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

02 Dec '19

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

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

01 Dec '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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

29 Nov '19

Fellow Colleagues, following the experience of the previous edition, we propose our Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology also at IEEE WCCI 2020 (Glasgow, UK). Bioinformatics and Computational Biology deal with a wide range of problems and applications which, in recent years, have been successfully solved by means of Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques. Moreover, due to technological progress, huge amounts of data concerning biological organisms are gathered and collected (e.g. genes transcript, protein structures and the like), thereby demanding the use of parallel and distributed computing for facing Big Datasets and/or high-throughput application requirements. Further, in such fields, data usually encodes complex information, which is natively represented by structured records, such as sequences, graphs and images, most of which lie in so-called “non-metric spaces”, i.e. input spaces for which a meaningful (dis)similarity measure might not be metric, making the problem more challenging since ad-hoc (dis)similarity measures or embedding functions need to be defined. This Special Session aims at collecting the latest research in Computational Intelligence applications for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with emphasis on parallel/distributed computing and non-metric spaces analysis, by means of different (or hybridization of) Computational Intelligence techniques, from evolutionary meta-heuristics to neural computation, from pattern recognition to fuzzy systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Network and Systems Biology • Gene expression, gene regulatory networks • Sequence analysis, alignment and comparison • Biological complex systems modelling • Predictive medicine and medical image analysis • Network medicine • Large-scale data mining and pattern recognition • Distributed and parallel computing systems for machine learning and data mining • Network generative models • Graph kernels and string kernels in biology • Exact/inexact motifs and pattern matching • Granular computing approaches for non-metric space analysis • Protein folding/function prediction • Analysis of metabolic pathways • RNA/protein structure prediction More info here: https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home <https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home> Needless to say, you are all invited to join. King regards --- <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C17PBN> Alessio Martino / PhD Research Fellow alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) - University of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C4HZQK> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C6NBHT> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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CFP - The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) at IEEE Infocom'20
by Peter Mueller 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

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

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

26 Nov '19

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

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

17 Nov '19

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

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

17 Nov '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Monday 25 November 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 1 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Monday 25 November 2019. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together by the end of November. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 25, 2019, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to your proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site (see URL above). [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html> #AdaFOSDEM #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2020

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

15 Nov '19

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

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

12 Nov '19

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

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

11 Nov '19

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

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

10 Nov '19

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

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

08 Nov '19

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

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

08 Nov '19

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

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

06 Nov '19

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

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

04 Nov '19

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

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

01 Nov '19

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

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

31 Oct '19

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

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

28 Oct '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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

27 Oct '19

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

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

26 Oct '19

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

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

26 Oct '19

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

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

25 Oct '19

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

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

24 Oct '19

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University is presently offering BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, and invites outstanding applicants for the following position. *Research Assistant Professor (PR0166/19-20) * The position is created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointee will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty members in the Department. They are expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and have abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department's key research areas: (i) computational intelligence, (ii) databases and information management, (iii) networking and systems, and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. These key research areas have a special thematic focus on (a) health informatics, and (b) secure and privacy-awareness computing related applications. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract up to three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk More information about the Department can be found on its website at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. *Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Those should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 25 November 2019 (or until the position is filled)* URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=540

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

23 Oct '19

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

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

23 Oct '19

1st Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2020 - Metaheuristics Summer School ~ Learning & Optimization from Big Data ~ 27-31 July 2020, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** MESS 2020 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is ?Learning and Optimization from Big Data?, therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data. The courses will be held by world renowned experts in the field, and will be inspected practical aspects on complex combinatorial optimization problems, as well as examples of their successful real-world applications. The participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. MESS 2020 will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, therefore in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. Further, during the summer school the students will tackle homework, or project development. MESS 2020 will take place at the ?Palazzo delle Scienze?, today place of the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Catania. ** MESS 2020 Workshop All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*. ** MESS 2020 Metaheuristics Competition All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups, they will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Further, the students, whose algorithms will rank in the five top of the competition ranking, will be invited to submit a report/manuscript of their work to be published in the special MESS 2020 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** School Directors + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy + Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ -- mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy --------------------------------------------- tel: +39 095 7383034 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/mfpavone Skype: mpavone =============================================

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