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Postdoc Research Fellow position in autonomous cyber-physical systems security at ADSC Singapore
by Tan Rui (Assoc Prof) 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Postdoc Research Fellow position in autonomous cyber-physical systems security at ADSC Singapore A Research Fellow position is immediately available at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) to conduct research and development for a new project in autonomous cyber-physical systems. The project aims at studying both internal and external attacks in autonomous cyber-physical systems using learning-based approaches. The successful candidate will work on designing the attack strategy for the adversary and defence strategy for the system operator using the machine learning or deep learning techniques. The specific task will include problem formulation, machine learning or deep learning algorithm designing and testing. Qualification requirements: - Phd in computer science or electrical engineering. - Experience in machine learning or deep learning. Skills requirements: - Familiar with Python, or C/C++ programming - Experience in cyber security or cyber-physical system is a plus - Capability of independent research - Good communication skills, and work under stress How to apply: Interested candidates can apply at https://my.engr.illinois.edu/apply To receive prompt review, please also send a copy of CV to lou.xin(a)adsc-create.edu.sg. Shortlisted candidates will be notified. Illinois At Singapore Pte. Ltd./ Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) is a university-related organization affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) established 2009 for the conduct of research in Singapore with founding funding from National Research Foundation (NRF). ADSC operates in Singapore under the Singapore-chartered Illinois at Singapore Pte. Ltd. in partnership with NRF and interfaces with UIUC in the USA for many of its support functions. ADSC is home to approximately 50 researchers and students focusing on breakthrough innovations in information technologies supporting interactive cyber infrastructures that are expected to have a major impact in transforming humans’ use of information in data-intensive, technologically developed societies. ADSC’s research mission is carried out through projects that facilitate interactions among UIUC researchers, local researchers and their industry partners. Through this, ADSC aims to enhance Singapore’s position as a hub for leading edge research. For more information about this area at ADSC, please visit ADSC's website: http://adsc.illinois.edu/ ________________________________ 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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[Abstract Deadline in 1 Week] - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Abstract Submission deadline for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 is in one week. Please register your papers before the deadline. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) More information can be found at the call for papers: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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[MHPC] Meet with us!
by Master in HPC 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

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ScalA@SC21 CFP - Papers due August 27
by Engelmann, Christian 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA21: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC21: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis November 19, 2021, St. Louis, MO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. With the advent of Big Data and AI in the past few years the need of such scalable mathematical methods and algorithms able to handle data and compute intensive applications at scale becomes even more important. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers at a length of at least 6 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages and not exceeding 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically at <https://submissions.supercomputing.org>. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair, Christian Engelmann at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov, for more information. Important Web Sites ------------------- - ScalA21 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> - ScalA21 Submissions: <https://submissions.supercomputing.org> - SC21 website: <http://sc21.supercomputing.org/> Important Dates --------------- - Full paper submission: August 27, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2021 - Final paper submission (firm): TBD - Workshop/conference early registration: October 15, 2021 - Workshop: 8:30am - 12pm CST, November 19, 2021 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale, including Data Science approaches in dealing with Big Data - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2023) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience (including ones enabling Big Data processing) Workshop Chairs --------------- - Vassil Alexandrov, Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair ---------------------- - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Contact at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Committee ----------------- - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Marco Berghoff, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Yasuhiro Idomura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Paul Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Kengo Nakajima, RIKEN, Japan - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. Senior Scientist & Group Leader Intelligent Systems and Facilities Group Advanced Computing Systems Research Section Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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2nd CFP - 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming (ICLP-DC 2021)
by Miguel Areias 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP DC 2021 - 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming ========================================================================= The 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. The preliminary website of the DC can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/iclp-dc-2021/iclp-2021-doctoral-consortium The DC will take place during the 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt (September 20-27, 2021), as a fully virtual event. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to make a presentation in a session of the main ICLP conference. Important Dates *************** Paper submission: July 15, 2021 Notification: August 01, 2021 Camera-ready copy: August 10, 2021 DC presentations: TBA (fully virtual event) DC students are highly recommended to attend the Autumn School on Logic Programming and Constraint Programming (https://sites.google.com/view/iclp-dc-2021/autumn-school-on-logic-programmi…) Audience ******** The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ** Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning, Knowledge representation. ** Languages: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming Techniques. ** Declarative programming: Declarative program development, Analysis, Type and mode inference, Partial evaluation, Abstract interpretation, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution visualization. ** Implementation: Virtual machines, Compilation, Memory management, Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling, Foreign interfaces, User interfaces. ** Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming, Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Logic programming techniques for type inference and theorem proving, Argumentation, Probabilistic Logic Programming, Relations to object-oriented and Functional programming. ** Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data integration and federation, Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences, Education, Cybersecurity, and Robotics. Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC offers participants a convenient, more informal way to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations. The Doctoral Consortium will also provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. Discussants *********** Renowned experts and researchers in the fields of logic and constraint programming will join in evaluating submissions and will participate in the DC, providing valuable feedback to DC participants. Goals ***** ** To provide doctoral students working in the fields of logic and constraint programming with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback. ** To provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics. ** To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. ** To support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. Submission Details ****************** Submissions of the research summary must be made in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/) and submitted via EasyChair. All papers must be written in English and should be between 5 and 10 pages. For all accepted DC papers, the student is required to attend the DC program and give a presentation during the DC. A program committee consisting of experts in various areas related to logic and constraint programming reviews the submissions. Papers are reviewed by at least two, and usually three, referees. The submission package should consist of the research summary in the format mentioned above, a short vita or cover letter of the applicant, a letter of recommendation from applicant's faculty advisor, and one paragraph statement outlining how the school will benefit the applicant. All material is to be submitted electronically, in PDF format on the Easychair system. Easychair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021 (Doctoral Consortium track) Research summary (make sure to include your complete name, address, and affiliation): The body of your research summary (no more than 10 pages, but 5 is fine as well!) should provide a clear overview of your research, its potential impact, and its current status. You are encouraged to include the following sections: ** Introduction and problem description ** Background and overview of the existing literature ** Goal of the research ** Current status of the research ** Preliminary results accomplished (if any) ** Open issues and expected achievements ** Bibliographical references Review Criteria *************** The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Participants typically have settled on their thesis directions and have their research proposal accepted by their thesis committee. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. Registration ************ Registration is part of the ICLP 2021 registration. Registration costs for ICLP will be lower than usual since it is virtual this year. We aim to find sponsoring to cover the registration cost of students participating in the DC, but this still has to be confirmed. Program co-chairs ***************** Bart Bogaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria Program Committee ***************** Daniela Inclezan, Miami University OH Johannes Fichte, TU Dresden Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara Gregory Gelfond, University of Nebraska at Omaha Zeynep G. Saribatur, Vienna University of Technology Frank Valencia, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Matthias Van der Hallen, KU Leuven Yi Wang, Arizona State University Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria

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Phd opprtunities @University of Lille and INRIA
by El-ghazali Talbi 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

*** Re-Posting - Please help distribute it to interested once **** 2 PhD Opportunity in optimization, metaheuristics and deep learning - Deadline July 30, 2021 1. "Multi-criteria design and optimization of deep learning models: Application to embedded systems". Collaboration with IRT-SystemX Paris Saclay. See the linkhttps://www.irt-systemx.fr/recrutement/multi-criteria-automated-design-and-optimization-of-deep-neural-networks/ for more details. 2. "Optimization of deep learning models for spacio-temporel prediction", Collaboration with EDF Paris Saclay. contact: Prof. El-Ghazali TALBI, e-mail:el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille.fr -- ********************************************************************** META'2021 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-30 Oct 2021, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** OLA'2022 International Conference on Optimization and Learning July 2022, Sicilia, Italy *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS guide2research.com

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[CFP]13th Int. Conf. on on Neural Computation Theory and Applications :: New Submission Deadline - July 2nd
by Alessio Martino 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

CALL FOR PAPERS 13th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications New Regular/Position Paper Submission Deadline: July 02, 2021 http://www.ncta.ijcci.org/ <http://www.ncta.ijcci.org/> October 25 - 27, 2021 Online Streaming In Cooperation with Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale Neural computation and artificial neural networks, especially in relation to deep learning, have seen an explosion of interest over the recent decades, and are being successfully applied across an extraordinary range of problem domains, in areas as diverse as finance, medicine, engineering, geology and physics, in problems of complex dynamics and complex behavior prediction, classification or control. Several architectures, learning strategies and algorithms have been introduced in this highly dynamic field in the last couple of decades. Nowadays, having reached notable scientific and applicative maturity, neural computation and related techniques are considered as major basis toward the completion of intelligent artificial systems. This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of neural computing systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields. Conference Chair(s) Juan Julian Merelo, University of Granada, Spain Kevin Warwick (honorary), University of Reading and Coventry University, United Kingdom Program Chair(s) H. K. Lam, King's College London, United Kingdom Marie Cottrell, Université Paris1, France With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: Susana Vieira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joseph Rynkiewicz, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Carlos Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University, Germany Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a SCI Series book. All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal. Kind regards, Mónica Saramago NCTA Secretariat Web: http://www.ncta.ijcci.org/ <http://www.ncta.ijcci.org/> e-mail: ncta.secretariat(a)insticc.org <mailto:ncta.secretariat@insticc.org> ________________________________________ Alessio Martino, PhD, Research Fellow Italian National Research Council Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Rome, Italy <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Via+S.+Martino+della+Battaglia,+44,+00185…> Phone: (+39)0644362370-5 E-mail: alessio.martino(a)istc.cnr.it <mailto:alessio.martino@istc.cnr.it> Web: www.istc.cnr.it/en <http://www.istc.cnr.it/en>

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Deadlines Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper submission deadlines for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 are approaching. Please note that these are hard deadlines and no further extension will be granted. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) More information can be found at the call for papers: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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CFP - Workshop on Goal-directed Execution of Answer Set Programs (GDE 2021)
by Miguel Areias 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS GDE 2021: Workshop on Goal-directed Execution of Answer Set Programs https://utdallas.edu/~gupta/gde21 ========================================================================= A workshop of 37th International Conference on Logic Programming September 20-27, 2021 (the event will be virtual) ========================================================================= Workshop Aim: ************* Answer set programming is a successful extension of logic programming for solving combinatorial problems as well as knowledge representation and reasoning problems. Most current implementations of ASP work by grounding a program and using a SAT solver-like technology to find the answer sets. While this approach is extremely efficient, relying on grounding of the program leads to significant blow-up of the program size, and computing the whole model makes finding justification of an atom in the model hard. This limits the applicability of ASP to problems dealing with large knowledge bases. Goal-directed or query-driven execution strategies have been proposed that do not require grounding. The goal of this workshop is to foster discussion around challenges and opportunities that such approaches present. Tentative list of topics include: ********************************* * Non-grounding based implementations of ASP * Constructive Negation * Implementation Technology for Goal-directed ASP * Applications of Goal-directed ASP * Query-driven Constraint ASP * System Description * Tabling in goal-directed ASP Systems * Coinductive Logic Programming and ASP Submission Instructions: ************************ Technical papers, position papers, as well as extended abstracts are welcome. Papers should be maximum 15 pages long and in LNCS Format. Email the paper in pdf format to the workshop organizers by the deadline date. Important Dates: **************** Paper Submission: August 5, 2021 Decision Notification: August 15, 2021 Workshop Date: TBA (During one of ICLP'21 Conference days) Invited Speakers: ***************** TBA Organizers: *********** *Gopal Gupta, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Gopal.Gupta(a)utdallas.edu *Joaquin Arias, Joaquin Arias, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; Joaquin.Arias(a)urjc.es *Elmer Salazar, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA; Elmer.Salazar(a)utdallas.edu Program Committee: ****************** TBA =========================================================================

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Research Opportunity: AI/ML for anomaly detection and metric forecasting in data center operations
by Tommaso Cucinotta 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Dear all, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) is offering 2 yearly (renewable) research associate positions in the area of "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning supporting anomaly detection and metric forecasting in data center operations", an industrial research project funded by the Vodafone network operator. In the context of this collaboration, software-based solutions embedding appropriate AI/ML techniques are being engineered to be connected to the data processing pipeline supporting operations within the Vodafone network. The realized components need to be inherently scalable leveraging on cloud computing technologies, having to process data coming from NFV data centers across 12 EU member countries. The resulting system will constitute a valuable element in the decision making process within the Vodafone /Network Virtual Infrastructure Design team/ for operations dealing with resource management, capacity planning and performance troubleshooting. The results of the research are expected to be published in the form of patents and scientific publications at relevant international venues. More information about the project is available at: English: https://www.santannapisa.it/en/news/artificial-intelligence-telecommunicati… Italian: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/news/intelligenza-artificiale-e-telecomunica… Additional information is also available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-research-positions-ai-nfv-scuola-superio… The call for applications (due on July, 19th 2021) is available at: English: https://www.santannapisa.it/en/assegni-di-ricerca-e-selezioni/institute-com… Italian: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/assegni-di-ricerca-e-selezioni/istituto-di-t… Should you need further information, don't hesitate to write me. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues. Thanks and regards, Tommaso Cucinotta -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Associate Professor in Computer Engineering, PhD Head of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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[High Performance Computing] Become a specialist!
by Master in HPC 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

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Deadlines Extended - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper submission deadlines for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 have been extended. Please note that the updated deadlines are hard deadlines and no further extension will be granted. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) The updated Call for Papers follows below. The same can be downloaded from: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/ HiPC 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS 28th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 17–20 December 2021 in Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (a.l.varbanescu(a)uva.nl) Data Science: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India (simmhan(a)iisc.ac.in) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, USA Applications: Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA Architecture: Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA System Software: Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Zeyi Wen, University of Western Australia, Australia Scalable Systems and Software: Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2021 will be the 28th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the six tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms, and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). SCALABLE DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies, and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) Notification of Initial Decisions: 27 September, 2021 Deadline for Revised Submission: 18 October, 2021 Notification of Final Decisions: 25 October, 2021 Camera Ready Due (for all accepted papers): 7 November, 2021 MANUSCRIPT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Abstracts of no more than 300 words must be submitted by the abstract submission deadline. The title and abstract submitted by this deadline should have sufficient detail and not just be a placeholder. 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 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted paper should list the authors and their affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers must be submitted under one of the 6 technical tracks listed above. The topics listed under each track are representative, but not exhaustive. A published proceeding will be available at the conference. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address above for further information or clarification. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper in person is a requirement of publication for a physical conference. Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic situation evolves, the presentation may be in person or in a virtual format. Details of these will be specified at the time of paper acceptance.[a] Any paper not meeting requirements will not be included in the conference proceedings under IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high-quality papers in HiPC 2021 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021. REVIEW PROCESS All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. The initial decision for the submission may be Accept, Reject or Revise. Papers that are recommended for revision will have to address the comments from the reviewers, and submit a revised article along with a summary of changes. This will go through a light review and the final decision will be communicated.

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Reminder - CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2021 - Papers due June 14 (2nd extension)
by Thomas Naughton 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

14th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> in conjunction with the 27th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Lisbon, Portugal August 30 - September 3, 2021 <http://2021.euro-par.org> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2021 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> - Resilience 2021 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2021> (Select "WS06" Track) - Euro-Par 2021 website: <http://2021.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 14, 2021 (23:59 AoE) [2nd Extension] - Workshop author notification: June 30, 2021 - Workshop author registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings, due in EasyChair): July 14, 2021 - Workshop date: August 30 or 31, 2021 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 10, 2021 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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CFP - Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP 2021)
by Miguel Areias 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS PLP 2021: The Eighth Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming http://stoics.org.uk/plp/plp2021 ========================================================================= A workshop of 37th International Conference on Logic Programming September 20-27, 2021 (the event will be virtual) ========================================================================= ** Deadline for submissions: August 1st 2021 Overview ******** Probabilistic logic programming (PLP) approaches have received much attention in this century. They address the need to reason about relational domains under uncertainty arising in a variety of application domains, such as bioinformatics, the semantic web, robotics, and many more. Developments in PLP include new languages that combine logic programming with probability theory, as well as algorithms that operate over programs in these formalisms. The workshop encompasses all aspects of combining logic, algorithms, programming and probability. PLP is part of a wider current interest in probabilistic programming. By promoting probabilities as explicit programming constructs, inference, parameter estimation and learning algorithms can be ran over programs which represent highly structured probability spaces. Due to logic programming's strong theoretical underpinnings, PLP is one of the more disciplined areas of probabilistic programming. It builds upon and benefits from the large body of existing work in logic programming, both in semantics and implementation, but also presents new challenges to the field. PLP reasoning often requires the evaluation of large number of possible states before any answers can be produced thus breaking the sequential search model of traditional logic programs. While PLP has already contributed a number of formalisms, systems and well understood and established results in: parameter estimation, tabling, marginal probabilities and Bayesian learning, many questions remain open in this exciting, expanding field in the intersection of AI, machine learning and statistics. This workshop provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of results and preliminary work, in the following areas * probabilistic logic programming formalisms * parameter estimation * statistical inference * implementations * structure learning * reasoning with uncertainty * constraint store approaches * stochastic and randomised algorithms * probabilistic knowledge representation and reasoning * constraints in statistical inference * applications, such as * * bioinformatics * * semantic web * * robotics * probabilistic graphical models * Bayesian learning * tabling for learning and stochastic inference * MCMC * stochastic search * labelled logic programs * integration of statistical software This list is by no means exhaustive. Purpose ******** After seven successful editions of this workshop, the eighth edition of PLP will be held at the ICLP virtual conference organised by the University of Porto. We hope that this encourages further collaboration between researchers in PLP and researchers working in other areas of ICLP. Submissions *********** Submissions will be managed via EasyChair (to be announced). Contributions should be prepared in the LNCS style. A mixture of papers are sought including: new results; work in progress; and technical summaries of recent substantial contributions. Papers presenting new results should be 6-15 pages in length. Work in progress and technical summaries can be shorter (2-5 pages). The workshop proceedings will clearly indicate the type of each paper. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. Publication *********** Informal proceedings will be made available electronically to attendees and submitted to CEUR Workshop Proceedings repository (http://ceur-ws.org/) The proceedings will consist of clearly marked sections corresponding to the different types of submissions accepted. Deadlines ********* Papers due: August 1st, 2021 Notification to authors: September 1st, 2021 Camera ready version due: September 10th, 2021 Workshop date: September 20-27, 2021 (all dates are AoE) Invited Speaker(s) ****************** TBA Programme Committee Chairs ************************** Rafael Penaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Felix Weitkämper (LMU München, Germany) Programme Committee ******************* TBA =========================================================================

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The IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Webinar, June 15, 2021 at 12pm CET (Online Free Event)
by Bahman Javadi 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

The IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) is organising a webinar on June 15th, 2021 at 12pm CET. The aim of the webinar is to support researchers and students with an interest in the areas of Cloud/Edge/Fog for fostering discussions with experts. Given the current limitations to organise face-to-face conferences, we plan to keep the research community connected and engaged with emerging research topics. The first seminar for 2021 will focus on “Future Directions in Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing”. Webpage: https://tc.computer.org/tccld/ieee-tccld_webinar-2121/ Date and time: 15 June, 2021, 12pm CET Academic Presenter: Prof. Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Industry Presenter: Dr Paul Harvey, Rakuten Mobile, Japan Moderators/Contributors: A/Prof. Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Dr. Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK Agenda: Academic Presentation (20 min) Questions/Answers (10 min) Industry Presentation (20 min) Questions/Answers (10 min) Open Discussions (50 min) Wrap-up (10 min) Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mjZ_DNWltJxWYfj1xVeWsLojJNrB6MdRXdxnntT5CT…

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CFP - Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming (CAUSAL 2021)
by Miguel Areias 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS CAUSAL 2021: Workshop on Causal Reasoning and Explanation in Logic Programming https://sites.google.com/view/causal2021/ ========================================================================= A workshop of 37th International Conference on Logic Programming September 20-27, 2021 (the event will be virtual) ========================================================================= Important Dates *************** * Paper submission: July 17th 2021 * Notification: July 31st 2021 * Final Versions: August 15th 2021 * Workshop Date: TBA (in September 20-27, 2021) Overview ******** Sophisticated causal reasoning has long been prevalent in human society and continues to have an undeniable impact on the advancement of science, technology, medicine, and other significant fields. From the development of ancient tools to modern roots of causal analysis in business and industry, reasoning about causality and having the ability to explain causal mechanisms enables us to identify how an outcome of interest came to be and gives insight into how to bring about, or even prevent, similar outcomes in future scenarios. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of logic programming with a dedicated focus on methods and trends emerging from the study of causality and explanation. We welcome the submission of papers on systems, tools, and applications of logic programming methods for causal reasoning and explanation. In particular, we encourage submissions presenting recent developments, including works in progress. The workshop will present the latest research and application developments in these areas and provide opportunities to discuss current and future research directions and relationships to other fields (e.g. Machine Learning, Diagnosis, Natural Language Processing and Understanding, Philosophy of Science). An important expected outcome of this workshop is to collect first-hand feedback from the ICLP community about the role and placement of causal reasoning and explanation in the landscape of modern computer theory as well as in the software industry. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): ***************************************************** * Modeling causal theories in logic programming * Formalization of types of causes: sufficient, necessary, actual, etc * Causality, temporal reasoning and action theories * Causality and counterfactual reasoning * Causality, learning and experimental design * Causality and probability * Causality and equivalence * Causality and ontology * Learning causal relations and information * Novel causal benchmarks * Relating LP based causality and Causal Networks * Challenging problems and benchmark examples * Justifications and argumentation * Explainable AI * Explanations for diagnosis and debugging * Tools, systems and applications Submissions must describe original research and be prepared using the Springer LNAI/LNCS format, available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… The workshop invites submissions of two types: * Full papers not exceeding 13 pages (excluding references) * Extended abstracts not exceeding 3 pages (excluding references) Please submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causal2021 At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Please check the ICLP 2021 website (https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/) for registration procedure and fees. We are planning to publish a special issue with selected workshop papers. Organizers ********** * Emily LeBlanc, US Naval Research Lab, USA (emily.leblanc(a)nrl.navy.mil) * Joost Vennekens, KU Leuven, Belgium * Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA * Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Spain * Jorge Fandiño, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA * Marcello Balduccini, Saint Joseph's University, USA * Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA =========================================================================

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Press Release - AEiC 2021, Ada-Europe Reliable Softw. Technol.
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 30 May '21

30 May '21

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-10 June 2021, Virtual Event www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 *** Check out tutorials! *** www.ada-europe.org/conference2021/tutorials.html *** Don't miss the thematic social events on Tuesday and Wednesday *** *** Full Program available on the conference web site *** *** Register now! *** #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 25th Ada-Europe Int'l Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in virtual conference hosted by Underline Santander, Spain (31 May 2021) - Ada-Europe together with the University of Cantabria, Spain organize from 7 to 10 June 2021 the 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021). The conference was initially scheduled to take place in Santander, Spain. According to the safety and sanitary measures under the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be a virtual event, hosted by Underline (https://underline.io) The event is in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda), on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. This year's conference offers 5 tutorials, 3 keynotes, a technical program of 7 sessions with refereed papers, invited and industrial presentations, a work-in-progress session, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Five parallel tutorials are scheduled on Monday, targeting different audiences: - "Programming mobile robots with ROS2 and the RCLAda Ada client library", by Alejandro R. Mosteo; - "Introduction to the development of safety critical software", by Jean-Pierre Rosen; - "Parallel programming with Ada and OpenMP", by Sara Royuela, S. Tucker Taft, Luis Miguel Pinho; - "Timing verification from UML & MARTE design models: techniques & tools", by Laurent Rioux, Julio Medina and Shuai Li; - "Programming shared memory computers", by Jan Verschelde. Tutorial registration is complementary for conference participants. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday under the Expo area in the virtual platform and also in the Lounge, which is the networking area. It runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, and Ada-Europe. All conference participants are invited to the exhibition as well as to the virtual social events. Three eminent speakers have been invited to deliver a keynote at each of the core conference days: - Ángel Conde, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence team leader at IKERLAN (Spain), who will present his work on "Software reliability in the Big Data era with an industry-minded focus"; - Alfons Crespo, who is with the Institute of Automation and Industrial Informatics of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), will give an answer to the question "Why hypervisor-based approach is the best alternative for mixed-criticality systems"; - Tucker Taft, who is Director of Language Research at AdaCore (USA), will talk on "A sampling of Ada 2022". The technical program from Tuesday to Thursday presents 13 refereed technical papers and 5 invited, 6 industrial and 4 vendor presentations in sessions on: - Scheduling and mixed-criticality systems, - Software modeling, - Autonomous systems, - Ada issues and Ravenscar, - Validation and verification tools, - Emerging applications with reliability requirements, - Safety challenges. In addition, there is a work-in-progress session including 8 presentations and associated posters. Peer-reviewed papers have been submitted to a special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture and are heading towards final acceptance as open-access publications. Industrial and work-in-progress presentations, together with tutorial abstracts, will be offered publication in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The social program is hosted in a space under the gather.town environment that allows informal and lively gathering of the participants. This space has different areas, such as rooms, tables, and corners where a participant can approach to talk though videoconferencing with participants in the same virtual area. This facility will be used for the breaks, poster session, exhibition and social events. Don't miss the thematic social events at the end of each core conference day. The Best Presentation Award will be offered during the Closing session. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The "Final Program" is available at www.ada-europe.org/conference2021/final-program.pdf. Check out the tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at www.ada-europe.org/conference2021/tutorials.html. Registration fees are lower than ever and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 or go directly to https://registration.ada-europe.org. The technical sessions are designed with the flipped-conference concept, where the audience can access pre-recorded presentation materials in advance. The live sessions are devoted to short presentations of the highlights of each contribution, allowing ample time for questions and answers with the presenter. The recorded materials will also be available for some time after their sessions. The program runs between 12:30 and 18:30 CEST, to allow participation from different time zones. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at www.ada-europe.org/conference2021. AEiC 2021 is sponsored by AdaCore (www.adacore.com) Ellidiss (www.ellidiss.com) PTC Developer Tools (www.ptc.com/developer-tools) Universidad de Cantabria (web.unican.es/en), and Vector (www.vector.com/at/en) Help promote the conference by advertising it. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AEiC2021. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021), Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be * 25th Ada-Europe Int. Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) * June 7-10, 2021 * online event * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 **

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SARL Agent Programming Language 0.12
by Stéphane Galland 28 May '21

28 May '21

Dear Colleagues. The version 0.12 of the SARL Agent Programming Language is release ( http://www.sarl.io) This language enables you to create an application with agent-oriented concepts, inspired by the ASPECS methodology and the CRIO metamodel. Changes are listed in: http://www.sarl.io/download/changes_0.12.html Have fun. Prof. Dr Stéphane GALLAND

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Call For Short Papers - 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
by Miguel Areias 26 May '21

26 May '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021) ========================================================================= We are pleased to announce our distinguished invited speakers. ** William W. Cohen, Google AI ** John Hooker, CMU ** Phokion Kolaitis, UC Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden ** Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley ** Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University ========================================================================= Contributions are sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not restricted to: ** Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning, Knowledge representation. ** Languages issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming techniques. ** Programming support: Program analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution visualization. ** Implementation: Compilation, Virtual machines, Memory management, Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling, Foreign interfaces, User interfaces. ** Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and coinductive logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming, Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Theorem proving, Argumentation, Probabilistic programming, Machine learning. ** Applications: Databases, Big data, Data integration and federation, Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and semantic web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences, Cybersecurity, Robotics, Education. Important Dates *************** ** Short Paper Submission: July 4, 2021 ** Notification: July 30, 2021 ** Camera-ready copy due: August 10, 2021 ** Conference: September 20--27, 2021 Submission Details ****************** Expected submissions must follow the instructions: ** Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/) including references) can describe published research. The accepted short papers that describe original and previously unpublished work will be published as technical communications, along with the selected ICLP technical communications papers. The accepted short papers that describe published research will be made available at the conference webpage, with the permission of the authors. All submissions must be written in English. Accepted technical communications will be presented during the conference. Authors of accepted technical communications will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Submissions will be done via EasyChair. The submission Web page for ICLP2021 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021 More details ************ https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt Any additional question can be directed towards ICLP Chairs: iclp2021(a)easychair.org =========================================================================

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[SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series 2021]: Call for papers
by Sanjay Purushotham 25 May '21

25 May '21

CFP: 2021 SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series [apologies for cross-posting] CFP Webpage: https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2021/#call* (Deadline: June 1, 2021)* -------------------------------------------------------------- 7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021 Aug 14th, 2021 - KDD Virtual Conference https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2021/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- KEY DATES ---------------- *Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time*Author Notification: June 28, 2021 Camera Ready Version: July 5, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021 ------------------------------------------------- MiLeTS is the premier KDD workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series. Time series data are ubiquitous. In domains as diverse as finance, entertainment, transportation, and health care, we observe a fundamental shift away from parsimonious, infrequent measurement to nearly continuous monitoring and recording. Rapid advances in diverse sensing technologies, ranging from remote sensors to wearables and social sensing, are generating rapid growth in the size and complexity of time series archives. Thus, although time series analysis has been studied extensively, its importance only continues to grow. What is more, modern time series data pose significant challenges to existing techniques (e.g., irregular sampling in hospital records and spatiotemporal structure in climate data). Finally, time series mining research is challenging and rewarding because it bridges a variety of disciplines and demands interdisciplinary solutions. Now is the time to discuss the next generation of temporal mining algorithms. The focus of MiLeTS workshop is to synergize the research in this area and discuss both new and open problems in time series analysis and mining. The solutions to these problems may be algorithmic, theoretical, statistical, or systems-based in nature. Further, MiLeTS emphasizes applications to high impact or relatively new domains, including but not limited to biology, health and medicine, climate and weather, road traffic, astronomy, and energy. The MiLeTS workshop will discuss a broad variety of topics related to time series, including: · Time series pattern mining and detection, representation, searching and indexing, classification, clustering, prediction, forecasting, and rule mining. · BIG time series data. · Hardware acceleration techniques using GPUs, FPGAs and special processors. · Online, high-speed learning and mining from streaming time series. · Uncertain time series mining. · Privacy preserving time series mining and learning. · Time series that are multivariate, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, etc., or that possess other atypical properties. · Time series with special structure: spatiotemporal (e.g., wind patterns at different locations), relational (e.g., patients with similar diseases), hierarchical, etc. · Time series with sparse or irregular sampling, non-random missing values, and special types of measurement noise or bias. · Time series analysis using less traditional approaches, such as deep learning and subspace clustering. · Applications to high impact or relatively new time series domains, such as health and medicine, road traffic, and air quality. · New, open, or unsolved problems in time series analysis and mining. ------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ Submissions should follow the SIGKDD formatting requirements and will be evaluated using the SIGKDD Research Track evaluation criteria. Preference will be given to papers that are reproducible, and authors are encouraged to share their data and code publicly whenever possible. Submissions are strongly recommended to be no more than 4 pages, excluding references or supplementary materials (all in a single pdf). The appropriateness of using additional pages over the recommended length will be judged by reviewers. All submissions must be in pdf format using the workshop template (latex, word). Submissions will be managed via the MiLeTS 2021 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=milets2021. *Note on open problem submissions:* To promote new and innovative research on time series, we plan to accept a small number of high-quality manuscripts describing open problems in time series analysis and mining. Such papers should provide a clear, detailed description and analysis of a new or open problem that poses a significant challenge to existing techniques, as well as a thorough empirical investigation demonstrating that current methods are insufficient. *COVID-19 Time Series Analysis Special Track:* The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting almost everyone worldwide and is expected to have life-altering short and long-term effects. There are many potential applications of time series analysis and mining that can contribute to the understanding of this pandemic. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts describing original problems, time-series datasets, and novel solutions for time series analysis and forecasting of COVID-19. The review process is single-round and double-blind (submission files have to be anonymized). Concurrent submissions to other journals and conferences are acceptable. Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop and listed on the website. Besides, a small number of accepted papers will be selected to be presented as contributed talks. Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com. ----------------- KEY DATES ----------------- *Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time*Author Notification: June 28, 2021 Camera Ready Version: July 5, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021 ------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Sanjay Purushotham University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yaguang Li Google Zhengping Che Didi Chuxing -------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- Eamonn Keogh University of California Riverside Yan Liu University of Southern California Abdullah Mueen University of New Mexico ------------- Contact: -------------- Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com.

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Deadlines Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 24 May '21

24 May '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021: Deadlines Approaching Abstract Submission Deadline: 4 June, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 11 June, 2021 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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CFP - 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming (ICLP-DC 2021)
by Miguel Areias 21 May '21

21 May '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP DC 2021 - 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming ========================================================================= The 17th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and experts in the field. The preliminary website of the DC can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/iclp-dc-2021/iclp-2021-doctoral-consortium The DC will take place during the 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt (September 20-27, 2021), as a fully virtual event. The best paper from the DC will be given the opportunity to make a presentation in a session of the main ICLP conference. Important Dates *************** Paper submission: July 15, 2021 Notification: August 01, 2021 Camera-ready copy: August 10, 2021 DC presentations: TBA (fully virtual event) DC students are highly recommended to attend the Autumn School on Logic Programming and Constraint Programming (https://sites.google.com/view/iclp-dc-2021/autumn-school-on-logic-programmi…) Audience ******** The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Master's program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply for participation in the DC. Applicants are expected to conduct research in areas related to logic and constraint programming; topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ** Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning, Knowledge representation. ** Languages: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming Techniques. ** Declarative programming: Declarative program development, Analysis, Type and mode inference, Partial evaluation, Abstract interpretation, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution visualization. ** Implementation: Virtual machines, Compilation, Memory management, Parallel/distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling, Foreign interfaces, User interfaces. ** Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and Co-inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming, Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Logic programming techniques for type inference and theorem proving, Argumentation, Probabilistic Logic Programming, Relations to object-oriented and Functional programming. ** Applications: Databases, Big Data, Data integration and federation, Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences, Education, Cybersecurity, and Robotics. Submissions by students who have presented their work at previous ICLP DC editions are allowed, but should occur only if there are substantial changes or improvements to the student's work. The DC offers participants a convenient, more informal way to interact with established researchers and fellow students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations. The Doctoral Consortium will also provide the possibility to reflect - through short activities, information sessions, and discussions - on the process and lessons of research and life in academia. Each participant will give a short, critiqued, research presentation. Discussants *********** Renowned experts and researchers in the fields of logic and constraint programming will join in evaluating submissions and will participate in the DC, providing valuable feedback to DC participants. Goals ***** ** To provide doctoral students working in the fields of logic and constraint programming with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback. ** To provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics. ** To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. ** To support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths. Submission Details ****************** Submissions of the research summary must be made in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/) and submitted via EasyChair. All papers must be written in English and should be between 5 and 10 pages. For all accepted DC papers, the student is required to attend the DC program and give a presentation during the DC. A program committee consisting of experts in various areas related to logic and constraint programming reviews the submissions. Papers are reviewed by at least two, and usually three, referees. The submission package should consist of the research summary in the format mentioned above, a short vita or cover letter of the applicant, a letter of recommendation from applicant's faculty advisor, and one paragraph statement outlining how the school will benefit the applicant. All material is to be submitted electronically, in PDF format on the Easychair system. Easychair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclp2021 (Doctoral Consortium track) Research summary (make sure to include your complete name, address, and affiliation): The body of your research summary (no more than 10 pages, but 5 is fine as well!) should provide a clear overview of your research, its potential impact, and its current status. You are encouraged to include the following sections: ** Introduction and problem description ** Background and overview of the existing literature ** Goal of the research ** Current status of the research ** Preliminary results accomplished (if any) ** Open issues and expected achievements ** Bibliographical references Review Criteria *************** The DC program committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the DC objectives. Participants typically have settled on their thesis directions and have their research proposal accepted by their thesis committee. Students will be selected based on clarity and completeness of their submission package, relevance of their research area w.r.t. the focus of ICLP, stage of research, recommendation letter, and evidence of promise towards a successful career in research and academia, such as published papers or technical reports. Registration ************ Registration is part of the ICLP 2021 registration. Registration costs for ICLP will be lower than usual since it is virtual this year. We aim to find sponsoring to cover the registration cost of students participating in the DC, but this still has to be confirmed. Program co-chairs ***************** Bart Bogaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria Program Committee ***************** Daniela Inclezan, Miami University OH Johannes Fichte, TU Dresden Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara Gregory Gelfond, University of Nebraska at Omaha Zeynep G. Saribatur, Vienna University of Technology Frank Valencia, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Matthias Van der Hallen, KU Leuven Yi Wang, Arizona State University Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2021 - Papers due June 14 (2nd extension)
by Thomas Naughton 18 May '21

18 May '21

14th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> in conjunction with the 27th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Lisbon, Portugal August 30 - September 3, 2021 <http://2021.euro-par.org> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2021 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2021> - Resilience 2021 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2021> (Select "WS06" Track) - Euro-Par 2021 website: <http://2021.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 14, 2021 (23:59 AoE) [2nd Extension] - Workshop author notification: June 30, 2021 - Workshop author registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings, due in EasyChair): July 14, 2021 - Workshop date: August 30 or 31, 2021 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 10, 2021 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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Live e-Lecture by Prof. John Shawe-Taylor: “An Introduction to PAC-Bayesian Analysis”, 18th May 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (University College London, UK), a prominent AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘An Introduction to PAC-Bayesian Analysis’, on Tuesday 18th May 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: <https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98708421450> https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98708421450 & Passcode: 148148 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media, <https://www.elise-ai.eu/> ELISE, <https://www.humane-ai.eu/> Humane AI Net, <https://tailor-network.eu/> TAILOR, <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> VISION, currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) Lectures are typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> AIDA email list and <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, N. Sebe -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series 2021]: Call for papers
by Sanjay Purushotham 11 May '21

11 May '21

Dear colleagues and researchers, CFP Webpage: https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2021/#call -------------------------------------------------------------- *7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021Aug 14th, 2021 - KDD Virtual Conference* https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2021/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- KEY DATES ---------------- *Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time* Author Notification: June 10th, 2021 Camera Ready Version: June 24th, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021 ------------------------------------------------- MiLeTS is the premier KDD workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series. Time series data are ubiquitous. In domains as diverse as finance, entertainment, transportation, and health care, we observe a fundamental shift away from parsimonious, infrequent measurement to nearly continuous monitoring and recording. Rapid advances in diverse sensing technologies, ranging from remote sensors to wearables and social sensing, are generating rapid growth in the size and complexity of time series archives. Thus, although time series analysis has been studied extensively, its importance only continues to grow. What is more, modern time series data pose significant challenges to existing techniques (e.g., irregular sampling in hospital records and spatiotemporal structure in climate data). Finally, time series mining research is challenging and rewarding because it bridges a variety of disciplines and demands interdisciplinary solutions. Now is the time to discuss the next generation of temporal mining algorithms. The focus of MiLeTS workshop is to synergize the research in this area and discuss both new and open problems in time series analysis and mining. The solutions to these problems may be algorithmic, theoretical, statistical, or systems-based in nature. Further, MiLeTS emphasizes applications to high impact or relatively new domains, including but not limited to biology, health and medicine, climate and weather, road traffic, astronomy, and energy. The MiLeTS workshop will discuss a broad variety of topics related to time series, including: · Time series pattern mining and detection, representation, searching and indexing, classification, clustering, prediction, forecasting, and rule mining. · BIG time series data. · Hardware acceleration techniques using GPUs, FPGAs and special processors. · Online, high-speed learning and mining from streaming time series. · Uncertain time series mining. · Privacy preserving time series mining and learning. · Time series that are multivariate, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, etc., or that possess other atypical properties. · Time series with special structure: spatiotemporal (e.g., wind patterns at different locations), relational (e.g., patients with similar diseases), hierarchical, etc. · Time series with sparse or irregular sampling, non-random missing values, and special types of measurement noise or bias. · Time series analysis using less traditional approaches, such as deep learning and subspace clustering. · Applications to high impact or relatively new time series domains, such as health and medicine, road traffic, and air quality. · New, open, or unsolved problems in time series analysis and mining. ------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ Submissions should follow the SIGKDD formatting requirements and will be evaluated using the SIGKDD Research Track evaluation criteria. Preference will be given to papers that are reproducible, and authors are encouraged to share their data and code publicly whenever possible. Submissions are strongly recommended to be no more than 4 pages, excluding references or supplementary materials (all in a single pdf). The appropriateness of using additional pages over the recommended length will be judged by reviewers. All submissions must be in pdf format using the workshop template (latex, word). Submissions will be managed via the MiLeTS 2021 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=milets2021. *Note on open problem submissions:* To promote new and innovative research on time series, we plan to accept a small number of high-quality manuscripts describing open problems in time series analysis and mining. Such papers should provide a clear, detailed description and analysis of a new or open problem that poses a significant challenge to existing techniques, as well as a thorough empirical investigation demonstrating that current methods are insufficient. *COVID-19 Time Series Analysis Special Track:* The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting almost everyone worldwide and is expected to have life-altering short and long-term effects. There are many potential applications of time series analysis and mining that can contribute to the understanding of this pandemic. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts describing original problems, time-series datasets, and novel solutions for time series analysis and forecasting of COVID-19. The review process is single-round and double-blind (submission files have to be anonymized). Concurrent submissions to other journals and conferences are acceptable. Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop and listed on the website. Besides, a small number of accepted papers will be selected to be presented as contributed talks. Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com. ----------------- KEY DATES ----------------- *Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time* Author Notification: June 10th, 2021 Camera Ready Version: June 24th, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021 ------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Sanjay Purushotham University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yaguang Li Google Zhengping Che Didi Chuxing -------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- Eamonn Keogh University of California Riverside Yan Liu University of Southern California Abdullah Mueen University of New Mexico ------------- Contact: -------------- Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets(a)gmail.com.

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