification of paper acceptance Nov 25, 2018Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-12, 2018Conference Paper Submission https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP0… Papers should be no more than 10 pages, and be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). Formatting Instructions 8.5" x 11" (DOC,PDF) LaTex Formatting Macros Topics of Interest We solicit papers in all areas related to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Big data domains Artificial intelligence NewSQL and distributed database systems Blockchain Datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing High performance computing Mobile Robotics Edge and fog computing Big scientific data Internet of Things (IoT) Education, financial and power system Program Committee Lizy K. John, The University of Texas at Austin USA Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas at Austin USA and Google Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University China Yunji Chen, ICT, CAS China Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee USA Rui Hou, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS China Yueguo Chen, Renmin University of China H. Peter Hofstee, IBM USA Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University China Junzhao Du, Xidian University China Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA Weining Qian, East China Normal University China Zheng Cao, Alibaba China Matthias Nicola, IBM Germany Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University China Bin Ren, College of William and Mary USA Hua Chen, ICT, CAS China Jiaquan Gao, Nanjing Normal University China Jiannan Ouyang, Facebook USA Xueming Si, Fudan University China Yanjun Wu, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Lucas Mello Schnorr, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Brazil Yunquan Zhang, ICT, CAS China Shengzhong Feng, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Zhen Jia, Princeton University USA Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Dapeng Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines USA Shaoliang Peng, National University of Defense Technology China Yong Qi, Xi'an jiaotong University China Gwangsun Kim, Arm Inc., Austin, Texas USA Zujie Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University China Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University USA Lei Wang, ICT, CAS China Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center, CAS China Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County USA Kenli Li, Hunan University China Rui Han, ICT, CAS China Jungang Xu, Chinese academy of sciences China Xu Liu, College of William and Mary USA Tong Wu, National Institute of Metrology, China Li ZHA, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Liu, ICT, CAS China

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4th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2018) at SC18: Extended abstracts due Aug. 15
by Jason D. Bakos 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 Sunday Morning, November 11, 2018 Dallas, TX http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 (1 to 4 page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== 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. 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 its fourth 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. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the cloud and data center 2. Cloud and data center applications 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 5. Implementation studies 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing 8. Community building ========================================================================== Special theme for 2018 ========================================================================== For this year's workshop we especially encourage the submission of papers on the topic of FPGA-based support for non-volatile memory and near-memory computing. Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as Flash and Phase-Change memory potentially facilitate shared storage in the microsecond regime. In emerging systems, NVM may serve as a new level of memory hierarchy or as a networked resource. To this end, early work in developing both system-level interfaces to NVM (such as NVMe) and network-level interfaces to NVM (such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet 2) rely heavily on FPGAs as low-latency intermediaries. ========================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit relevant contributions as an extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format of up to four pages. You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 18, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 15, 2018 Workshop Date: November 11, 2018 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: ========================================================================== H2RC is a half-day Sunday workshop. It will be comprised of: -- Keynote and invited talks -- Talks selected among paper submissions ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina ========================================================================== Technical Program Committee: ========================================================================== 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 Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Chistian Plessl, University of Paderborn Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano 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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THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019)
by Demetris Trihinas 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019) **** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Doctoral Symposium, SCALE) CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters, and result in an outstanding impact to numerous aspects of the modern world. The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. CCGrid has travelled over the world. Its next stop is in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2019. Papers due: December 7, 2018 Author notifications: January 18, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfp.html CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. Deadline for Workshop Proposals: September 30, 2018 Notifications of Acceptance: October 15, 2018 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfw.html CALL FOR TUTORIALS CCGrid 2019 will feature state-of-the-art tutorials from leading experts in their fields. Topics will cover different levels, ranging from introductory to highly advanced skills. All tutorials will address highly important and relevant subject areas of cluster computing and grid technology. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, CCGrid 2019 solicits proposals for half day (3,5 hours) or full day tutorials. Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: January 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cft.html CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2019) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2019 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. Papers due January 15, 2019 Author Notification: February 15, 2019 More info at: http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/doctoral.html CALL FOR THE 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SCALABLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE (SCALE 2019) The 12th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2019) is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The objective of the SCALE Challenge is to highlight and showcase real-world problem solving using computing that scales. Effective solutions to many scientific and engineering problems require applications that can scale. There are different dimensions to application scalability. For example, applications can scale-up to a large number of cores on a compute unit, scale-out to utilize multiple distinct compute units, or exhibit elastic scaling to acquire and release resources on-demand, based on current need. The result may be an application that can solve a larger problem, increase throughput, and/or reduce execution time. In order to scale, applications need to be supported by tools, middleware, software cyber-infrastructure, programming frameworks, computing infrastructure, etc. The SCALE Challenge is concerned with advances in application development and their supporting infrastructure to enable scaling. All papers presented at the SCALE challenge and selected by the Scale Challenge Committee of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. Proposal submission: 31 Jan 2019 Moore info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/scale2019.html ***Organizing Committee*** **General Chairs:** Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria **Program Chairs:** Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China **Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:** Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Monash University, Australia Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA **Doctoral Symposium Chair:** Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA **SCALE Challenge Chairs:** Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria **Local Arrangement Chairs:** TBD **Publicity Chair:** Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus **Proceedings Chair:** Georgiana Copil, SAP, Romania **Registration & Finance Chair:** George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus **Sponsorships and Students Travel Award Chair:** Eliezer Dekel, Huawei, Germany **Web Chair:** Kyriakos Georgiades, EasyConferences, Cyprus **Vice Chairs:** Applications and Data Science Vasiliki Kalavri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Architecture and Networking Anne-Cecile Orgerie, IRISA, France Luis Veiga Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Cloud Computing Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece Autonomic Computing, Datacenters and Cyber-infrastructure: Georges DaCosta, IRIT, France Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Performance Modelling and Evaluation Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Programming Models and Runtime Systems Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Asterios Katsifodimos, TU Delft, The Netherlands Scheduling and Resource Management Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Storage and I/O Systems Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hillel Kolodner, IBM Haifa, Israel Edge Computing Ivana Podnar Žarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA ***Program Committee*** **Storage and I/O Systems** Qingsong Wei, Institute of High Peformance Computing Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University Bo Mao, Xiamen University Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Cao Qiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Ming Zhao, Arizona State University Qing Liu, New Jersey Institute of Technology Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Lei Tian, TINTRI Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Gala Yadgar, Technion Danny Harnik, IBM Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Philip Shilane, EMC **Programming Models and Runtime Systems** Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dragi Kimovski, University of Innsbruck Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Jan Hidders, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Dan Holmes, The University of Edinburgh Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Jan S Rellermeyer, Delft University of Technology Marios Fragkoulis, Delft University of Technology Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Alexandre Eichenberger, IBM Costin Iancu, LBNL Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel **Cloud Computing** Suzanne McIntosh, New York University - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Data Science Adrien Lebre, IMT Atlantique - Nantes Guillaume Pierre, IRISA / Université de Rennes 1 Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Michael Schoettner, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University Thomas Lambert, UniversitÃ© de Bordeaux Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory Alexandru Costan, INRIA **Applications and Data Science** Yi-Chao Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jedrzej Rybicki, Forschunszentrum Juelich Gmbh Long Cheng, University College Dublin Lin Gan, Tsinghua University Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences Adrian Jackson, The University of Edinburgh Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ian Cosden, Princeton University Curt Hillegas, Princeton University Katerina Antypas, NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Pat Martin, Queen's University Erlin Yao, ICT, CAS Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Princeton University Vladimir Voevodin, RCC MSU **Performance Modelling and Evaluation** Marc Perache, CEA,DAM,DIF Bogdan Ghit, Databricks Xing Liu, IBM Lauren Smith, US Department of Defense Mihai Capotă, Intel Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of Würzburg Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University Sameer Shende, University of Oregon Swaroop Pophale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools SAS Erwin Laure, KTH/PDC Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Didem Unat, University of California San Diego Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Wenhong Tian, Uni. of Eletr. Sci. and Tech. of China Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science **Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Cyber-infrastructure** Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Technologies Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School for Information and Communication Technology Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna Paul Renaud-Goud, IRIT, Université de Toulouse Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology Shinobu Miwa, The University of Electro-Communications Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens Beniamino Di Martino, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Harald Kornmayer, DHBW Mannheim Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago Rong Ge, Clemson University Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, IRIT Olivier Richard, LIG Laboratory Grenoble Avi Mendelson, Technion Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University, Computer Information Systems Department Robert Ricci, University of Utah Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam NL Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha Nikolaos Chrysos, Foundation For Research & Technology -- Hellas (FORTH) Gianni Antichi, University of Cambridge Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg Soeren Sonntag, Intel Pedro Javier Garcia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Hubertus Franke, IBM Robert Birke, ABB Research Andreea Simona Anghel, IBM Research - Zurich Research Laboratory John Carter, IBM Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory Marco Chiesa, Universite catholique de Louvain Balazs Gerofi, The University of Tokyo John Thomson, OnApp -- Demetris Trihinas (PhD) Senior Researcher Laboratory for Internet Computing (LInC) Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus PO Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus Tel: +357 22 89 2723 email: trihinas(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy website: dtrihinas.info

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[Deadline Extension]: 9th International Women in HPC workshop
by Mubarak, Misbah 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

================================================================= 9th International Women in HPC workshop at SC'18 Sunday November 11th 2018 Dallas, TX, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/ Deadline: 15th August, 2018 ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women 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 9th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC18 in Dallas 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 include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. Call for virtual posters/lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 15th 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. 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 full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/submit/<https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/submit/> Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Appentra S.L., Spain - Poster and Lightning Talk Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK - Posters & Lightning Talk Vice Chair: Jessica Popp, Independent Contractor, USA - Mentoring Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring co-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 posters) - Mariam Umar, Virginia Institute of Technology, USA - Dana Akhmetova, KTH, Sweden - Ritu Aurora, Univ. of Texas, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Karen D Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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SC18 Early Career Program Deadline 8/7/18
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Please share this announcement. Thank you, Mary Ann ================== *SC18 Early Career Program Deadline - Extended to Aug 7 * SC18, the premier international conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, is the place to get inspired and learn about the latest developments in this exciting field. Not only can you attend technical presentations by world class leaders you can also visit hundreds of vendor, academic, and government booths on the exhibit floor. In addition, a special program designed for early career researchers, educators, and technical professionals in their first five years of a permanent position provides special programming designed to jump start HPC careers. SC18 ECP Topics include: • Connecting and Thinking Strategically Through Your Strengths • Career Focus: CV Review & Career Development Panel • Early Career Survival Guide for Successful Communication: Preparing Effective Grant Proposals, Publications, and Presentations. • Informational and Speed Mentoring Session ECP will include engaging and interactive sessions aimed at helping participants develop their professional skills as well as a strategic vision for their future. For more information and to apply: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/how-sc18-can-inspire-a-young-attendees-care… <https://sc18.supercomputing.org/how-sc18-can-inspire-a-young-attendees-care…> *Application Deadline Extended to August 7 Apply now so you don't miss it!* -- A brighter scientific future is on the horizon... ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. President Sustainable Horizons Institute 36101 Bob Hope Drive, Suite E-5170 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 515-450-8190 office 515-203-1298 cell mleung(a)shinstitute.org http://www.shinstitute.org ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

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4th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2018) at SC18: Extended abstracts due Aug. 15
by Jason D. Bakos 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 Sunday Morning, November 11, 2018 Dallas, TX http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 (1 to 4 page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== 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. 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 its fourth 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. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the cloud and data center 2. Cloud and data center applications 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 5. Implementation studies 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing 8. Community building ========================================================================== Special theme for 2018 ========================================================================== For this year's workshop we especially encourage the submission of papers on the topic of FPGA-based support for non-volatile memory and near-memory computing. Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as Flash and Phase-Change memory potentially facilitate shared storage in the microsecond regime. In emerging systems, NVM may serve as a new level of memory hierarchy or as a networked resource. To this end, early work in developing both system-level interfaces to NVM (such as NVMe) and network-level interfaces to NVM (such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet 2) rely heavily on FPGAs as low-latency intermediaries. ========================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit relevant contributions as an extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format of up to four pages. You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 18, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 15, 2018 Workshop Date: November 11, 2018 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: ========================================================================== H2RC is a half-day Sunday workshop. It will be comprised of: -- Keynote and invited talks -- Talks selected among paper submissions ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina ========================================================================== Technical Program Committee: ========================================================================== 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 Florida Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Chistian Plessl, University of Paderborn Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano 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 to Aug. 13] - CFP: 13th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

********** WORKS 2018 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 11 November 2018, Dallas, TX. Held in conjunction with SC18, http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 13 August 2018 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. 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, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. 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 Workflows in constrained environments e.g. IoT, Edge computing, etc. ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 13 August 2018 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 9 September 2018 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2018 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2018 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, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2018 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, U Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2018 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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 Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France 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 Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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6th Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation - PDP 2019 - Pavia, Italy
by William Spataro 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Sixth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2019 (www.pdp2019.eu) The 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019 https://www.pdp2019.eu/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2018 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 we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Pavia (Italy). 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: 20 September 2018 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2018 Camera ready due: 18 November 2018 Conference: 13 – 15 February 2019 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=pdp2019 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 Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK 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 Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 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, 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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THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019)
by Demetris Trihinas 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

THE 19TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019) **** FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Proposals, Doctoral Symposium, SCALE) CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters, and result in an outstanding impact to numerous aspects of the modern world. The 19th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2019) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. CCGrid has travelled over the world. Its next stop is in beautiful Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2019. Papers due: December 7, 2018 Author notifications: January 18, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfp.html CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. Deadline for Workshop Proposals: September 30, 2018 Notifications of Acceptance: October 15, 2018 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cfw.html CALL FOR TUTORIALS CCGrid 2019 will feature state-of-the-art tutorials from leading experts in their fields. Topics will cover different levels, ranging from introductory to highly advanced skills. All tutorials will address highly important and relevant subject areas of cluster computing and grid technology. To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, CCGrid 2019 solicits proposals for half day (3,5 hours) or full day tutorials. Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: January 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2019 More info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/cft.html CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The Doctoral Symposium of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2019) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2019 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. Papers due January 15, 2019 Author Notification: February 15, 2019 More info at: http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/doctoral.html CALL FOR THE 12TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SCALABLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE (SCALE 2019) The 12th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2019) is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The objective of the SCALE Challenge is to highlight and showcase real-world problem solving using computing that scales. Effective solutions to many scientific and engineering problems require applications that can scale. There are different dimensions to application scalability. For example, applications can scale-up to a large number of cores on a compute unit, scale-out to utilize multiple distinct compute units, or exhibit elastic scaling to acquire and release resources on-demand, based on current need. The result may be an application that can solve a larger problem, increase throughput, and/or reduce execution time. In order to scale, applications need to be supported by tools, middleware, software cyber-infrastructure, programming frameworks, computing infrastructure, etc. The SCALE Challenge is concerned with advances in application development and their supporting infrastructure to enable scaling. All papers presented at the SCALE challenge and selected by the Scale Challenge Committee of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. Proposal submission: 31 Jan 2019 Moore info at http://ccgrid2019.ucy.ac.cy/pages/scale2019.html

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CoSaS 2018 -- Submission Deadline Extension
by Bartuschat, Dominik 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, The HPC symposium “Computational Science at Scale” CoSaS 2018 will take place in Erlangen, Germany from Wednesday, September 5 until Friday, September 7, 2018. This symposium is organized within the scope of the DFG priority programme "Software for ExaScale Computing" (SPPEXA) that addresses fundamental research on the various aspects of HPC software. The main objectives of the symposium are to review the state of art in large-scale numerical simulation with applications in science and engineering and to be a forum for the exchange of results and ideas in HPC. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale parallel applications Scalable parallel algorithms Parallel computer architectures Performance analysis, tuning, and debugging Fault tolerance The program will consist of high-level invited talks, a public evening lecture, and a poster session. This session will include a Poster Blitz (i.e. a brief presentation to promote your poster) and a Best Poster Award. Abstracts (of up to 150 words) for the posters from the HPC community are welcome and should be submitted before Wednesday, July 25, 2018 via https://www.cosas2018.fau.de . Important dates: July 25, 2018 poster abstract submission ( extended ! ) July 27, 2018 acceptance notification August 6, 2018 registration deadline Invited speakers (tentative): Horst Simon - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Martin Berzins - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Xing Cai - University of Oslo, Norway Edmond Chow - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Anshu Dubey - Argonne National Laboratory, USA Laura Grigori - INRIA, Paris, France Jan Hesthaven - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Thierry Poinsot - CERFACS, Toulouse, France Program chairmen: Ulrich Ruede - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Harald Koestler - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee: Achim Basermann - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany Peter Bastian - University of Heidelberg, Germany Matthias Bolten - University of Wuppertal, Germany Hans-Joachim Bungartz - Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Engwer - University of Muenster, Germany Dominik Goedekke - University of Stuttgart, Germany Georg Hager - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Guido Kanschat - University of Heidelberg, Germany Axel Klawonn - University of Cologne, Germany Rolf Krause - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Olaf Schenk - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Stefan Turek - TU Dortmund University, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gabriel Wittum - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Felix Wolf - TU Darmstadt, Germany Organizing committee: Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Benjamin Uekermann - Technical University of Munich, Germany Alexandra Lukas-Rother - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Iris Weiß - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Julia Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Frank Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany For further information, registration, and poster abstract submission, please see our symposium website https://www.cosas2018.fau.de In case of any further questions, please do not hesitate to email us at conference-cosas2018-orga(a)fau.de We are looking forward to welcoming you at CoSaS 2018. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the organizing committee

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo CAFARO 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission 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/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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4th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2018) at SC18: Extended abstracts due Aug. 15
by Jason D. Bakos 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 Sunday Morning, November 11, 2018 Dallas, TX http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 (1 to 4 page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== 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. 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 its fourth 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. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the cloud and data center 2. Cloud and data center applications 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 5. Implementation studies 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing 8. Community building ========================================================================== Special theme for 2018 ========================================================================== For this year's workshop we especially encourage the submission of papers on the topic of FPGA-based support for non-volatile memory and near-memory computing. Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as Flash and Phase-Change memory potentially facilitate shared storage in the microsecond regime. In emerging systems, NVM may serve as a new level of memory hierarchy or as a networked resource. To this end, early work in developing both system-level interfaces to NVM (such as NVMe) and network-level interfaces to NVM (such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet 2) rely heavily on FPGAs as low-latency intermediaries. ========================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit relevant contributions as an extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format of up to four pages. You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 18, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 15, 2018 Workshop Date: November 11, 2018 ========================================================================== Workshop Format H2RC is a half-day Sunday workshop. It will be comprised of: -- Keynote and invited talks -- Talks selected among paper submissions ========================================================================== Organizing Committee Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina ========================================================================== -- 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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SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference (Lyon) : Last Call for Posters - Deadline : July 20
by Laurent Lefevre 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

SBAC-PAD 2018 - Call for Posters 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 24-27, 2018 École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad/index.php/call-for-posters SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. We encourage submissions to the SBAC-PAD 2018 poster session. Posters will be presented during the symposium. Please submit a PDF document that includes only an one-page draft of the poster to be presented. We ask only for poster drafts to ensure their quality and to provide feedback to poster presenters. Important Dates: - Poster submission deadline: July 20, 2018 - Acceptance notification: August 1, 2018 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submission Instructions: Submit your poster draft in PDF format via the submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad-posters2018) The poster draft should include all information (title, authors' names and affiliations). Those whose posters are accepted for presentation will be asked to prepare a A0 full size color poster. The symposium will provide boards for authors to display their posters. Poster chairs : * Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France * Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France * Srikumar Venugopal, IBM Research, Ireland * Alfredo Goldman, Sao Paulo University, Brazil -- --- Dr Laurent LEFEVRE, Permanent Inria Researcher Inria AVALON - LIP (UMR CNRS, Inria, ENS, UCB) Bureau 317, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon 46, allee d'Italie - 69364 LYON Cedex 07 - FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 4 26 23 38 85 Fax: +33 (0) 4 7272 8080 laurent.lefevre(a)ens-lyon.fr http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre ---

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PhD Scholarships in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I am seeking expressions of interest for PhD scholarships in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Optimisation and Datamining. Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, holding the number 1 spot in Australia. The School of Computing and Information Systems is an international research leader in computer science and information systems. In this discipline, the School was ranked number 1 in Australia and 14th in the world in the 2018 QS World University Ranking exercise. These scholarships include a tax-free living allowance of $30,600 per year (2019 rate) for up to 3.5 years. There is potential for the applicants to earn additional money through assistance in undergraduate teaching, and top-up scholarship options are also available. These scholarships are available to applicants of any nationality, who will also be exempt from the full tuition fee costs for the duration of candidature. See this link for more information on the scholarship: https://scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/graduate-research-scholarships I am looking for candidates in the top 5% of their graduating cohort, or with an overall result in the top echelon for their degree. e.g. H1 (80-100%), High Distinction, A, 3.5 out of 4 GPA etc. Students should have completed a master’s degree that included a research project/thesis that accounts for at least 25% of one year's work in a relevant discipline. Please see these pages for further details regarding entry requirements: http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/study/degrees/phd/entry-requirements#entry-re… To express your interest in these PhD Scholarships please send your CV including details of two referees, a full copy of your academic transcripts (Bachelor and Master) and a one-page cover letter which outlines your research skills, experience and why this PhD opportunity interests you to uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au. Suitable applicants will be contacted for an interview and given further instructions how to submit a formal application. Closing Dates for Expressions of Interest for 2019: 31 July 2018 Uwe Aickelin

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TSD 2018 - Call for Demonstrations
by TSD 2018 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

********************************************************* TSD 2018 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS ********************************************************* Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/ SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be made using the online form available at the conference www pages. The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at www.tsdconference.org) Demonstrators can present their contribution with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia support for demonstrators. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD 2018, they will be published electronically at the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for workshop papers and demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Minsky, Chomsky & Deep Nets Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Leolani: a reference machine with a theory of mind for social communication Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Speech Analytics for Medical Applications The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Marko Robnik Šikonja, Slovenia Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Vitomir Štruc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wróblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from Springer. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee has arranged discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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CoSaS 2018 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to July 18)
by Bartuschat, Dominik 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Dear colleagues, The HPC symposium “Computational Science at Scale” CoSaS 2018 will take place in Erlangen, Germany from Wednesday, September 5 until Friday, September 7, 2018. This symposium is organized within the scope of the DFG priority programme "Software for ExaScale Computing" (SPPEXA) that addresses fundamental research on the various aspects of HPC software. The main objectives of the symposium are to review the state of art in large-scale numerical simulation with applications in science and engineering and to be a forum for the exchange of results and ideas in HPC. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale parallel applications Scalable parallel algorithms Parallel computer architectures Performance analysis, tuning, and debugging Fault tolerance The program will consist of high-level invited talks, a public evening lecture, and a poster session. This session will include a Poster Blitz (i.e. a brief presentation to promote your poster) and a Best Poster Award. Abstracts (of up to 150 words) for the posters from the HPC community are welcome and should be submitted before Wednesday, July 18, 2018 via https://www.cosas2018.fau.de . Important dates: July 18, 2018 poster abstract submission ( extended ! ) July 23, 2018 acceptance notification August 6, 2018 registration deadline Invited speakers (tentative): Horst Simon - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Martin Berzins - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Xing Cai - University of Oslo, Norway Edmond Chow - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Laura Grigori - INRIA, Paris, France Jan Hesthaven - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Thierry Poinsot - CERFACS, Toulouse, France Program chairmen: Ulrich Ruede - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Harald Koestler - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee: Achim Basermann - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany Peter Bastian - University of Heidelberg, Germany Matthias Bolten - University of Wuppertal, Germany Hans-Joachim Bungartz - Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Engwer - University of Muenster, Germany Dominik Goedekke - University of Stuttgart, Germany Georg Hager - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Guido Kanschat - University of Heidelberg, Germany Axel Klawonn - University of Cologne, Germany Rolf Krause - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Olaf Schenk - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Stefan Turek - TU Dortmund University, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gabriel Wittum - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Felix Wolf - TU Darmstadt, Germany Organizing committee: Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Benjamin Uekermann - Technical University of Munich, Germany Alexandra Lukas-Rother - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Iris Weiß - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Julia Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Frank Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany For further information, registration, and poster abstract submission, please see our symposium website https://www.cosas2018.fau.de In case of any further questions, please do not hesitate to email us at conference-cosas2018-orga(a)fau.de We are looking forward to welcoming you at CoSaS 2018. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the organizing committee

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4th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2018) at SC18: Extended abstracts due Aug. 15
by Jason D. Bakos 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fourth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 Sunday Morning, November 11, 2018 Dallas, TX http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 (1 to 4 page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== 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. 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 its fourth 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. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the cloud and data center 2. Cloud and data center applications 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 5. Implementation studies 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing 8. Community building ========================================================================== Special theme for 2018 ========================================================================== For this year's workshop we especially encourage the submission of papers on the topic of FPGA-based support for non-volatile memory and near-memory computing. Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as Flash and Phase-Change memory potentially facilitate shared storage in the microsecond regime. In emerging systems, NVM may serve as a new level of memory hierarchy or as a networked resource. To this end, early work in developing both system-level interfaces to NVM (such as NVMe) and network-level interfaces to NVM (such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet 2) rely heavily on FPGAs as low-latency intermediaries. ========================================================================== Prospective authors are invited to submit relevant contributions as an extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format of up to four pages. You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work at the workshop. ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 18, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 15, 2018 Workshop Date: November 11, 2018 ========================================================================== Workshop Format H2RC is a half-day Sunday workshop. It will be comprised of: -- Keynote and invited talks -- Talks selected among paper submissions ========================================================================== Organizing Committee Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina ========================================================================== -- 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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EEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’18)
by Peter Mueller 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Call for Papers *********************************************************** Fourth Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’18) http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/qcit18-workshop/ *********************************************************** At IEEE Globecom’18, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-13 December 2018 http://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org The scope of this dedicated workshop is to explore the opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology and its applications. The workshop is the annual main event of Communications Society’s Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (ETC-QCIT). Over the last decade, a wide variety of experimental quantum communications and processing devices has been invented and used for fundamental demonstrations in laboratories. Results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications and information related fields. Recently one can observe upcoming applications in areas like a quantum communications, quantum sensors and random number generators which are partially even commercially available. Companies and governments started to spend significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. This started to transfer knowhow from quantum technology based research devices to applied systems running productive communications or information processing functions. The development of the field is offering numerous opportunities to contribute within research, theory, applied technologies and engineering. The following topics are crucial to the development of future quantum technology based systems and its applications: - Quantum communications - Quantum information theory - Quantum networks - Photonic communications technology - Interconnection and complexity theory - RF technology and control - Coding theory - Quantum error correction - RF technology and control - Modeling and simulation - Systems architecture - Optimized algorithms and applications - Experimental results and demonstrations - Entanglement distillation - Network coding - Quantum algorithms and applications - Quantum key distribution - Remote state preparation - Further related topics It is the aim of this workshop to connect people from academia and industry to discuss about theory, technology and applications and exchange ideas to move efficiently forward in the engineering and development in this exciting area. Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts: Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25054 Further information is available in the Globecom 2018 webpages: http://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org Important dates: Manuscript submission due date: 14th July, 2018 Notification date: 15th August, 2018 Final manuscript due date: 15th September, 2018 Conference date: 9th-13th December, 2018 Workshop organizers: Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Call for Participation: 9th International Women in HPC workshop
by Mubarak, Misbah 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

================================================================= 9th International Women in HPC workshop Sunday November 11th 2018 Dallas, TX, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/ ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women 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 9th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC18 in Dallas 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 include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. Call for virtual posters/lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 1st 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. 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-sc18/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Appentra S.L., Spain - Poster and Lightning Talk Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK - Posters & Lightning Talk Vice Chair: Jessica Popp, Independent Contractor, USA - Mentoring Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring co-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 posters) - Mariam Umar, Virginia Institute of Technology, USA - Dana Akhmetova, KTH, Sweden - Ritu Aurora, Univ. of Texas, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Karen D Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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CFP: 13th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2018 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 11 November 2018, Dallas, TX. Held in conjunction with SC18, http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2018 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. 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, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. 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 Workflows in constrained environments e.g. IoT, Edge computing, etc. ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 30 July 2018 Paper acceptance notification: 9 September 2018 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2018 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2018 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, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2018 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, U Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2018 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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 Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France 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 Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference (Lyon) : Call for Posters - Deadline : July 20
by Laurent Lefevre 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

SBAC-PAD 2018 - Call for Posters 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 24-27, 2018 École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad/index.php/call-for-posters SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. We encourage submissions to the SBAC-PAD 2018 poster session. Posters will be presented during the symposium. Please submit a PDF document that includes only an one-page draft of the poster to be presented. We ask only for poster drafts to ensure their quality and to provide feedback to poster presenters. Important Dates: - Poster submission deadline: July 20, 2018 - Acceptance notification: August 1, 2018 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submission Instructions: Submit your poster draft in PDF format via the submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad-posters2018) The poster draft should include all information (title, authors' names and affiliations). Those whose posters are accepted for presentation will be asked to prepare a A0 full size color poster. The symposium will provide boards for authors to display their posters. Poster chairs : * Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France * Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France * Srikumar Venugopal, IBM Research, Ireland * Alfredo Goldman, Sao Paulo University, Brazil -- --- Dr Laurent LEFEVRE, Permanent Inria Researcher Inria AVALON - LIP (UMR CNRS, Inria, ENS, UCB) Bureau 317, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon 46, allee d'Italie - 69364 LYON Cedex 07 - FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 4 26 23 38 85 Fax: +33 (0) 4 7272 8080 laurent.lefevre(a)ens-lyon.fr http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre ---

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Extended deadline - 5th Int. Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions
by Stephane Galland 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS18) 5-8 November, 2018, Leuven, Belgium. In conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks EUSPN 2018. http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:IFSMS18 <p>The 5th International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS'18) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of smart mobility solutions. We are living in a world where cars will soon all be very well-equipped with sensors such as GPS sensors, laser radars, infrared parking sensors, rear dead angle cameras, etc. Besides that, the infrastructure itself is likely to soon exploit technologies currently widely used, like smartphones, navigators and digital radio broadcast. Finally, there have been huge advances on traffic simulation, optimization, intensive computational techniques, distributed computing, data networks, wireless connectivity, and many others. If we combine all of this, there is the richest variety ever of information sources available for smart mobility solutions. The technology is out there, and now it is needed to take firm steps towards wisely combining the sources of information into smart applic ations that make roads safer and ensure a smooth mobility of individuals.</p> <p>IFSMS 2018 will be held in Leuven, Belgium (5-8 September 2018) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2018) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/ ----- Scope ----- The aim of the proposed workshop is to enhance profitable discussions on what techniques, software, methodologies, transportation and traffic models, and in general, data fusion techniques are being explored for its use for traffic simulation and mobility management and other intelligent transportation system applications for smart mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Agent-based modeling and simulation; - Data fusion and Smart Transportation; - Models of autonomous cars or flying vehicles/drones for smart transportation; - Social and emergent behavior in multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport; - Implementation Issues (algorithmic issues, real-world computational demands, real-time constraints in the context of fusion systems for transportation infrastructures); - Environmental aware smart data fusion applications; - Advanced architectures for traffic simulation using data mining as real-world input; - Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation; - Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems; - Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Submission deadline: June 30th, 2018 (extended) - Notification: August 8th, 2018 - Final date for camera-ready copy: September 8th, 2018 - Workshop: November 5th, 2018 - November 8th, 2018 --------------- Workshop Chairs --------------- - Ansar-Ul-Haque YASAR (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Stephane GALLAND (Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)

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[CFP][Deadline approaching]: 14th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2018)
by Nicholas Kolokotronis 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Dear colleagues, please accept our apologies for cross-postings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l F o r P a p e r s 14th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2018) Barcelona, Spain, September 6-7, 2018 www.nics.uma.es/pub/stm18 co-located with the 23rd European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018) Full-text paper submission due: June 29, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE OUTLINE: =================== STM (Security and Trust Management) is a working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2018 is the fourteenth workshop in this series and will be held in Barcelona, Spain, in conjunction with the 23rd European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICTs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control - Anonymity - Applied cryptography - Authentication - Complex systems security - Data and application security - Data protection - Data/system integrity - Digital rights management - Economics of security and privacy - Formal methods for security and trust - Identity management - Legal and ethical issues - Mobile security - Networked systems security - Operating systems security - Privacy - Security and trust metrics - Security and trust policies - Security and trust management architectures - Security and trust for big data - Security and trust in cloud environments - Security and trust in content delivery networks - Security and trust in crowdsourcing - Security and trust in grid computing - Security and trust in the Internet of Things - Security and trust in pervasive computing - Security and trust in services - Security and trust in social networks - Social implications of security and trust - Trust assessment and negotiation - Trust in mobile code - Trust models - Trust management policies - Trust and reputation systems - Trusted platforms - Trustworthy systems and user devices PAPER SUBMISSION: ================= All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. 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 accepted papers). The final version of an accepted paper must be in the format required for publication in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stm2018. Papers must be received by the deadline of June 29, 2018 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. As in previous years, the proceedings are planned to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to STM 2018 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for STM 2018. Furthermore, after you submit to STM 2018, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to STM 2018, we will reject your paper without review and will also notify the other conference/journal. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission due: June 29, 2018 Notification to authors: July 30, 2018 Camera-ready due: August 6, 2018 Program Chairs: =============== - Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU - Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee: ================== - Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany - Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milano, Italy - Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Roviro i Virgili, Spain - Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain - Sara Foresti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France - Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel - Nicholas Kolokotronis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece - Giovanni Livraga, University of Milano, Italy - Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy - Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK - Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK - Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany - Marinella Petrocchi, IIT-CNR, Italy - Silvio Ranise, FBK, Italy - Pierangela Samarati, University of Milano, Italy - Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK - Georgios Spathoulas, University of Thessaly, Greece Publicity Chair: ================ - Nicholas Kolokotronis, University of the Peloponnese, Greece

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[ICTH-2018] Extended deadline - Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare. Leuven, Belgium (Nov. 5-8, 2018)
by Wim Ectors 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Conference: The 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare Date: November 5-8, 2018 Location: Leuven, Belgium Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-18/ ********************************************************************************** Important Dates ------------------ - Workshop Proposals: May 28, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: June 30, 2018 (Extended) - Author Notification: August 8, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: September 8, 2018 Publication ------------- All ICTH 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. 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 (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) - International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: ( http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-comm…) ICTH 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/) Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-18/call-for-papers.html ICTH 2018 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven city. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ - Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care - Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems - Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems - Clinical Data and Knowledge Management - Cloud Computing for Healthcare - Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare - Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care - Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare - Data Visualization - Decision Support Systems in Healthcare - Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare - Digital Hospitals - Drug Information Systems - E-health & m-health - Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) - Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) - Healthgrids - Health Portals - Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments - Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications - Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare - Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems - Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare - RFID Solutions for Healthcare - Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments - Telemedicine and Health Telematics - Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare - Usability & Socio Technical studies - User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications - Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare - Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil Program Chairs Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chairs Wael M. El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Naba Haque, KellyOCG, Belgium International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium Al-Sakib Khan Pathan,Southeast University, Bangladesh Technical Program Committee Â http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-18/program-committees.html Steering Committee Chair Â Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, CanadaÂ Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada

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Call for Poster Contributions: CoSaS 2018
by Bartuschat, Dominik 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Dear colleagues, The HPC symposium “Computational Science at Scale” CoSaS 2018 will take place in Erlangen, Germany from Wednesday, September 5 until Friday, September 7, 2018. This symposium is organized within the scope of the DFG priority programme "Software for ExaScale Computing" (SPPEXA) that addresses fundamental research on the various aspects of HPC software. The main objectives of the symposium are to review the state of art in large-scale numerical simulation with applications in science and engineering and to be a forum for the exchange of results and ideas in HPC. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale parallel applications Scalable parallel algorithms Parallel computer architectures Performance analysis, tuning, and debugging Fault tolerance The program will consist of high-level invited talks, a public evening lecture, and a poster session. This session will include a Poster Blitz (i.e. a brief presentation to promote your poster) and a Best Poster Award. Abstracts (of up to 150 words) for the posters from the HPC community are welcome and should be submitted before Friday, July 6, 2018 via https://www.cosas2018.fau.de . Important dates: July 6, 2018 poster abstract submission July 23, 2018 acceptance notification August 6, 2018 registration deadline Invited speakers (preliminary): Horst Simon - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Martin Berzins - University of Utah, USA Edmond Chow - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Thierry Poinsot, CERFACS, Toulouse, France Program chairmen: Ulrich Ruede - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Harald Koestler - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee: Achim Basermann - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, Germany Peter Bastian - University of Heidelberg, Germany Matthias Bolten - University of Wuppertal, Germany Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Engwer - University of Muenster, Germany Dominik Goedekke - University of Stuttgart, Germany Georg Hager - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Guido Kanschat - University of Heidelberg, Germany Axel Klawonn, University of Cologne, Germany Rolf Krause - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Olaf Schenk - Institute of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland Stefan Turek - TU Dortmund University, Germany Gerhard Wellein - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Gabriel Wittum - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Felix Wolf - TU Darmstadt, Germany Organizing committee: Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Benjamin Uekermann - Technical University of Munich, Germany Alexandra Lukas-Rother - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Iris Weiß - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Julia Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Frank Deserno - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany For further information, registration, and poster submission, please see our symposium website https://www.cosas2018.fau.de In case of any further questions, please do not hesitate to email us at conference-cosas2018-orga(a)fau.de We are looking forward to welcoming you at CoSaS 2018. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the organizing committee

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CFP: IEEE ISPA2017 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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 The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission 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/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. 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. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Postdoc Position: Trustable Robotics and Autonomous Systems
by Huascar Espinoza 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Trustable Robotics and Autonomous Systems http://www-instn.cea.fr/en/education-and-training/research-training/post-do… CONTEXT ------- The LSEA (Embedded and Autonomous Systems Design Laboratory) is working on methods, design principles and tools for the engineering of efficient and trustworthy software for embedded and autonomous systems. The laboratory has a recognized expertise in the field of model-based design of safety-critical systems, and has initiated an upstream work for the mastery of advanced technologies of safe self-adaptation and integration of trustworthy autonomy in critical systems. The lab plays an important role in standardization groups like AUTOSAR in the automotive domain as well as in the OMG (Object Management Group) standardization body responsible for the UML, SysML and MARTE standards, and contributes to the Eclipse open source model-based development platform Papyrus (www.eclipse.org/papyrus) Lab members are strongly involved in various industrial projects as well as collaborative French and European research projects for the development of model-based approaches for the design of autonomous real-time systems for robotics, automotive, railway, aerospace and smart energy systems. WORK DESCRIPTION ---------------- The complexity of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) can only be managed with well-designed software architectures and integrated tool chains that support the entire development process. Model-driven engineering (MDE) is an approach that allows RAS developers to shift their focus from implementation to the domain knowledge space and to promote efficiency, flexibility and separation of concerns for different development stakeholders. One key goal of MDE approaches is to be integrated with available development infrastructures from the RAS community, such as ROS middleware, OROCOS for real-time control, OpenCV for computer vision, or Gazebo for simulation. These RAS platforms embrace communities of hundreds of stakeholders, which need to be preserved and strengthened. However, these communities are still rather fragmented, by representing specific technologies. To strengthen these platforms, to enable interconnections between them, and also between new ones e.g. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies, CEA envisions a model-driven approach built on top of the current code-centric platforms. To do so, the H2020 RobMoSys project (www.robmosys.eu) coordinated by CEA, is establishing the first EU Digital Industrial Platform for Model-Driven Development of Robotics Systems. To address the robotics domain according to the RobMoSys methodology and structures, a set of CEA tools are being collected under the Papyrus4Robotics [1] [2] [3] umbrella. This project is strategic for the LSEA laboratory and the DILS department. The goal of this post-doc is to investigate and develop modular/compositional and predictable software architectures and interoperable design tools based on model-based (instead of code-centric) approaches. The work must be performed in the context of the RobMoSys project and other initiatives on assurance of robotics and autonomous systems. The main industrial goal is to simplify the effort of RAS engineers and thus allowing the development of more advanced, more complex autonomous systems at an affordable cost. In order to do so, the postdoctoral fellow will contribute to set-up and consolidate a vibrant ecosystem, tool-chain and community that will provide a unified model-based design, simulation, safety assessment and formal validation and verification environment. PROFILE ------- You did a PhD in the area of Software-intensive Systems Engineering not longer than two years ago. You have knowledge and expertise in developing tools for engineering embedded systems in any safety-critical industrial sector (e.g., energy, transport, health, or manufacturing). You are familiar with design methods, tools and middleware for the modelling, deployment, simulation of robotics software systems. You are aware of open software initiatives and you actively ensure that you remain aware of the latest developments in state-of-the art software technology. You are familiar with technology areas such as: • (Mandatory) Programming skills in languages such as Java, C and C++ • (Mandatory) Software modelling and transformation techniques: metamodeling, UML • (Highly Desirable) Knowledge of state-of-the-art software development environments and tools, in particular Eclipse: EMF, GMF • (Highly Desirable) ROS, Gazebo and related robotics technologies • (Desirable) knowledge on Artificial Intelligence: Machine/Deep Learning The age limit is 30 years old for post-doc offers. APPLICATION DOCUMENTS --------------------- Send the following documents to huascar.espinoza(a)cea.fr • Detailed CV • Motivation letter • Recommendation letters CONTACT PERSON -------------- Huascar ESPINOZA ORTIZ CEA LIST - PC 174 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Email: huascar.espinoza(a)cea.fr START DATE AND DURATION ----------------------- Start as soon as possible. Post-Doc positions last one year and can be renewed once only (for 1 year). [1] Kchir, S., Dhouib, S., Tatibouet, J., Gradoussoff, B., & Simoes, M. D. S. (2016, September). RobotML for industrial robots: Design and simulation of manipulation scenarios. In Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on (pp. 1-8). IEEE. [2] Nataliya Yakymets, Yupanqui Munoz Julho, Agnes Lanusse. Sophia framework for model-based safety analysis. Congrès Lambda Mu de maîtrise des risques et de sûreté de fonctionnement, October 21-23, Dijon, France, 2014 [3] Mahmoud Hussein, Réda Nouacer, Ansgar Radermacher, "Safe adaptation of vehicle software systems”, Microprocessors and Microsystems - Embedded Hardware Design 52: 272-286 (2017).

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Call for papers: IEEE SC2 2018 (Paris, France, November 6-9, 2018)
by Robert, Ching-Hsien Hsu 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing Paris, France, November 6-9, 2018 http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/sc2iovsoca2018.html Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 IEEE SC2 Conference. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2018 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2018 will be held on Nov. 6-9, 2018 in Paris, France. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. Cluster Computing (Springer) Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Vehicular Communications Journal International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal Paper Submission Deadline July 14, 2018 Acceptance Notification August 15, 2018 Registration Deadline September 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Submission September 15, 2018 ------------------------------------------ PAPER FORMAT AND 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 format and submitted via the SC2 2018 submission site : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22018 Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to SC2. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster track. Workshop and Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ---------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ---------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Omer Rana, Cardiff university, UK Daqing Zhang, Institute Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, France GENERAL EXECUTIVE CHAIR Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13 Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland PROGRAM CHAIRS Shu Tao, IBM Research, USA Pascal Bouvry, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PUBLICATION CHAIR Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université STEERING COMMITTEE Hamid Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13 Hanene Azzag, Université Paris 13 Leila Abidi, Université Paris 13 Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université Mustapha Lebbah Université Paris 13 Arnaud Kaiser, IRT SystemX Kais Klay, Université Paris 13 Tarek Menouer, Université Paris 13 Sondes Khemiri-Kallel, Université Versailles St Quentin Walid Gaaloul, Télécom Sudparis, Evry Khaled Boussetta, Université Paris 13 Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13

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CFP: 13th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

********** WORKS 2018 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 11 November 2018, Dallas, TX. Held in conjunction with SC18, http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2018 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. 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, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. 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 Workflows in constrained environments e.g. IoT, Edge computing, etc. ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 30 July 2018 Paper acceptance notification: 9 September 2018 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2018 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2018 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, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2018 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, U Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2018 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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 Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France 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 Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2018
by Dirk Craeynest 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 *** Check out tutorials and workshops! *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Online proceedings available at event *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 23rd Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal (12 June 2018) - The University Lisboa and Ada-Europe organize from 18 to 22 June 2018 the "23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018" in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is organized 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 two days of parallel tutorials and workshops, three keynotes, a full technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Eight excellent tutorials on Monday and Friday cover a broad range of topics: Recent Developments in SPARK 2014; Scheduling analysis of AADL architecture models; Access types and memory management in Ada 2012; Numerics for the Non-Numerical Analyst; Writing Contracts in Ada; Introduction to Libadalang; Unit-testing with Ahven; Frama-C, a Framework for Analysing C Code. In addition, on Monday the conference hosts the new workshop on "Runtime Verification and Monitoring Technologies for Embedded Systems" (RUME 2018), and on Friday for the 5th consecutive year the workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2018). Three eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program. Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), on "Security and Dependability Challenges of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) Integration". Carl Brandon (Vermont Technical College, USA), on "From Physicist to Rocket Scientist, and how to make a CubeSat that works". Erhard Plödereder (University of Stuttgart, Germany), on "Vulnerabilities in Safety, Security, and Privacy". The technical program presents 10 refereed and carefully selected technical papers and 4 presentations on the latest research, new tools, applications and industrial practice and experience, a collection of 12 industrial presentations reflecting current practice and challenges, and vendor presentations. Springer Verlag publishes all peer-reviewed papers in the proceedings of the conference, as LNCS Vol. 10873. The remainder of the proceedings will be published in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday morning in the networking area and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, and Ada-Europe. The social program includes on Tuesday evening a Welcome Reception on board of modern catamaran, to see Lisbon from a different perspective and watch the sunset from the Tagus river. On Wednesday evening will be the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at the restaurant "A Casa do Bacalhau", which means "The House of the Codfish", located in the old stables of the Duke of Lafões palace. Each day, coffee breaks in the exhibition area and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. The conference is hosted by Univ. Lisboa at the VIP Executive Art's Hotel, strategically located in the Parque das Nações area, Lisbon's modern business centre, close to the Tagus river and the Vasco da Gama bridge, and can easily be accessed by metro. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 16-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/AdaEurope2018%20Final%20Program.pdf> Check out the 8 tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are very reasonable and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018> or go directly to <http://ae2018.di.fc.ul.pt/registration.html>. The proceedings, published by Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10873, are already available online. See <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92432-8>. A printed copy is included in every full conference registration. Help promote the conference by advertising for it! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/picts/AE2018_poster.png>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2018. For the latest information consult the conference web site <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair *** 23rd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2018 *** June 18-22, 2018 ** Lisbon, Portugal *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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Deadline extended: CIBB 2018 - Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
by chiara damiani 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2018 <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/>, 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 6-8 September 2018, Caparica, Portugal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks   biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems   flux balance analysis   metabolic engineering   metabolic pathway analysis   model verification and refinement methods   models of neural activity multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems   parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks   software tools for systems biology   spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 Acceptance notification: 9 July 2018 19 July 2018 Author registration due: 20 July 2018 25 July 2018 Camera ready due: 29 July 2018 Conference: 6-8 September 2018 PROCEEDINGS Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/pages/call-papers> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marzia Di Filippo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dario Pescini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918 Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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Submission deadlines extended: IEEE HiPC 2018 (papers due June 25)
by Anand Panangadan 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India http://www.hipc.org IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 • Paper Abstract Submission: Monday, *June 18, 2018 (extended)* • Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, *June 25, 2018 (extended)* • Author Notifications for Rebuttal: Friday, August 10, 2018 • Author Rebuttal Response Due: Friday, August 24, 2018 • Acceptance/Rejection Notification: Friday, September 7, 2018 • Camera Ready paper Submission Due: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference addresses a broad list of topics in three tracks: • Algorithms • Architectures • Applications CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS 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 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI
by Morris, Karla NMN 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary As high-performance computing hardware incorporates increasing levels of heterogeneity, hierarchical organization, and complexity, parallel programming techniques necessarily grow in complexity or in their ability to abstract away complexity. The concurrent development of multi- and many-core processors, deep memory hierarchies, and accelerators and the variety of ways to combine these makes the low-level language route unmanageable for domain experts tasked with developing applications. The technologies that a competent developer might be expected to master and combine include MPI plus CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenACC, most commonly denoted MPI + X. This approach inherently saddles the developer with low-level details that might better be handled by high-level abstractions. Higher-level parallel programming models offer rich sets of abstractions that feel natural in the intended applications. Such languages and tools include (Fortran, UPC, Julia), systems for large-scale data processing and analytics (Spark, Tensorflow, Dask), and frameworks and libraries that extend existing languages (Charm++, Unified Parallel C++ (UPC++), Coarray C++, HPX, Legion, Global Arrays). While there are tremendous differences between these approaches, all strive to support better programmer abstractions for concerns such as data parallelism, task parallelism, dynamic load balancing, and data placement across the memory hierarchy. This workshop will bring together applications experts who will present concrete practical examples of using such alternatives to MPI in order to illustrate the benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming. The workshop expands upon the two similar workshops, PAW16 and PAW17, by broadening the theme beyond partitioned global address space languages. We invite you to take part in the Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI, and to join this vibrant and diverse community of researchers and developers. Scope and Aims The scope of the PAW-ATM workshop is to provide a forum for exhibiting case studies of higher-level programming models as MPI alternatives in the context of applications as a means of better understanding applications of MPI alternatives. We encourage the submission of papers and talks detailing such applications, including characterizations of scalability and performance, of expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in existing higher-level programming models. In addition to informing other application programmers about the potential that is available through MPI alternatives, the workshop is designed to communicate these experiences to compiler vendors, library developers, and system architects in order to achieve broader support for high-level approaches to scalable programming. We also specifically encourage submissions covering big data analytics, deep learning, and other novel and emerging application areas, beyond well-established HPC domains. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using parallel programming languages. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from big data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using MPI alternatives. * Algorithmic models enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting MPI alternatives. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. Papers shall not exceed ten (10) pages including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative not included. Extended abstracts summarizing published/preliminary results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended for timely communications of novel work that is going to be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that is nonetheless deemed appropriate for dissemination in this venue. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. Preferential treatment will be given to full-length paper submissions. Accepted full-length papers will be given longer presentation slots at the workshop than the abstract-only option. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings ( https://submissions.supercomputing.org ). Submissions must use 10pt fonts in the IEEE format ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). The page limit (8 pages minimum for publication) includes figures, tables, and your appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Reproducibility initiative dependencies (Artifact Description or Computational Results Analysis) are also not included in the page limit. PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC18, please refer to http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ for additional information. WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR * Bill Long - Cray Inc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Valentin Churavy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University, UK * Alex Gittens - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Hartmut Kaiser - Louisiana State University * Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois * Seung-Hwan Lim - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA * Jeremiah J. Wilke - Sandia National Laboratories ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2018 * Author Notification: September 1, 2018 * Camera Ready: October 1, 2018 * Workshop Date: November 11--16, 2018

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CFP for ICPADS 2018
by sidharta andalam 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

*Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers* Call for Papers Established in 1992, ICPADS has been a major international forum for scientists and engineers to exchange and share new ideas and their latest research results regarding systems that are inherently parallel and/or distributed. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2018) will be held in Singapore in December 2018. The conference provides an international forum for scientists, engineers and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Contributions are solicited in all areas of parallel and distributed systems research and applications. Singapore is a global city and thriving international financial hub attracting international tech companies and is accompanied by a vibrant and successful start-up culture. Related to ICPADS, Singapore’s Smart Nation uses technology to provide a smart infrastructure that enables visitors to enjoy its many sites and attractions in a safe, clean and green environment. Topics of Interest Original, unpublished contributions are solicited covering the general aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms · Cloud OS, Middleware, Toolkits, and Applications · Data Intensive Computing and Data Centre Architecture · Big Data Platforms · High Performance Computational Biology and Bioinformatics · Power-Aware and Green Computing · Security and Privacy · Dependable and Trustworthy Computing and Systems · Internet of Things · Fog/Edge Computing · Cyber-Physical Systems and Sensor Networks · Embedded systems · Real-Time and Multimedia Systems · Operating Systems, Distributed and Parallel Systems · Communication and Networking Systems · Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing · Peer-to-Peer Computing · Multi-Core and Multithreaded Architectures · Virtualization Techniques · Resource Provision, Management, and Scheduling · Cluster and Grid Computing · Web-Based Computing and Service-oriented Architecture · Performance Modelling and Evaluation Submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpads2018) Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Submissions should include author information, abstract, 5-10 keywords, and be in PDF format. Each submission must not exceed 10 pages in the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format with 10 point font, including tables, figures and references. The final version will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE proceeding format for conference papers. Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased. Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the submission be accepted, at least one of the authors must register the paper and attend the conference to present the work in order for the accepted paper to be included into the IEEE digital library. Papers accepted for ICPADS 2018 conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Best Paper Award will be presented in the conference. Important Dates · *On-line submission system open:* 20 May, 2018 · *Deadline for paper submissions:* 13 July, 2018 · *Notification of paper acceptance:* 01 September, 2018 · *Deadline of camera-ready version:* 25 September, 2018

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[Deadline Extended] CFP - PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop (In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC) + Special Issue in Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, IF: 1.326, Q2)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.326, Quartile Q2, ISSN: 0920-8542) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2018 (EXTENDED) http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ VENUE: Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2018 We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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FROM 2018 Call for Participation
by Stefan Ciobaca 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - First Call for Participation WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania *** New *** We included in the program of the conference a new category, short contributions, where submissions may describe work in progress or PhD progress/research reports. We still have 3-4 slots available for this category. If you are interested in giving a short talk, please submit an abstract of at most 2 pages using Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 Deadline for submitting short contributions: June 6, 2018 Notification: June 8, 2018 *** Attendance *** Everyone is welcome to attend. Registration is required and the deadline is June 15. Please register on the FROM 2018 webpage: https://fmse.info.uaic.ro/from-2018-registration/ *** About *** The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. *** Invited speakers *** Călin Belta, Boston University, US. Formal Synthesis of Control Strategies for Dynamical Systems Radu Călinescu, University of York, UK. Observation-enhanced stochastic modelling Cătălin Dima, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France. Bisimulations for logics for strategies Dragos Gavrilut, Bitdefender and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania. TBA Radu Grigore, School of Computing University of Kent, UK. Selective Monitoring Cătălin Hriţcu, INRIA Paris, France. Formally Secure Compilation Mircea Marin, West University of Timișoara, Romania. Unification and matching in unranked term algebras with regular expression sorts Grigore Roşu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. Formal Design, Implementation and Verification of Blockchain Languages and Virtual Machines Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Of Koblenz, Landau, Germany. On Symbol Elimination in Theory Extensions and Applications Gheorghe Ștefănescu, University of Bucharest, Romania. Adaptive virtual organisms: A compositional model for hardware-software binding in the IoT era *** Accepted papers *** Bogdan Aman and Gabriel Ciobanu. Timed Migration with Costs in Distributed Systems Ruxandra Stoean. Machine Learning and Formal Methods or the Ballad of East and West Gabriel Ciobanu and Eneia Nicolae Todoran. Continuation Semantics for Concurrent Languages Stefan Popescu. Solving a variant of the 2-D pattern matching problem using Networks of Polarized Evolutionary Picture Processors with a restriction in polarity. Vlad Rusu. Compositional Verification of Reachability-Logic Properties on Reachability-Logic Specifications Georgiana Caltais and Mohammadreza Mousavi. Encoding Causality via Modal Formulae Denisa Diaconescu. Bisimulations in many-valued modal logics Andrei Alexandru and Gabriel Ciobanu. Infinite Sets in Fraenkel-Mostowski Theory Ioana Leustean and Natalia Moangă. A many-sorted polyadic modal logic Andrei Arusoaie. Unification in Matching Logic Ioana Leuștean and Traian Florin Serbanuta. An operational-semantics-based approach to program verification using dynamic logic Short Contributions: Ana Turlea, Raluca Lefticaru and Felician Campean. Search based Model in the Loop Testing for Cyber Physical Systems We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Amazon’s Development Center in Iasi and Continental Automotive in Iasi. Laurențiu Leuștean, co-chair FROM 2018 Dorel Lucanu, co-chair FROM 2018

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Open PostDoc position at LBNL for Machine learning applications and Networks
by Mariam Kiran 30 May '18

30 May '18

Dear All, I am reaching out for help publicizing the post doc position open with our group. We are looking for new members to join our team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!. The position is shared between the Computer Research Division (http://crd.lbl.gov/departments/data-science-and-technology/sdm/) and Energy Sciences Network (http://es.net/) The position is in the area of developing machine learning solutions for wide area networks. The direct link to the posting may be found here: http://m.rfer.us/LBLfQ6cv Can you please help forward to any interested candidates? Questions can be sent to Mariam Kiran <mkiran(a)lbl.gov> Thankyou in advance, Mariam

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CFP: 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (December 17-20, 2018, Zurich, Switzerland)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 29 May '18

29 May '18

Do not miss the opportunity for discussing a full week of cloud and big data advances in central Europe at the end of the year on the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)! The conference would take place December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland (http://ucc-conference.org/) IMPORTANT DATES * 01 August, 2018 is a deadline for: - Main conference paper submissions - Tutorial proposals - Cloud Challenge proposals - Doctoral Research Papers * Poster submissions due: 01 September, 2018 * Notification of acceptance for main papers: 15 September, 2018 * Camera ready papers due: 08 October, 2018 * Early and author registration deadline: 08 October, 2018 * Conference: 17-20 December 2018 CONTEXT AND SCOPE UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 will have a co-located 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org/) an embedded Cloud Challenge and a subsequent Serverless Symposium. WORKSHOPS [http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html] Nine workshops are confirmed to take place in conjunction with the main conference: * 7th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018 * 5th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications - SCCTSA 2018. Submission deadline: July 31, 2018 * 4th International Workshop on Serverless Computing - WoSC 2018 * 3rd International Workshop on Trust in Cloud Computing - IWTCC 2018. Submission deadline: July 30, 2018 * 1st Industry/University Joint International Workshop on Data-center Automation and Software Provisioning - DCASP 2018 * 1st Workshop on Quality Assurance in the Context of Cloud Computing - QA3C 2018. Submission deadline: September 3, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Managed Fog-to-Cloud - mF2C 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience - CNAX 2018. Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Environments - BDASE 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 All the additional information on the workshops is available on the conference website: http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html TOPICS OF INTEREST UCC Conference topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * HPC and the Cloud * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Networking for clouds and data centres * Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers CALL FOR PAPERS [http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html] Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility as well as Big Data computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. 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. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. We invite you to visit the Call for Papers page for more information: http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html

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JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (Nov. 26-28, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan)
by Kouji Kozaki 28 May '18

28 May '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers: JIST 2018 Regular Technical Papers *** JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference Nov. 26-28, 2018, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp < Paper submission due: 10 August, 2018 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is to bring together researchers in the Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic-related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. There are two tracks in JIST 2018 for Regular Technical Papers. *** Research Track *** JIST 2018 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Ontology and reasoning -Knowledge Graphs -Linked Data -Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration -Data streams and the Internet of Things -Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web -Semantic Web services and processes -Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web -Social Semantic Web -Natural language processing and semantics -Semantic multimedia -Novel applications of semantic technologies *** Special Session Track *** JIST 2018 special session track to discover and implement special topics that researchers in Semantic Technology are particularly interested in. We also intend to facilitate participation of potentially-related researchers in the JIST conference. Topics of special sessions are as follows: - Special Session on Government Open Data http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/government_open_data.html - Special Session on Question Answering and ChatBots http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/qa_chatbots.html - Special Session on Resource-aware Semantic Technologies http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/resource-aware_semantic_tech… - Special Session on Semantic Web for Life Sciences http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/sw_for_life_sciences.html *** Important Dates *** -Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 3 August, 2018 -Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 August, 2018 -Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018 -Camera-ready Deadline: 28 September, 2018 -Conference: 26-28 November, 2018 *** Submission *** Submissions to JIST 2018 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2018 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Submissions to JIST 2018 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee of either research track or special session track. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2018 submissions are not anonymous. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Regular paper submissions must be no longer than 16 pages, and short paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. Accepted papers of both research track and special session track will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2018 * Please select the corresponding track(s) when you submit your paper(s). *** Organizing Committee *** -General Chairs Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan -Program Chairs Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Special Session Track Chairs Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, China Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan -Local Organizing Chair Atsuko Yamaguchi, Database Center for Life Science, Japan -Poster and Demo Chairs Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea Shinichi Nagano, TOSHIBA corp., Japan -Workshop Chairs Marut Buranarach, NECTEC, Thailand Ikki Omukai, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Tutorial Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan -Sponsorship Chair Takanori Ugai, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan -Publicity Chairs Takeshi Morita, Keio University, Japan Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2018 Organize Committee Website: http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/ Twitter: @jist2018 Contact: JIST2018<at>knowledge-graph.jp

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Call for Papers (due June 15) and Workshops announced: 25th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)
by Anand Panangadan 27 May '18

27 May '18

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. In the last couple years, HiPC has added workshops to its technical program and along with a Student Research Symposium and academic Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and the conference makes room for a broad list of topics to be addressed in these tracks: Algorithms Architectures Applications DATA SCIENCE: Big Data Algorithms and Analytics Big Data Systems and Software One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France (High Performance Computing) - Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Data Science) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS - Algorithms: Ananth Kalyanaraman Washington State University - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM Research – India - Architecture: Abdou Guermouche, University of Bordeaux - System Software: Judith Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Big Data Algorithms and Analytics: Jun (Luke) Huan, University of Kansas - Big Data Systems and Software: Lisa Singh, Georgetown University IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 •June 8..................Abstracts Due •June 15................Paper Submission Deadline •August 8-15........Rebuttals •September 7.......Author Notification •October 3...........Camera Ready Submission Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS 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 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms The papers accepted for presentation in HiPC 2018 workshops will be included in the "workshops volume" of the proceedings of the conference, which will be distributed online in two volumes with a separate ISBN for the workshops (HiPCW 2018). Post conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. Workshops Co-Chairs • Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 ORGANIZATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Chiranjib Sur, Shell India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Nvidia, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA TUTORIAL CHAIR Saumil Merchant, Shell, India STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Thondiyil Venugopalan, India ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2018 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ •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) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

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GraMSec 2018 - call for participation - early registration by June 6
by Barbara Kordy 25 May '18

25 May '18

****************************************************************** GraMSec 2018 The Fifth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Oxford, UK - July 8, 2018 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ Co-located with CSF 2018 (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/csf2018/) In conjunction with FLoC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/) ****************************************************************** ABOUT GraMSec The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies and tools for their practical usage. PROGRAM of GraMSec 2018 -------------------------- 09:00 Opening by Barbara Kordy 09:10 Invited talk of Mike Fisk, Chief Information Officer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA Intrusion Tolerance in Complex Cyber Systems 10:10 Marlon Dumas, Luciano García-Bañuelos and Peeter Laud Disclosure Analysis of SQL Workflows 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Haozhe Zhang, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Arnau Erola, Sadie Creese and Michael Goldsmith A state machine system for insider threat detection 11:45 Sabarathinam Chockalingam, Wolter Pieters, Andre Teixeira, Nima Khakzad and Pieter van Gelder Combining Bayesian Networks and Fishbone Diagrams to Distinguish between Intentional Attacks and Accidental Technical Failures 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 Ilia Shumailov, Mansoor Ahmed and Ross Anderson Tendrils of Crime: Visualizing the Diffusion of Stolen Bitcoins 14:45 Maxime Audinot, Sophie Pinchinat, François Schwarzentruber and Florence Wacheux Deciding the Emptiness of Attack trees 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Ross Horne, Sjouke Mauw and Alwen Tiu The Attacker Does not Always Hold the Initiative: Attack Trees with External Refinement 16:45 Harley Eades Iii, Jiaming Jiang and Aubrey Bryant On Linear Logic, Functional Programming, and Attack Trees 17:30 Closing by George Cybenko and David J. Pym REGISTRATION Registration to GraMSec 2018 is handled via the website of FLoC https://www.floc2018.org/register/ The early registration deadline is on June 6 If you need a support letter for a visa, please check https://www.floc2018.org/faqs/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, NH, USA David J. Pym, UCL, UK GENERAL CHAIR Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR

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CFP SBAC-PAD 2018 @ Lyon - abstract deadline May 25th
by Laurent Lefevre 25 May '18

25 May '18

== 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Lyon, France September 24-27, 2018 http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: May 25, 2018 - Paper deadline: June 1, 2018 - Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018 - Author notification: July 6, 2018 - Camera-ready: July 20, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs - Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil) - Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Program Co-chairs - Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) - Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Publicity Chairs - Alba Cristina de Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pierre Sens (LIP6, Inria Paris Rocquencourt, France) - Vaidy Sunderam (Emory University, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Computer Architecture Track Chair: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Celso Mendes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Cristiana Bentes (UERJ, Brazil) - Edson Borin (University of Campinas, Brazil) - Farah Fargo (University of Arizona, USA) - Felipe Maia Galvao Franca (COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil) - Jose Moreira (IBM, USA) - Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Naveen Cherukuri (NVIDIA, USA) - Rathish Jayabharathi (Intel, USA) - Rodolfo Azevedo (University of Campinas, Brazil) Networking and Distributed Systems Track Chair: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Andrey Britto (UFCG, Brazil) - Bruno Schulze (LNCC, Brazil) - Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy) - Dorgival Guedes Neto (UFMG, Brazil) - Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR, Brazil) - Harold Castro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) - Javier Garcia-Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) - Juan Durillo (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - Nicolae Bogdan (Huawei, China) - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Priscila Solis (UnB, Brazil) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown, USA) - Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil) - Sandra Gesing (Notre Dame University, USA) - Zhiyi Huang (University of Otago, New Zealand) Parallel Applications and Algorithms Track Chair: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain) - Emmanuel Agullo (Inria, France) - José Ignacio Aliaga (Computer Science and Engineering Department, University Jaime I, Spain) - Hartwig Anzt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Michael Bader (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) - Alba Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pablo Ezzatti Udelar (Uruguay) - Mathieu Faverge (Bordeaux INP, France) - Domingo Gimenez (University of Murcia, Spain) - Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Hatem Ltaief (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA) - Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) - Olaf Schenk (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) - Leonel Sousa (Lisbon University, Portugal) - Guillermo Taboada (University of A Coruña, Spain) - Pedro Valero-Lara (The University of Manchester, UK) - Jaroslaw Zola (State University of New York, USA) - Jairo Panetta (INPE, Brazil) Performance Evaluation Track Chair: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France) - Laura Carrington (San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, USA) - Cesar De Rose (PUCRS, Brazil) - Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Andreas Knupfer (TU Dresden, Germany) - Swann Perarnau (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Martin Schulz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Frederic Suter (CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France) System Software Track Chair: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, France) - Rafael Asenjo (Dpt. Computer Architecture, Univ. Malaga. Spain) - Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) - Siegfried Benkner (University of Vienna, Austria) - Carlo Bertolli (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States) - Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG, Brazil) - Helene Coullon (Inria, France) - Michael Gerndt (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center -BSC, Spain) - Mauricio Pillon (UDESC, Brazil) - Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) - Mario Südholt (IMT Atlantique, France) - Cedric Tedeschi (Inria, France) - Ayal Zaks (Intel, Israel) ==

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[Last CFP] PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop (In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC) + Special Issue in Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, IF: 1.326, Q2)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 25 May '18

25 May '18

Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.326, Quartile Q2, ISSN: 0920-8542) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 JUNE 2018 http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ VENUE: Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2018 We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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CFP: YR-CONCUR 2018 - 8th Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory
by songfu＠shanghaitech.edu.cn 23 May '18

23 May '18

********************************************************************* YR-CONCUR 2018, Call for papers 8th Young Researchers Workshop on Concurrency Theory (YR-CONCUR), 2018 A satellite workshop of CONCUR 2018 September 3rd, 2018, Beijing, China (https://www.irif.fr/~cenea/yr-concur2018/) ********************************************************************* *Aims and objectives* This workshop aims at providing a platform for PhD students and young researchers who recently completed their doctoral studies, to exchange new results related to concurrency theory and receive feedback on their research. Focus is on informal discussions. Excellent master students working on concurrency theory are also encouraged to contribute. *Important Dates* Deadline for 4-page abstracts: June 8th, 2018 Notification of acceptance: July 6th, 2018 Workshop: September 3rd, 2018 *Format* YR-CONCUR 2018 is a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2018 and will be held on September 3rd, 2018. It is anticipated that many CONCUR participants will attend the YR-workshop (and vice versa). Presentations are selected on the basis of an abstract of up to 4 pages (incl. references) describing the research. No particular format is required. Submissions are judged on the expected interest in and quality of the talk. The accepted abstracts will be made available at the workshop, but no formal proceedings are planned. It is thus also allowed (and encouraged) to send results that have been published at other conferences (although preferably not at CONCUR 2018 or any of its other satellite workshops). *Submission* 4-page abstracts should be submitted via the YR-CONCUR 2018 submission page on the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yrconcur2018. *Organizers* Constantin Enea (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France) Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University, China) Dr. Fu SONG School of Information Science and Technology,ShanghaiTech University Addr: Room 1A-504C, SIST Building, No.393 Huaxia Middle Road, Pudong Area Shanghai Tel: +86-(0)21-20685397, +86-15921769918 Website:sist.shanghaitech.edu.cn/faculty/songfu

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Job Openings: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Hong Kong Baptist University (PR380/17-18)
by comp hkbu 18 May '18

18 May '18

The Department of Computer Science <http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/> of Hong Kong Baptist University <http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/> (HKBU), presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, now seeks outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on substantiable-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (PR380/17-18) * The appointees will teach, and are expected to manage programme at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, perform high-impact research, as well as contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. 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. 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 also demonstrate 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 demonstrate the ability to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Candidates for the senior positions should also have a strong track record of research and teaching accomplishments. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please contact Dr William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william [at] comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. *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 <https://jobs.hkbu.edu.hk/hrssers/persrequest?job_no=PR380/17-18>). Applicants should request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit [at] hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Applicants are requested to send in samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their recent publications and recent teaching evaluation results. Applicants 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 not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. 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 then applicable at the time of offer. Review of applications will begin in *July 2018* and will continue until the position is filled. http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=450

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[CFP] IA^3 2018 - 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 17 May '18

17 May '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 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. 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 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 22, 2018 Position or Regular Paper Submission: August 29, 2018 Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 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 workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- 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://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-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 pubblicly (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 flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com>. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov> John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov> Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com> -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, LBNL, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora Uçar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US

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[New Book Release] Measuring Inconsistency in Information
by Vanina Martinez 16 May '18

16 May '18

============================================================ ======================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ============================================================ ========================================================= Measuring Inconsistency in Information John Grant and Maria Vanina Martinez (Eds) ============================================================ ========================================================= Published by College Publications URL: http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/?00040 The concept of measuring inconsistency in information was developed by John Grant in a 1978 paper in the context of first-order logic. For more than 20 years very little was done in this area until in the early 2000s a number of AI researchers started to formulate new inconsistency measures primarily in the context of propositional logic knowledge bases. The aim of this volume is to survey what has been done so far, to expand inconsistency measurement to other formalisms, to connect it with related topics, and to provide ideas for further research in a topic that is particularly relevant now in view of the many inconsistencies in the massive amount of information available. The book contains 11 chapters. The first chapter, by John Grant, gives his original motivation for starting this field, explains why it was formulated in a highly mathematical manner, presents important material that was omitted from the original paper, and provides ideas about the use of dimensions in measuring inconsistency. The second chapter, by Matthias Thimm, is a survey that covers most of the research on inconsistency measures up to 2017. The other 9 chapters, all by experts either in inconsistency measures, or in the topic under consideration, or both, connect inconsistency measures with argumentation, disjunctive logic programming, fuzzy logic systems, modal logics, multiset representation, paraconsistent consequence, probabilistic logic, relational databases, and spatio-temporal databases. ============================================================ ========================================================= For more details, please go to: http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/?00040 ============================================================ =========================================================

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Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Deadline extended until May 27
by Rizos Sakellariou 15 May '18

15 May '18

Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Deadline extended until May 27 August 27, 2018 Turin, Italy http://www.euroedupar.tu-darmstadt.de held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2018 https://europar2018.org Scope and objectives Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the differences in education in different parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR workshop aims to analyze PDC Education in a European context, taking into account the structure and organization of European education. In this context, the 4th European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The workshop especially seeks papers that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of particular interest. Topics The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc Submission guidelines Submission The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings published by Springer where only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long will be published. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2018 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long which were presented at the workshop will be included. Important dates May 27, 2018: Paper submission deadline (extended) June 25, 2018: Author notification July 6, 2018: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings August 27, 2018: Workshop (full day) October 2, 2018: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline Travel support Authors of accepted papers may apply for travel support - typically granted in the form of a free registration. Organization General Co-Chairs Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA Steering Committee Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia Program Co-Chairs Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Program Committee Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Aurelien Cavelan, University of Basel, Switzerland Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Gennaro Cordasco, Universita' della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Vania Marangozova-Martin, Grenoble University, France Tomas Margalef, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum J?lich, Germany Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Geppino Pucci, Universita' di Padova, Italy Erven Rohou, INRIA, France Emil Slusanschi, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Juan Tourino, University of A Coru?a, Spain Jesper Larsson Tr?ff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia Sponsorship This workshop is supported by SPPEXA, the DFG Program 1648 Software for Exascale Computing. Contact Felix Wolf <wolf(a)cs.tu-darmstadt.de>

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CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018, International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Lyon, France, September 24-27, 2018
by Laurent Lefevre 14 May '18

14 May '18

CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Lyon, France September 24-27, 2018 http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: May 25, 2018 - Paper deadline: June 1, 2018 - Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018 - Author notification: July 6, 2018 - Camera-ready: July 20, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs - Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil) - Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Program Co-chairs - Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) - Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Computer Architecture Track Chair: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Celso Mendes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Cristiana Bentes (UERJ, Brazil) - Edson Borin (University of Campinas, Brazil) - Farah Fargo (University of Arizona, USA) - Felipe Maia Galvao Franca (COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil) - Jose Moreira (IBM, USA) - Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Naveen Cherukuri (NVIDIA, USA) - Rathish Jayabharathi (Intel, USA) - Rodolfo Azevedo (University of Campinas, Brazil) Networking and Distributed Systems Track Chair: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Andrey Britto (UFCG, Brazil) - Bruno Schulze (LNCC, Brazil) - Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy) - Dorgival Guedes Neto (UFMG, Brazil) - Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR, Brazil) - Harold Castro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) - Javier Garcia-Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) - Juan Durillo (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - Nicolae Bogdan (Huawei, China) - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Priscila Solis (UnB, Brazil) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown, USA) - Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil) - Sandra Gesing (Notre Dame University, USA) - Zhiyi Huang (University of Otago, New Zealand) Parallel Applications and Algorithms Track Chair: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain) - Emmanuel Agullo (Inria, France) - José Ignacio Aliaga (Computer Science and Engineering Department, University Jaime I, Spain) - Hartwig Anzt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Michael Bader (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) - Alba Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pablo Ezzatti Udelar (Uruguay) - Mathieu Faverge (Bordeaux INP, France) - Domingo Gimenez (University of Murcia, Spain) - Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Hatem Ltaief (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA) - Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) - Olaf Schenk (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) - Leonel Sousa (Lisbon University, Portugal) - Guillermo Taboada (University of A Coruña, Spain) - Pedro Valero-Lara (The University of Manchester, UK) - Jaroslaw Zola (State University of New York, USA) - Jairo Panetta (INPE, Brazil) Performance Evaluation Track Chair: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France) - Laura Carrington (San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, USA) - Cesar De Rose (PUCRS, Brazil) - Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Andreas Knupfer (TU Dresden, Germany) - Swann Perarnau (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Martin Schulz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Frederic Suter (CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France) System Software Track Chair: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, France) - Rafael Asenjo (Dpt. Computer Architecture, Univ. Malaga. Spain) - Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) - Siegfried Benkner (University of Vienna, Austria) - Carlo Bertolli (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States) - Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG, Brazil) - Helene Coullon (Inria, France) - Michael Gerndt (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center -BSC, Spain) - Mauricio Pillon (UDESC, Brazil) - Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) - Mario Südholt (IMT Atlantique, France) - Cedric Tedeschi (Inria, France) - Ayal Zaks (Intel, Israel)

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CfP+CfA ::: IFIP World Computer Congress 2018
by Robert Wrembel 10 May '18

10 May '18

Call for Papers and Attendance INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS Sep 17-21, 2018 Poznan, Poland wcc2018.org wcc2018.put.poznan.pl INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING (IFIP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The leading multinational organization in Information & Communications Technologies (ICT), established 60 years ago * Recognized by United Nations and other world bodies * Membership covers over 50 countries, with a total membership of over 350 000 * Includes over 100 Working Groups organized in 13 Technical Committees WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS (WCC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The World Computer Congress is the main event of the International Federation For Information Processing, being organized since 1959. In the recent past, WCC was held in: Canada (2002), France (2004), Chile (2006), Italy (2008), Australia (2010), the Netherlands (2012), and Korea (2015). MAIN TOPICS OF WCC: http://wcc2018.org/program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Security and Privacy - Data Science - Big Data Management and Analysis - Enterprise Information Systems and Database Technologies - the Internet of Things - Entertainment Computing - Social Aspects of Information Technologies - the History of Computing CONTESTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - PhD Student Research Competition - Cybersecurity contest: Capture-the-Flag HIGHLIGHTS: http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote talks ---------------- - Prof. Wil van der Aalst (one of the most cited computer scientists in the world, top expert in workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis) Talk title: Responsible Data Science in a Dynamic World - Dr. Jan Camenisch (a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography, Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research - Zurich) - Prof. Leslie Valiant (world-renowned for contributions to complexity theory, Turing Award holder) Talk title: What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning? - Shamika N. Sirimanne (world-renowned expert in disaster risk reduction) Available grants ---------------- - 7 participation grants for students presenting at PhD Student Research Competition (http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/PhD-Workshop) - 2-3 travel grants for PhD students from developing countries - 1 travel grant for a mature researcher from a developing country (http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/grants) CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following events have open calls for papers (for details see the web pages of individual events): http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/program - International Conference on Research and Practical Issues Enterprise Information Systems - IFIP Internet of Things Conference - International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences - International Conference on Entertainment Computing - Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe - Semantics in Big Data Management - IT in Disaster Risk Reduction Conference - IT Research Workshop - Applied Data Science

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Ada-Europe 2018 - early registration until May 14
by Dirk Craeynest 08 May '18

08 May '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 Organized by Univ. Lisboa and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Early registration discount until May 14 *** *** Add tutorials to your conference registration *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/tutorials.html *** Use conference poster to promote event *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/posters/AE2018_poster.png ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 18 to 22. As per its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including, from Tuesday to Thursday, three days of scientific, technical and industrial programs, along with tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. 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 available 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 web site for registration, accommodation and travel information, as well as promotional material such as a ready-to-print conference poster and the 16-page Advance Program brochure. Quick overview - Mon 18 & Fri 22: tutorials + workshops - Tue 19 - Thu 21: core program Proceedings - published by Springer - volume 10873 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series - will be available at conference Program Chair - António Casimiro, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal casim at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Keynote speakers - Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, "Security and Dependability Challenges of IT/OT Integration" - Carl Brandon, Vermont Technical College, USA, "From Physicist to Rocket Scientist, and how to make a CubeSat that works" - Erhard Plödereder, University of Stuttgart, Germany, "Vulnerabilities in Safety, Security, and Privacy" Workshops (full day) - "Runtime Verification and Monitoring Technologies for Embedded Systems" Workshop (RUME 2018) - 5th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2018) Tutorials (full day) - "Recent Developments in SPARK 2014" Peter Chapin, Vermont Technical College, USA - "Scheduling analysis of AADL architecture models" Frank Singhoff, Lab-STICC/UBO, France Pierre Dissaux, Ellidiss Technologies, France Tutorials (half day) - "Access types and memory management in Ada 2012" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France - "Design and architecture guidelines for trustworthy systems" William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA - "Numerics for the Non-Numerical Analyst" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France - "Requirements development for safety and security critical systems" William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA - "Writing Contracts in Ada" Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & Innovation - "Introduction to Libadalang" R. Amiard, P.M. de Rodat Raphaël Amiard, Pierre-Marie de Rodat, AdaCore, France - "Unit-testing with Ahven" Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & Innovation - "Frama-C, a Framework for Analysing C Code" Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France Papers and Presentations - 10 refereed technical papers and 4 presentations in sessions on Safety and Security, Ada 202X, Handling Implicit Overhead, Real-time Scheduling, New Application Domains - 12 industrial presentations and experience reports in sessions on Ada in Industry, Space Systems, V&V of Safety-Cricital Software, Software Methodologies - submissions by authors from 19 countries, and accepted contributions from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Norway Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - several companies already committed; others expected to confirm soon - 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 evening: Ada-Europe General Assembly, followed by Welcome Reception on board of modern catamaran, to see Lisbon from a different perspective and watch the sunset from the Tagus river - Wednesday evening: transportation to restaurant "A Casa do Bacalhau", for the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet; the name means "The House of the Codfish", so it is not too difficult to guess what is their speciality - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration - online registration is open at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/registration.html> - early registration discount up to Monday May 14, 2018 - additional discount for academia, Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - student discounts are available - registration includes copy of printed proceedings at event - includes coffee breaks and lunches - three day conference registration includes all social events - tutorial fees reduced when taken together with 3-day conference - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - see registration page for all details Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2018 - 16-page Advance Program brochure available online <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/AdaEurope2018%20Advance%20Program.…> - support Ada-Europe 2018 with promotional poster available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/posters/AE2018_poster.png> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. Lisbon will be very busy in that week. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018>. We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon in June 2018! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 23rd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2018 *** June 18-22, 2018 ** Lisbon, Portugal *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI
by Morris, Karla NMN 08 May '18

08 May '18

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary As high-performance computing hardware incorporates increasing levels of heterogeneity, hierarchical organization, and complexity, parallel programming techniques necessarily grow in complexity or in their ability to abstract away complexity. The concurrent development of multi- and many-core processors, deep memory hierarchies, and accelerators and the variety of ways to combine these makes the low-level language route unmanageable for domain experts tasked with developing applications. The technologies that a competent developer might be expected to master and combine include MPI plus CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenACC, most commonly denoted MPI + X. This approach inherently saddles the developer with low-level details that might better be handled by high-level abstractions. Higher-level parallel programming models offer rich sets of abstractions that feel natural in the intended applications. Such languages and tools include (Fortran, UPC, Julia), systems for large-scale data processing and analytics (Spark, Tensorflow, Dask), and frameworks and libraries that extend existing languages (Charm++, Unified Parallel C++ (UPC++), Coarray C++, HPX, Legion, Global Arrays). While there are tremendous differences between these approaches, all strive to support better programmer abstractions for concerns such as data parallelism, task parallelism, dynamic load balancing, and data placement across the memory hierarchy. This workshop will bring together applications experts who will present concrete practical examples of using such alternatives to MPI in order to illustrate the benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming. The workshop expands upon the two similar workshops, PAW16 and PAW17, by broadening the theme beyond partitioned global address space languages. We invite you to take part in the Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI, and to join this vibrant and diverse community of researchers and developers. Scope and Aims The scope of the PAW-ATM workshop is to provide a forum for exhibiting case studies of higher-level programming models as MPI alternatives in the context of applications as a means of better understanding applications of MPI alternatives. We encourage the submission of papers and talks detailing such applications, including characterizations of scalability and performance, of expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in existing higher-level programming models. In addition to informing other application programmers about the potential that is available through MPI alternatives, the workshop is designed to communicate these experiences to compiler vendors, library developers, and system architects in order to achieve broader support for high-level approaches to scalable programming. We also specifically encourage submissions covering big data analytics, deep learning, and other novel and emerging application areas, beyond well-established HPC domains. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using parallel programming languages. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from big data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using MPI alternatives. * Algorithmic models enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting MPI alternatives. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. Papers shall not exceed eight (8) pages including text, appendices, references, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative not included. Extended abstracts summarizing published/preliminary results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended for timely communications of novel work that is going to be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that is nonetheless deemed appropriate for dissemination in this venue. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. Accepted full-length papers will be given longer presentation slots at the workshop than the abstract-only option. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings ( https://submissions.supercomputing.org ). Submissions must use 10pt fonts in the IEEE format ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). The page limit includes figures, tables, and your appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Reproducibility initiative dependencies (Artifact Description or Computational Results Analysis) are also not included in the page limit. PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC18, please refer to http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ for additional information. WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR * Bill Long - Cray Inc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Valentin Churavy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University, UK * Alex Gittens - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Hartmut Kaiser - Louisiana State University * Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois * Seung-Hwan Lim - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA * Jeremiah J. Wilke - Sandia National Laboratories ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2018 * Author Notification: September 1, 2018 * Camera Ready: October 1, 2018 * Workshop Date: November 11--16, 2018

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FROM 2018 - 3rd CFP - Deadline Extended to 11 May
by Stefan Ciobaca 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - Third Call for Papers WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ Special Issue in Fundamenta Informaticae 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania New! Extended deadline for abstract submissions: 11 May 2018 (firm) Old deadline: 29 April 2018 Notification: 21 May 2018 Invited speakers: Călin Belta, Boston University, US Radu Călinescu, University of York, UK Cătălin Dima, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France Dragos Gavrilut, Bitdefender and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Radu Grigore, School of Computing University of Kent, UK Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Cătălin Hriţcu, INRIA Paris, France Mircea Marin, West University of Timișoara, Romania Grigore Roşu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Of Koblenz, Landau, Germany Gheorghe Ștefănescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Aims and Scope Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2018 is organized by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest. FROM 2018 is the second event in a a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017) and it included sixteen invited talks, delivered by top researchers in field, and seven contributed talks. Starting with the current edition, the goal is to increase the weight of the contributed talks. The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation might be available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Logical frameworks - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages - Type systems Methods of interest include: - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Certified programs - Data-flow and control-flow analysis - Deductive verification - Mechanized proofs - Model checking - Proof mining - Symbolic computation - Term rewriting Applications of interest include: - Computational logic - Computer mathematics - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of maximum 4 pages, except references, formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The extended abstracts should be submitted before 29 April 2018, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 The notification of acceptance will be received by 21 May 2018. The authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae. Laurențiu Leuștean, co-chair FROM 2018 Dorel Lucanu, co-chair FROM 2018

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Call for participation: Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, July 9-21, 2018, Eugene, OR
by Boyana Norris 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Call for Participation: Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, July 9-21, 2018, Eugene, OR https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/ <https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/> The Oregon Programming Languages Summer School is devoted to teaching the principles of programming languages to students and professionals. Although the topics vary from year to year, the unifying theme is the importance of fundamental theory to the design and implementation of programming languages, the development of program verification tools, and the application of advanced programming languages to practice. The summer school attracts participants from around the world, and is often able to subsidize the participation of qualified attendees with limited resources. More than a thousand participants have attended OPLSS since its inception in 2002. The summer school is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and by generous grants from numerous companies over the years. This year's program is entitled Concurrency and Parallelism, and is co-organized by Guy Blelloch. Parallelism and concurrency are central issues in programming, and enjoy richly developed theoretical foundations that are directly applicable to programming practice. The two topics are closely related, but it is helpful to distinguish their separate purposes as well as consider their close relation to each other. Parallelism is principally concerned with efficiency, making programs run faster by taking advantage of multiple processing elements. Making parallelism practical requires fundamental theories of cost semantics and parallel algorithms, and requires the development of sophisticated compilers and run-time systems. Concurrency is principally concerned with program composition, building a composite system from components that execute independently and interact with one another. There is much active research on the design and semantics of concurrent programming languages, and on the development of verification tools to ensure their correctness. This year's speakers will address many of these topics from various perspectives. The main program takes place over two weeks, with ample time for group and private study, and to take advantage of the many recreational opportunities around Eugene. For the first time this year there will be an additional week at the start for teaching the basics of programming language theory to students with little or no prior experience. For more details and to register, go to https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/ <https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/> -- Boyana Norris https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~norris <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~norris> -- Boyana Norris https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~norris

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FROM 2018 - Second Call for Papers (special issue in Fundamenta Informaticae)
by Stefan Ciobaca 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - Second Call for Papers WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ New! Special Issue: Fundamenta Informaticae 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania Deadline for extended abstract submissions: 29 April 2018 Invited speakers: Călin Belta, Boston University, US Radu Călinescu, University of York, UK Cătălin Dima, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France Dragos Gavrilut, Bitdefender and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Radu Grigore, School of Computing University of Kent, UK Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Cătălin Hriţcu, INRIA Paris, France Mircea Marin, West University of Timișoara, Romania Grigore Roşu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Of Koblenz, Landau, Germany Gheorghe Ștefănescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Aims and Scope Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2018 is organized by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest. FROM 2018 is the second event in a a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017) and it included sixteen invited talks, delivered by top researchers in field, and seven contributed talks. Starting with the current edition, the goal is to increase the weight of the contributed talks. The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation might be available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Logical frameworks - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages - Type systems Methods of interest include: - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Certified programs - Data-flow and control-flow analysis - Deductive verification - Mechanized proofs - Model checking - Proof mining - Symbolic computation - Term rewriting Applications of interest include: - Computational logic - Computer mathematics - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of maximum 4 pages, except references, formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The extended abstracts should be submitted before 29 April 2018, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 The notification of acceptance will be received by 21 May 2018. The authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae. Laurențiu Leuștean, co-chair FROM 2018 Dorel Lucanu, co-chair FROM 2018

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Workshop on Statistical Modelling Using Health Data in R & SPSS
by Ashish gaur 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Dear Madam/Sir, It is a matter of immense pleasure that the *Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand *will be organizing Workshop Series for the academic year 2017-2018 followed by Seventh Workshop on *Statistical Modelling Using Health Data in R & SPSS on 07th to 11th May, 2018 *at *Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun. * In an effort to enhance the competence of budding researchers (postgraduate students and faculty). This Workshop organized by the department will enable the participants, to know the application of biostatistics for medical research using R and SPSS. This is a genuine hands-on experience workshop with illustrious faculty from prestigious institutes. *Dr. Anil C. Mathew* Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Community Medicine, P.S.G Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, Kerala *Dr. Gulab Singh* Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Jaipur, Rajasthan *Dr. Kh. Jitenkumar Singh* Scientist-D National Institute of Medical Statistics, Indian Council of Medical Research New Delhi Ø *Offline Registration:* You can also apply through offline on department email hod.biostats(a)srhu.edu.in and demand draft will be made in favor of “Swami Rama Himalayan University” payable at State Bank of India, Jolly Grant, Dehradun Branch (Code: 10580) to The Registrar, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Swami Ram Nagar, P.O. Doiwala, Dehradun-248140 Uttarakhand. OR submit fees in cash in Department. Ø *Online Registration link is given below:* https://forms.srhu.edu.in/index.php/bio-statistics-workshop/ *Kindly circulate this information to faculties and postgraduate students of your respective department.* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ *Shubham Pandey* Organizing Chairperson, Asstt. Professor & Incharge, Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India Mob: 8400192344 Off.-0135-2471545 *For registration, contact:* Ashish Gaur Organizing Secretary Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India Contact No: 7831839434, 7007027833, 9560750241 Email: hod.biostats(a)srhu.edu.in ashishgaur.or(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------- Ashish Gaur Department of Biostatistics Swami Rama Himalayan University Dehradun.

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CfP: 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)
by Anand Panangadan 22 Apr '18

22 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 •June 8..................Abstracts Due •June 15................Paper Submission Deadline •August 8-15........Rebuttals •September 7.......Author Notification •October 3...........Camera Ready Submission ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ HiPC 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. In the last couple years, HiPC has added workshops to its technical program and along with a Student Research Symposium and academic Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and the conference makes room for a broad list of topics to be addressed by these events including: Algorithms: - Design of Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Algorithmic Techniques to Improve Energy and Power Efficiency - Quantum and Bio-Inspired Algorithms - Resilient and Fault Tolerant Algorithms - Parallel algorithms for Numerical Linear Algebra - Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures - Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management - Parallel Graph Algorithms - Algorithms for Combinatorial Scientific Computing - Parallel Algorithms for Computational Biology - Streaming Algorithms Architectures: - Interconnection Networks and Architectures - Cache/Memory Architecture for High Performance Computing - High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems - Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures - Quantum and Bio-Inspired Architectures - Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques - Resilient and Fault Tolerant Architectures Applications: - Big Data Computing and Applications - Cross-Cutting Methods such as Co-Design of Parallel Algorithms, Software, and Architectures - Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, IoT, and Nanotechnology - Hardware Acceleration for Parallel Applications - Parallelism in Scientific Data Visualization and Visual Analytics - Scientific/Engineering/Industrial Applications and Workloads - Scalable Machine Learning and Data Mining Applications - Scalable Graph and other Irregular Applications - Design of Simulation Applications and Peta- and Exascale Applications Systems Software: Big Data Analytics Systems and Software Architectures Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing Exascale Computing, Cloud Platforms, Data Center Architectures and Services Parallel Languages, Programming Environments, and Performance Assessment Operating Systems for Scalable High -Performance Computing Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators Dealing with Uncertainties, Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Systems DATA SCIENCE: Big Data Algorithms and Analytics - Transparent and interpretable predictive models - Socially responsible learning - Learning with changing environment, domain adaptation - Learning with structured input and output - Model evolution - Large-scale Graph and network modeling and analytics - Stream data analytics - Model evolution - Unsupervised learning Big Data Systems and Software - Data science applications in healthcare, education, social science, business, transportation, energy, telecommunications, science, and humanities - Social mining analytics and applications - Visual analytic systems and software using large-scale data - Web search and recommendation systems - Social impact systems using big data - Privacy preserving big data software - Massive, cross-media, streaming systems - Human-in-the-loop systems - Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence applications - Large-scale data science for the social good One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France (High Performance Computing) - Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Data Science) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS - Algorithms: Ananth Kalyanaraman Washington State University - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM Research – India - Architecture: Abdou Guermouche, University of Bordeaux - System Software: Judith Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Big Data Algorithms and Analytics: Jun (Luke) Huan, University of Kansas - Big Data Systems and Software: Lisa Singh, Georgetown University ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Full information detailing what/where to submit is available on the HiPC Website at www.hipc.org as well as notices and plans for other conference events including workshops and programs for students and industry. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Chiranjib Sur, Shell India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Nvidia, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA TUTORIAL CHAIR Saumil Merchant, Shell, India STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Thondiyil Venugopalan, India ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2018 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ •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) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

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6th School on Universal Logic : call for participation
by Christophe REY 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In exactly two months will start in Vichy, France the 6th School on Universal Logic http://www.uni-log.org/ULS6 This is a 5-day school with 30 tutorials on all aspects of logic (historical, philosophical, mathematical, computational) given by scholars from all over the world. The school will start by a round table "why study logic?" and will end with a round table "how to publish?" There also will be a poster session and the school will be followed by a 6-day congress. Some videos introducing UNILOG 2018 school tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________ Christophe Rey Co-chair of the organizing committee of UNILOG 2018 UNILOG 2018 : Website <https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018> - Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/> - Registration <https://api.dsi.uca.fr/paybag/registration/form/event/UNILOG2018> - Youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw> MCF / Associate professor - Université Clermont Auvergne Email <mailto:christophe.rey@uca.fr> - Homepage <http://fc.isima.fr/%7Ecrey/> Laboratoire LIMOS Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux 1 rue de la Chebarde TSA 60125 - CS 60026 63178 AUBIERE cedex Tel : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 37 Fax : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 01 IUT d'Allier, Dept MMI Vichy Pôle Universitaire Lardy 1, av. des Célestins 03200 VICHY Tel : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 92 Fax : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 78 ___________________________________________________

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[simu-conf] Canada Research Chair, Postdoctoral, PhD and Masters positions at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering (SCE) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, invites applications from qualified candidates for Two Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 appointments beginning on July 1, 2018, and a number of Postdoctoral, Doctoral and Masters positions. SCE at Carleton is a research-intensive Department and hosts a large and active community covering the Electrical and Computer Engineering spectrum, including Software Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Communication Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Full advantage is taken of the high concentration of industry, government, and university technology organizations in the Ottawa area. For more information about the Department, please visit https://carleton.ca/sce/ Tier 2 Chairs are intended for exceptional emerging researchers, and the two positions are in the fields of: * Model-driven system and software engineering: https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/systems-computer-engineering-model-driven-s ystem-software-engineering-canada-research-chair-tier-ii/ * Cybersecurity: https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/systems-computer-engineering-cybersecurity- assistant-professor-preliminary/ We also have a number of open Postdoctoral, PhD and Masters positions in different fields, ranging from Modeling, Cloud Computing, Communications Systems and Networks, Simulation, IoT up to Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Vehicles, AI, Data Science and others. For Qualifying Domestic students, we have a variety of Research Assistant positions, and a new $45K Scholarship for 3 years for PhD studies, and a free-tuition program for Masters and PhDs. Also, we offer and a 2-year free tuition scholarship for top International Masters and PhD students. For further information about these positions, contact the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at gchair(a)sce.carleton.ca. Carleton University is a dynamic and innovative research and teaching institution with over 29,000 students, 950 academic faculty, and 2,000 staff. We encourage creative risk-taking enabling minds to connect, discover and generate transformative knowledge. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital city has a population of almost one million and reflects the country's bilingual and multicultural character. Further information: https://carleton.ca/ [Apologies for multiple postings. Problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Joint Workshop on Deep (or Machine) Learning for Safety-Critical Applications in Engineering
by Mariam Kiran 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Dear All, Apologies for cross posting. This is a Joint Workshop between ICML (https://icml.cc/Conferences/2 018/CallForWorkshops), AAMAS (http://celweb.vuse.vanderbilt .edu/aamas18/workshopsList/) and IJCAI (https://www.ijcai-18.org/workshops/ ). Modern technological advances in engineering fields such as automotive, aerospace, robotic, even data centers and networks, are exploiting machine learning to improve and maintain mission critical activities. These systems are large, complex and require real-time learning with feedback to ensure they function as desired. Detecting anomalies, analyzing failures and predicting future system state are imperative and are becoming part of engineering integrative approaches. Research in algorithmic methods to make real-time decisions based on fast arriving, high-volume condition data, on-site feedback and data models is needed to train machine learning models quickly and correctly. This workshop aims to bring together diverse researchers from areas such as reinforcement learning, autonomous agents, game theory, controls and operations engineering teams to develop approaches which enable real-time discovery, inference and computational tools. These techniques are aimed to influence engineering operations teams in aerospace, self-driving automotive, robotics, data centers and any engineering operations that automate mission-critical and safety applications. We encourage focus on aspects of deep learning to solve problems into domains where continuous training and fast results are needed without jeopardizing prediction accuracy. However, we also encourage exploration of new innovative machine learning approaches, which can solve these problems with improved latency. We are also seeking contributions in advances of streaming and distributed algorithms, heterogeneous and high-dimensional data sets and real-time decision- making algorithms for operations. Some possible topics of interests but not confined are: - *Adaptation*: How can systems learn and adapt to changes in the environment (especially in dynamic environments) when training data is less and requires quick model assumption. How can principles of autonomous agents working together to build large engineering systems be exploited to react in dynamic situations. - *Noisy and poor data sets*: How can machine learning models be trained to understand noisy data sets for quick learning. Missing data exploration? - *Detecting anomalous behavior:* How can anomalies be detected quickly and partitioned appropriately such that correct actions are applied? - *Improving latency:* How can machine learning algorithms be improved to produce results quickly than previously anticipated? - *Improving software and hardware performance:* Exploring models of GPU, HPC processing and FPGAs to improve the performance of algorithms can greatly influence their use in engineering design. Experimental demonstrations are encouraged to display this. - *Reinforcement learning:* How can machine learn correct behavior? Can training be made quicker with guidance to allow algorithms to produce corrective measure when anomalies are detected? - *Human factors:* how can engineers maintaining the system interact with the self- autonomous system - *Open problems in engineering where machine learning is not proving fruitful*. What are the open problems in operations where practical machine learning is difficult to apply? What are the limitations and how can these be improved? Workshop dates will be between 14th and 15th of July 2018, located as part of Joint IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML Call for Workshops. Specific dates will be announced soon. Important dates: -------------------------- - Submission deadline: 28th May, 2018, 23:59 (PDT) - Author notification: 15th June, 2018 - Camera-ready (final) paper deadline: 1st July, 2018 - Workshop: 14th or 15th July, 2018 (To be confirmed) Submission Guidelines: -------------------------------- The abstract and paper submission deadline is the 28th of May 2018. Please upload the final PDF as an updated version in your existing submission on EasyChair. All submissions must obey the following formatting requirements. Submit papers of *no more than six (6)* single–spaced pages for long papers (and *four (4) for short papers*), including figures, tables, any appendices, etc., followed by as many pages as necessary for references. Submit papers formatted for printing on Letter-sized (8.5” by 11”) paper. Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column, with each column 9.25” by 3.33”, 0.33” space between columns. Each column must use 10-point font or larger, and contain no more than 55 lines of text. It is your responsibility to ensure that your submission satisfies the above requirements. If you are using LaTeX, you can make use of template for ACM conference proceedings. For your posters, we suggest A0 size measuring 841 × 1189 mm (33.1 × 46.8 in). Note that the workshop venue cannot accommodate posters larger than 910 × 1220 mm (36 × 48 in). All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - Full papers describing mature solutions of deep learning in safety critical systems from various engineering domains such as security networks and self-autonomous cars or more. - Short paper on early demonstrations of deep learning in safety critical systems from various engineering domains. - Posters on early works (PhD students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged) Selected papers will be invited for publication, in Journal special issues such as Journal of Machine learning (pending). Program Committee: ------------------------------- - Mariam Kiran, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - John Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, US - Samir Khan, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Takehisa Yairi, University of Tokyo, Japan - Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, US Organizing committee: -------------------------------------- Mariam Kiran, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Samir Khan University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to <mkiran(a)es.net , khan(a)ailab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.

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Call for Workshop Paper: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 12 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2018 and their submission deadlines: *7th International Workshop on Cyber Crimes (IWCC) *13th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2013) / 29.04.2018 *2ne International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT (IoT-SECFOR) 30.04.2018 *International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence (WCTI) 30.04.2018 *11th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF) 30.04.2018 *1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT) 04.05.2018 *4th International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE) 06.05.2018 *International Workshop on Security Engineering for Cloud Computing (IWSECC) 13.05.2018 *5th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW) 13.05.2018 *7th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA) 14.05.2018 *Workshop on Security and Privacy-Enhanced Big Data (SPEBD) 15.05.2018 *2nd International Workshop on Criminal Usw of Information Hiding (CUING) 27.05.2018 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops in conjunction with ARES 2016, in Salzburg, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the fourth time in conjunction with ARES 2018. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 6 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *European projects Clustering workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy (EcoSP) 25.04.2018 *3rd Workshop on Security, Privacy and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID) 02.05.2018 *1st International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management (CyberTIM) 04.05.2018 *International Workshop on Organized Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Terrorist Networks (IWOCCTN) 13.05.2018 *Workshop on 5G Network Security (5G-NS) 15.05.2018 *International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Port Infrastructures (PCSCP) / no paper submissions ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg Program Committee Chairs Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken and Korea University, Seoul ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018

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MobiSPC 2018 CfPs: The 15th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, Gran Canaria, Spain FINAL CALL
by Davidekova Monika 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

CallforPapers The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC'18), August 13-15, 2018, Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…> IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 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-2018 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-2018 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 2018 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<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsevie…> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.science…>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthomsonreut…>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enginee…>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ei.org%…>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdblp.uni-tr…>). 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: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springe…>) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cai.sk%…>) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.…>) MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with The 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'18). http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…> Venue MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Committees General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chairs Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, Universite de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…>

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CFP - Intl. Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing (ICSP'18)
by Peter Mueller 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Call for Papers ******************************************************************************* 2018 International Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing ICSP 2018 September 28-30, 2018, Singapore URL: http://icsp.org/ ******************************************************************************* 2018 Internatoinal Conference on Information Communication and Signal Processing (ICSP 2018) will be held in Singapore on September 28-30, 2018. It focuses on all technical and practical aspects of information communication and signal processing. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on information communication and signal processing, and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Publication: Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and submitted for Ei Compendex and Scopus index. CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Conference General Chairs Prof. Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Conference Co-chair Prof. Xudong Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, International Technical Committee International Conference Technical Committees Prof. Chawalit Benjangkaprasert, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand Assoc. Prof. Juan Avalo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Dr. Wan Nural Jawahir Hj Wan Yussof, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia SUBMISSION METHOD Full Paper (publication and oral presentation) Abstract (oral presentation only) Electronic Submission System (pdf) http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsp2018 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 Notification Deadline: June 5, 2018 Registration Deadline: June 20, 2018 CONTACT US Ms. Rachel Cao Email: iiicspconference(a)163.com Tel: +86-13880104217

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[MobiSPC-2018] FINAL submission deadline: April 20! Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing. Gran Canaria, Spain (July 13-15, 2018)
by Wim Ectors 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 13-15, 2018 Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-2018 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-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: February 10, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the 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 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/) . MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chair StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale SupŽrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, UniversitŽ de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Kšrner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees

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6th School on Universal Logic : call for participation
by Christophe REY 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In exactly two months will start in Vichy, France the 6th School on Universal Logic http://www.uni-log.org/ULS6 This is a 5-day school with 30 tutorials on all aspects of logic (historical, philosophical, mathematical, computational) given by scholars from all over the world. The school will start by a round table "why study logic?" and will end with a round table "how to publish?" There also will be a poster session and the school will be followed by a 6-day congress. Some videos introducing UNILOG 2018 school tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018 https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018 https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________ Christophe Rey Co-chair of the organizing committee of UNILOG 2018 UNILOG 2018 : Website <https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018> - Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/> - Registration <https://api.dsi.uca.fr/paybag/registration/form/event/UNILOG2018> - Youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw> MCF / Associate professor - Université Clermont Auvergne Email <mailto:christophe.rey@uca.fr> - Homepage <http://fc.isima.fr/%7Ecrey/> Laboratoire LIMOS Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux 1 rue de la Chebarde TSA 60125 - CS 60026 63178 AUBIERE cedex Tel : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 37 Fax : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 01 IUT d'Allier, Dept MMI Vichy Pôle Universitaire Lardy 1, av. des Célestins 03200 VICHY Tel : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 92 Fax : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 78 ___________________________________________________

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