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

18 Oct '19

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 Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission.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

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

18 Oct '19

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, applied mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Evaluating or developing new and promising networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due December 6, 2019. Letters of Reference are due December 9, 2019. Details of the application process can be found at https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/2020-luis-j-alvarez-and-admiral-grace-m-hopper-po….

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

16 Oct '19

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

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

16 Oct '19

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

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

14 Oct '19

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

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

13 Oct '19

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

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

07 Oct '19

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

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

06 Oct '19

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

30 Sep '19

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

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

27 Sep '19

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

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

27 Sep '19

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

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

27 Sep '19

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

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

26 Sep '19

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

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

26 Sep '19

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

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

20 Sep '19

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

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

19 Sep '19

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

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

17 Sep '19

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

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

16 Sep '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 12th, 2019 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops at PDP (since 2014), we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Paper submission: 12 October 2019 Acceptance notification: 30 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2020 and select the "High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation" track. Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Program Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D'Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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

16 Sep '19

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

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

13 Sep '19

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

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

12 Sep '19

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

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

12 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WOMEN IN COMPUTING https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/ 18 December 2019 – Hyderabad, India Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever-increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. CALL FOR PAPERS Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. We invite submissions of papers on original work in interdisciplinary domains with methodologies spanning across data science and high-performance computing. Topics of interest related to methodologies include, but are not limited to the following: * IoT-based, and/or data-driven analysis, * Real-time decision making for edge computing, * Visual analytics for large-scale and/or high-dimensional data, * Machine learning or deep learning algorithms or systems, * Artificial intelligence and/or robotics, * Distributed and cloud-based systems. These methodologies must be used in solutions stemming from unique ideas to solve pertinent socially relevant problem scenarios. Scenarios in interdisciplinary domains of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Traffic planning and control, * Monitoring infant health in primary health centers, * Large-scale medical diagnosis for reducing the requirement of skilled doctors, * Low-cost ways of determining air/water quality and improving the quality, * Food processing methods that reduce wastage of produce, * Methods to reduce pesticide usage, * Solid waste collection, and management, * Women safety, * Accessibility and differently-abled inclusivity. MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, the relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the event is a requirement of publication. Papers will be selected for full-paper and short-paper types. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in the proceedings of HiPC Workshops. We require that the submission include at least one female author. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 After entering the above-mentioned Easychair page, use the hyperlink on “enter as an author”, which will redirect to a list of tracks in HiPC. Choose “Women in Computing” to make your submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Nitya Hariharan, Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Chitra P, Thiagarajar College of Engineering Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Please contact wichipc2019(a)gmail.com for any queries.

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

09 Sep '19

*********************************************************************************************** STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (SRS) HIPC 2019 DEADLINE APPROACHING *********************************************************************************************** *** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): • New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; • Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); • Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and • Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); • Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); • Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); • Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; • Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); • Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); • Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); • Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in 10 Days - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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

09 Sep '19

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

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