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[CFP] IEEE CSCloud 2019 - Deadline extension
by Han Qiu 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Paper (CFP).] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE CSCloud 2019 - The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing - June 21–23, 2019 Paris, France http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/cscloud/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION The increasing demands of Cloud-based technologies have deeply changed people’s daily life, from various kinds of mobile applications to big data based services.One of the most promising trends is the Cloud-based solutions for small enterprises to deploy their business on Cloud servers. However, privacy and security issues along with the widely developed Cloud-based services are always becoming an obstacle for the usage of the Cloud services. IEEE CSCloud 2019 aims to gather recent achievements in cyber security and cloud computing fields. The conference invites those papers that concentrate on new paradigms, algorithms, and applications in cyber security or cloud computing. We also encourage researchers and practitioners to build up the connections between academia and industry. We aim to collect the latest achievements and exchange research ideas in the domains of intelligent data and security at this academic event. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Big data security issues and cyber crime - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Security of Web-based applications and services - Cloud users’ privacy information protection - Critical infrastructure protection in cloud/fog/edge computing - Cyber issues and solutions in fog/edge computing - Reinforcement learning-based security mechanism - Secure methods for heterogeneous cloud resource sharing - Green cloud computing mechanisms - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - New attack methods and applications - Reinforcement learning-based intelligent agent in cloud computing - Trust management in cloud/fog/edge computing - Trust and reputation systems for cloud-based applications - Emerging attack methods in cloud/fog/edge computing - Digital forensics and privacy issues in cloud computing - Anti-Forensics and Anti-Anti-Forensics Techniques - Cyber monitoring approaches - Data leakage, data protection and database forensics - Identity management and fraud management - Critical issues and solutions of Cyber security in tele-health - Cyber security in mobile embedded systems - New security cloud computing model, framework, and application - Heterogeneous clouds and vulnerabilities PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecscloud2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/cscloud/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 15, 2019 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: May 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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[CFP] IEEE EdgeCom2019 - Deadline extension
by Han Qiu 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Paper (CFP).] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE EdgeCom2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud - June 21–23, 2019 Paris, France http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION With edge devices (e.g. mobile phones, wearable devices, and IoT devices) are universally used and become more powerful, edge computing has evolved to a new computing paradigm where computing tasks are completed closer to data sources (i.e. at edge) rather than in a centralized location (e.g. in cloud). Compared with cloud computing, edge computing has many advantages: 1) Services can be done without network access. 2) Users can choose not to upload private data in exchange of cloud services. 3) Real-time service with extremely low latency is possible without the overhead of moving data to the cloud. However, the restricted resources (e.g., computation, DRAM space, and battery) of edge devices bring many new challenges to edge computing as well. IEEE Edgecom 2019 provides a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to present innovative research and best practices in edge computing, discuss the opportunities and challenges that arise from rethinking cloud computing architectures and embracing edge computing. TOPIC IEEE Edgecom 2019 welcomes contributions from diverse perspectives of edge computing, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Edge computing in IoT - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Privacy protection in edge computing - Software/Algorithm optimization for edge computing - Cyber security in mobile embedded systems - Edge computing infrastructure - Workload characterization and analysis of applications running on edge devices - Digital forensics and privacy issues in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring approaches - Case studies of real-world edge computing applications - Monitoring and diagnosis tools for edge computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - On-device artificial intelligence - Heterogeneous clouds and vulnerabilities - Secure methods for heterogeneous cloud resource sharing - Architecture support for edge computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Energy efficient edge computing - Case studies for cyber security applications - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - New attack methods and applications - Green cloud computing - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Edge-Cloud coordinated computing - Cloud-based sensor network and security issues PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeedgecom2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 15, 2019 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: May 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Deadline Extension: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2019)
by Sukumaran Rajam, Aravind 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

CALL FOR FULL PAPERS, SHORT PAPERS, POSTER PAPERS, OR POSTERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2019) http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session04-cado July 15 – 19, 2019, Dublin, Ireland We invite you to submit original, unpublished research works related to compiler architecture, design and optimization of high performance computing systems to CADO. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Compiler abstraction and intermediate representations • Integration of language features, representations, optimizations, and runtime support for parallelism • Auto-parallelization • Binary translation • Compiler-support for parallelism mapping, thread extraction, task scheduling, speculation, transaction, memory management, data distribution and synchronization • Compiler support for multi-core architectures, GPUs, CGRAs, FPGAs, and accelerators • Interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; • Code generation, optimization, synthesis and verification • Run-time techniques and just-in-time compilation • Platforms, tools, debuggers, and profilers • Domain specific languages and frameworks (machine learning, scientific computing, data science, ...) • Domain specific techniques (e.g., mobile environments, embedded systems, ...) • Distributed computing and communication avoiding algorithms Important dates: ---------------- Paper submission deadline: ........................... 25 March, 2019 -- Extended Acceptance notification: ............................. 22 April, 2019 Camera ready papers and registration due by: ......... 10 May, 2019 Conference dates: .................................... 15-19 July, 2019 Proceedings: ------------ Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2019 Conference web site. We plan to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (pending) as in previous years. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues in reputable ranked international journals. More information (conference policies, paper submission information, program pommittee) is available on the dedicated web page: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session04-cado Program committee: ------------------ Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Denis Barthou, University of Bordeaux, France Cédric Bastoul, University of Strasbourg, France Michael Klemm, Intel, Germany Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Tze Meng Low, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Benoît Meister, Reservoir Labs, New York, USA Louis-Noël Pouchet, Colorado State University, USA Fabrice Rastello, Inria Grenoble, France Mahesh Ravishankar, NVIDIA, USA Erven Rohou, INRIA Rennes, France P Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA Regards, Philippe Clauss (philippe.clauss(a)inria.fr) INRIA/University of Strasbourg Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam (sukumaranrajam.1(a)osu.edu) Ohio State University Organizers of CADO 2019

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ARRAY workshop at PLDI 2019, submissions due 8th April
by Jeremy Gibbons 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

CALL FOR PAPERS ARRAY 2019 6th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming co-located with PLDI 2019 at ACM FCRC 22nd June 2019, Phoenix, Arizona https://pldi19.sigplan.org/ ABOUT Array-oriented programming offers a unique blend of programmer productivity and high-performance parallel execution. As an abstraction, it directly mirrors high-level mathematical constructions commonly used in many fields from natural sciences over engineering to financial modelling. As a language feature, it exposes regular control flow, exhibits structured data dependencies, and lends itself to many types of program analysis. Furthermore, many modern computer architectures, particularly highly parallel architectures such as GPUs and FPGAs, lend themselves to efficiently executing array operations. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from many different communities, including language designers, library developers, compiler researchers and practitioners who are using or working on numeric, array-centric aspects of programming languages, libraries and methodologies from all domains: imperative or declarative; object-oriented or functional; interpreted or compiled; strongly typed, weakly typed or untyped. TOPICS The ARRAY series of workshops explores: - formal semantics and design issues of array-oriented languages and libraries; - productivity and performance in compute-intensive application areas of array programming; - systematic notation for array programming, including axis- and index-based approaches; - intermediate languages, virtual machines, and program-transformation techniques for array programs; - representation of and automated reasoning about mathematical structure, such as static and dynamic sparsity, low-rank patterns, and hierarchies of these, with connections to applications such as graph processing, HPC, tensor computation and deep learning; - interfaces between array- and non-array code, including approaches for embedding array programs in general-purpose programming languages; and - efficient mapping of array programs, through compilers, libraries, and code generators, onto execution platforms, targeting multi-cores, SIMD devices, GPUs, distributed systems, and FPGA hardware, by fully automatic and user-assisted means. Array programming is at home in many communities, including language design, library development, optimization, scientific computing, and across many existing language communities. ARRAY is intended as a forum where these communities can exchange ideas on the construction of computational tools for manipulating arrays. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: 8th April, 2019 (anywhere on earth) Notification of authors: 27th April, 2019 Camera-ready copies due: 10th May, 2019 Workshop date: 22nd June, 2019 SUBMISSIONS Submissions are welcome in two categories: full papers and extended abstracts. All submissions should be formatted in conformance with the ACM SIGPLAN proceedings style. Accepted submissions in either category will be presented at the workshop. Full papers may be up to 12pp, on any topic related to the focus of the workshop. They will be thoroughly reviewed according to the usual criteria of relevance, soundness, novelty, and significance; accepted submissions will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Extended abstracts may be up to 2pp; they may describe work in progress, tool demonstrations, and summaries of work published in full elsewhere. The focus of the extended abstract should be to explain why the proposed presentation will be of interest to the ARRAY audience. Submissions will be lightly reviewed only for relevance to the workshop, and will not published in the DL. Whether full papers or extended abstracts, submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper. Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format: two columns, nine-point font on a ten-point baseline, with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall, with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in). A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=array2019. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date of full papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the workshop. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK (chair) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Paolo Bientinesi, Umeå University, SE Christophe Dubach, University of Edinburgh, UK Vinod Grover, NVIDIA, US Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, NO Troels Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, DK Tze Meng Low, Carnegie-Mellon University, US Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP Trevor L. McDonell, Utrecht University, NL Lenore Mullin, SUNY Albany, US Tatiana Shpeisman, Google Brain, US ARRAY 2019 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN. Student presenters of accepted submissions are eligible to apply to the SIGPLAN PAC (http://sigplan.org/PAC/) for travel funding. Jeremy.Gibbons(a)cs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK. ☎ +44 1865 283521 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/

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[simu-conf] Assistant Professor (Software), PhD and Postdoctoral positions at Carleton University; Systems and Computer Engineering
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Job Posting: Assistant Professor -- Systems and Computer Engineering (Software) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering invites applications from qualified candidates for a preliminary appointment in Software Engineering at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2019. The candidate should have an established research record in one or more of the fundamental aspects of software engineering. We invite applicants possessing leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills, eager to build a strong, externally funded, visible, innovative, and internationally recognized research program. Please find below the full description of the position. Please note that this position is for the broader field of software, and includes (but is not limited to) areas such as: database systems, web engineering, distributed systems, operating systems, multi-agent systems, cloud computing, software development tools, network software. https://carleton.ca/provost/2019/assistant-professor-systems-and-computer-e… The department is also offering numerous funded Postdoctoral and PhD positions in numerous areas, ranging from Software Engineering, Cyber-Physical Systems, Networking and Communication, Autonomous computing and AI. Numerous scholarships are available (in particular for Domestic students at the level of Masters or PhD). If interested, contact the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies (gchair(a)sce.carleton.ca) [apologies for duplicated postings – problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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HPCS 2019 : Call for papers and participation - Deadlines are extended
by Waleed Smari 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

[Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers and Participation The 2019 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019) The 17th Annual Meeting July 15 - 19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP (Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2019 - Extended) (Other Conference tracks may have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest at links below.) You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, languages, software and middleware in HPC systems, Cloud and Edge Computing, Data Sciences, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (may have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest (coming soon). So far we have the following tracks: Symposia: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia Workshops: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops Special Sessions: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. ================================================================= Important Dates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline - March 25, 2019 - Extended Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ---------- March 25, 2019 Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts --------- April 22, 2019 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ----------- May 10, 2019 Conference Dates -------------------------------------- July 15 - 19, 2019 ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Dublin, Ireland in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2019 Organizers

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Submission Deadline extended to: March 3, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES March 3, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. International Program Committee: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, The University of Electro-Communications , Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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HPBench 2019 at HPCS IEEE Conference - deadline FEB 28th
by Samar Aseeri 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2019) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019) http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 Dublin, Ireland ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 February 2019 Author Notification: 22 March 2019 Camera-Ready Submission: 19 April 2019 Conference Dates: 15-19 July 2019 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : - Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia - Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany - Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, ENS Lyon, France TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy - Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University, USA - Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany - Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand - Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA - Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Bok Jik Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea - Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland - Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA - Gudula Rünger, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany - Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy ********************************************************************* For more information see http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-hpbench Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Email: samar.aseeri(a)kaust.edu.sa -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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[CFP] EUC 2019 - The 17th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
by Han Qiu 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE EUC 2019 - The 17th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing - August 1–3, 2019 New York, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/EUC/2019/index.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION With the rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for embedded and ubiquitous computing are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional computing techniques may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. As a result, we need to build embedded systems and networks based on ubiquitous computing. As important and innovative technologies, embedded and ubiquitous computing techniques are attracting researchers with more and more attention. Embedded ubiquitous computing is promising to improve people’s quality of life by creating new applications based on data processing in IoT network. Many research efforts have been performed on novel processing and communication architectures, technologies and management strategies. Embedded ubiquitous computing systems can leverage wireless sensor networks to collect and process data and use cloud technologies, peer-to-peer systems, and big data paradigms to provide computing and analytics capabilities. Nowadays, because of the growth of smart devices, embedded ubiquitous computing technologies and combined with cyber world to provide many smart services, the Internet of Things (IoT) became more promising to realize that various embedded applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services. As an emerging research topic, embedded ubiquitous computing relate to and support a computing vision for a greater range including smart devices (mobile, wireless, service), smart environments (of embedded system devices) and smart interaction (between devices). The EUC conference aims, as such, to provide a platform for the dissemination of recent research efforts that explicitly aim at addressing these challenges, and supports the presentation of advanced solutions in these areas. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Data analysis and data management for embedded and ubiquitous computing - Applications for embedded and ubiquitous computing - Parallel and distributed systems - Mobile systems and applications for embedded and ubiquitous computing - Enhanced living environments and smart habitats for older adults - Security, safety and reliability/dependability - Hardware architectures and design tools - Software and programming tools for embedded and ubiquitous computing PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeeuc2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/EUC/2019/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April 5, 2019 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: June 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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CFP: The 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-fourth European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019) Luxembourg -- September 23-27, 2019 WWW: https://esorics2019.uni.lu ================================================================================ Overview --------- ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the 2019 Symposium, to be held in Luxembourg. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ---------------- * Title and Abstract deadline: April 22, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time, UTC-11) * Paper submission deadline: April 29, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time, UTC-11) * Notification to authors: June 21, 2019 * Camera ready due: July 9, 2019 Topics of Interest ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * blockchain and finance security * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * deep learning for attack and defense * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics19 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template ( available from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ----------------------- General Chair: * Peter Y A Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Organization Chair: * Peter B Roenne, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop Chair: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,Telecom SudParis, France Program Committee Chairs: * Kazue Sako, NEC Japan * Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Program Committee: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland Frederik Armknecht, University of Mannheim, Germany Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Christian Cachin, University of Bern, Switzerland Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK Yan Chen, Northwestern University, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Stéphanie Delaune, IRISA, France Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China Francois Dupressoir, University of Surrey, UK Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Jose-Luis Ferrer-Gomila, UIB, Spain Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Ghassan Karame, NEC Labs Europe, Germany Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway Stefan Katzenbeisser TU Darmstadt, Germany Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Konstantinos Markantonakis, RHUL, UK Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK John C. Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University, Japan Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France Satoshi Obana, Hosei University, Japan Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Olivier Pereira, UCL, Belgium Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Christina Popper, New York University, US Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Luca Viganò, King’s College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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FOSDEM 2019 Ada Developer Room - presentations & videos online
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Presentations, videos, pictures available online *** 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 Saturday 2 February 2019 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.125 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/ada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All presentations and video recordings as well as some pictures from the 9th Ada Developer Room, held at FOSDEM 2019 in Brussels recently, are available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM web sites now. - "Welcome to the Ada DevRoom" by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium - "An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog - "Sequential Programming in Ada: Lessons Learned" by Joakim Strandberg - Mequinox - "Autonomous Train Control Systems: a First Approach" by Julia Teissl - FH Campus Wien - "Controlling the Execution of Parallel Algorithms in Ada" by Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago - "Persistence with Ada Database Objects" by Stephane Carrez - Twinlife - "Shrink your Data to (almost) Nothing with Trained Compression" by Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland - "GSH: an Ada POSIX Shell to Speed Up GNU Builds on Windows" by Nicolas Roche - AdaCore - "What is Safety-Critical Software, and How Can Ada and SPARK Help?" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog - "Secure Web Applications with AWA" by Stephane Carrez - Twinlife - "Distributed Computing with Ada and CORBA using PolyORB" by Frédéric Praca - Ada-France - "Cappulada: Smooth Ada Bindings for C++" by Johannes Kliemann - Componolit - "AZip Archive Manager: a full-Ada Open-Source Portable Application" by Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland - "Proof of Pointer Programs with Ownership in SPARK" by Yannick Moy - AdaCore - "Alternative Languages for Safe and Secure RISC-V Programming" by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore, in RISC-V DevRoom on Sat 2 Feb - "RecordFlux: Facilitating Verification of Communication Protocols" by Tobias Reiher - Componolit, in Security DevRoom on Sun 3 Feb Presentation abstracts, speaker bios, pointers to relevant information, copies of slides, links to corresponding pages and video recordings, are available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM sites at the URLs above. Some pictures are posted as well. If you have more pictures or other material you would like to share, or know someone who does, then please contact me. Finally, thanks once more to all presenters and helpers for their work and collaboration, thanks to all the FOSDEM organizers and volunteers, thanks to the many participants for their interest, and thanks to everyone for another nice experience! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Ada DevRoom coordinator Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) #AdaFOSDEM #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call for Paper: IEEE IDS 2019
by Han Qiu 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE IDS 2019 - The 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security - May 27–29, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/IDS/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION Intelligent data and security (IDS) is getting more and more attention due to the rapid development of computing and communication techniques. From national governments and industry players to consumer level demand, interest in high performance and smart computing has emerged from many different stakeholders. As a promising technology, high performance computing is playing an important role not only in traditional computer science domain but also in new branches such as Internet of Things, unmanned vehicles, and topics in artificial intelligent. Smart computing, as another significant aspect, provides solutions for complicated computing problems. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Security in new paradigms of intelligent data - Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of intelligent data - Cyber monitoring and incident response in intelligent data - Digital forensics in intelligent data - Big data security, Database security - Intelligent database and security - Intelligent data mining in security, optimization, and cloud computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence and implementations - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Cloud-based intelligent data and security issues - Tele-health security in intelligent data - Sensor network security and solutions - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud-based intelligent data - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud-based intelligent data - Load balance for cloud-based intelligent data - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - MapReduce techniques in intelligent data - Visualization and optimization in intelligent data - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques in intelligent data - Mobile cloud computing and advanced applications - Green cloud computing model, implementation, and framework - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Case studies for various applications - Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeids2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/IDS/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 28, 2019 (Firm) Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: April 5, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Final Call for Paper: IEEE HPSC 2019
by Han Qiu 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE HPSC 2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing - May 27–29, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/hpsc/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION High performance and smart computing (HPSC) is getting more and more attention due to the rapid development of computing and communication techniques. From national governments and industry players to consumer level demand, interest in high performance and smart computing has emerged from many different stakeholders. As a promising technology, high performance computing is playing an important role not only in traditional computer science domain but also in new branches such as Internet of Things, unmanned vehicles, and topics in artificial intelligent. Smart computing, as another significant aspect, provides solutions for complicated computing problems. The 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (IEEE HPSC 2019) is a research event cooperated with a number of conferences, such as IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019 and IEEE IDS 2019. This conference provides engineers and scientists in computing domain with an academic forum in which the new research achievements, ideas, and results are shared. The state-of-the-art smart computing applications and experiences in cloud computing and smart computing will be represented in this academic event. IEEE HPSC 2019 is the next edition of a series of successful academic events, including HPSC 2015 (New York, USA), HPSC 2016 (New York, USA), HPSC 2017 (Beijing, China), and HPSC 2018 (Omaha, USA). TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - High performance smart computing - High performance distributed computing - Smart digital forensics - Smart Big data security, Database security - Smart social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Smart cloud security - Tele-health security - Sensor network security - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - MapReduce - Visualization - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - Mobile cloud computing - Green cloud computing - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Case studies for various applications - Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeehpsc2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/hpsc/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 28, 2019 (Firm) Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: April 5, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Final Call for Paper: IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019
by Han Qiu 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud - May 27–29, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/index.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION With rapid development of digital devices and communication techniques, we are in the big data era. Many aspects for both scientific research and people’s daily life have been influenced by big data based technology such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and Internet of Things. Providing security and privacy for big data storage, transmission, and processing have been attracting much attention in all big data related areas. IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019 addresses this domain and aims to gather recent academic achievements in this field. Internet of Things is the second concentration of IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019. The emerging needs for transmission, storage, and processing data in IoT environment with security and privacy guaranteed have attracted attention from a number of different perspectives. The new methods deployed in IoT environment have covered distinct dimensions, such as edge/fog computing, energy consumptions, high performance, and heterogeneous resources, cloud models, heterogeneous architecture, tele-health, resource allocation, load balance, multimedia, and QoS, etc. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Big data security issues and cyber crime - Novel big data model - Big data security issues in IoT - Big data privacy issues in IoT - Big data security issues in cloud computing - Big data privacy in cloud computing - Big data storage, integration, service, mining - Big data security applications - Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall - Cyber monitoring, incident response - Database security, data center security - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Tele-health security in cloud computing - Sensor network security in cloud computing - Security policy and legal considerations - Cloud and networking security - Cloud computing and networking models - Virtualization for big data on cloud - MapReduce with cloud for big data processing - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Mobile cloud computing - Mobile commerce security and privacy - Green cloud computing - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cyber Security in emergent technologies PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeebigdatasecurity2) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 28, 2019 (Firm) Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: April 5, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Post-Doc in Performance and Safety Analysis of Train-to-Train communications / IRT Railenium
by Abderrahim AITWAKRIME 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

(Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement) We are looking for a highly motivated Post-Doc researcher to work in Performance and Safety Analysis of Train-to-Train communications. The ideal candidate should have: PhD degree in computer science and/or automatic, safety assessment, Petri Nets, formal methods, fluent English, experience in writing journal papers, knowledge of Railway domain will be a plus. Gross annual salary: 35 k€ Type of contract: Fixed-term contract 18 months Working hours: full time Please send applications (containing CV and motivation letter) mentioning VN-2019/01 by email to : recrutement(a)railenium.eu Position will be open until filled and details of the position are described in the attachments. Best regards, Abderrahim Ait Wakrime

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ICCSA 2019: COA Workshop - Deadline Extension March 15
by Ana Rocha 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2019) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 15, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop (extended deadline) April 7, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2019 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site (http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt> ), Dep. of Production and Systems <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt <mailto:hrocha@mat.uc.pt> ), Inesc Coimbra <http://www.inescc.pt/> (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2019 organizers)

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ICCSA 2019: 2nd Call for Papers, Short papers, PHD Showcase Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

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CFP: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) - Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-8 August 2019
by zhou 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) Rotorua, New Zealand,5-8 August 2019 INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------- Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies have been proposed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size. It is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. SCOPE ---------------------------------------- The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) will be held in Rotorua, New Zealand during August 5th - August 8th, 2019. IEEE BigDataSE aims to provide an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in Big Data from both of the academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Systems, models, standards, algorithms and applications for Big Data Big Data mining and analytics Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing Big Data visualization Big Data semantics, scientific discovery and intelligence Security, privacy, trust, and legal issues to big data Large data stream processing and incremental datasets on cloud Distributed and federated datasets NoSQL data stores and DB scalability Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization Distributed file systems for Big Data MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization Simulation and debugging systems and tools for Big Data Storage and computation management of Big Data Large-scale big data workflow management Sensor network and social network for Big Data Edge processing and intelligence for Big Data SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N25994) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/. Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Chairs: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Yaoxue Zhang, Central South University, China TPC Chairs: Ju Ren, Central South University, China Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan Steering Committee Chairs: Laurance T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 1 April, 2019 Authors Notification: 30 April, 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 20 May, 2019 Early Registration Due: 20 May, 2019 Conference Date: 5-8 August, 2019 -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science, The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp<mailto:zhou@biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp> Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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CFP Societal Automation Conference - SAC2019 Krakow, 4-6 September 2019
by Martin Gilje Jaatun 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Call for Papers Societal Automation - Technological & Architectural Frameworks First international conference - Krakow, 4-6 September 2019 https://sac2019.org/ *Regular and special sessions papers* Submission deadline April 14, 2019 Acceptance notification June 3, 2019 Deadline for final manuscripts June 30, 2019 *Work-in-progress/ Industry practice papers* Submission deadline: May 19, 2019 Acceptance notification: June 16, 2019 Deadline for final manuscripts: July 30, 2019 Background: The 4th Industrial Revolution and emerging Societal Automation initiatives deeply rooted in advances in Electronics, Communication, and Computer Science has been heralded by numerous visionary initiatives sponsored and advanced by industry, private consortia, and governments alike, all over the industrialized world – to mention smart factories, smart grid, smart homes, smart buildings, smart highways, smart transportation systems, urban automation, ... . The household names of the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems provide conceptual and architectural frameworks as well as a technical infrastructure for those initiatives. Societal Automation is a human endeavor to make human-made engineering systems human-centered, safe in their usage and energy efficient, without degrading the surrounding natural environment. Societal Automation is not limited to integration of existing technologies in larger systems such as building automation, smart grid, or urban automation. Actually, some of the most remarkable advances have been achieved in automating personal space/life. Human companion is a good example; not only providing a day-to-day psychological support for elderly, but some with, though, still limited, “abilities” to assist in the body maintenance and feeding infirm. The functional and technical scope of those initiatives is broad. Various application domains intersect at the crossroads of the initiatives. Vision is necessary to carve the image of the initiatives. But insufficient for their realization. At the root of the success in implementing and deploying visions is technology. Technology is a tangible “realization” of solutions, which arise from innovative thinking. Specific technological solutions and devices to be blended within the adopted architectural framework representing developed system need sophisticated software tools underpinned by solid formal methodologies to assist in and guide through the design, validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring phases of the system life-cycle. The challenge laid for the broad automation of human activities and societies is vast, and requires visionary innovative thinking. Requires revolution in innovative thinking and the way we think of innovation. Nothing short of the 4th revolution in innovative thinking: Innovation 4.0. The first in the series conference on Societal Automation will attempt to take a stock of where the area id now; of the expectations and concrete plans of decision makers; of existing technologies and technologies still to be invented to support further and planned developments; of the supporting design & development software tools to make systems eventuate. The most crucial, however, are the expectations of us, individuals without major say in the Societal Automation evolution to ensure the developments serve our interest and do not threaten our privacy, body and psychological integrity, and safety in general. Paper submissions The SAC2019 conference is seeking submissions of up to 8 double-column pages reporting on novel and significant contributions to the field of industrial communication systems. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a pdf version of their papers through the SAC2019 submission system. The submitted material (in English language) must be unpublished and not under review elsewhere. Submissions must include e-mail addresses and fax/phone numbers of the corresponding author. Work-in-Progress (WIP) sessions These sessions are intended for presentation of recent ideas and on-going works up to 4 double-column pages, describing research that has not yet produced the results required for a regular paper, but that due to its novelty and potential impact deserves to be shared with the community at an early stage. WIP submissions should be prepared according to the same guidelines as regular papers, and should be submitted through their own WIP electronic submission system. Accepted WIP papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted WiP paper will give a 5 minute oral presentation at the WiP sessions, and will also present an A0 poster during the poster sessions. Style guides for SAC2019 papers Please see here:http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/template… Tracks/Topics T1: Electronic Systems in Societal Automation Track Chair: Adam Kostrzewa, TU Braunschweig, Germany - kostrzewa at ida.ing.tu-bs.de System-level Design - methodologies & tools for reconfigurable platforms (programmable logic, partial reconfiguration); FPGA architectures, design, and CAD; robust & power aware computing and systems; energy management; data integration and fusion; communication modes; compensation mechanisms for aging and temperature; methodologies & tools for fault-tolerant designs; hardware attacks detection, threat modeling & defense; hardware-based security design; trusted design automation & tools; adaptive and compositional architectures. Networked Embedded Systems - design, dependability and tooling for networked systems including real-time, safety, security, maintainability aspects; middleware solutions for distributed and networked systems; network protocols for distributed systems including resource control, admission control, self-aware adjustments, time synchronization, routing and energy consumption. Cognitive Computing in Cyber-Physical Systems - hardware and architectures, software and algorithmic approaches for artificial intelligence, hardware accelerators for machine/deep learning algorithms; algorithmic optimizations for general purpose computing; modeling, design and analysis of networked control, switched control, and distributed control systems. Embedded Systems and Architectures - design methodologies and tools; parallel and distributed embedded systems; multi/many-core embedded systems; timing and schedulability analysis; quality of service control; distributed and system-on-chip architectures; real-time and dependable mechanisms and architectures; static and dynamic reconfigurable systems; embedded systems case studies. T2: Communication Systems in Societal Automation Track Chair: Stig Petersen, SINTEF, Norway - Stig.Petersen at sintef.no IP-based and web-based communication - protocols and technologies Wireless Networks - WLAN; WPAN; 6LoWPAN, CoAP; Wireless coexistence and spectrum-sharing; Radio resource management in noisy environments; Internetworking and interoperability; Wireless Instrumentation and Wireless Sensor Network; Mesh, Relay, and Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network; Software-defined and cognitive radio networks Design Issues - Event-driven and Time-Triggered communications; Security and safety; Dependability and fault tolerance; Remote configuration and network management; Real-time communication and precise synchronization; Quality of Service (QoS) and performance indexes; Message schedulability analysis Specialized Communication Networks in Diverse Application Domains - Home & Building Automation; Automotive Networks; Rail Transportation Networks; Avionics Networks Networks; Industrial Automation –Industrial Ethernet,, Wireless Industrial Networks; Power Systems – Protocols for Automatic Meter Reading, Protocols for Power System Automation. T3: Computing in Societal Automation Track Chair: Krzysztof Zielinski, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland - kz at agh.edu.pl Algorithms and Models of Computing - Approximate and inexact computing Quantum computing, Probabilistic computing; Cloud and fog computing; Pervasive computing Biological Computing Models - Brain computing; Neural computing; Computational neuroscience; Biologically-inspired architectures Big Data Analytics - High performance data analytics; Data search and representation; Architecture and system design Fault tolerance and resilience - Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems; Hardware and software approaches to cope with adverse environments Compiler Technologies - Advanced/novel analyses; Hardware/software integrated solutions; Domain-specific languages; High-level synthesis T4: AI, Machine & Deep Learning in Societal Automation Track Chair: Krystian Jobczyk, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland - krystian_jobczyk at op.pl Algorithms; Natural Language Processing; Computer Vision and Speech Understanding; Pattern Recognition; Data Mining and Information Retrieval; Soft Computing and tools - Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies, Knowledge-based Systems; Automated Decision Systems; Computational Theories of Learning; Knowledge Representation; Reasoning and Evolution; Machine Learning – Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Neural Networks & Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning; Ambient intelligence – contextual awareness, natural interaction, adaptability, robustness, fault-tolerance, security; Ambient intelligence and IoT – case studies; Semantic Web ; Hybrid Intelligent Systems; Software & Hardware Architectures & Accelerators; AI Systems in Societal Automation – Cars & Automotive and Service Industries; Home & Building automation; Transportation Systems; Smart Cities & Urban Automation; Energy Systems: Case Studies – experience emerging trends. T5: Sensors in Societal Automation Track Chair: Joerg Gebhardt, ABB Corporate Research, Germany - joerg.gebhardt at de.abb.com Novel components, devices and architectures for networked sensing; Network and system architectures and protocols; Network health monitoring and management; Detection, classification, tracking, reasoning, and decision making; Sensor data processing, mining, and machine learning; (distributed) signal processing; Energy harvested systems; Sensor tasking, control, and actuation; Innovative applications and deployment experiences; System modeling, simulation, measurements, and analysis. T6: Human Companion Human companion to provide day-to-day interaction with humans – computer systems, robotic pets, robotic humanoids; Emotions recognition and replication; Intuition; Day-to-day assistance with emotional challenges; Body construction – skeleton, muscle, skin; Making human companion robots self protecting; AI, Computing and Signal Processing; Dedicated communication networking; Novel research results. Prototypes & deployments – experience and emerging trends. T7: Merging Humans and Machines Track Chair: Valentina Emilia Balas, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania - valentina.balas at uav.ro Brain-computer interfaces – Novel research and Technology; Noninvasive electromagnetic methods for brain monitoring; Algorithms & translation techniques; Wireless technology in communication; Implant technology; Bio-tech hybrids; Human enhancement; Cyborgs; Turing test; Virtual reality; Non-verbal and extra-sensory communication; Humans as biological machines; Spiritual machines; T8: Architectural Frameworks for Societal Automation – IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems Track Chair: Marcel Baunach, TU Graz, Austria - baunach at tugraz.at IOT & Cyber-Physical Systems Design and Technology; IoT and Sensor systems; Industrial IoT Systems; Distributed Architectures for Adaptive Systems; Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems; Self-Adaption and Self-Organization; Learning and Self-Optimizing Cyber-Physical Systems. Novel Protocols and Network Technology; Data Streaming Architectures; Application areas of IoT & CPS; Case Studies, deployment, arising experience and emerging trends. T9: Cyber-Security in Societal Automation Track Chair: Martin Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway - Martin.G.Jaatun at sintef.no Access control; Authentication; Trust management; Accountability; Anonymity and privacy; Formal methods and verification; Hardware-based security; Language-based security; Software security; Data and system integrity; Database security; Distributed systems security; Network security; Intrusion detection; Mobile security; Web security; Security metrics; Security protocols; Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols; Security issues specific to application domain: wearable automation, home and building automation, vehicles and transportation systems, smart city & urban automation, smart metering and power systems. T10: Development of Ultra Complex Man-Made Engineering Systems Track Chair: Athanasios Kalogeras, ISI, Greece - kalogeras at isi.gr Large Scale and Ultra Large Scale System Design: Requirement Determination and Management; Design at All Levels; Design Representation; Methodologies and Tools; Component-Integration; Legacy Systems. Human Interaction: Context-Aware Computing; User-Centered Specification; User Modeling; Non-Competitive Social Collaboration; Longevity. Use of Computational Resources to Solve Complex Systems Challenges: Computational Complexity; Metaheuristics. Large and Ultra Scale System Engineering: Representation Languages and Semantics; Specification, Verification, and Certification; Model Based Validation; Systems of Systems; Simulation; Modularity & Composability. Adaptive Systems: Integrated operation; Distribution and decentralization; Interoperability; Security,Trust and Resilience; Robustness and Adaptation, Applications of Systems Engineering to Diverse Industrial and Societal Application Areas. T11: Socio-Technological Aspects of Societal Automation HMI; Technology and solutions for assisting elderly and disadvantaged; Smart Systems to assist kids in learning; Easing access to technology and assisting with an efficient usage; Social acceptance of technology and technological changes; Novel research results, deployment, case studies, experience and emerging trends T12: Application Areas of Societal Automation Track Chair: Thomas Strasser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria - thomas.strasser at ait.ac.at Novel research results, deployment, case studies, experience and emerging trends. Areas – Digital Arts & Entertainment, Digital Lifestyle, Digital Education; Wearable Automation; Social Robotics: applications of robotics to human tasks and activity areas to assist or replace humans in diverse application areas: home, school, hospital, employment place, city – for instance in feeding infirm and elderly, exoskeletons; Smart and self driving cars; Smart Vehicles – ground, air and water based; Transportation Systems; Urban Automation and Systems; Smart Cities; Energy Systems; Health delivery and systems – consultations, patient's monitoring, tele-surgery, etc; Military Logistic Systems, Space Station, Space Cities, Space Urban Automation, etc.

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Call for papers extended for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019 in Hawaii - deadline March 25, 2019
by Alvin Chin 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Dear colleague, Please consider submitting a paper to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019 in Hawaii. Details of the CFP are below and can be found at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/cfp.php. VTC2019-Fall in Honolulu, Hawaii will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on, but not limited to, the following technical tracks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php>. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers: 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_1> 2. Signal Transmission and Reception <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_2> 3. Spectrum Sharing, Spectrum Management, and Cognitive Radio <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_3> 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_4> 5. Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_5> 6. Green Communications and Networks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_6> 7. IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_7> 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_8> 9. Positioning, Navigation and Mobile Satellite System <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_9> 10. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications, Vehicular Networks, and Telematics <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_10> 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_11> 12. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_12> Submission Deadline: 25 March 2019 Submission requirements: 5-page paper ONLY Up to 2 additional pages are allowed with the purchase of additional page charges in the amount of $100 USD per additional page at the time of registration and final paper submission *Acceptance notification: 3 May 2019* Final paper submission deadline: 1 July 2019 Regards, Alvin -- Alvin Chin Industry Sessions Co-Chair IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019

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[CFP] IEEE EdgeCom2019 - Deadline extension
by Han Qiu 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Paper (CFP).] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE EdgeCom2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud - June 21–23, 2019 Paris, France http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION With edge devices (e.g. mobile phones, wearable devices, and IoT devices) are universally used and become more powerful, edge computing has evolved to a new computing paradigm where computing tasks are completed closer to data sources (i.e. at edge) rather than in a centralized location (e.g. in cloud). Compared with cloud computing, edge computing has many advantages: 1) Services can be done without network access. 2) Users can choose not to upload private data in exchange of cloud services. 3) Real-time service with extremely low latency is possible without the overhead of moving data to the cloud. However, the restricted resources (e.g., computation, DRAM space, and battery) of edge devices bring many new challenges to edge computing as well. IEEE Edgecom 2019 provides a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to present innovative research and best practices in edge computing, discuss the opportunities and challenges that arise from rethinking cloud computing architectures and embracing edge computing. TOPIC IEEE Edgecom 2019 welcomes contributions from diverse perspectives of edge computing, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Edge computing in IoT - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Privacy protection in edge computing - Software/Algorithm optimization for edge computing - Cyber security in mobile embedded systems - Edge computing infrastructure - Workload characterization and analysis of applications running on edge devices - Digital forensics and privacy issues in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring approaches - Case studies of real-world edge computing applications - Monitoring and diagnosis tools for edge computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - On-device artificial intelligence - Heterogeneous clouds and vulnerabilities - Secure methods for heterogeneous cloud resource sharing - Architecture support for edge computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Energy efficient edge computing - Case studies for cyber security applications - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - New attack methods and applications - Green cloud computing - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Edge-Cloud coordinated computing - Cloud-based sensor network and security issues PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeedgecom2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 1, 2019 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: May 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Wivace 2019 CFP
by Antonio Guerrieri 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

[image: WIVACE_header1.png] *WIVACE 2019* *XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary ComputationRende (CS), ItalySeptember 18-20, 2019* *Web site: https://wivace.org/2019 <https://wivace.org/2019>* The International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation aims at bringing together researchers working in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation to present and share their research in a multidisciplinary context. The workshop provides a forum for the discussion of new research directions and applications in these fields, where different disciplines could effectively meet. It was first held in 2007 in Sampieri (Ragusa), as the incorporation of two previously separately running workshops (WIVA and GSICE). After the success of the first edition, the workshop was organized in the following years in Venice (2008), Naples (2009), Parma (2012), Milan (2013), Vietri (2014), Bari (2015), Salerno (2016), Venice (2017) and Parma (2018). This year WIVACE will host a Special Session on Cognitive Systems and Applications. Interested authors are invited to contribute papers on theory and applications of Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and complex smart systems. Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Bioinspired Algorithms - Bioinspired Robotics - Coevolution and Collective Behavior - Complex Systems - Data-driven Self-regulating Systems - Evolutionary Computation - Evolutionary Approaches to Big Data and Big Data Streams - Evolutionary Learning Systems - Evolutionary Agents - Modeling and Simulation of Artificial and Biological Systems - Modeling and Simulation of Social and Economical Systems - Modeling of Business Intelligence Systems - Neural Computers - Neuroevolution: Improving Deep Learning with Evolutionary Computation - Self-organizing Cyber-Physical Systems - Socio-inspired Swarm Intelligence Algorithms - Synthetic and Systems Biology - Systems Chemistry - Theories and Applications of Artificial Life *SUBMISSION DETAILS* Contributions may be submitted in one of the following forms: - Full research papers (up to 12 pages). - Simple Abstracts (1-4 pages). Full research papers should present original unpublished work. Simple abstracts should describe original work in progress or a summary of a full paper. The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers or abstracts will have to improve their paper on the basis of reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the conference and present his work. Accepted full research papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings volume for Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series. The series is abstracted/indexed in SI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. Accepted abstracts describing unpublished work will be considered for publication of extended versions (up to 12 pages) in the same volume. Submit your manuscript in Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series format at the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wivace2019 *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract/paper submission deadline: 17th June 2019 - Notification of acceptance: 15th July 2019 - Early Registration: 29th July 2019 *GENERAL CHAIRS* - Clara Pizzuti (ICAR - National Research Council of Italy) - pizzuti(a)icar.cnr.it - Giandomenico Spezzano (ICAR - National Research Council of Italy) - spezzano(a)icar.cnr.it *LOCAL CHAIRS* - Franco Cicirelli (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - franco.cicirelli(a)icar.cnr.it - Antonio Guerrieri (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - antonio.guerrieri(a)icar.cnr.it - Annalisia Socievole (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - annalisa.socievole(a)icar.cnr.it - Andrea Vinci (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - andrea.vinci(a)icar.cnr.it *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* - Michele Amoretti (University of Parma) - Vito Antonio Bevilacqua (Politecnico di Bari) - Leonardo Bich (Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)) - Leonardo Bocchi (University of Florence) - Michele Braccini (University of Bologna) - Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma) - Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth) - Giulio Caravagna (Università di Milano Bicocca) - Timoteo Carletti (University of Namur) - Antonio Chella (University of Palermo) - Antonio Della Cioppa (University of Salerno) - Francesco Fontanella (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) - Mario Giacobini (University of Turin) - Alex Graudenzi (University of Milan "Bicocca") - Giovanni Iacca (University of Trento) - Francesco Masulli (University of Genoa) - Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milan "Bicocca") - Orazio Miglino (University of Napoli "Federico II") - Marco Mirolli (ISTC-CNR) - Sara Montagna (University of Bologna) - Monica Mordonini (University of Parma - Stefano Nolfi (ICST-CNR) - Mario Pavone (University of Catania) - Riccardo Righi (European Commission, Joint research Center) - Andrea Roli (University of Bologna) - Federico Rossi (University of Salerno) - Roberto Serra (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Debora Slanzi (European Centre for Living Technology) - Pasquale Stano (University of Salento) For further information, please send an email wivace2019(a)icar.cnr.it *WIVACE 2019 Chairs*

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[CFP] First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making
by Fulvio Frati 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

***Big Data for public health policy making Workshop*** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ****************************************************** The First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making In conjunction with the IEEE SERVICES 2019, July 8-13, 2019, Milan, Italy http://conferences.computer.org/services/2019/ ****************************************************** ** Description and Scope As acknowledged by the World Health Organization, by a number of governmental institutions, and patient associations, the effective management of health-related problems depends on and requires appropriate public health policies. A public health policy may have a significant effect on the prevention and early diagnosis and early treatment of several diffuse and debilitating conditions including, for instance, cognitive decline. The management of such health problems and their consequences through public health policies can benefit from the analysis of heterogeneous data (e.g., collected from modern IoT sensors as well as from standard clinical trials). Big Data Analytic techniques enable the investigation of specific health problems, their possible relations to other comorbidities and contextual factors, and patterns of such relations. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects concerning the adoption of Big Data Analytics in the context of evidence-based public health policy making. The workshop targets innovative techniques and solutions for supporting policy makers and clinicians in: i) taking decisions based on evidence and on ii) simulating scenarios aimed at predicting evolutions of health diseases at epidemiological level. It also aims to investigate security and privacy concerns related to the analysis of health data and the possible impact that security and privacy measures may produce on the achievable quality of analyses and the effectiveness of health policies. The workshop aims also to investigate: i) the modelling and adoption of advanced Artificial Intelligence models for policy making based on simulations and open data and ii) the possible trade-off between the design and implementation of health policies that may require years to produce their expected results and solutions able to rapidly produce tangible results. The workshop will bring together researchers of different disciplines, policy makers and clinicians, from academia and industry, all sharing a common goal: to go beyond the frontier of today's public health policy making process by envisioning how to exploit the full potential of Big Data Analytics in ways compliant with the principles and needs of modern societies, like satisfying security and privacy requirements. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Data driven public health policy making models - Model based Big data solutions for health-related policy making - Decision support systems for clinicals and policy making - Innovative Big Data as a service architecture for health - Security aspects of Big Data analytics threating sensible data - Privacy aware Big Data models and analytics in health scenarios - AI models for health-related policy making - Mixing simulations and open data for health policies predictions - Advanced reaction-oriented policy models for health ** Organization Workshop Chairs: - Marco Anisetti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - George Spanoudakis, City University of London, UK ** Submission We call for original and unpublished papers no longer than 6 pages (up to 2 additional pages may be purchased subject to approval by the Publication Chair.). All papers will be reviewed with a minimum of 3 good-quality reviews per paper. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeservices2019 Authors wishing to submit a paper to this workshop must select the track entitled IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making in order to be considered. ** Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2019 Notification to Author: April 15, 2019 Camera-ready & Registration: 1 May 2019 For general questions about this workshop, please contact either workshop organizer: Marco Anisetti at: marco.anisetti(a)unimi.it <mailto:marco.anisetti@unimi.it> George Spanoudakis at: G.E.Spanoudakis(a)city.ac.uk <mailto:G.E.Spanoudakis@city.ac.uk>

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ECYPS 2019 - 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
by Jozwiak, L. 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues, Please find below and attached to this e-mail the Calls for Papers of ECYPS’2019 - the 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and MECO’2019 - the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing. We are encouraging you to submit your papers and special session proposals to these two conferences, as well as, to participate in the collocated CPS&IoT'2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, that will be held in Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2018. Paper submission deadline to ECYPS'2019 and MECO'2019: February 28, 2019 For participants registered to the CPS&IoT'2019 Summer School participation in the sessions of ECYPS’2019 and MECO’2019 is free. For those of them who want to publish and present a paper in ECYPS’2019 or MECO’2019 the additional publication fee to cover a paper publication costs in ECYPS’2019 or MECO’2019 Proceedings is only 70 Euro per paper. Best regards, Lech Jozwiak and Radovan Stojanović Conference Chairmen __________________________________ ECYPS’2019 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Budva • Montenegro • June 10-14, 2019 Hotel Budva**** http://embeddedcomputing.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=3nptVQCIDRXy3sPO24B4MpLM_IqMyqgjo9E…> Call for Papers ECYPS’2019 - the 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems will be held in the scope of MECO’2018 - the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, in Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2019. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are smart compound systems engineered through seamless integration of embedded information processing sub-systems and physical sub-systems. The vision of smart systems connected and collaborating through various interfaces and communication media to form the global Internet of Things (IoT) is not a science-fiction anymore, but is quickly becoming an actual reality. The smart collaborating CPS with important applications in virtually all economic and social segments will have enormous economic and societal impact. ECYPS’2018 mainly focuses on CPS for modern (mobile) applications that require high-performance or low energy consumption, as well as, high safety, security and reliability. It addresses the applications, specification, validation, architectures, technology, hardware, software, design methodology and EDA tools for such systems. Its target participants are academic researchers and teachers; industrial researchers, developers and decision-makers; and Ph.D. students. It gives an excellent opportunity to disseminate fresh research results from European, international and other R&D projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ñ advanced applications and case studies of systems in consumer appliances, healthcare, personal assistance, environmental and safety monitoring, industrial and leaving-space automation, transportation, automotive, aerospace, aviation, energy generation, communications, tele-operation, control, robotics, infrastructure, etc. ñ mobile, autonomous, wearable and implantable systems ñ development platforms and tools for CPS ñ deep-learning and AI for CPS ñ application/software modeling, analysis, parallelization and mapping for high-performance and low-energy computing ñ multi-domain modeling, analysis, synthesis, simulation, integration and validation of heterogeneous systems ñ multi-objective and multi-domain optimization and co-design of heterogeneous systems ñ advanced processors, MPSoCs, SiPs, sensors, actuators and MEMS for CPS ñ sensor-based (distributed, networked) monitoring and control ñ sub-system arrangement and communication in complex heterogeneous systems ñ safety, security and reliability of complex heterogeneous systems ñ IoT, and cloud, fog, dew and edge computing Venue: ECYPS’2019 will be held in Hotel Budva***** (http://www.hotelbudva.me/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=W26zen4_fZ_6-88553BBAd51ZTNBZFSDUrj…>) Budva (https://www.visit-montenegro.com/main-cities/budva/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=XEa2brcUgL-BX9fACXjcqir67n5SBlbSXDq…>), Montenegro (http://www.visit-montenegro.com/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=uh9BdLpr6d1abc6jTmAFlk44YDqUmJrt9HO…>). Budva is a 3500 years old town located at the Adriatic Sea coast of Montenegro. It is a popular touristic destination, with its charming Old Town, beautiful natural environment, 35 clean sandy beaches, and proximity to many famous touristic attractions as Kotor, Boka Kotorska, Sveti Stefan, Dubrovnik, and several national parks. Budva is well connected with European cities by air, sea, road and train. Useful Links: Conference web-site: http://embeddedcomputing.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=3nptVQCIDRXy3sPO24B4MpLM_IqMyqgjo9E…> Hotel Budva *****: http://www.hotelbudva.me/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=W26zen4_fZ_6-88553BBAd51ZTNBZFSDUrj…> City of Budva: https://www.visit-montenegro.com/main-cities/budva/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=XEa2brcUgL-BX9fACXjcqir67n5SBlbSXDq…> Montenegro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=khunIJkxTDh-zOg3SA64TKo44eCP0NoQkfX…> Submission of papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers, strictly according to the IEEE Conference Standards and via http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/meco-2019/submission<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=IMykhP-H3KTy9BiSBVeq5Uk4YozHG_bj3eo…>. Submission deadline: February 28, 2019 Conference quality: Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. In particular, ECYPS is covered by SCOPUS, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Research Gate, etc. Extended versions of selected papers from ECYPS will be published in the Elsevier/Euromicro journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO) having the 2016 Impact Factor as high as 1.025. Accompanying events: ECYPS’2018 will be held in the scope of MECO’2018 (the 7th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing) which will host a CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/cps-iot) special sessions, workshops and dissemination of international projects. Proposals of accompanying workshops/sessions/dissemination should be submitted to Radovan Stojanović (stox(a)ac.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=oDqrK7a9oZvKmRS9yRl4Pwaj8po0bAvRKb5…>). Important Deadlines: February 28, 2019, Paper submission deadline March 15, 2019, Acceptance/rejection notification March 27, 2019, Final paper submission and author registration deadline May 10, 2019, Registration deadline Fees: The participation fees of MECO and ECYPS are low (see: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/meco-2019/registration) to encourage participation of young scientists and colleagues from developing countries. Conference Chairmen: Lech Jóźwiak, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Radovan Stojanović, University of Montenego, Montenegro Scientific Committee: Koen Bertels, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Zlatan Car, University of Rijeka, Croatia Victor Goulart, Kyushu University, Japan Yervant Zorian. Synopsys, USA Miguel Figueroa, University of Concepcion, Chile Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy Erwin Grosspietsch, Euromicro, Germany Ilker Hamzaoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey Lech Jóźwiak, EUT, Netherlands Paris Kitsos, Open Hellenic University, Patras, Greece Akash Kumar, National Univ. Singapore, Singapore Francesco Leporati, University of Pavia, Italy Menno Lindwer, Intel, Netherlands Jan Madsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Smail Niar, University of Valenciennes, France Horácio .C Neto, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Alex Orailoglu, University of California at San Diego, USA Sri Parameswaran, UNSW, Australia Adam Postula, University of Queensland, Australia Peter Puschner, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Davide Quaglia, University of Verona, Italy Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA, California, USA Karolj Skala, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia Radovan Stojanović, University of Montenegro, Montenegro Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden Alice M. Tokarnia, State University of Campinas, Brazil Heinrich Vierhaus, Brandenburg Uni. of Technology, Germany Eugenio Villar, University of Cantabria, Spain Arda Yurdakul, Bogazici University, Turkey Andrej Žemva, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organizing Committee: Budimir Lutovac, University of Montenegro, Chair Dmitry Tarasov, MANT, Montenegro, Co-Chair Marko Kaludjerović, MANT, Montenegro

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Deadline of March 3rd for CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT2019)
by Uday Kurkure 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

The deadline of March 3rd for CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT2019) si fast approaching. Please refer to http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session01-virt. *The Second Special Session on **Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2019)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of* *The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019)* *http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19>* *15 - 19 July 2019* *Dublin, Ireland* *Paper Submission Deadline: 03 March 2019* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE and SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs § Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack § Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - *Containers in HPC* o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning*o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a completed online web based form (can also include a cover page) with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2019 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. *Conference Policies* Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and soundness, presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2019 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/6-participants/authors-info> and Registration Info <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/6-participants/registration-info> pages. *Proceedings* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2019 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. *SPECIAL ISSUE* Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 03 March 2019* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 22 March 2019* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 19 April 2019* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 15–19 July 2019* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure* VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu* VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2019 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2019 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres,* Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *Isaac Gelado,* Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale,* Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Brian Kocoloski*, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA - *Xiaoyi Lu,* The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano,* Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla,* Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran,* University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese, *Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Andrew Younge*, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - *Dong Ping Zhang, *AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang,* Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Na Zhang, *VMware Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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