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Call For Papers [Best Paper Award, Keynote Speaker and Panel]: ESPM2@SC17 - Third International Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware
by Hari Subramoni 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

======================================================================== Call For Papers Third International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2017) November 12, 2017, Denver, Colorado to be held in conjunction with SuperComputing 2017, November 12 - 16, 2017 Denver, Colorado http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ ======================================================================== Next generation architectures and systems being deployed are characterized by high concurrency, low memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance and, scalability. It is commonly believed that software has the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these challenges. In other words, this responsibility is delegated to the next generation programming models and their associated middleware/runtimes. This workshop focuses on different aspects of programming models such as task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc), PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData (Hadoop, Spark, etc), Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow), directive-based languages (OpenMP, OpenACC) and Hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also focuses on their associated middleware (unified runtimes, interoperability for hybrid programming, tight integration of MPI+X, and support for accelerators) for next generation systems and architectures. The ultimate objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum that brings together researchers from academia and industry working in the areas of programming models, runtime systems, compilers, programming languages, and application developers. ESPM2 2017 will be held as a full day workshop in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC 2017), Denver, Colorado, USA, Sunday, November 12th, 2017. Topics ------ ESPM2 2017 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * New programming models, languages and constructs for exploiting high concurrency and heterogeneity * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as: - MPI - PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.) - Directive-based programming (OpenMP, OpenACC) - Asynchronous Task-based models (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc) - Hybrid MPI+X models - BigData (Hadoop, Spark, etc), and - Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow) * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault tolerance * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and accelerators such as KNL, OpenPOWER, ARM, GPUs, FPGAs, MICs, and DSPs Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Best Paper Award ---------------- Intel has generously offered to sponsor the Best Paper Award. This award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Technical Program Committee and the Program Chairs. The award will be determined from viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. Keynote Speakers ---------------- We are happy to announce that Prof. William D. Gropp, Interim Director and Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will deliver the keynote address at ESPM2'17. Panel Information ----------------- Panel Topic : Effective Programming Models for Deep Learning at Scale Panel Moderator : Daniel Holmes, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Panel Members : Coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ESPM2'17: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espm22017 Submissions should not exceed 8 pages using ACM format with 10pt font. Each submission must be a single PDF file. Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). The manuscript should be formatted according to ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- ACM SigHPC will publish the workshop proceedings which will be available through the ACM Digital Library. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, August 31, 2017 Author notification : October 1, 2017 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, October 7, 2017 Workshop : Sunday, November 12, 2017 ESPM2'17 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Karl Schulz, Intel Corporation Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware * Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK * Jeff Hammond, Intel Labs * Michael A. Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories * Costin Iancu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Olivier Tardieu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Daniel Tian, The Portland Group * Sean Treichler, NVIDIA Corporation * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Further Information ------------------- See the ESPM2'17 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ Thanks, The ESPM2'17 Organizing Committee.

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[CFP] IA^3 2017 - Seventh SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '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/ November 13, 2017 In conjunction with SC17 In collaboration with ACM SIGHPC Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC Call for Papers 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. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors * Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) * Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) * Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) * Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) * Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches * Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads * Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) * Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) * Languages and programming models for irregular workloads * Library and runtime support for irregular workloads * Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads * High performance data analytics applications, including graph databases Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. Artifact Evaluation For this edition of IA3, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process, similarly to the process followed for SC17. The participation to the Artifact Evaluation process is voluntary and will not change decisions regarding the paper. However, papers that undergo the evaluation process will receive a seal of approval on the paper, and will be able to participate in the BEST PAPER AWARD selection. DIVIDITI will provide an Amazon Gift Voucher (valued $200) to the authors of the paper that passes artifact evaluation with the highest score and that shares the artifact in the CK (Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck) format. Authors that go through the Artifact Evaluation process are also encouraged (but not mandated) to submit the supporting materials as “Source Materials” in the digital library. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. For any additional question on the Artifact Evaluation process please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella. Important Dates Abstract submission: 22 August 2017 Position or full paper submission: 29 August 2017 Notification of acceptance: 3 October 2017 Camera-ready position and full papers: 10 October 2017 Workshop: 13 November 2017 Submissions Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32017 All submissions should be in double-column, single-spaced letter format, with at least one-inch margins on each side and respect the ACM standard proceedings templates (sigconf) available at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four(4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Organizers Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US John Feo, PNNL/NIAC, US, Vito Giovanni Castellana, PNNL, US Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella, DIVIDITI, UK Publication Chair Marco Minutoli, PNNL, US Program Committee Scott Beamer, LBNL, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, US Fabio Checconi, IBM, US Rajiv Gupta, Univerisity of California Riverside, US Maya Gokhale, LLNL, US Peter Kogge, Univ. of Notre Dame, US Vivek Kumar, Rice University, US John Leidel, Texas Tech University, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS, JP Tim Mattson, Intel, US Miquel Moreto, BSC and UPC, SP Richard Murphy, Micron Technology Inc, US Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, NVIDIA, US Jacob Nelson, University of Washington, US Sreepathi Pai, University of Rochester, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University, SE Viktor Prasanna, University Of Southern California, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, University of Minnesota, US Bora Ucar, CNRS and LIP ENS Lyon, FR Ruud Van Der Pas, Oracle, US Flavio Vella, DIVIDITI, UK Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL

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IEEE SC2 2017 Submission Deadline - August 10, 2017
by Robert Hsu 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

IEEE SC2 2017, The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 http://grid.chu.edu.tw/iov2017 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2017 IEEE SC2 Conference. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2017 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2017 will be held on Nov. 22-25, 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. Cluster Computing (Springer) Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Vehicular Communications Journal International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing IET Intelligent Transport Systems ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Research Track: Submission 8/10 Notification 9/10 Poster / Special Session Submission 9/17 Notification 9/24 Registration Due 10/5 Camera ready 10/5 --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Christophe Cerin, Université Paris 13, France General Executive Chairs Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Program Chairs Amir H. Alavi, Michigan State University, USA Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Alex Kuo, University of Victoria, Canada Demo/Poster Chair Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Special Session Chair Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan Award Chair Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan International Liaison & Publicity Chair Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia Bingwei Liu, Aetna Inc., USA Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Li-Hsin Yen, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Rynson Lau, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Publication Chair Wen-Hwa Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging, Malaysia Advisory Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hui Lei, IBM, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Please visit the IEEE SC2 2016 website http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017/tpc.php for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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Call for Papers: IEEE HiPC 2017 workshops
by Anand Panangadan 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics HiPC 2017 December 18-21, 2017 Jaipur, India http://www.hipc.org The 24th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2017) will be held at the Le Meridian, Jaipur, India. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the four workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 18. • International Workshop on Foundations of Big Data Computing (BigDF) • Third Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Dynamic Data Driven Smart Systems (DDDSS) • Second International Workshop on Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI) See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Final Call: IEEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17)
by Peter Mueller 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Third Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) ----------------------------------------------------------- Review manuscript due date: July 23. 2017 ========================================= http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/qcit17-workshop/ At IEEE Globecom’17, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017 http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org The scope of this dedicated workshop is to explore the opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology and its applications. The workshop is the annual main event of ComSoc’s Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (ETC-QCIT). Over the last decade, a wide variety of experimental quantum communications and processing devices has been invented and used for fundamental demonstrations in laboratories. Results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications and information related fields. Recently one can observe upcoming applications in areas like a quantum communications, quantum sensors and random number generators which are partially even commercially available. Companies and governments started to spend significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. However, the step from quantum technology based devices to real systems running a communications or information processing task has not completed yet. Moreover, many problems show opportunities to contribute with knowhow, technologies and engineering out of the communications area. The following topics are crucial to the development of future quantum technology based systems: - Algorithms and applications complexity - Analysis of classical vs quantum software - Coding theory - Coherent routers, repeaters and converters - Communications and information theory - Devices and circuits - Entanglement distillation - Error correction - Experimental results and demonstrations - Interconnection and complexity theory - Metrology for quantum systems - Modeling and simulation - Network coding - Photonic communications technology - Processing and systems architecture - Quantum electro-dynamics - Quantum information theory - Quantum key distribution - Quantum sensors - Quantum-algorithms and applications - Remote state preparation - RF based programming and algorithms - RF technology and control - Signal processing for quantum control It is the aim of this workshop to connect people from academia and industry to discuss about theory, technology and applications and exchange ideas to move efficiently forward in research, engineering and development of this exciting area. Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts -------------------------------------------- Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23835 Further information is available in the Globecom 2017 webpages: http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org Important dates --------------- Manuscript submission due date: 23. July, 2017 (extended) Notification date: 1. September, 2017 Final manuscript due date: 1. October, 2017 Conference date: 4.-8. December, 2017 Workshop organizers ------------------- Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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CFP-IEEE SC2 2017 Submission Deadline - August 10, 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

IEEE SC2 2017, The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 https://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2017 IEEE SC2 Conference. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2017 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2017 will be held on Nov. 22-25, 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. Cluster Computing (Springer) Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Vehicular Communications Journal International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing IET Intelligent Transport Systems ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Research Track: Submission 8/10 Notification 9/10 Poster / Special Session Submission 9/17 Notification 9/24 Registration Due 10/5 Camera ready 10/5 --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Christophe Cerin, Université Paris 13, France General Executive Chairs Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Program Chairs Amir H. Alavi, Michigan State University, USA Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Alex Kuo, University of Victoria, Canada Demo/Poster Chair Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Special Session Chair Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan Award Chair Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan International Liaison & Publicity Chair Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia Bingwei Liu, Aetna Inc., USA Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Li-Hsin Yen, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Rynson Lau, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Publication Chair Wen-Hwa Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging, Malaysia Advisory Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hui Lei, IBM, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Please visit the IEEE SC2 2016 website http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017/tpc.php for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members. *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** The CSPlus (Computational Science Publicity and Liaison for Ubiquitous Society) mailing list has been setup to share information with respect to upcoming events. 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CFP-10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017)
by Anna Kobusińska 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEE SOCA 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 10 th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017) http://conferences.computer.org/soca Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key enabler for the development of robust and high-quality intelligent Internet-scale distributed applications. Extensive research and development in the past few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art applications in emerging areas such as Cloud computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Mobile-Edge Computing, Social computing as well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA) research opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories and e-Health, just to mention a few. Many of the service components are deployed on resource-limited embedded systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of resource-limited systems and high-end servers. Edge servers and clouds are connected through various types of networks, including emerging network function virtualization services. These components are part of complex applications and systems that span multiple execution environments. Their capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via emerging software-defined and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with humans in order to obtain useful human-sensing data and solve complex problems. Thus, on the one hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of emerging trends in such environments to build SOC applications and systems for large-scale service-based systems is an open research challenge. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017 http://conferences.computer.org/soca/) provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service- oriented computing. The conference includes three days of parallel-track program, special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas: -Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications -Cloud-based service systems -SOCA in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems -Service Models and Applications for Mobile-Edge Computing -Service coordination techniques in IoT and cloud environments -SOC-based smart process and workflow management -Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware -Data analytics and data services in and for SOC-based systems -IoT and data marketplaces -Smart data and service contracts -Cognitive computing techniques for SOCA -Social computing for and atop SOCA -SOCA development, deployment and testing tools and methodologies -Security and privacy for SOCA -Dependable and trustworthy SOCA -SOCA for smart applications (cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.) ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal May 30, 2017 Workshop/Special Session Notification June 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline August 10, 2017 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission October 1, 2017 ---------------------------- Paper Format and Submission ---------------------------- We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch) with a page limit of 8 pages. Short paper should be limited with 4 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. The paper can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2017 ---------------------------- Organizing Committees ---------------------------- General Chairs Boualem Benatallah, UNSW, Australia Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan General Vice-Chairs Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Program Chairs Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Tech., China Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Program Vice-Chairs Jing Fan, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Tech., Poland Kevin Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand Workshop Co-Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Changqin Huang, South China Normal University, China Finance Chair Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Publication Chair Jong-Chan Kim, Kookmin University, Korea Web Chair Ci-Wei Lan, IBM CSDL, Taiwan Steering Committee Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jane YJ Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China

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IEEE DataCom 2017 Submission Deadline (Firm) - July 27, 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

IEEE DataCom 2017 Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017 http://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results related to Big Data, and Cloud Computing at the IEEE DataCopm 2017 conference. The conference proceedings of DataCom 2017 will be published by IEEE CPS and submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexing services such as EI and ISSN. Selected papers will be published in special issues of prestigious international journals. IEEE DataCom 2017 also welcomes works-in-progress paper, industry paper, demo & poster papers. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Big data is a rapidly expanding research area spanning the fields of computer science and information management, and has become a ubiquitous term in understanding and solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications. The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2017) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Big Data intelligence and computing. IEEE DataCom 2017 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Big Data. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with at least 30% new material) for review and publication in special issues of international journals. IEEE DataCom 2017 will be held on November 6-10, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value - Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualization and semantics - Software and tools for big data management. - Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data - Big data economy, QoS and business models - Scientific discovery and business intelligence - Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing - Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis - Infrastructures and systems for big data analytics and managements - Middleware and tools for big data analytics and managements - Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation - Data quality issues: such as validation, metrics, optimizations and consistency - Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration - Data intensive computing theorems and technologies - Big data for advanced manufacturing and productivity - Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation - Green data centers / environmental-friendly perspectives - Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability - Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated ---------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ---------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Research Track: Paper Submission - July 27, 2017 Author Notification - August 27, 2017 Poster/Demo/Special Session: Paper Submission - August 31, 2017 Author Notification - September 6, 2017 Camera ready / registration: September 17, 2017 —----------------- SUBMISSION —----------------- Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via the IEEE DataCom 2017 web site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedatacom2017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to DataCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster Chair. - Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA Hai Jin, HUST, China Manu Malek, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA General Executive Chairs Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Tao Li, NSF/UFL, USA Program Chairs Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China Workshop Chairs I-Hsin Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Wuu Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Demo/Poster Chair Che-Rung Lee, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Special Session Chair Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Award Chair Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA International Liaison & Publicity Chair Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Huang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, and Zealand Bhekisipho Twala, Univ. Johannesburg, South Africa Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Publication Chair Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italy Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Cho-Li Wang, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jinsong Wu, University de Chile, Chile Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Please visit the IEEE DataCom 2017 website http://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/tpc.php for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members. ******************************************************************************** The hpc-announce mailing list has been setup to have a common mailing list to share information with respect to upcoming HPC related events. You are included in this mailing list based on your participation or interest in a previous HPC conference or other event. The purpose for providing a single mailing list is to allow participants to easily identify such emails, and handle them appropriately. Some options include: 1. If you feel that the number of such emails is too many, filter them to less-frequently-read folders in your email client. 2. Change your subscription to a digest option (https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/hpc-announce) which will consolidate emails sent that week into a single summary email. If you do not remember your password (which is needed to change these options), you can reset it using the "Unsubscribe or Edit Options" button at the bottom of the page. 3. Finally, if you do not wish to receive any emails from hpc-announce, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list (https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/hpc-announce) Once unsubscribed, we guarantee that you will not be added back in through participation in a different HPC related conference or event. You will need to send an email to hpc-announce-owner(a)mcs.anl.gov to be added back on. If you need help with any of the above, please email us at hpc-announce-owner(a)mcs.anl.gov. ********************************************************************************

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The 2017 ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017)
by ICT DataScience 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

The 5th ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017) [http://www.bigdatalab.ac.cn/~dsbda/2017/] In conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017) [http://icdm2017.bigke.org/] New Orleans, USA · November 18, 2017 Introduction ================ Due to the rapid development of IT technology including Internet, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, and Internet of Things, as well as the consequent decrease of cost on collecting and storing data, big data has been generated from almost every industry and sector as well as governmental department. The volume of big data often grows exponentially or even in rates that overwhelm the well-known Moore’s Law. Meanwhile, big data has been extended from traditional structured data into semi-structured and completely unstructured data of various types, such as text, image, audio, video, click streams, log files, etc. It is no doubt that big data can offer us unprecedented opportunities. However, it also poses many grand challenges. Due to the massive volume and inherent complexity, it is extremely difficult to store, aggregate, manage, and analyze big data and finally mine valuable information/knowledge from the complex data/information networks. Therefore, in the presence of big data, the theories, models, algorithms and methods of traditional data related fields, such as, data mining, data engineering, machine learning, statistical learning, computer programming, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, uncertainty modeling, and high performance computing etc., become no longer effective and efficient. On the other hand, some data is generated exponentially or super-exponentially in a streaming manner. Therefore, how to delicately analyze and deeply understand big data so as to obtain dynamical and incremental information / knowledge, is a grand challenge. In general, at the era of big data, it is expected to develop new theories, models, algorithms, methods, and paradigms for mining, analyzing, and understanding big data, and even a new inter-discipline, Data Science, for studying the perception, acquisition, transportation, storage, management, analysis, visualization, and applications of big data, and finally implement the transformation from data to knowledge. DSBDA 2017 aims to provide a networking venue that will bring together scientists, researchers, professionals, and practitioners from both industry and academia and from different disciplines (including computer science, social science, network science, etc.) to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, share experiences, promote collaborations, and report state-of-the-art research work on various aspects of data science and big data analytics. Topics ================ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data science and data analytics * Acquisition, representation, indexing, storage, and management of big data * Processing, pre-processing, and post-processing of big data * Models, algorithms, and methods for big data mining and understanding * Knowledge discovery and acquisition from big data * Visualizing analytics and organization for big data * Streaming data processing * Context data mining from big Web data * Social computing over big Web data * Industrial and scientific applications of big data * Tools for big data analytics Submissions ================ The page limit of workshop papers is 8 pages in the standard IEEE 2-column format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) including the bibliography and any possible appendices. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2017 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2017.bigke.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP04&u… . Note that all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2017 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Therefore, papers must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conferences or journals. Important Dates ================ Submissions Due Date: August 7, 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2017 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15, 2017 Workshop Date: November 18, 2017 Steering Committee =================== Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China Prof. Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Chairs ================ Dr. Xiaolong Jin Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: jinxiaolong(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Jiafeng Guo Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: guojiafeng(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Huewei Shen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: shenhuawei(a)ict.ac.cn

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[CFR]: ESORICS+Workshops 2017 Registration is Open (Early-bird pricing through ***August, 15th 2017***)
by Cristina Alcaraz 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to join us at the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2017 in Oslo, Norway! ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Registration for ESORICS+Workshops 2017 is open, but will end soon. Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017@ntnu.edu Venu page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! -- Cristina Alcaraz ESORICS 2017 Publicity Chair University of Malaga

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) at SC17: Extended abstracts due Sept. 1
by Jason D. Bakos 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2017 Friday Morning, November 17, 2017 Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 (one page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its third year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on legacy and new high-level programming models, optimizations specific to scientific computing and data analytics, tools for performance/energy improvements, FPGA computing in the cloud, and popular applications for reconfigurable computing such as machine learning and big data. ========================================================================== Submissions (one page extended abstract): Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high-performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in Supercomputer, Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Supercomputing, Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Runtimes/OS/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future-gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as a ONE PAGE EXTENDED ABSTRACT in ACM SIG Proceedings format. ========================================================================== You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2017 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: November 4, 2017 Workshop Date: November 17, 2017 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: H2RC is a half-day Friday workshop. It will be comprised of Keynote and invited talks and talks selected from paper submissions. ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Program Committee: Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Carl Ebeling, Altera Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Alan George, University of Florida Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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Recruitment - PhD Interns on Cyber-Physical Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Jianying Zhou 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university established in collaboration with MIT. Cyber security is one of its most important areas and grows very fast with rich research funding. It has the world's best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/) I am looking for PhD interns with interest in cyber-physical system security (IoT, autonomous vehicle, and power grid etc.), especially on the topics such as 1) Lightweight and low-latency crypto algorithms for CPS devices, 2) Resilient authentication of devices and data in CPS, 3) Advanced SCADA firewall to filter more sophisticated attacking packets in CPS, 4) Big data based threat analytics for detection of both known and unknown threats, 5) Attack mitigation to increase the resilience of CPS. The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/

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CFP : Special Issue on Parallel Computing in Modelling and Simulation on JPDC
by William Spataro 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

(sorry for cross postings) SPECIAL ISSUE ON PARALLEL COMPUTING IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION SCOPE and OBJECTIVES Model development for the simulation of the evolution of artificial and natural systems is essential for the advancement of Science. Recently, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of parallel computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. This Special issue aims to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the Parallel Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. The intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. TOPICS of INTEREST Tentative authors are invited to submit original unpublished works on topics from a wide range of parallel computing methods, including but not limited to the following: * Parallel algorithms for modelling and simulation * High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications * Complex systems modelling and simulation * Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations * Integrated approach to optimization and simulation * MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science * Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science * Software developed to solve science (e.g.,biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems * Hardware approaches of parallel computing in modelling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 15th September 2017 First Notification: 1st December 2017 Revision Submission: 15th January 2018 Second Notification: 1st March 2018 Final version Submission: 1st April 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Regarding the paper submission, we expect that papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference/workshop papers must contain at least 40%-50% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. During submission please select paper type “VSI:ParCompModelSimu” under Manuscript Category. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process. GUEST EDITORS William Spataro (University of Calabria, IT) spataro(a)unical.it Giuseppe A. Trunfio (University of Sassari, IT) trunfio(a)uniss.it Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace, GR) gsirak(a)ee.duth.gr -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <http://unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view_largomento.cfm?48976>

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CFP - IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
by Peter Mueller 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

*************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this IEEE ISPA 2017 CFP with 14+ SIs & 10+ Keynotes. We appreciate your great help if you forward this IEEE ISPA 2017 CFP to your colleagues and friends. *************************************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) --- Paper Submission Deadline extended to July 28, 2017 ***One of China Computer Federation (CCF) Class "C" Conferences*** Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Central South University, China Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE TCSC. Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Co-Located Conferences: (1) The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ (2) The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed special issues (confirmed): (1) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.79) http://tii.ieee-ies.org/ (2) IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: to appear soon) https://www.computer.org/web/tetc (3) IEEE Access (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.270) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/ (4) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.364) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ (5) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.430) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ (6) Cluster Computing - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.514) http://link.springer.com/journal/10586 (7) Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.331) https://link.springer.com/journal/11042 (8) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.320) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput… (9) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.94) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/ (10) Security and Communication Networks - Hindawi (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.806) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/ (11) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE (13) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES (14) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn * More special issues will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Keynote Speeches Shared by Co-Located IEEE ISPA 2017 & IEEE IUCC 2017 & SpaCCS 2017 Conferences: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/KeynoteSpeeches.htm Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA (Fellow of APS (Physics) and Fellow of ACM (Computing)) https://www.soic.indiana.edu/all-people/profile.html?profile_id=203 Title: Next Generation Grid: Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Runtimes from Cloud to Edge Applications Keynote Speaker 2: Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of UK, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IEE/IET) http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/newcomms/?q=people/lh Title: Quantum-Search Algorithms, Quantum Codes and All That... Keynote Speaker 3: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada (Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~boukerch/ Title: Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: A New Challenge for Smart Cities Keynote Speaker 4: Prof. Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (IEEE Fellow) https://cis.temple.edu/~wu/ Title: Dual-Centric Data Center Network Architectures Keynote Speaker 5: Prof. Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore (IEEE Fellow) http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ Title: Privacy-Preserving Access Control and Computations of Encrypted Data in the Cloud Keynote Speaker 6: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia (Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the IEE) http://web.science.mq.edu.au/directory/listing/person.htm?id=vijay Title: TBD. Keynote Speaker 7: Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Cheung Kung Scholars Chair Professor, Fellow of the CCF) http://www.linkedin.com/in/jinhust Title: Towards Dataflow-based Graph Accelerator Keynote Speaker 8: Prof. Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~jianhua/mahome/ Title: TBD. Keynote Speaker 9: Prof. Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ Title: Big Data - Big Application * More keynote speakers will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2017 (15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 15th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2016 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2017 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA 2017 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Interests (1) Systems and Architectures Track Cloud computing and data center technology Migration of computations Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability Energy management and Green Computing Wireless and mobile networks Internet of Things (IoT) Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC Parallel and distributed algorithms Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development Novel parallel programming paradigms Programming models for cloud services and applications Code generation and optimization Compilers for parallel computers Middleware and tools Scheduling and resource management Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track High-performance scientific and engineering computing Grid and cluster computing Pervasive and ubiquitous computing Databases, data mining, and data management Big data and business analytics Scientific cloud systems and services Internet computing and web services Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission and Publication Information All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2017) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings Format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: July 28, 2017 (Extended) Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 General Chairs Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Program Vice Chairs (1) Systems and Architectures Track Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA (2) Technologies and Tools Track Julien Bourgeois, Universit¨¦ de Franche-Comt¨¦, France Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China (3) Applications Track Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Weigang Li, University of Brasilia, Brazil Steering Chairs Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee Members Please check the conference website for detail. Workshop Chairs Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Publicity Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Publication Chair Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Organizing Chairs Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Webmaster Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ISPA 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (ISPA2017Guangzhou AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EVLSID 2018 ** Deadline for paper submission extended to July 30, 2017 **
by Ishan Thakkar 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Call for Papers: International Conference on Embedded and VLSI Design 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 31st International Conference on VLSI Design The 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems January 6-11, 2018, Pune, India http://embeddedandvlsidesignconference.org ** Deadline for paper submission: July 30, 2017 ** This joint conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss current topics in VLSI design, electronic design automation, embedded systems, and emerging technologies. Two days of tutorials will be followed by three days of regular paper sessions, special sessions, and embedded tutorials. Industry presentation sessions along with exhibits, panel discussions, Design Contest, and Education Forum round off the program. The conference is followed by the Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT) workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on previously unpublished results in the following categories: ******************************** EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN E1: Embedded Systems Hardware: HW/SW co-design, SoC, multi-core systems, board level hardware, HW security, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, sensors/actuators, displays E2: Embedded Systems Software: Operating systems, firmware, algorithms, middleware, runtimes, parallelization, virtualization, software for low power, security, reliability, real-time support, emerging applications (e.g., automotive, telematics, analytics) E3: FPGA and Reconfigurable Systems: FPGA architecture and FPGA circuit design, CAD for FPGA, FPGA prototyping, FPGA-based accelerators E4: Wireless Systems: Sensor networks, low-power wireless systems, wireless protocols, wireless power delivery E5: Embedded Case Studies: Practical and industrial tools, methodologies, designs in various application areas: wireless, medical, networking, multimedia, automotive, controls, etc. DESIGN TOOLS AND EDA T1: Design Verification: Functional, formal, coverage-driven, hardware-assisted, and assertion-based verification, behavioral, RTL, and gate-level simulation, emulation, equivalence checking T2: Test, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance: DFT, fault modelling and simulation, ATPG, BIST, repair, delay test, fault tolerance, online test, AIMS/RF test, board-level and system-level test, silicon debug, post-silicon validation, memory test, reliability testing T3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD): Logic and behavioral synthesis, logic mapping, simulation and formal verification, layout (partitioning, placement, routing, floor planning, and compaction), post route optimizations DESIGN METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGY M1: System-level Design: Methodologies and architectures, processor and memory design, multi-core, GPU design, networks-on-chip, defect-tolerant architectures, accelerators, distributed systems (e.g., automotive), cyber-physical systems M2: Advances in Digital Design: Logic and physical synthesis, place and route, clock tree design, timing and signal integrity, design for manufacturability and yield, power integrity, variation-tolerant design M3: Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF Design: Design of analog, mixed signal, and RF IP, high-speed wired and wireless interfaces, low-power analog and RF M4: Power-Aware Design: Power analysis and estimation, optimization and low-power design, energy-efficient design, battery-aware design, thermal management, energy harvesting M5: CMOS Technology and Devices: Deep nanoscale CMOS devices, device modelling and simulation, multi-domain simulation, device/circuit-level reliability and variability M6: Emerging Technologies: Post-CMOS devices, MEMS sensors, biomedical circuits, lab-on-chip, carbon nanotubes, silicon photonics, spintronic, memristors, neuromorphic and quantum computing SAFE AND SECURE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS S1: Design for Safety and Reliability Physically unclonable functions, random number generators, fault tolerance systems and architectures S2: Secure Circuits and Systems System security, side channel attacks and anti-piracy methodologies, Embedded systems security in healthcare, automotive, industrial and IoT applications S3: Safety Assurance of Circuits/ Systems Design for functional safety and certifications in airborne, health care, automotive systems ******************************** EMBEDDED TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS: Proposals in relevant emerging areas should be submitted as two-page abstracts. On acceptance, authors are required to submit full regular papers. HALF-DAY AND FULL-DAY TUTORIALS: Tutorial proposal are invited for topics of interest including VLSI design, EDA, VLSI technology, and embedded systems. The tutorials will be arranged on the first two days of the conference. PANELS: Proposals must be submitted with an abstract, and a list of panelists. SUBMISSIONS: All submissions should be made electronically via the conference website by the deadline. Your manuscript should clearly state the novel ideas, results, and applications of the contribution. Paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review. Papers must be in PDF format and not exceed 6 single-spaced pages including figures and references in two-column IEEE conference paper format. Papers exceeding the page limit or identifying the authors will be rejected without review. EXHIBITS: Please contact the Exhibits Chair to explore opportunities to display your products/services. FELLOWSHIPS: The conference will award fellowships, based on need and merit, to partially cover expenses of attendees from India. Application details will be posted at the conference website. DESIGN CONTEST: Please check the conference website or contact the Design Contest Chair for more details. USER TRACK AND PHD FORUM: Please check the conference website for details on criteria and submission dates. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full paper deadline: July 30, 2017 Acceptance notification: September 17, 2017 Camera ready paper due: October 8, 2017

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - final extension, deadline 24th July
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW)- final deadline extension Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualisation BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017 by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page ( http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information about templates and submission types. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 24, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 25, 2017 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 - info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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[TCBD] Extended Deadline - IEEE CloudCom 2017 (submissions now due 7 August 2017)
by fzuconf 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

IEEE CloudCom 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Hong Kong, 11 - 14 December 2017 http://2017.cloudcom.org/ Important Dates (Extended deadlines) Full paper submission: 7 August 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2017 Please see CloudCom 2017 site at http://2017.cloudcom.org/ for details and paper submission instructions. #################################################### IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data http://www.comsoc.org/committees/technical-committee/big-data http://bdpan.committees.comsoc.org/ https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tcbd&A=1

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FPS 2017 - Deadline approaching (July 23, 2017)
by Abdessamad Imine 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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CFP IEEE SOCA 2017 - The 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications
by Anna Kobusińska 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEE SOCA 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 10 th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017) http://conferences.computer.org/soca Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key enabler for the development of robust and high-quality intelligent Internet-scale distributed applications. Extensive research and development in the past few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art applications in emerging areas such as Cloud computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Mobile-Edge Computing, Social computing as well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA) research opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories and e-Health, just to mention a few. Many of the service components are deployed on resource-limited embedded systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of resource-limited systems and high-end servers. Edge servers and clouds are connected through various types of networks, including emerging network function virtualization services. These components are part of complex applications and systems that span multiple execution environments. Their capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via emerging software-defined and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with humans in order to obtain useful human-sensing data and solve complex problems. Thus, on the one hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of emerging trends in such environments to build SOC applications and systems for large-scale service-based systems is an open research challenge. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017 http://conferences.computer.org/soca/) provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service- oriented computing. The conference includes three days of parallel-track program, special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas: -Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications -Cloud-based service systems -SOCA in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems -Service Models and Applications for Mobile-Edge Computing -Service coordination techniques in IoT and cloud environments -SOC-based smart process and workflow management -Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware -Data analytics and data services in and for SOC-based systems -IoT and data marketplaces -Smart data and service contracts -Cognitive computing techniques for SOCA -Social computing for and atop SOCA -SOCA development, deployment and testing tools and methodologies -Security and privacy for SOCA -Dependable and trustworthy SOCA -SOCA for smart applications (cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.) ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal May 30, 2017 Workshop/Special Session Notification June 15, 2017 *Paper Submission Deadline AUGUST 10, 2017 * Acceptance Notification September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission October 1, 2017 ---------------------------- Paper Format and Submission ---------------------------- We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch) with a page limit of 8 pages. Short paper should be limited with 4 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. The paper can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2017 ---------------------------- Organizing Committees ---------------------------- General Chairs Boualem Benatallah, UNSW, Australia Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan General Vice-Chairs Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Program Chairs Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Tech., China Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Program Vice-Chairs Jing Fan, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Tech., Poland Kevin Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand Workshop Co-Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Changqin Huang, South China Normal University, China Finance Chair Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Publication Chair Jong-Chan Kim, Kookmin University, Korea Web Chair Ci-Wei Lan, IBM CSDL, Taiwan Steering Committee Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jane YJ Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China

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Extended Deadline - IEEE CloudCom 2017 (submissions now due 7 August 2017)
by Hacker, Thomas J 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

IEEE CloudCom 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Hong Kong, 11 - 14 December 2017 http://2017.cloudcom.org/ Important Dates (Extended deadlines) Full paper submission: 7 August 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2017 Please see CloudCom 2017 site at http://2017.cloudcom.org/ for details and paper submission instructions.

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Call for early/mid career virtual posters on HPC topics for the 7th International Women in HPC Workshop
by Toni Collis 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

================================================================= 7th International Women in HPC workshop Sunday November 12th 2017 — Denver, CO, USA Call for posters and participation https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/ <https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/> ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 7th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC17 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions include: - Improving Diversity in the Workplace: What methods have been put in place and tested to improve workplace diversity and inclusion? - Career Development and Mentoring: Skills to thrive; sharing your experiences and advice on how to succeed in the workplace. - Virtual Poster Showcase: Highlighting work from women across industry and academia. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 13th 2017 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: http://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/submit/ <http://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc17/workshop/submit/> Workshop Committee Chairs - Workshop Chair: Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK - Poster Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring Chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Publicity Chair: Kimberly McMahon, McMahon Consulting, USA Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career posters) - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK - Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) at SC17: Extended abstracts due Sept. 1
by Jason D. Bakos 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2017 Friday Morning, November 17, 2017 Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 (one page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its third year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on legacy and new high-level programming models, optimizations specific to scientific computing and data analytics, tools for performance/energy improvements, FPGA computing in the cloud, and popular applications for reconfigurable computing such as machine learning and big data. ========================================================================== Submissions (one page extended abstract): Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high-performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in Supercomputer, Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Supercomputing, Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Runtimes/OS/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future-gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as a ONE PAGE EXTENDED ABSTRACT in ACM SIG Proceedings format. ========================================================================== You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2017 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: November 4, 2017 Workshop Date: November 17, 2017 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: H2RC is a half-day Friday workshop. It will be comprised of Keynote and invited talks and talks selected from paper submissions. ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Program Committee: Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Carl Ebeling, Altera Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Alan George, University of Florida Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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Deadline Approaching - CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS)
by Ilia Pietri 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

********** 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/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) ***************************************** Important Dates Papers Due: 30 July 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: 9 September 2017 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2017 Final Papers Due: 1 October 2017 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. WORKS papers will be published in collaboration with SIGHPC and will be available from both ACM and IEEE digital repositories. ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK – General Chairs Johan Montagnat, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC, USA Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Program Committee Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Université Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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CfP, deadline extension (21st July) - Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact - Enviroinfo 2017
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Enviroinfo 2017 workshop: "Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact" September 13/14/15, 2017 Neimënster Abbey, 28 Rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg Submission deadline (abstracts): 21st July 2017 http://www.envcomp.eu/enviroinfo17/ or http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/ (“programme” -> “workshops & special sessions”) The proposed workshop brings together experts in green IT, IT cost assessment, environmental modelling, disaster risk assessment and global supply chain optimisation to lay the groundwork for an economic and ecologic cost-benefit analysis framework that can be used to estimate optimal investments in operational environmental modelling services. The workshop will include a mix of invited presentations and peer-reviewed papers submitted through a normal peer-review process. The themes and focus areas of the workshop bring together and support cross-pollination between several themes of the EnviroInfo 2017 conference: • Cross-border collaboration and issues and environmental informatics • Environmental Modelling and Simulation • Applications of Geographical Information Systems • Risk Assessment and Resilience • Software Tools and Environmental Databases • Design, Sustainability and Green Software Engineering Paper submission Contributions should be submitted as 1-4 page extended abstracts via the conference tool (https://www.conftool.net/enviroinfo2017/) please refer to the conference author guidelines ( http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/en/call-for-papers/authors-guidelines/) for different submissions options. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in a journal after the workshop. Discussions pending with FGCS. Important dates Abstract submissions due: 21st July 2017 Notification: 29th July 2017 Camera ready: 7th August 2017 Conference dates: 13th to 15th September 2017 Structure of the workshop Full day workshop split into four 1.5 hour sessions. Organisation Dieter Kranzlmüller (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) Volker Wolgemuth (HTW Berlin) Matti Heikkurinen (LMU München) Full list of environmental computing events: http://www.envcomp.eu/events/ -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: Special Issue on 'Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization' in Scalable Computing and Communications (Springer)
by Javid Taheri 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '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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