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CFP: Special Issue on 'Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization' in Scalable Computing and Communications (Springer)
by Javid Taheri 19 Nov '17

19 Nov '17

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing and Communications ~Special Issue Call for Papers~ Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: 15 Dec 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2018 - Final Version: 31 May 2018 INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION With maturity of virtualization techniques, more and more services are to be run inside virtualized Data Centers vDCs) to further reduce Operational (OPEX) and Capital Expenditures (CAPEX). Aligned with the general trend of migrating traditional IT architectures to clouds (public or private), next generation of telecommunication networks such as 5G are also envisaged to be run on virtualized environments where network functions are deployed on virtual machines and/or containers instead of current proprietary equipment. Several proof-of-concept and initial industrial deployments proved that Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are two promising technologies to enable such technological shift. Nevertheless, how to optimize and guarantee the performance of such virtualized systems is still challenging, because they require accurate modelling and efficient optimization to satisfy ever increasing demand of future networks. To address several major issues raised by migrating network applications to virtualized infrastructures, this special issue aims to highlight challenges, state-of-the-art, and solutions to a set of currently unresolved key questions including, but not limited to: performance, modelling, optimizations, reliability, security, and techno-economic aspects of virtualized networks. By addressing these concerns, technology might be one step closer to understanding, and consequently, closing the gap between the performance of the next generation SDN/NFV-based networks and their current counterparts in proprietary boxes. In this special issue, we welcome contributions that can shed light onto any of the following questions: 1. How virtualized networks should be designed to guarantee the performance required by network operations? 2. How virtualized services can be benchmarked and/or compared? 3. How virtualized services should be designed and/or operated to take advantage of cloud infrastructures and further provide flexibilities (such as load migration) that current proprietary equipment cannot provide? 4. How network functions should be placed and/or network capacities should be sliced to optimize network critical metrics such as throughput, delay, jitter, etc.? 5. How virtualized services should/can be efficiently orchestrated, monitored, and managed? PAPER SUBMISSION: - Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. - All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal. - Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/41122 - Submit manuscripts to: http://SCAC.edmgr.com. Topics to be covered in this Special Issue are including, but not limited to: 1. Model, benchmark, and/or optimize operation of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 2. Resource and/or content allocation for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 3. Reliability and resiliency of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 4. Dynamic/flexible construction and deployment of Service Function Chains using SDN/NFV technologies. 5. Fault detection and/or correction for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 6. Architectures, applications, and use cases of SDN/NFV to provide networking services. 7. Monitoring techniques for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 8. Deployment, management, and orchestration of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 9. Business/economic aspects of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 10. Security concerns of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 11. Mobile and/or Wireless Networks enabled by SDN/NFV-based networks and services.

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier Submission deadline: February 1th, 2018 The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge. 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. This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. 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. 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. Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power. The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments 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 Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Novel distributed data mining algorithms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins) The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a…. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018 First round notification: May 1st, 2018 Revised version due: July 1st, 2018 Final notification: August 1st, 2018 Camera-ready due: September 15th, 2018 Publication tentative date: December 2018 Guest editors: Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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One Post-doc and Two PhD Scholarships
by Jinjun Chen 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

We are now offering One Post-doc and Two PhD scholarships in the area of Data Security & Privacy or Blockchain; or Data Analytics in Healthcare/FinTech. 1. For One Post-doc, please refer to the website - http://www.swinburne.edu.au/about/jobs/search-apply/ --> Job search --> All vacancies --> "Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( School of Software & Electrical Engineering)". Alternatively, you can email to Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au for further detail. - 3-year fixed-term - Salary: Level B $91849 ~ $98691 - Plus 17% Superannuation - deadline: 5pm 28 Nov 2017 2. For Two PhD scholarships · Annual stipend $26,288 per year (2017 rate) for three years · Tuition fee waive for up to four years · Thesis allowance · Annual travel fund available We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Students need to meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements ( http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/). Interested candidates are invited to contact Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au with following references: 1. Your CV with your research interest 2. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees 3. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not your first language

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Deadline Extension until December 1, 2017: International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
by tweise＠gmx.de 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) at the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018) March 29-31, 2018 in Xiamen, China http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia18 BOCIA, the International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms, a part of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), is cordially inviting the submission of original and unpublished research papers. Computational Intelligence (CI) is a huge and expanding field which is rapidly gaining importance, attracting more and more interests from both academia and industry. It includes a wide and ever-growing variety of optimization and machine learning algorithms, which, in turn, are applied to an even wider and faster growing range of different problem domains. For all of these domains and application scenarios, we want to pick the best algorithms. Actually, we want to do more, we want to improve upon the best algorithm. This requires a deep understanding of the problem at hand, the performance of the algorithms we have for that problem, the features that make instances of the problem hard for these algorithms, and the parameter settings for which the algorithms perform the best. Such knowledge can only be obtained empirically, by collecting data from experiments, by analyzing this data statistically, and by mining new information from it. Benchmarking is the engine driving research in the fields of optimization and machine learning for decades, while its potential has not been fully explored. Benchmarking the algorithms of Computational Intelligence is an application of Computational Intelligence itself! This workshop wants to bring together experts on benchmarking of optimization and machine learning algorithms. It provides a common forum for them to exchange findings and to explore new paradigms for performance comparison. All accepted papers in this workshop will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE ICACI 2018 published by IEEE Press and indexed by EI. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of these papers to the Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms appearing in the Computational Intelligence journal by Wiley Periodicals Inc., indexed by EI and SCI (see the end of this CfP, http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia-ci-si, and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8640) 1. Topics of Interest The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: o mining of higher-level information from experimental results o modelling of algorithm behaviors and performance o visualizations of algorithm behaviors and performance o statistics for performance comparison (robust statistics, PCA, ANOVA, statistical tests, ROC, …) o evaluation of real-world goals such as algorithm robustness, reliability, and implementation issues o theoretical results for algorithm performance comparison o comparison of theoretical and empirical results o new benchmark problems o automatic algorithm configuration o algorithm selection o the comparison of algorithms in "non-traditional" scenarios such as - multi- or many-objective domains - parallel implementations, e.g., using GGPUs, MPI, CUDA, clusters, or running in clouds - large-scale problems or problems where objective function evaluations are costly - dynamic problems or where the objective functions involve randomized simulations or noise - deep learning and big data setups o comparative surveys with new ideas on - dos and don'ts, i.e., best and worst practices, for algorithm performance comparison - tools for experiment execution, result collection, and algorithm comparison - benchmark sets for certain problem domains and their mutual advantages and weaknesses 2. Instructions for Authors Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight pages in IEEE Manuscript Format for Conference Proceedings (double column, A4 format), including results, figures and references, with a maximum file size of 4MB, in PDF format. More information regarding the submission process can be found at the conference website http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and under http://www.icaci2018.org/submission/. Templates can be found at http://www.icaci2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2014_04_msw_a4_format.d… (Word) and http://www.icaci2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ieee-latex-conference-t… (LaTeX). The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaci2018) where the "International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms" should be selected as track. The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form where the "International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms" should be selected as track. 3. Important Dates Extended Paper Submission Deadline: 1 December 2017 Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2017 Camera-Ready Copy Due: 15 January 2018 Author Registration: 15 January 2018 Conference Presentation: 29-31 March 2018 For more information please contact Thomas Weise at tweise(a)hfuu.edu.cn. 4. Chairs o Thomas Weise, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Markus Wagner, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia o Xingyi Zhang, Anhui University, Hefei, China o Jörg Lässig, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany 5. International Program Committee o Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Technical University of Cologne, Köln (Cologne), Germany o Josu Ceberio Uribe, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain o Wenxiang Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA o Marco Chiarandini, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark o Raymond Chiong, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia o Carola Doerr, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Paris, France o Mohamed El Yafrani, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco o Marcus Gallagher, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia o William La Cava, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Jörg Lässig, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany o Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Pu Li, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany o Jing Liang, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China o Zhen Liu, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Manuel López-Ibáñez, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK o Yi Mei, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand o Martin Middendorf, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany o Antonio J. Nebro, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain o Randal S. Olson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Patryk Orzechowski, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Qi Qi, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Danilo Sipoli Sanches, Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Cornélio Procópio, Brazil o Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore o Ryan J. Urbanowicz, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Markus Wagner, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia o Thomas Weise, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Yang Yu, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China o Xingyi Zhang, Anhui University, Hefei, China 6. Chair Biographies Prof. Dr. Thomas Weise obtained the MSc in Computer Science in 2005 from the Chemnitz University of Technology and his PhD from the University of Kassel in 2009. He then joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as PostDoc and subsequently became Associate Professor at the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI) at USTC. In 2016, he joined Hefei University as Full Professor to found the Institute of Applied Optimization at the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology. Prof. Weise has more than seven years of experience as a full time researcher in China, having contributed significantly both to fundamental as well as applied research. He has more than 80 scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences. His book "Global Optimization Algorithms – Theory and Application" has been cited more than 730 times. He has acted as reviewer, editor, or programme committee member at 70 different venues. Prof. Dr. Bin Li received the B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 1992, the M.Sc. degree from Institute of Plasma Physics, China Academy of Science, Hefei, China, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China in 2001. He is currently a professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, USTC, Hefei, China. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 refereed publications. His major research interests include evolutionary computation, memetic algorithms, pattern recognition, and real-world applications. Dr. Li is the Founding Chair of IEEE CIS Hefei Chapter, Counselor of IEEE USTC Student Branch, senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), member of the Technical Committee of Electronic Circuits and Systems Section of CIE. Dr. Markus Wagner is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has done his PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research topics range from mathematical runtime analysis of heuristic optimization algorithms and theory-guided algorithm design to applications of heuristic methods to renewable energy production, professional team cycling and software engineering. So far, he has been a program committee member 30 times, and he has written over 70 articles with over 70 different co-authors. He has chaired several education-related committees within the IEEE CIS, is Co- Chair of ACALCI 2017 and General Chair of ACALCI 2018. Prof. Dr. Xingyi Zhang received the B.Sc. from Fuyang Normal College in 2003, and the M.Sc. in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 both from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University. His main research interests include unconventional models and algorithms of computation, multi-objective evolutionary optimization and membrane computing. He is the chair of 2017 Data Driven Optimization of Complex Systems and Applications and 2015 Asian Conference on Membrane Computing. He also serves as Editorial Board Member of Complex & Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Bio-inspired Computing. Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig leads the Enterprise Application Development Group (EAD) of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in Germany since 2011. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Computational Physics, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science for his research on efficient algorithms and models for the generation and control of cooperation networks at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany), which he finished in 2009. Prof. Lässig has PostDocs at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Institute of Computational Sciences (Lugano, Switzerland) and the International Computer Science Institute Berkeley (California, USA). His EAD research group at HSZG and his IT security group with the Fraunhofer Society are focusing on topics concerned with intelligent data driven technologies for state-of-the-art IT infrastructures and services. His research directions include sustainable IT services, energy efficiency benchmarking, regional carbon footprints and energy informatics. 7. Hosting Event The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018) Xiamen, China, March 29–31, 2018 http://www.icaci2018.org ICACI 2018 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state-of-the-art research and applications in computational intelligence. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. In addition, best paper awards will be given during the conference. The proceedings of ICACI 2018 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex. Moreover, selected papers will be published in special issues of related journals. The conference will favor papers representing advanced theories and innovative applications in computational intelligence. Topics areas include, but are not limited to: computational neuroscience, connectionist theory and cognitive science, mathematical modeling of neural systems, neurodynamic analysis, neurodynamic optimization and adaptive dynamic programming, embedded neural systems, probabilistic and information-theoretic methods, principal and independent component analysis, hybrid intelligent systems, supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, deep learning, brain imaging and neural information processing, neuroinformatics and bioinformatics, support vector machines and kernel methods, autonomous mental development, data mining, pattern recognition, time series analysis, image and signal processing, robotic and control applications, telecommunications, transportation systems, intrusion detection and fault diagnosis, hardware implementation, real-world applications, big data processing, fuzzy systems, fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy decision making, fuzzy information processing, fuzzy logic control, evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization, genetic algorithms, parallel and distributed algorithms, particle swarm optimization, evolving neural networks, evolutionary fuzzy systems, evolving neuro-fuzzy systems, evolutionary games and multi-agent systems, intelligent systems applications. http://www.icaci2018.org/ 8. Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in Computational Intelligence – An International Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia-ci-si Pre-Submission Deadline: 05 May 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: 05 June 2018 Expected Notification: 05 August 2018 Resubmission (Revision): 05 October 2018 Expected Notification (Revision): 05 November 2018 Final Submission: 05 December 2018 Decision Notification: 05 February 2019 Publication: 2019 The papers of this special issue will be processed according to the journal’s special issue guidelines at http://projects.cs.dal.ca/ci/Special-issue-instructions.html. This requires a preliminary submission step, for which the papers should be sent by the pre-submission deadline to tweise(a)hfuu.edu.cn with CC to markus.wagner(a)adelaide.edu.au, and binli(a)ustc.edu.cn.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - Special session “Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology” (PDP 2018)
by Paolo Cazzaniga 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

***Apologies for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this Call for Papers to your colleagues and contacts***Special session on “Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology” hosted by PDP 2018 (http://www.pdp2018.org/) Computer Lab, Cambridge, UK 21-23 March, 2018 Important dates - Paper submission: 30 November, 2017 - Acceptance notification: 10 December, 2017 - Camera ready due: 24 December, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 Organized by: Daniela Besozzi (co-chair), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Paolo Cazzaniga (co-chair), University of Bergamo, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Carlos F. Lopez, Vanderbilt University, USA Aim and Scope Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at various scales of complexity, requiring different modeling frameworks and computational methods. The applicability of these approaches may be hampered by excessively burdensome execution times. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, cloud computing, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - analysis at the single-cell level - analysis and visualization of genome-wide models - analysis of robustness of cellular networks - Bayesian inference of biological systems - biomedical model parameterization - cancer progression models - design of synthetic biological components and circuits - drug design - emergent properties in complex biological systems - flux balance analysis - biomedical image analysis - metabolic engineering - metabolic pathway analysis - models of neural activity - model verification and refinement methods - multi-scale modeling and simulation of biological systems - parameter estimation methods - personalized models in Systems Medicine - reverse engineering of reaction networks - software tools for Systems and Synthetic Biology - spatio-temporal modeling and simulation of biological systems Program Committee John Albeck (UC Davis, USA) Daniela Besozzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Michael L. Blinov (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA) Tiziana Castrignanò (CINECA, Italy) Paolo Cazzaniga (University of Bergamo, Italy) Eric J. Deeds (University of Kansas, USA) James R. Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani (University of Michigan Medical School, USA) Hitoshi Iba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Daniel C. Kirouac (Genentech Inc., USA) David Klinke (West Virginia University, USA) Robin E. C. Lee (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Carlos F. Lopez (Vanderbilt University, USA) Molly Maleckar (Allen Institute for Cell Science, USA) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Marco S. Nobile (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Ion Petre (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Alex Pothen (Purdue University, USA) Daniele Ramazzotti (Stanford School of Medicine, USA) Filippo Spiga (University of Cambridge, UK) David Umulis (Purdue University, USA) Marco Villani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Submission of papers Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format (double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2017 <https://euromicro-pdp2018-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1yNFAg-y…>). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Conference post-proceedings The best papers submitted to this special session may be eligible for publication in a Special Issue of BMC Bioinformatics.

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CFP: IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
by Andalam Sidharta (Dr) 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Embedded Systems Letters Call for Papers: Special Issue on Real-Time Technologies in CPS Submission Deadline: 30th January, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction This special issue of Embedded Systems Letters will focus on research themes in real-time and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) related to the concluded conference IEEE 20th International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC), 2017. The objective is to present papers that explore the use of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology in the design of CPS. Besides papers related to ISORCÕs 2017 theme of scalable and real-time data analytics, we also welcome papers in other real-time CPS topics such as programming models, systems engineering, distributed computing and communication infrastructures, systems software, and technologies for resilience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope The scope of this special issue includes all areas related to real-time computing and communication technologies for CPS. In particular, papers that explore ORC technology and real-time data analytics for CPS are welcome. Besides regular research papers, perspective papers that present a grand challenge problem, charter a new direction of research, express a contradictory viewpoint, or promote an interdisciplinary research area related to the topic of this special issue are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Scalable and Real-Time Data Analytics: Algorithms and computational infrastructure to support real-time data analytics, case-studies and applications in real-time data analytics. - Programming Models and Systems Engineering: Object/component modelling frameworks, real-time language frameworks including synchronous languages, model-driven design and development, time-predictable hardware and software architecture design. - Distributed Computing and Communication Infrastructure: Real-time communication protocols, networked platforms, peer-to-peer computing, real-time wireless sensor networks. - Systems Software: Real-time kernels and OS, middleware support for ORC, quality-of-service management, resource synchronization, allocation and scheduling. - Resilience: Trusted and dependable systems, fault tolerance, security, self-awareness, resilient hardware and software architectures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must strictly follow the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters guidelines (http://www.ieee-ceda.org/publication/esl- publication/author-guidelines). Papers must be four pages or fewer in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE transactions two-column format in 10-pt. font, and must consist of original work that has not been previously published nor is currently under review elsewhere. Authors of ISORC 2017 who wish to submit a paper based on their conference publication, please note that your submission should either be a self-contained extension or a perspective paper on the topic of the publication. It is very important to select ÒSpecial Issue on Real-Time Technologies in CPSÓ as the submission type when submitting your papers (submission link: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/les-ieee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Full paper submission deadline: 30th January, 2018 First author notification: March, 2018 Revised paper due: April, 2018 Final author notification: May, 2018 Expected publication: July, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest-Editor Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email: arvinde(a)ntu.edu.sg<mailto:arvinde@ntu.edu.sg> ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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Workshop Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, Jun 27-29, 2018
by Peter Arbenz 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Workshop Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, Jun 27-29, 2018 http://pmaa18.ethz.ch/ This international workshop aims to be a forum for exchanging ideas, insights and experiences in different areas of parallel computing in which matrix algorithms play a key role. The Workshop will bring together experts and practitioners from diverse disciplines with a common interest in matrix computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Parallel methods for solving large sparse or dense linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problem * Parallel environments and tools for enabling matrix applications. * Large scale applications from any field that have an emphasis on parallel matrix computation * Novel architectural paradigms (e.g. GPU, MIC, etc.) * Hybrid approaches to parallel programming * Automatic tuning and performance modeling * Combinatorial Scientific Computing Invited speakers: Chao Yang (Berkeley), Inderjit Dhillon (Austin), Frederic Nataf (Paris), Edgar Solomonik (Urbana-Champaign). Important dates: - March 15, 2018: Submission of Minisymposium proposals by e-mail to pmaa18(a)ethz.ch - March 30, 2018: Submission of abstracts for MS and contributed talks For more information see http://pmaa18.ethz.ch/

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CFP: PDSEC-18 workshop (with IPDPS-18)
by Peter Strazdins 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

(apologies for cross-postings) The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-18) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec18 will be held on May 25, 2018 in Vancouver in conjunction with IPDPS 2018. Deadline: PDSEC-18 papers are due Friday 25 Jan 2018 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. In particular, we will focus on the following topics in parallel and distributed scientific and engineering applications, but not limited to: * Code modernization methodologies and experiences for adapting the changes in future computing systems such as porting of legacy simulation code and libraries/tools to facilitate code refactoring and porting. * Application and algorithm development of various parallel and distributed programming models/framework such as CAF, UPC, Chapel, X10, Charm++, HPX, Uintah, Legion, and/or the interoperation of multiple models within single applications (e.g. MPI+X where X is OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc). We appreciate the experiences of early adopters of new programming models and platforms. * Experience in new tools and libraries for effective application development, including performance tools, application development frameworks, Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), etc. * Tools and techniques for improving application reliability and resilience. This includes both performance and correctness issues, with the latter arising from adverse operating conditions (e.g. low power) or very large system scales. * Use cases of enterprise distributed computing technology (such as MapReduce, Data Analytics and Machine-learning tools) in scientific and engineering applications. * Large-scale parallel and distributed algorithms supporting science and engineering applications. * Methodologies and experiences in developing large-scale applications. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 25, 2018 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 02, 2018 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 16, 2018 (TBC) Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2018 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LION12 -- Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN -- Kalamata Greece June 10-15, 2018
by Ilias Kotsireas 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to participate or organize a special session at LION12: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference LION 12, Kalamata, Greece, June 10-15, 2018 http://www.caopt.com/LION12/ Sincerely, Technical Program Committee Chairs Roberto Battiti, Universita degli Studi di Trento Mauro Brunato, Universita degli Studi di Trento Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States

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Invitation to submit Special Session proposal to EUSIPCO'18
by uhl＠cosy.sbg.ac.at 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Dear Collegues, EUSIPCO 2018 (26th European Signal Processing Conference) will be held in Rome in the first week of September 2018 - http://www.eusipco2018.org. EUSIPCO traditionally includes a set of high-quality special sessions on emerging topics that attract top-quality researchers. As special sessions chairs we would like to invite you to organize a special session at EUSIPCO 2018, on an emerging topic of your interest. If you can accept this invitation please let us know the topic of your proposal. Then, a complete proposal should be submitted by December 11, 2017, including the following information: - Special Session title - Short description of proposed field (one paragraph) - Novelty and motivation (one to two paragraphs), including why this topic is of interest to the EUSIPCO community - Short biography of the organizers - List of contributed papers (titles, authors w. affiliations, and a short abstract). The targeted number of papers per session is 6, and at least 4 of them should not include the organizers as authors. Proposals will be evaluated based on topic novelty and associated impact, organizing committee qualifications, as well as the proposed list of contributed papers. More information about the organization of a special session at EUSIPCO 2018 is available at http://www.eusipco2018.org/call-for-special-sessions.php. We aim to receive special session proposals up to December 11, 2017, by e-mail to special_sessions(a)eusipco2018.org. Hoping that you can accept our invitation, we look forward to hear from you soon. With best regards, Paulo and Andreas

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CfP 23rd Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2018
by Dirk Craeynest 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 Organized by U.Lisboa on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED (pending), SIGPLAN (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 23rd event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16) and Vienna, Austria ('17). General Information ------------------- The 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. Schedule -------- 22 January 2018: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 9 March 2018: Notification of acceptance to all authors 24 March 2018: Camera-ready version of papers required 8 May 2018: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required Topics ------ The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. This edition of Ada-Europe features a focused Special Session on Security in Safety-Critical Systems. Safety-critical systems, on which we daily bet our lives, have become increasingly more complex, networked and distributed. In combination with the growing professionalism of adversarial teams, this demands not only for safe systems but systems that remain safe while under attacks. This session seeks (but is not limited to) contributions aiming at bridging the safety and security gap in cyber-physical and other safety-critical systems. Topics include: Software and System Aspects of Secure and Dependable CPS, Vulnerabilities and Protective Measures for Safety-Critical System Infrastructures, and Fault and Intrusion Tolerance and Long-Term Unattended Operation for Safety-Critical Systems. For further information please contact the Special Session Chair directly. For the general track of the conference, topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance. - Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods. - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities. - Software Architectures: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture- Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development. - Methods and Techniques for Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools. - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK. - Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. - Mainstream and Emerging Applications: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc. - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics. - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 new language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. Call for Regular and Special Session Papers ------------------------------------------- Authors of papers which are to undergo peer review for acceptance are invited to submit original contributions by 22 January 2018. Paper submissions shall be 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors for both the general track and the special session shall submit their work via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2018. The format for submission is solely PDF. The International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies is listed in DBLP, SCOPUS, Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search, among others. Proceedings ----------- The conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the conference. Camera-ready accepted papers must be in conformance with the LNCS style, not exceeding 14 pages and are due strictly by 24 March 2018. For format and style guidelines authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. Call for Industrial Presentations --------------------------------- The conference seeks industrial presentations which deliver value and insight but may not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors are invited to submit a presentation outline of at least 1 page in length by 22 January 2018, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2018. The format for submission is solely PDF. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract and submit it by 8 May 2018, aiming at a 20-minute talk. Authors will be also invited to submit corresponding articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program. For any further information please contact the Industrial Co-chairs directly. Awards ------ Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Call for Tutorials ------------------ Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of the conference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day. Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposed topic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day), the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and a statement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as well as a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. Call for Workshops ------------------ Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication in the Ada User Journal. Call for Exhibitors ------------------- The commercial exhibition will span the three days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. Grants for Reduced Student Fees ------------------------------- A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected to be available for students who would like to attend the conference or tutorials. Contact the Conference Chair for details. Venue ----- The conference will take place at the VIP Executive Art's Hotel, in the Parque das Nações area of Lisbon, Portugal. Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Chair Nuno Neves, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal nuno at di.fc.ul.pt Program Chair António Casimiro, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal casim at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Special Session Chair Marcus Völp, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg marcus.voelp at uni.lu Tutorial and Workshop Chair David Pereira, CISTER/ISEP, Portugal dmrpe at isep.ipp.pt Industrial Co-Chairs Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France marco.panunzio at thalesaleniaspace.com José Rufino, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal ruf at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Publication Chair Pedro Ferreira, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal pmf at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Exhibition Co-Chairs José Neves, GMV, Portugal jose.neves at gmv.com Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland ahlan at Ada-Switzerland.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Secretariat Madalena Almeida, Viagens Abreu S.A., Portugal madalena.almeida at abreu.pt Program Committee ----------------- Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Ezio Bartocci, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Rakesh Bobba, Oregon State Univ., USA Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., Korea António Casimiro, LASIGE, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, Spain Virgil Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain J. Javier Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, France Ruediger Kapitza, Tech Univ. Braunschweig, Germany Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Adam Lackorzynski, TU Dresden & Kernkonzept GmbH, Germany Kristina Lundkvist, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER, ISEP, Portugal Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Jorge Real, Univ. Politècnica de València, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Sergio Sáez, Univ. Politècnica de València, Spain Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden Frank Singhoff, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, Portugal Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Univ., Finland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Tullio Vardanega, Univ. di Padova, Italy Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxemburg Industrial Committee -------------------- Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Luís Correia, EMPORDEF-TI, Portugal Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Thomas Gruber, Austrian Inst. of Tech, Austria Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, the Netherlands Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence and Space, Spain Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, Switzerland Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Emilio Salazar, GMV, Spain Helder Silva, EDISOFT, Portugal Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Consulting, Denmark Andreas Wortmann, OHB System, Germany (to be completed) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair *** 23rd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2018 *** June 18-22, 2018 ** Lisbon, Portugal *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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IEEE ISORC 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS
by Andalam Sidharta (Dr) 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

The 21st IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REAL-TIME COMPUTING (ISORC) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dates: 29th - 31st May 2018. https://cps-research-group.github.io/ISORC2018/index.html Important dates: -------------------------- Submission deadline: February 2, 2018 Acceptance notification: March 16, 2018 Camera-ready papers: March 31, 2018 Main theme and topics: -------------------------- ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. The conference theme for 2018 will be decentralized time-sensitive computing and enabling software infrastructures. This theme will focus on both: (1) Cloud infrastructures and platforms for time-sensitive computation and real-time computing (2) Algorithms and Computational Infrastructure to support complex social cyber-physical systems combining edge, fog, and cloud. We solicit high-quality papers pertaining to all aspects of ORC technology and especially those that are well aligned with the 2018 theme. Authors are encouraged to consider submissions with a practical orientation and validation related to case studies & applications in this area. The specific ORC focus areas include, but are not limited to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages and synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware middleware such as .NET, RT RMI, RT Java, UML, model-maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches. Approaches related to stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels and OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc.), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and Cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics) Submission guidelines: -------------------------- IEEE ISORC 2018 invites papers in three categories. 1) Regular Research Papers: Papers should describe original work and be maximum 8 pages in length using the IEEE paper format. A maximum of two extra pages may be purchased. 2) Industrial Papers and Practitioner Reports: Papers describing experiences of using ORC technology in application or tool development projects, are an integral part of the technical program of ISORC. A majority of these papers are expected to be shorter and less formal than research papers. They should clearly identify and discuss in detail the issues that represent notable industrial advances. Reports with project metrics supporting their claims are particularly sought, as well as those that show both benefits and drawbacks of the approaches used in the given project. 3) Short Papers: Short research papers, 4 pages or less using the IEEE format, on real-time analytics are also invited, and should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach. Best papers from ISORC 2018 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of an IEEE / ACM Journal. Papers are to be submitted through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isorc2018 All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. Each accepted paper shall be accompanied by at least one non student conference registration. Organizing Committee --------------------- Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Joel Sherill, OAR Corporation, USA Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA Qixin Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Rui Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sidharta Andalam, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Regards, Sid Andalam ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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PDP2018 - Third call for Papers - Final deadline extension
by Ivan Merelli 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

***************************************************************************************** PDP 2018 - Third Call for Papers - Final Deadline Extension - http://www.pdp2018.org ***************************************************************************************** Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced programming models, improved efficiency and novel application domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view. PDP 2018 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level. PDP 2018 will be held in Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018. Conference web site http://www.pdp2018.org ***************************************************************************************** * Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation. - Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks. - Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications. - Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems. - Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems; - Middlewares and File systems : distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management; parallel and distributed file systems; - Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications. ***************************************************************************************** * In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics: - GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/gpu.html - Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ahpbb.html - Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/snds.html - Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/energy.html - Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ccisa.html - High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/hpcms.html - On-chip parallel and network-based systems http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ocpnbs.html - Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/sdt.html - High Performance Computing for Neuroscience http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/neuro.html - High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/astro.html - Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/sysbio.html - Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/numerical.html ***************************************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSIONS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT DEADLINES FROM THE PDP2018 MAIN TRACK PLEASE TAKE A LOOK TO THE WEB PAGE OF EACH SPECIAL SESSSION FOR MORE DETAILS ***************************************************************************************** * Important dates: - Paper submission: 10 Nov, 2017 (FINAL) - Acceptance notification: 1 Dec, 2017 - Camera ready due: 22 Dec, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 ***************************************************************************************** * Submission of papers Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track or to a special session track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018) Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: all accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Proceedings: authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issues: selected papers will be considered for a publication in a special issue of the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience", edited by Wiley. Further contacts with editors of other international journal are on-going to have more special issues for papers from the special sessions. ***************************************************************************************** Ivan Merelli Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 93, via F.lli Cervi, 20090 Segrate (Mi), Italy Phone: +39 02 2642-2606 E-Mail: ivan.merelli(a)itb.cnr.it Pietro Liò Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 15, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK Phone: +44 (0)1223-763604 E-Mail: pl219(a)cam.ac.uk Igor Kotenko Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, SPIIRAS 39, 14th. Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 328-71-81 E-Mail: ivkote(a)comsec.spb.ru ******************************************************************************************** Euromicro is an international scientific organization advancing sciences and applications of Information Technology and Microelectronics. A major focus is on organizing conferences and workshops in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Euromicro is a non-profit association founded in 1974 and annual conferences have taken place in more than 20 countries all over Europe. Find out more at http://www.euromicro.org.

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SPDNS 2018 - New Submission Deadline is November 10, 2018
by Igor Kotenko 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Final Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2018)" on 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018 http://www.pdp2018.org http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/snds.html Paper submission deadline: 10 Nov, 2017 ! Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: 10 Nov, 2017 - Acceptance notification: 1 Dec, 2017 - Camera ready due: 22 Dec, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 Session Chair Igor Kotenko St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia ITMO University Program Committee Miguel Correia, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Sergey Bezzateev, Saint Petersburg University of Airspace Instrumentation, Russia Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Evgenia Novikova, Saint Petersburg LETI University, Russia Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Nuno Neves, DI FC UL, Portugal Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Fabrizio Baiardi, Pisa University, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom SudParis, France Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse, France Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russian Federation Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping University, Sweden Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Lotfi Ben Othmane, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Jose Such, King's College London, UK Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo Brecht Wyseur, Nagravision S.A., Saudi Arabia Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea Submission guidelines prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018) Please select the track "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing". Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: all accepted papers will be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Proceedings: authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issues: selected papers will be considered for a publication in a special issue of several journals. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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IEEE HiPC 2017 - Call for Participation
by Anand Panangadan 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

Release: 27 October 2017 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics HiPC 2017 December 18-21, 2017 Jaipur, India http://www.hipc.org https://twitter.com/hipcconf https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg - Conference program - Student travel support - Hotel special room rates - Early registration ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------------------------------------ The conference technical program will showcase three keynote speakers and three days of single track presentations of peer reviewed papers from all over the world. The full program will include workshops and special plenary sessions covering Machine Learning & Mathematical Modeling and HPC Initiatives in India. The conference encourages industry participation in the main technical program and workshops, as well as the Industry, Research and User Symposium (IRUS) and vendor exhibition. The preliminary technical program is available at: http://hipc.org/prelim/ ------------------------------------------------ Student travel support ------------------------------------------------ HiPC would like to encourage motivated students studying at engineering and technical colleges in India to attend the conference through these travel scholarships, which will be provided on a merit basis. A limited number of travel assistance grants for students outside India are available from the HiPC sponsor, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). Full details including eligibility, covered expenses, compliance policies, and the application form, are available here: http://hipc.org/travel-support/ Application Deadline: November 4, 2017 Notification: November 10, 2017 ------------------------------------------------ Le Méridien Special Room Rates for HiPC 2017 Attendees ------------------------------------------------ The Special rate is available to HiPC attendees for the period December 16 to 22. Rates guaranteed for reservations made before October 31, 2017. Subject to availability, so please book early. http://hipc.org/hotel-accommodations/ ------------------------------------------------ Early registration ------------------------------------------------ Early conference registration ends on November 21, 2017. http://hipc.org/registration-fees/ ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs: Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Steering Committee Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Vice General Chairs: Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA Program Chair Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Vice-Chairs Algorithms: Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France Applications: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Architecture: Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA System Software: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA Industry Liaison Co-Chairs: Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Wipro, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India Workshops Co-Chairs: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Saumil Merchant, Shell, India Student Research Symposium Co-Chairs: Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA Industry, Research, and User Symposium Co-Chairs: R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Seetha Rama Krishna Nookala, Intel, India Indian Academia Liaisons Chair: Yogesh Simmhan, IISc, Bangalore, India Proceedings Chair: Ren Chen, University of Southern California, USA Publicity Chairs: Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA Ravindra Sure, IBM, India ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ See details for Industry Sponsorship at http://hipc.org/sponsorship-le vels-how-to/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- HiPC 2017 is co-sponsored by •IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) •HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with •ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) •ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) •FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems •Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) •National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

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[Program available!] - CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ ***************************************** Call For Participation The program of the 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop is now available (http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/program.php) Program 9:00-9:10 Welcome, Sandra Gesing 9:10-10:00 Manish Parashar, Extreme Scale Data Management for In-Situ Scientific Workflows (invited keynote talk) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Session "Optimization of Workflow Enactment" 10:30-10:55 Matthias Janetschek and Radu Prodan: A Compiler Transformation-based Approach to Scientific Workflow Enactment 10:55-10:20 Matthieu Dorier, Justin Wozniak and Robert Ross: Supporting Task-level Fault-Tolerance in HPC Workflows by Launching MPI Jobs inside MPI Jobs 11:20-11:45 Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Scott Callaghan and Ewa Deelman: On the Use of Burst Buffers for Accelerating Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows 10:45-12:10 Scott Callaghan, Gideon Juve, Karan Vahi, Philip J. Maechling, Thomas H. Jordan and Ewa Deelman, rvGAHP - Push-Based Job Submission Using Reverse SSH Connections 12:10-12:20 Renan Souza, Vítor Silva, Jose J. Camata, Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho, Patrick Valduriez and Marta Mattoso: Tracking of Online Parameter Fine-tuning in Scientific Workflows 12:20-12:30 Kyle Sweeney and Douglas Thain, Lightweight Container Integration into Workflow Systems: A Case Study with Singularity and Makeflow 12:30-14:00 Lunch Session "Resource Management" 14:00-14:25 William Fox, Devarshi Ghoshal, Abel Souza, Gonzalo Rodrigo Alvarez and Lavanya Ramakrishnan: E-HPC: A Library for Elastic Resource Management in HPC Environments 14:25-14:50 Isabel Rosseti, Kary Ocaña and Daniel de Oliveira: Towards Preserving Results Confidentiality in Cloud-based Scientific Workflows 14:50-15:00 Simon Woodman, Hugo Hiden and Paul Watson: e-Science Central Workflows for Stream Processing: Adding Streaming Support to an Existing Workflow System 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Session "Scheduling" 15:30-15:40 Vahid Arabnejad, Kris Bubendorfer and Bryan Ng: Dynamic Workflow Scheduling: A Deadline and Cost-Aware Approach for Commercial Clouds 15:40-15:50 Yves Caniou, Eddy Caron, Aurélie Kong Win Chnag and Yves Robert: Budget-aware scheduling algorithms for scientific workflows on IaaS Cloud platforms Session "Use Cases, Design and Community" 15:50-16:15 Alok Singh, Arvind Rao, Shweta Purawat and Ilkay Altintas: A Machine Learning Approach for Modular Workflow Performance Prediction 16:15-16:40 Raffaele Montella, Diana Di Luccio, Livia Marcellino, Ardelio Galletti, Sokol Kosta, Alison Brizius and Ian Foster: Processing of Crowd-sourced Data from an Internet of Floating Things 16:40-16:50 Matteo Turilli, Andre Merzky and Shantenu Jha: Designing Workflow Management Systems Using Building Blocks 16:50-17:30 Scott Lathrop (panelists will be announced soon): Panel "Promoting Scientific Workflows"

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[Call For Participation] SC17 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum
by Tumeo, Antonino 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] SC17 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5.15 PM - 7.00 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 402-403-404 Denver, CO Theme Government agencies and companies are looking for a new generation of tools able to efficiently solve large scale combinatorial problems for applications ranging from big data science to national security. This BoF aims at gathering the community of people interested at frameworks and workflows for large scale graph analytics, surveying the current approaches, identifying new challenges and opportunities, and laying a path towards future interoperable infrastructures. The BoF will discuss GraphBLAS as a key component of such toolkits and bring together the GraphBLAS community. We will report: (1) the essential design patterns using GraphBLAS, and (2) requirements for GraphBLAS 2.0. Please, join us for the first edition of this BOF that will feature two - raucous - panels that will: 1. Identify critical applications needs (for DOE and DOD), opportunities, issues, and challenges in creating interoperable HPC Graph Toolkits able to address current and future graph and combinatorial workloads (including property graphs and integrated workflows with machine learning) 2. distill current design patterns, advantages, limits, issues of GraphBLAS and requirements and needs for GraphBLAS 2.0 Program 5.15 - 5.20 State of the Union (Welcome and Introduction) Aydin Buluç (LBNL), Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) 5.20 - 5.30 GraphBLAS: status and outlook José Moreira (IBM) 5.30 - 5.40 HPC Graph Toolkits (or lack thereof!) Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL) 5.40 - 6.20 Panel 1: Message passing can’t solve your graph problems. Moderator: John Feo (PNNL/NIAC) Panelists: David Bader (Georgia Tech), Joe Eaton (NVIDIA), Fabrizio Petrini (Intel), Alex Pothen (Purdue) 6.20 - 7.00 Panel 2: We have the GraphBLAS, so we’re done since they can do everything. Moderator: John Gilbert (UCSB) Panelists: Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL/NIAC), Kamesh Madduri (Pennsylvania State University), Tim Mattson (Intel), Michael M Wolf (Sandia)

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IEEE CSCWD 2018: CFP with New Submission Deadline
by Shen, Weiming 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) *************************************************** The 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018) May 9-11, 2018, Nanjing, China http://2018.cscwd.org/ New Deadline: November 15, 2017 *************************************************** Design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams. The 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems. The scope of CSCWD 2018 includes the research and development of collaboration technologies and their applications to the design of processes, products, systems, and services in industries and societies. Collaboration technologies include theories, methods, mechanisms, protocols, software tools, platforms, and services that support communication, coordination and collaboration among people, software and hardware systems. Related fields of research include human-computer interaction, business process management, collaborative virtual environments, enterprise modeling, security and privacy, as well as social aspects and human factors related to collaboration and design. The major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * Collaboration theories and methodologies * Collaboration methods, mechanisms, and protocols * Collaboration platforms, software tools, and services * Collaborative computing (Agents, Clouds, Grids, Web Services, Blochchains) * Collaborative processing of Big Data * Collaborative virtual environments * Collaborative wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things * Collaborative workflows * Collaborative workspaces * Interoperability, ontology and semantics * Security and privacy in collaborative systems * Collaboration technology applications in aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing * Collaboration technology applications in architecture, engineering, and construction * Collaboration technology applications in business and administration * Collaboration technology applications in healthcare and homecare * Collaboration technology applications in infrastructure and facility management * Collaboration technology applications in intelligent buildings and smart homes * Collaboration technology applications in logistics and transportation * Collaboration technology applications in power and energy * Collaboration technology applications in social networks and entertainment Submission of Papers ============ Papers reporting original research results and experience are solicited. Each paper, written in English, is limited to 6 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Electronic submissions in PDF format are strongly recommended. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. Submission Web Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cscwd2018 Publication ============= All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings and will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), DBLP and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals (confirmed with Elsevier Journal: Advanced Engineering Informatics). Contacts ============= Dr. Fang Dong, School of Computer Science and Engineering Southeast University, China fdong(a)seu.edu.cn<mailto:fdong@seu.edu.cn<mailto:fdong@seu.edu.cn%3cmailto:fdong@seu.edu.cn>> Dr. Weiming Shen National Research Council Canada wshen(a)ieee.org<mailto:wshen@ieee.org<mailto:wshen@ieee.org%3cmailto:wshen@ieee.org>> Important Dates ================ November 15, 2017 Paper submission due February 28, 2018 Author notification March 31, 2018 Final papers due March 31, 2018 Author registrations due May 9-11, 2018 Conference Organized by ============= Southeast University, China Co-Sponsored by ============= IEEE SMC Society CSCWD International Working Group

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[simu-conf] Call for Participation - WinterSim 2017
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Early registration for WinterSim 2017 ends on Friday, November 3, 2017. Register now for discounted rates. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org Call for Papers, Presentations & Posters WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2016 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: • Advanced Tutorials • Analysis Methodology • Architecture and Construction • Aviation Modeling and Analysis • Case Studies • Cyber-Physical Systems • Environment and Sustainability Applications • Future of Simulation • Gaming • Healthcare Applications • History of Simulation • Hybrid Simulation • Introductory Tutorials • Manufacturing Applications • Logistics, SCM, Transportation • Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM) • Military Applications and Homeland Security • Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) • Modeling Methodology • Posters • Project Management • Simulation Education • Simulation Optimization • Social and Behavioral Simulation • Vendor The PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. WSC 2017 is sponsored by ACM/SIGSIM, ASA (Technical Co-Sponsor), ASIM Technical Co-Sponsor, IEEE/SMC (Technical Co-Sponsor), IIE, INFORMS-SIM, NIST (Technical Co-Sponsor) and SCS. [Apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge. 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. This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. 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. 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. Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power. The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments 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 Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Novel distributed data mining algorithms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins) The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a…. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 1th, 2017 First round notification: March 1th, 2018 Revised version due: May 1st, 2018 Final notification: June 1st, 2018 Camera-ready due: July 1st, 2018 Publication tentative date: October 2018 Guest editors: Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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[Call For Participation] IA^3 2017 - Seventh SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2017 Seventh Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3/ Monday, November 13, 2017 Colorado Convention Center Room 507 Denver, CO In conjunction with SC17 In collaboration with SIGHPC Sponsored by TCHPC Theme Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, tables, sparse matrices, deep nets, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Program 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, John Feo, Vito Giovanni Castellana 9:10 - 9:50 Keynote 1 - Chair: John Feo (PNNL) A Taxonomy of HPDA Algorithms programming of Irregular Algorithms Steve Conway (Hyperion Research) 9:50 - 10:00 Session 1: Parallel Algorithms Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL & WSU) Accelerating Energy Games Solvers on Modern Architectures Andrea Formisano, Raffaella Gentilini and Flavio Vella 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Load Balancing Chair: TBD 10:30 - 10:55 Overcoming Load Imbalance for Irregular Sparse Matrices Goran Flegar and Hartwig Anzt 10:55 - 11:20 Progressive load balancing of asynchronous algorithms Justs Zarins and Michele Weiland 11:20 - 11:30 Enabling Work-Efficiency for High Performance Vertex-Centric Graph Analytics on GPUs Farzad Khorasani, Keval Vora, Rajiv Gupta and Laxmi N. Bhuyan 11:30 - 12:30 Session 3: Parallel Irregular Algorithms Chair: TBD 11:30 - 11:55 Parallel Depth-First Search for Directed Acyclic Graphs Maxim Naumov, Alysson Vrielink and Michael Garland 11:55 - 12:20 Optimizing Word2Vec Performance on Multicore Systems Vasudevan Rengasamy, Tao-Yang Fu, Wang-Chien Lee and Kamesh Madduri 12:20 -12:30 Spherical Region Queries on Multicore Architectures Hao Lu, Sudip Seal, Wei Guo and Jonathan Poplawsky 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break (on your own) 2:00 - 2:50 Keynote 2 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Quantum Computing and Irregular Applications Prof. Fred Chong (University of Chicago) 2:50 - 3:00 Session 4: Data Layouts Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL & WSU) An Efficient Data Layout Transformation Algorithm for Locality-Aware Parallel Sparse FFT Cheng Wang, Sunita Chandrasekaran and Barbara Chapman 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:30 Session 5: Architecture for Irregular Applications Chair: TBD 3:30 - 3:55 A Case for Migrating Execution for Irregular Applications Peter Kogge and Shannon Kuntz 3:55 - 4:20 Pressure-Driven Hardware Managed Thread Concurrency for Irregular Applications John Leidel, Xi Wang and Yong Chen 4:20 - 4:30 Evaluation of Knight Landing High Bandwidth Memory for HPC Workloads Solmaz Salehian and Yonghong Yan 4:30 - 5:30 Debate - Moderator: Ruud Van Der Pas (Oracle) Proposition: “Specialized, perhaps configurable, hardware and software are necessary to achieve high-performance, scalable data analytics" Panelists: Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech), Franz Franchetti (CMU), Eric Van Hensbergen (ARM), David Wang (Samsung)

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IEEE ICIP 2018: Calls for Tutorials and Special Sessions Proposals
by Nikolaidis Nikos 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2018 (ICIP 2018), Athens, Greece, October 7-10, 2018. Call for Special Sessions Proposals ICIP 2018 will include Special Sessions that provide the state-of-the-art, directions and challenges of proposed areas of interest to the image and video processing community. Proposals along (but not limited to) the following directions are particularly encouraged: 1. Machine learning-based advances in image/video/vision processing (advances in traditional image/video/vision; novel augmented reality and virtual reality proposals) 2. Mobile consumer devices-driven image and video processing 3. Recent progress and new paradigms in image and video standardization Special sessions proposals should include the following information: * Title of the Special Session * Motivation, novelty and timeliness of the proposed special session * Short biography of the organizer(s) * List of maximum eight (8) contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact information of the corresponding author, and a short abstract of each contribution). Note that: * Special session proposals shall be submitted through the conference website https://2018.ieeeicip.org/ * Each special session organizer may contribute at most ONE paper. * A maximum of THREE organizers per Special Session may be proposed. * The evaluation of the special session proposals will be based on their relevance, timeliness, impact, general fit to ICIP 2018, the qualifications of the organizers and the authors of the contributed papers. * For accepted special session proposals, the authors will submit the papers using the regular ICIP web submission process (select the special session name when submitting the final paper). * All special session papers will undergo the regular ICIP review process. Dates: * Special session proposals due: November 15, 2017 * Notification of the accepted proposals: December 15, 2017 * Submission of the special session papers: ICIP general submission (February 7, 2018) * Notification of paper acceptance: ICIP general notifications (April 30, 2018) Inquiries about Special Sessions can be sent to the Special Sessions co-Chairs at specialsessions(a)2018.ieeeicip.org --------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorials Proposals The Program Committee is now accepting proposals from those interested in offering a tutorial at ICIP 2018. Tutorials will be held on Sunday, October 7, 2018 in half-day or full-day sessions. Tutorial proposals are welcome on all topics within the technical scope of IEEE ICIP 2018. They should aim at bringing new and exciting areas of research to the image processing community. They should be timely and accessible to a large audience. Each tutorial proposal must include: · Title of the tutorial · Presenter name(s) along with contact information, short biography, and selected publications · Description of the tutorial and duration: half-day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours) · A description of previous tutorial experience and past versions of the tutorial · Rationale for the tutorial including both importance and timeliness · Outline of the tutorial and description of material to be presented Tutorial proposals will be peer-reviewed for relevance, quality, value, and novelty in terms of introducing new tools, ideas, and topics to the IP community. Tutorial proposals are due by December 15, 2017, and notification of accepted proposals will be sent by February 15, 2018. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted through the conference website https://2018.ieeeicip.org/ Inquiries about Tutorials may be sent to tutorials(a)2018.ieeeicip.org By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the IEEE SPS policy of strongly encouraging video-recording the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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CFP- Complexis 2017: 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk
by Anna Kobusińska 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the Complexis 2017 Conference: 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk http://www.complexis.org/ March 20 - 21, 2018 Funchal, Madeira / Portugal Submission Deadline: October 16, 2017 --------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------------- COMPLEXIS – the International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing innovative views on all aspects of Complex Information Systems, in different areas such as Informatics, Telecommunications, Computational Intelligence, Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Social Sciences. Information is pervasive in many areas of human activity – perhaps all – and complexity is a characteristic of current Exabyte-sized, highly connected and hyper dimensional, information systems. COMPLEXIS 2018 is expected to provide an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the potential of new methodologies, technologies and application areas of complex information systems, in the academic and corporate world. Conference Areas: 1 - Complexity in Informatics, Automation and Networking <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A1> 2 - Complexity in Biology and Biomedical Engineering <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A2> 3 - Complexity in Social Sciences <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A3> 4 - Complexity in Computational Intelligence and Future Information Systems <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A4> 5 - Complexity in EDA, Embedded Systems, and Computer Architecture <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A5> 6 - Network Complexity <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A6> 7 - Complexity in Risk and Predictive Modeling <http://www.complexis.org/CallForPapers.aspx#A7> In Cooperation with: International Federation for Systems Research European Association for Theoretical Computer Science All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library <http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/>. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, EI and SCOPUS

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SPDNS 2018 - Paper submission deadline is November 3, 2018
by Igor Kotenko 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Final Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2018)" on 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018 http://www.pdp2018.org http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/snds.html Paper submission deadline: 3 Nov, 2017 ! Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: 3 Nov, 2017 - Acceptance notification: 1 Dec, 2017 - Camera ready due: 22 Dec, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 Session Chair Igor Kotenko St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia ITMO University Program Committee Miguel Correia, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Sergey Bezzateev, Saint Petersburg University of Airspace Instrumentation, Russia Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Evgenia Novikova, Saint Petersburg LETI University, Russia Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Nuno Neves, DI FC UL, Portugal Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Fabrizio Baiardi, Pisa University, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom SudParis, France Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse, France Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russian Federation Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping University, Sweden Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Lotfi Ben Othmane, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Jose Such, King's College London, UK Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo Brecht Wyseur, Nagravision S.A., Saudi Arabia Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, Korea Submission guidelines prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018) Please select the track "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing". Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: all accepted papers will be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Proceedings: authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issues: selected papers will be considered for a publication in a special issue of several journals. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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ACA 2018 - Applications of Computer Algebra - Announcement - Call for Sessions - Santiago, Spain
by Francisco Botana 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

ACA 2018 24th International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra June 18-22 2018 University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain ANNOUNCEMENT http://www.usc.es/regaca/aca2018/ congreso.aca2018(a)usc.es Topics ------ The ACA conference series is devoted to promoting all manner of computer algebra applications, and encouraging the interaction of developers of computer algebra systems with researchers and users (including scientists, engineers, educators, and mathematicians). Topics include, but are not limited to, computer algebra in the sciences, engineering, medicine, pure and applied mathematics, cryptology, education, and computer science. The 24th International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA, http://math.unm.edu/aca.html) will take place in Santiago de Compostela on June 18-22, 2018. Call for Sessions ----------------- The ACA conferences are organized as a series of Special Sessions. All interested researchers can propose a Special Session by sending an e-mail to the Program Chair (fbotana(at)uvigo.es). The Scientific Committee (i.e. the ACA Working Group) will then decide on the acceptance of the proposed session. Accepted sessions will be immediately announced on the conference site. A proposal for a Special Session has to include: title of the Special Session, short abstract describing the Special Session, contact information of the organizers. For more details see http://math.unm.edu/ACA/Organizing/special_session.html For examples of past sessions, consult past ACA conferences (http://math.unm.edu/aca.html) Talk submissions have to be directed to the organizers of an appropriate Special Session. It is expected that organizers actively contact potential speakers.. Important Dates - Deadlines --------------------------- Submission of session proposals: January 15th, 2018 Submission of talks: April 2nd, 2018 (standard) Registration: April 30th, 2018 Final version of abstracts: April 30th, 2018. Submission of talks ------------------- The talks are always submitted to session organizers after the announcement of the proposed (and accepted) Special Sessions. Within each session, talks are traditionally 1/2 hour in length (including time for questions). One who wants to submit a talk to a Special Session must send by e-mail the following information to the session organizers: Title of the talk. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s). An abstract of the talk. To aid in the creation of the proceedings for the meeting, please follow the instruction at the conference web page. Proceedings will be published with an ISBN. If your proposal is accepted, your abstract (short, 1-2 pages, or extended, up to 5 pages) will be included in the proceedings. The talk proposals (short or extended abstracts) will be reviewed by the session organizers and they will inform the authors about the acceptance. Conference Organization ----------------------- General Chair Manuel Ladra, University of Santiago, Spain Program Chair Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain Publicity Chair Felipe Gago, University of Santiago, Spain Advisory Committee Eugenio Roanes-Lozano Stanly Steinberg Michael Wester Scientific Committee The ACA Working Group http://math.unm.edu/ACA/Organizing/WG.html

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