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Call For Participation: The 26th ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC-26)
by Song, Shuaiwen 30 May '17

30 May '17

Call for Participation - HPDC-2017<http://hpdc.org/2017/> Washington D.C., June 26-30, 2017 Early registration is open!<http://hpdc.org/2017/registration/> The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. The 26th HPDC conference and its seven associated workshops will take place at the Westin George Hotel, June 26-30 in Washington, D.C., featuring a technical program covering various aspects of high-performance computing, three distinguished keynote speakers, and an industry session: HPDC 2017 Program<http://hpdc.org/2017/program/> Keynote speakers: Julia Lane<http://cusp.nyu.edu/people/julia-lane/>, Professor at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Rick Stevens<https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/directory/rick-stevens>, Professor at UChicago and Argonne National Labs. Janice Coen<https://staff.ucar.edu/users/janicec>, Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Achievement Award Recipient: David Abramson<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2986>, Professor at University of Queensland. Technical Sessions: * Scheduling * Data Management * Parallel Methods and Algorithms * Fault Tolerance * Performance Modeling and Analysis * Data Partitioning Workshops: FTXS<https://sites.google.com/site/ftxsworkshop/home/ftxs-2017> (Fault Tolerance) SEM4HPC<http://periscope.in.tum.de/sem4hpc/> (Software Engineering) ROSS<http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ross2017/> (Operating Systems) ScienceCloud<https://sites.google.com/site/sciencecloudhpdc/> (Scientific Cloud Computing) HPDC'17 Student Travel Grants Application<http://www.hpdc.org/2017/registration/student-travel-grants/> Applications due by June 2nd, 2017 General Co-Chairs Howie Huang - George Washington University, USA Jon Weissman - University of Minnesota, USA Program Co-Chairs Adriana Iamnitchi - University of South Florida, USA Alexandru Iosup - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Posters Chair Radu Prodan - University of Innsbruck, Austria Workshops Chairs Rich Wolski - University of California at San Diego, USA Ana Lucia Varbanescu - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Shuaiwen Leon Song Staff Research Scientist High Performance Computing Group, Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Washington, US, Office:509-372-4189 Email: Shuaiwen.Song(a)pnnl.gov HomePage: https://sites.google.com/site/shuaiwenleonsongresearch/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It is never too late to become what you might have been. ^ -- George Elliot ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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CFP – Central European Cybersecurity Conference (16-17 November 2017)
by CECC 29 May '17

29 May '17

Dear Colleague, Please consider submitting an article to the Central European Cybersecurity Conference – CECC 2017 to be held on 16 – 17 November 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. CECC 2017 aims at establishing a venue for the exchange of information on cybersecurity and its many aspects in central Europe. CECC 2017 encourages the dialogue between researchers of technical and social aspects of cybersecurity, both crucial in attaining adequate levels of cybersecurity. Complementary contributions dealing with its economic aspects as well as any legal, investigation or other issues related to cybersecurity are welcome, too. The abstract submission deadline has been recently extended to 19 June 2017. Publications: 1. All accepted and presented research papers will be available in Open Access conference proceedings published by the University of Maribor Press and submitted for indexing by DBLP, Elsevier SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection. 2. Selected accepted and presented research papers will be published, after further revision to ensure adequate quality for journal papers, in special issue “Technical and Social Aspects of Critical Infrastructure Security” of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (ISSN 0948-695x / 0948-6968). More details can be found on the conference website: https://www.fvv.um.si/cecc2017/ Best regards, CECC 2017 Organizers

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PhD Scholarship in Intelligent and Immersive Big Data Analytics
by Quang Vinh Nguyen 29 May '17

29 May '17

With the growth of data and technologies, visual analytics platforms have been extended from ordinary personal computers to different environments such as large and high resolution displays, portable devices and virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) or both. Immersive visual analytics have been considering one of the potential approaches for analysing and manipulating large data sets. Large immersive systems may not be suitable for individual analysts due to their size, complexity and the lack of portability. Portable immersive environment, such as Microsoft Hololens, gives the users holograms real-world context and scale, allowing them to interact with both digital content and the world around them. The device could open a new research direction in analysing large information interactively and in real time in the personalised and immersive environment. This project looks at a new way to use supporting technologies in virtual reality and augmented reality to support the large scale visual analytics. The specific objectives of this research are to * Investigate new interactive visualisation platform for VR and AR environment. * Integrate and expand knowledge in information visualisation, artificial intelligent with technologies to enable personalised visualisation. * Develop new methods and algorithms that enables the natural interaction and data manipulation in the immersive environment. * Evaluate the effectiveness of the visual analytics What does the scholarship provide? * Domestic students receive a tax-free stipend of up to AU$30,000 per annum for up to 3 years, and a funded place in the doctoral program. * International students receive a tax-free stipend up to AU$30,000 per annum. Outstanding students may be awarded a Tuition Fee Waiver valued at approximately AU$24,000 per annum for up to 3 years. Selection Criteria The successful candidate must have: * A bachelor degree with First Class Honours, OR a Masters Degree with research experience (including research publications). * A strong background in the field of computer science or related degrees. * High-level of interest and knowledge in Visualisation, Human-Machine Interaction or Data Science are preferred. * High-level of programming skills. * Must satisfy Western Sydney University's English language requirements. How to Apply * Applicants should discuss their eligibility and the project with Doctor Quang Vinh Nguyen (q.nguyen(a)westernsydney.edu.au<mailto:q.nguyen@westernsydney.edu.au>) before submitting the application, including sending CV, academic transcripts, and publications. * Submit a scholarship application form, CV, and all other relevant supporting documentation to the Graduate Research School (grs.scholarships(a)westernsydney.edu.au) * Applicants should ensure that all relevant documents are certified according to Western Sydney University requirements. Incomplete applications will not be considered. * If you have any queries regarding the application process or enrolment, please contact the Graduate Research School at grs.scholarships(a)westernsydney.edu.au; +61 2 4736 0966. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. This scholarship is made possible by philanthropic support from Oracle Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/more_news_stories/o… -- Best Regards, Dr. Quang Vinh Nguyen | Senior Lecturer in Visual Analytics School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, and MARCS Institute Room: ER.G.18 (Building ER), Parramatta Campus Phone: +61 2 9685 9328 Email: q.nguyen(a)westernsydney.edu.au Homepage: http://staff.scem.westernsydney.edu.au/~vinh/ [WSU_Logo_hex_142x56px_email signature]

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Cyber Security PhD Schoalrship
by Vijay Varadharajan 28 May '17

28 May '17

Cyber Security PhD Scholarship – The University of Newcastle with the Defense Science and Technology (DST) Group Supervisors: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle and Dr. Anton V. Uzunov, DST Group Topic Area: Advanced Authorization Infrastructures for Distributed Autonomic Systems Autonomic computing – or equivalently, self-adaptive computing – is concerned with supporting dynamic system evolution in response to changing internal or external circumstances, by endowing systems with automated self-management capabilities, thereby turning ordinary software systems into autonomic systems (or equivalently, self-adaptive or self-managing systems). One of the core properties whose enforcement leads to supporting such self-management capabilities is self-protection, which can be defined as a system’s ability to anticipate, to prevent, to detect and guard itself against cyber security threats. A significant problem with self-protection is how to constrain and control system actions, which involves aspects such as specification of privileges to perform actions, propagation of privileges in a distributed environment and their enforcement in heterogeneous systems and devices, ranging from cloud servers to mobile Internet of Things. The project is expected to investigate cryptographically enforced access control models and distributed capability-based models. The research will consider how access classes and capabilities with different privileges can be specified, keys and capabilities can be securely propagated in distributed, heterogeneous environments, how access to services and to devices/nodes should be enforced in a decentralized context, and what adaptation mechanisms should be applied in response to changing system/operational conditions. The project will involve the design of security architecture, development of new algorithms as well as the development of proof-of-concept implementations or case studies to validate the developed models and techniques in simulated or real-life scenarios. It is envisioned that the outcomes and outputs of the project will be specifically applicable to both IoT and autonomous cyber defense scenarios, and all case studies and/or application examples will be drawn from these areas. Scholarship Duration: 3 and ½ years Eligibility * Australian Citizenship required. * Must be Motivated and Committed to Doing Research * Knowledge of Cryptography and Security Techniques will be helpful. Contact: vijay.varadharajan(a)newcastle.edu.au<mailto:vijay.varadharajan@newcastle.edu.au> or Anton.Uzunov(a)dst.defence.gov.au<mailto:Anton.Uzunov@dst.defence.gov.au> Application Deadline: 30 June 2017

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - Oct 24 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 26 May '17

26 May '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) 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: June 30, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 11, 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

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PhD positions in Python and OMR, PGAS
by Eric Aubanel 26 May '17

26 May '17

The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS Atlantic)? has two fully funded positions available immediately for research related to Python. The first will explore the benefits and challenges of using OMR components (e.g. JIT, GC) in the Python runtime. The second will implement support for parallel programming with Python, using the PGAS parallel programming model. Details available at http://www.unb.ca/research/casatlantic/prospectivestudents/phd_positions.ht… Dr. Eric Aubanel, Professor Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick Phone: (506) 458-7268 http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/aubanel new book: https://www.crcpress.com/9781498727891

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Job Opening for Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (PR322C/16-17)
by comp hkbu 26 May '17

26 May '17

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=387 FACULTY OF SCIENCE The Faculty of Science has identified Environment and Health, a highly interdisciplinary theme research area across the departments, as a Faculty Niche Research Area, and aims to establish world-class research teams and facilities for tackling key questions relating to human health and environmental impacts. Major resources will be allocated to this Faculty Niche Research Area, to develop the needed experimental platforms as well as modelling and data analysis capabilities. The ultimate goal is to uncover mechanistic links between various environmental factors and human diseases, leading to new strategies of disease prevention, diagnostics and treatment. Department of Computer Science To work on the niche research area "Environment and Health", the Department of Computer Science now invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions, in the areas of health informatics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, security and privacy, and cloud computing. The appointees are expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses including programme management, perform high-impact research, as well as contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department's key research areas: (i) computational intelligence; (ii) databases and information management; (iii) networking and systems; and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. Applicants should also demonstrate strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and demonstrate the ability to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Candidates for the senior positions should also have a strong track record of research and teaching accomplishments. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please contact Prof P C Yuen, Head of Department (email: pcyuen [at] comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application Procedure: Applicants are invited to write in response to the requirements and provide an updated curriculum vitae and/or fill in the application form which is obtainable (a) by downloading from http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/applicationforms; or (b) by fax at 3411-7799; or (c) in person from the Personnel Office, Hong Kong Baptist University, AAB903, Level 9, Academic and Administration Building, 15 Baptist University Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon. The completed application form should be sent to the same address. Please quote PR number on all correspondence. Applicants are requested to send in samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference to the Personnel Office direct. Applicants not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. Review of applications will begin on 1 June 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.

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CILC 2017: call for papers---extended deadlines
by Dario Della Monica 26 May '17

26 May '17

We are happy to announce extended deadlines for the following event. Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it) Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 7 June 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 July 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bilò, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017(a)easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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Call for Papers and WS Proposals - IEEE IUCC'17
by Peter Mueller 26 May '17

26 May '17

-------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers for the 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Computer Society and IEEE TCSC. Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ Co-Located Conferences: (1) The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ (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/ Introduction: The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2017 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. IUCC 2017 follows the tradition of a successful series of conferences that has been held all along the world, in places as Granada(Spain) in 2016, Liverpool (UK) in 2015, Chengdu (China) in 2014, or Melbourne (Australia) in 2013. Scope and Interests: Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Submission and Publication Information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iucc2017) 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: Workshop Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017 Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 General Chairs: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Program Chairs: Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Program Vice Chairs: (1) Ubiquitous Computing Track Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA Meikang Qiu, Pace University, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan (2) Ubiquitous Communications Track Wei Yu, Towson University, USA Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Haojun Huang, Wuhan University, China (3) Ubiquitous Systems, Services and Applications Track Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea (4) Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing Track Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy Sean He, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Steering Committee: Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Jes¨²s Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Jia Hu, Liverpool Hope University, UK Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Workshop Chairs: Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Publicity Chairs: Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA 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: Yinong Long, Central South University, China Contact: Please email inquiries concerning IEEE IUCC 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (IUCC2017 AT gmail DOT com). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshop Proposals, IEEE IUCC 2017, Guangzhou, China, Dec 12-15, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The themes of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops should be related to the scopes of the IEEE IUCC 2017 main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of ubiquitous computing and communications. The organizers of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee on reviewing and selection of papers as well as planning workshop program. The registration fees for workshops will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops. The main conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society (indexed by EI Compendex). Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE IUCC 2016 Workshop Chairs via email by May 15, 2017: - Title of the workshop (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scopes, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bios of the key organizers and their experiences on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date (September 15, 2017) and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date (October 15, 2017). The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops! IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshop Chairs Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain <gregorio AT um DOT es> Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China <jinxiaolong AT ict DOT ac DOT cn> Qin Liu, Hunan University, China <gracelq628 AT 126 DOT com> Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University, Lebanon <azzam.mourad AT lau DOT edu DOT lb> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFC: “Exploring Intelligent Decision Support Systems: Current State and New Trends”
by RAFAEL VALENCIA GARCIA 25 May '17

25 May '17

CFC: “Exploring Intelligent Decision Support Systems: Current State and New Trends” To be published by Springer Verlag on Studies in Computational Intelligence book series Overview Decision Support Systems (DSS) are gaining an increased popularity in various domains, including business, engineering, the military, and medicine. They are especially valuable in situations in which the amount of available information is prohibitive for the intuition of an unaided human decision maker and in which precision and optimality are of importance. Decision support systems can aid human cognitive deficiencies by integrating various sources of information, providing intelligent access to relevant knowledge, and aiding the process of structuring decisions. They can also support choice among well-defined alternatives and build on formal approaches, such as the methods of engineering economics, operations research, statistics, and decision theory. They can also employ artificial intelligence methods to address heuristically problems that are intractable by formal techniques. Proper application of decision-making tools increases productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness and gives many businesses a comparative advantage over their competitors, allowing them to make optimal choices for technological processes and their parameters, planning business operations, logistics, or investments. These systems allow individuals and organizations to deal with unstructured or semi-structured decision problems that demand extensive experience and expert knowledge. However, the increasing complexity of the problems and the continuous growing of information and knowledge that should be mastered by responsible people in organizations underline the need for DSSs driven by advanced and modern technologies. From this perspective, the field of DSS is expanding to use new technologies such as Social Media, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, and Machine Learning. These technologies are converging to provide integrated support for individuals and organizations to make more rational decisions. The objective of this book will be to explore the latest results of research, development and applications of DSSs in different fields. This book proposal will consider the following domains, but will not be limited: aerospace, agriculture, banking, business services, e-commerce, eHealth, e-government, finances, supply chain and others. This book aims to disseminate innovative and high-quality research regarding the foundations, methods, methodologies, models, tools, and techniques for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating advanced DSSs in different fields. Topic Coverage Topics of interest in this book include, but are not restricted to: • Analytics for decision-making • Application of Knowledge-Based Methods • Big Data mining to support decision-making • Business Intelligence • Collaborative decision making • Data mining • Decision-making and Internet of Things • Decision-making models • Decision-making through machine learning • DSS foundations and development • Experts systems • Fuzzy logic • Geographic information system for decision-making • Knowledge Acquisition & Representation • Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems • Industrial applications and case-studies • Impact of DSS in industrial performance • Linked Data to support decision-making • Multicriteria DSS • Ontological engineering • Operational research and management science • Probabilistic Graphical Models • Semantic knowledge bases for decision making • Social Media use in decision-making • Web-based and mobile DSS • Web 2.0 and 3.0 based knowledge artefacts for decision making Target audience The target audience includes researchers, practitioners and (Masters/PhD) students. Therefore, papers need to address both scientific and practical implications of the research. Type of contributions and length • Case studies: In-depth reports of DSS implementations to support decision-making in an organization or business. • Full research papers: Both quantitative and qualitative contributions that study a particular aspect of Decision Support Systems. Only completed research will be considered, meaning that research in progress will not be considered to be included in the book. • Conceptual papers: Contributions that synthesize existing studies. This type of contributions are typically 15 to 20 pages in length (excluding references) when applying the Springer formatting instructions. Contributions should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. Submission Guidelines and Other Considerations Chapters submitted must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication in other journals, books, though they may represent significant extensions of prior work. All submitted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process (with at least two reviewers) that will consider programmatic relevance, scientific quality, significance, originality, style and clarity. The acceptance process will focus on chapters that address relevant contributions in the form of theoretical and experimental research and case studies applying new perspectives for developing Decision Support Systems. Before submitting a chapter proposal, authors must carefully read over the Springer’s Author Guidelines. Authors should submit their complete chapter via email: marioandres.paredes(a)um.es , valencia(a)um.es and the subject of the email should be: “Chapter Submission: Exploring Intelligent DSS Current State and New Trends” according to the following timeline. Important Dates • Submission deadline: July 1st, 2017 • First selection of submissions: July 15th, 2017 • Completion of first‐round reviews: September 15th, 2017 • Revised chapters: September 30st, 2017 • Target of the second (last) round of reviews: October, 15th, 2017 • Publication (tentative): Spring 2018 Editors Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia, Spain (valencia(a)um.es) Mario Andrés Paredes-Valverde, Universidad de Murcia, Spain (marioandres.paredes(a)um.es) María del Pilar Salas-Zárate, Universidad de Murcia, Spain (mariapilar.salas(a)um.es) Giner Alor-Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, México (galor(a)itorizaba.edu.mx )

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Third IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SN-2017)
by Shao Ying Zhu 24 May '17

24 May '17

Call for Papers The Third International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE NFV-SDN conference, 6-8 November, Berlin, Germany Workshop website: http://www.sn-2017.info/ Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: · Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks · Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security · Secure design of NFV and SDN solutions, security enablers · Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies · Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV · Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems · Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions · 5G security architecture, trust and confidence · Authentication, authorization and Accounting in SDN · Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network · Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT · Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing · Security of SDN API · Risk and compliance issues in SDN · Securing SDN infrastructure · Security architecture for SDN · Security standard of SDN · Security of SDN data plane · Security of SDN control plane · Security of SDN application plane · Security of Routing in SDN · Security of network slicing · Security as a service for SDN The workshop deadlines: · Paper Submission: June 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2017 · Camera Ready Submission: September 15, 2017  Submission Please use EDAS to upload your submission at http://edas.info/N23798. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two‐column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via EDAS<http://edas.info/N23798>. All submitted papers will be peer‐reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Chairs · Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby,UK · George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece · Collin Allison, University of St Andrews,UK · Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee (TPC) · Diego Lopez – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Harilaos Koumaras – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui – i2CAT, Spain · Ludovic Jacquin – Hewlett Packard Labs, UK · Nicolae Paladi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden · Augusto Ciuffoletti – University of Pisa, Italy · Carolina Canales – Ericsson, Spain · Michail-Alexandros Kourtis – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Marco Anisetti – University of Milan, ItalyMarco Anisetti – University of Milan, Italy · Sandra Scott-Hayward – Queen’s University Belfast, UK · Miguel Angel Garcia – Ericsson, Spain · Antonios Litke – Infili, Greece · Nikolaos Papadakis – Infili, Greece · Dimitris Katsianis, Incites, Luxemburg · Antonio Agustin Partor Perales – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany · Abdelkader Outtagarts – Nokia, Bell Labs, France Contacts Eleni Trouva - trouva(a)iit.demokritos.gr<mailto:trouva@iit.demokritos.gr> Dr. Shao Ying Zhu - s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.y.zhu@derby.ac.uk> Dr. George Gardikis - ggar(a)space.gr<mailto:ggar@space.gr> Linas Maknavicius - linas.maknavicius(a)nokia-bell-labs.com<mailto:linas.maknavicius@nokia-bell-labs.com> Dr. Colin Allison - ca(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:ca@st-andrews.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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CILC 2017 call for paper: deadline approaching
by Dario Della Monica 23 May '17

23 May '17

********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it) Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bilò, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017(a)easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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IEEE HiPC 2017 Call for Papers - Abstracts due 5 June 2017
by Anand Panangadan 22 May '17

22 May '17

IEEE HiPC 2017 (Jaipur, India • 18-21 December) Release: 22 April 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics HiPC 2017 December 18-21, 2017 Jaipur, India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2017 •June 5.................Abstracts Due •June 15...............Paper Submission Deadline •August 8.............Reviews for Rebuttals •August 15...........Rebuttals Due •September 8......Author Notification •October 3..........Camera Ready Submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS Full information on what/where to submit is available at hipc.org/cpf/ HiPC 2017 will be the 24th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the area high performance computing. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. In 2016, to keep pace with new computing trends, the conference added two new areas of interest to its name, Data and Analytics, as reflected in the list below. Deadline: Abstracts are due by June 5, 2017 Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, data and analytics. Topics include (but are not limited to): Algorithms: Design and Application of Parallel and Distributed Big Data and Analytics Algorithms Algorithmic Techniques to Improve Energy and Power Efficiency Quantum and Bio-Inspired Algorithms Resilient and Fault Tolerant Algorithms Parallel algorithms for Numerical Linear Algebra Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management Large Scale Graph Analytics Streaming Algorithms Architectures: Interconnection Networks and Architectures Cache/Memory Architecture for High Performance Computing High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures Quantum and Bio-Inspired Architectures Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques Resilient and Fault Tolerant Architectures Applications: Big Data Computing and Applications Cross-Cutting Methods such as Co-Design of Parallel Algorithms, Software, and Architectures Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, IoT, and Nanotechnology Hardware Acceleration for Parallel Applications Parallelism in Scientific Data Visualization and Visual Analytics Scientific/Engineering/Industrial Applications and Workloads Scalable Machine Learning and Data Mining Applications Scalable Graph and other Irregular Applications Design of Simulation Applications and Peta- and Exascale Applications Systems Software: Big Data Analytics Systems and Software Architectures Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing Exascale Computing, Cloud Platforms, Data Center Architectures and Services Parallel Languages, Programming Environments, and Performance Assessment Operating Systems for Scalable High -Performance Computing Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators Dealing with Uncertainties, Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Systems One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2017 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. PROGRAM CHAIR Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS •ALGORITHMS: Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France •APPLICATIONS: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA •ARCHITECTURE: Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA •SYSTEM SOFTWARE: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full information detailing what/where to submit is available on the HiPC Website at www.hipc.org as well as notices and plans for other conference events including workshops and programs for students and industry. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Chiranjib Sur, Shell India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Wipro, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Saumil Merchant, Shell, India STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Seetha Rama Krishna Nookala, Intel, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ 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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GraMSec 2017 - deadline extended until Sunday, May 28
by Barbara Kordy 21 May '17

21 May '17

The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed Following several requests, the submission deadline has been extended until Sunday, May 28. SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be confirmed. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 28, 2017 (firm) • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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Ada-Europe 2017 - end of Mon 22 May = early registration ends
by Dirk Craeynest 21 May '17

21 May '17

Come to the Ada-Europe conference mid-June in Vienna, Austria! Reminder: register online before the end of Monday 22 May (CEST) to enjoy early registration discounts for the conference and substantial discounts for tutorials. Select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017>. Direct link: <https://adaeurope.upv.es/index.html>. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017 *** June 12-16, 2017 *** Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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BAFI 2018
by Richard Weber 21 May '17

21 May '17

THIRD CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS ANALYTICS IN FINANCE AND INDUSTRY - BAFI 2018 January 17th - 19th, 2018 Santiago, Chile www.baficonference.cl Twitter: @bafichile Call for Abstracts The aim of the BAFI 2018 conference is to bring together researchers and developers from data science and related areas with practitioners and consultants applying the respective techniques in different business-related domains. Our goal is to stimulate an academic exchange of recent developments as well as to encourage the mutual influence between academics and practitioners. At BAFI 2018, the focus will be on methodological developments aimed at uncovering information contained in large data sets, as well as on business applications in various sectors, among them finance, retail, and telecommunications. Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to: Business Analytics - Applications: + Credit Scoring and Financial Modeling + Forecasting + Fraud Detection + Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval + Marketing, Business Intelligence, and e-Commerce + Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems + Social Network Analysis + Privacy-preserving Data Mining and Privacy-related Issues + Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Mining + Internet of Things (IoT) Business Analytics - Methods: + Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection + Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods + Statistical Learning Theory + Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining + Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data + Spatial and Temporal Data Mining + Deep Learning and Neural Network Research + Large Scale Data Mining + Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining STUDENT GRANTS We will offer a number of travel grants for students who present their work at BAFI 2018. The following two categories will be considered: + National category: students enrolled at a Chilean university or staying at a Chilean address at the time of the conference. + International category: students enrolled at a university outside Chile and staying abroad prior to the start of the conference. Please visit www.baficonference.cl for information on Submission Guidelines, Venue, Program, Conference Fees, and more. For more information, please contact us at info(a)bafi.cl

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FROM 2017 - Extended deadline
by From 2017 21 May '17

21 May '17

FROM 2017 - Last Call for Papers http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017 WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM 5 - 8 July 2017 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bucharest IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission (extended deadline): 28 May 2017 Notification of acceptance (extended deadline): 8 June 2017 Aims and Scope Formal methods use mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. The formal methods can be used to specify, verify, and analyse in any part of the system life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on the one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user to effectively apply these methods/frameworks in the life cycle of the system. ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi organize FROM 2017, the first one from a yearly workshop series, meant to bring together Romanian researchers in formal methods and to foster international collaborations. Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work for formal methods by contributing with new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation is available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures (the current list can be seen on the workshop web page) and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages Methods of interest include: - Model checking - Deductive verification - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Symbolic computation Applications of interest include: - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware, - Computational logic, - Computer mathematics, - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of 2 pages, excepting the references, formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The abstracts should be submitted before 21 May 2017, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2017 The notification of acceptance will be received by 31 May 2017. Depending on the number and the quality of submissions, we intend to publish extensions of selected presentations in peer-reviewed well-ranked journal. Registration There is no conference fee, but valid registration is required in order to participate at the conference. All participants registered with an abstract will receive the conference kit. There is an additional fee of 50 RON for the social dinner at Casa Universitarilor. For details and updates see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017/

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Call for papers -- DSS 2017 The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems
by Dr. Stefan Bosse 21 May '17

21 May '17

Dear colleagues, I want to announce an important event for scientists working on artificial intelligence solutions for large-scale distributed systems: The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017), co-located with the The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017)! You are cordially invited to submit a paper and/or to share this announcement with your colleagues. The CFP is appended to this eMail. It is a great opportunity to discuss your work on an international platform. Best regards, Stefan Bosse -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stefan Bosse University of Bremen Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Robert Hooke Str. 5 28359 Bremen Germany RESEARCHGATE <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Bosse> Tel. +(49)421/178-45-4103 ============================================================ Call for papers -- DSS 2017 The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017) In conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Proceedings appear in IEEE Digital Library September 18-22, 2017 in University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ CFP link: http://dss2017.inn.ac/ ============================================================ The emergence of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies together with social media has resulted in unprecedented opportunities to reason about the complexity of our society based on magnitudes of data. Embedded ICT technologies mandate the functionality and operations of several techno-socio-economic systems such as traffic systems, transportation systems, Smart Grids, power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion connected smart devices will be online by the year 2020. Moreover, social media provide invaluable insights about the complexity of social interactions and how these interactions influence the sustainability of several ICT-enabled techno-socio-economic systems. These observations show that regulating online the complex systems of our nowadays digital society is a grand challenge. Regulation concerns trade-offs such as the alignment of technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness in the utilization of energy resources. The scale of nowadays data cannot tackle the challenge by itself as data may convey ungrounded correlations and biased predictions. Smart, autonomic and selfregulating mechanisms are required for filtering data streams in real-time and transform them to valuable information based on which intelligent adaptive decisions can be made in a decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + self-regulation + autonomic computing + pervasive/ubiquitous computing + Internet of Things + big data analytics + cloud computing + online policy-making + distributed systems + privacy & security + multi-agent systems + peer-to-peer systems + self-organization + adaptive mechanisms + complex systems & (social) networks + mechanism design & game theory + quality of experience Application domains: + Smart Grids + power/gas/water networks + traffic systems + manufacturing systems + transportation systems + ambient-assisted living + social media/networks + mobile applications + disease spreading Workshop Organizers ==================================================================== Evangelos Pournaras, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Akshay Uttama Nambi S.N., Microsoft Research Lab, India Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen, Germany Submission Instructions ==================================================================== You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to self-regulating systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding authors and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Submissions have to be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide not exceeding 6 two-column pages. Papers are submitted as PDF files via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2017) Key Dates ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2017 Paper notification: July 30, 2017

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2nd CFP -- ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks @ SIGIR 2017
by Stefano Mizzaro 19 May '17

19 May '17

2nd Call For Papers (with apologies for multiple copies) ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks Co-located with ACM SIGIR 2017 August 11, 2017. Tokyo, Japan Workshop Website: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html Motivation The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in applying axiomatic analysis to all kinds of IR and IR-related problems, including particularly both those interested in developing retrieval models and those interested in developing evaluation measures, and to enable them to share their findings (both positive or negative), to present their latest research results, and to discuss future directions. Theme As the title of the workshop suggested, the general theme of the workshop will be about all aspects of applications of axiomatic thinking to solve IR and IR-related problems. The basis of this general theme is the recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics, which we expect to continue. The existing work has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. However, much more research is still needed in multiple directions. Opportunities of applying axiomatic thinking also go beyond analyzing the basic retrieval functions; in fact, understanding constraints is also beneficial to many IR tasks that use machine learning techniques. Instead of having a designer carefully choose a set of assumptions to make when designing a formal model, these approaches use machine learning to weight items in a pool of features derived from many retrieval heuristics. However, this potentially results in a bloated backend which computes many features irrelevant to the task or collection. Having knowledge about relevant features would help slim down backends and speed learning and ranking. An important strength of the axiomatic methodology is that evaluation data sets become resources used to check motivated hypotheses instead of optimization mechanisms, which are at risk of overfitting. There are even more opportunities for new research on applying axiomatic thinking to evaluation as has already been happening where researchers have done axiomatic analysis of metrics for tasks such as text categorization, clustering, and ranking. In general, an understanding of how to apply axiomatic thinking to IR problems may become increasingly important as information retrieval continues to broaden into new areas. New tasks often require new constraints, and an understanding of these constraints can provide guidance on how to adapt existing methods or how to develop new methods for the new tasks. For example, domain-specific IR tasks such as medical record search might require new retrieval constraints that can capture the domain knowledge. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from a broader community to exchange research ideas and results and to foster collaborations across subcommunities. Some of the specific topics we envision to be covered by the workshop theme include, but not limited to: - What constraints are effective to improve retrieval performance independent of the underlying model? - What constraints were expected to be useful but have not been effective in practice? Why not? - In the case of evaluation metrics, why some metric constraints do not affect the system comparison or the user satisfaction? - How can we potentially unify the axiomatic analysis of IR models and evaluation metrics given that both lines of work aim at formally modeling relevance? - Have new languages, media, or domains suggested new constraints for established domains? - To what extent is a valid constraint in one domain also valid in other domains? More generally, which constraints for retrieval methods or evaluation metrics are core ones, and which constraints are highly scenario dependent? - How can axiomatic thinking be combined with machine learning techniques to learn more effective retrieval functions? Planned Activities - Keynote talk - Panel - Presentations of papers Paper Submission We solicit papers describing research work related to the above theme. In addition to the innovative methods with promising results, we also welcome papers reporting negative results. Papers need to be: - 4 or 10 pages - In ACM format - Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atir2017 Formal proofs can be added as additional material. The submissions are not anonymous. Important Dates - Submission deadlines: May 27 (for long paper) and June 3 (for short papers) - Review due: June 20 - Notification: June 30 Workshop Organizers - Enrique Amigo - Hui Fang - Stefano Mizzaro - ChengXiang Zhai -- Prof. Stefano Mizzaro, PhD Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Udine Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy mizzaro(a)uniud.it - http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/ Ph.: +39 0432 558456 - Fax: +39 0432 558499

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Call for Papers: Ph.D. Forum at IGSC'17
by Mahdi NIKDAST 17 May '17

17 May '17

**Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement** **Call for Papers: Ph.D. Forum at The 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC'17)** Forum webpage: http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/forum_17 The Ph.D. forum at IGSC'17 will provide an international forum for doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing and/or computing for a more sustainable planet to present their work to fellow researchers and practitioners in the green and sustainable computing community. The forum includes a poster session during which the students can present their work and receive constructive feedback for completion of their dissertation research. The Ph.D. forum is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research topic and have some preliminary results, but still have enough time remaining before their final defense that they can benefit from the forum discussions. **Accepted submissions will appear in IGSC'17 proceedings** *Paper submission guidelines* Current Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. The student should be the sole author of the paper, but the advisor and other contributors should be acknowledged. The topics of interest coincide with IGSC'17 are listed in the CFP page (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_17) The extended abstract should be three pages in IEEE conference proceedings style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht ml). All manuscripts should be in pdf format, in English, and registered and submitted through easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igsc17) under the "IGSC17 PhD Forum" submission track. Please kindly note that: - The research ideas in submissions should be mature enough to be presented in a paper and content can evolve to become the substantial part of a Ph.D. dissertation. The submissions should not have been published and not under review by other conferences or journals elsewhere. - The authors should outline related problems in the field and their current solutions, clearly motivate and formulate the research topic, present the preliminary idea, the proposed approach, and the preliminary experimental results achieved thus far, explicitly point out the intended contributions of the proposed work. Each submission will be reviewed by members of the forum¹s technical program committee. Abstracts will be judged on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference topics. Accepted abstracts will appear in the IGSC conference proceedings and will be indexed by DBLP and the IEEE digital library. All invited participants will be asked to provide a poster, which will be displayed throughout the conference. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to register for the conference and appear in person to present their work. The student rate will apply to authors who are currently full-time students. *Poster Presentation* Authors of accepted submissions should prepare a poster for presentation. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference and the students are required to be available during the poster session to discuss their work and answer related questions. The poster size should not exceed 841 x 1189 mm (width x height). The organizers encourage all Ph.D. Students in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet to participate in this Ph.D. Forum. *Ph.D. Forum Chair* Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca *Important dates* Paper submission due: June 16 , 2017 Notifications sent to authors: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: August 5, 2017

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Announcing CFPs: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security and The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security
by Roger Hallman 17 May '17

17 May '17

We are pleased to announce the following two calls for papers: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security (ACS 2017) Co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- September 18-22, 2017 http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=64433&copyownerid=… Cloud computing is used by many organizations to build scalable systems in different domains, such as retail, healthcare, human resources, finance, education, and government. Our society has become more dependent on the services provided by these cloud-based systems. As a result, cyber-attacks on these cloud-based systems can have a dramatic impact on all aspects of our lives. Cloud security is an active area of research, involving many approaches for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and applications hosted in the cloud. However, existing techniques for securing cloud-based systems, including autonomic-based cloud systems, are based on the assumption that people will be involved in managing them. These techniques require end user input to implement effective cybersecurity strategies to defend the systems. The emerging area of Autonomic Cybersecurity can provide solutions that complement existing cybersecurity techniques in the cloud. The goal of Autonomic Cybersecurity is to use Autonomic Computing techniques and approaches to defend computing systems. The Autonomics and Cloud Security workshop aims to investigate approaches to cloud security in general, including cloud-based autonomic systems, as well as autonomic cybersecurity approaches for defending cloud-based systems. The workshop is soliciting papers in two categories, namely, the use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security, and techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in these two categories, which include, but are not limited to, the following major areas: The use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security: -Challenges in autonomics and cloud security and privacy -Emerging issues in autonomic cloud security -Autonomic identity and access management in cloud computing -Autonomic cybersecurity monitoring and incident response in cloud computing -Autonomic auditing and accountability in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to usable security in cloud computing -Autonomic security protocols in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to privacy in the cloud -Autonomic approaches for securing data and communication in the cloud -Secure autonomics-based cloud federation -Self-adaptive security policies -Self-configuration of cloud systems -Scalable cybersecurity in the cloud -Autonomic event recovery in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to moving target defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to cyber defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to intrusion detection and prevention systems in the cloud -Techniques and approaches for building resilient cloud systems -Cybersecurity in fog and edge computing -Application of big data analytics to securing the cloud -Autonomic approaches to trusted computing Techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems: -Cybersecurity in the cloud for supporting IoT applications -Security protocols in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for privacy preservation in cloud-based autonomic systems -Event detection and forensics in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for cloud-based autonomic systems resiliency -Secure computing techniques for the cloud (securing data-in-processing via Homomorphic --Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and other secure computing techniques). -Techniques and approaches for anomaly detection in cloud-based autonomic systems -Scalable cybersecurity in cloud-based autonomic systems -Ethical hacking and penetration testing in cloud-based autonomic systems -Case studies in securing cloud-based systems We solicit research papers containing original research results and challenge papers motivating new research directions. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. Submissions may be made via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acs17 . UPDATE: A special issue on Cluster Computing (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) will include an extension of the best papers of all the workshops that will be held in conjunction with ICCAC 2017. Organization: General Chair Mamadou H. Diallo -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Program Co-Chairs Michael August -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Sherif Abdelwahed -- Mississippi State University, USA Technical Program Commmittee Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo -- The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tiago Cruz -- University of Coimbra, Portugal Song Fu -- University of North Texas, USA Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, UAE Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA MORE TO COME Publicity and Web Chair Christopher Graves -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Scott M. Slayback -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Contact: General Chair mamadou.h.diallo(a)navy.mil Publicity and Web Chair christopher.t.graves(a)navy.mil And *The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security*Held on 30 October, 2017 in conjunction with the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2017)Hotel Sheraton, Downtown Dallas, Texas, USA https://centers.njit.edu/cybersecurity/CCS_MPS2017/ *Scope:* We live in an interconnected world where ever increasing multitudes of devices and people can be connected to each other by intelligent algorithms, apps, social networks, and the infrastructure set by Internet of Things (IoT). As more people and their devices are connected without much restriction, the issues of security, privacy, and trust remain a challenge. Multimedia in IoT services should provide a robust and resilient security platforms and solutions against any unauthorized access. Recent literature shows increased concerns about hacking, security breaches, data manipulation, social engineering, and new attack methods. Malware can be hidden within multimedia files and visiting infected websites can trigger its download to victims’ machines. There are a multitude of techniques to steal personal information and other sensitive media for unauthorized dissemination; imposters/identity thefts are common in social networks. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of resilient security and privacy solutions, methods such as new standards, advance cryptography, improved algorithms for intrusion detection, personalized privacy, and isolation of questionable or malicious files can be used independently or all together to minimize the threats. Multimedia has expanded beyond the scope its original definition. With the rise of social media, large quantities of multimedia (e.g., pictures, videos, data, analytics and personal information) can be created in a short period of time. When all these data are stored in a cloud environment, many people can connect to these services for viewing, sharing, commenting, and storing information. IoT represents a collection of devices, platforms, and software that allow people to store and share data in the cloud and also connects different types of clouds altogether. Hence, multimedia in the IoT serves a significant purpose as many people’s updates, status, locations, and live actions can be seen, disseminated, tracked, commented on, and monitored in near real time. IoT opens up many possibilities since more people can broadcast themselves and allow their networks to view and share in their lives. There are also increased fraudulent activities, cybercrimes, unauthorized access, malicious attacks, phishing, and impersonating/stealing identities. This presents challenges for existing areas such as access control, authentication, data leakage, permission, social engineering, denial of service, and identity management for the attackers to impose identity, steal information, and manipulate data in the IoT environment. Challenges also include new problems such as large scale attacks and prevention, the strength of security protection (e.g., common encryption algorithms), hiding malware with multimedia, location-based privacy with high accuracy and anonymity, underground criminal networks, and hidden security breaches. Our workshop will allow a specific venue for the publication of work addressing these concerns, specific to the IoT ecosystem. We invite research into new and innovative methods, techniques, and proofs‐of‐concepts supported by strong theory/algorithms and simulation/experiments to submit papers for this workshop. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Access control and authentication - IoT and Social Network security and privacy - Encryption of all types in multimedia, including homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation - Information Forensics - Data Leakage and Exfiltration - Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems - Largescale simulations and experiments for security - Location-based privacy and other privacy-enhancing technologies - Risk Mitigation, reduction, and simulation - Identity management and standards - Data security, recovery, and segregation - Secure integration of IoT and social networks - Steganography - Internet-connected cameras and Multiview Systems - Human Factors in Multimedia Security and Privacy - Emerging Privacy and Security Threats in Multimedia *Submission:* All papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mps2017. We are accepting Full, Short, and Demo Papers. Full Papers (10-12 pages) will be allotted 25 minutes for their presentations, plus 5 minutes for questions. Short Papers (6-8 pages) will be allotted 20 minutes for their presentations, plus 5 minutes for questions. Demo Papers (4-8 pages) will be allotted 15 minutes for their presentations, 10 minutes for a code review, and 5 minutes for questions. Submissions should be formatted according to the CCS 2017 formatting requirements provided at https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/#format. All submissions will be anonymized for a double-blind review, with final acceptance decisions made by the organizers based on reviewer comments. *Important Dates:* - 4 August, 2017 – Submission Deadline - 4 September, 2017 – Author Notifications - 17 September, 2017 – Camera-Ready Papers Due *Organizing Committee:* - Chair – Mr. Roger Hallman, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Ca, USA - Co-chair – Professor Kurt Rohloff, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA - Co-chair – Professor Victor Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China *Program Committee:* - Professor An Braeken – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Professor Tiago Cruz – University of Coimbra, Portugal - Dr. Jason R.C. Nurse – University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Professor Giovanni Pau – Kore University of Enna, Italy - Dr. Jose Romero-Mariona -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA - TBD *Contact:* mps2017(a)easychair.org

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CFP - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '17

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) http://www.ieee-hpcc.org Bangkok, Thailand, December 18 - 20, 2017 The 2017 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) is the 19th edition of a highly successful forum of discussion for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and the government. The forum provides a venue to discuss profound challenges and to present and discuss new ideas, research results, applications, and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2017, midnight (Anywhere on Earth) Main conference decision notification: August 15th, 2017 Main conference camera-ready deadline: September 15th, 2017 Conference: December 18-20, 2017 We are soliciting paper submissions in the following topic areas: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Resource management for parallel and distributed systems 6. Embedded systems 7. Peer-to-peer computing 8. Grid and cluster computing 9. Web services and Internet computing 10. Cloud computing 11. Utility computing 12. Performance evaluation and measurement 13. Tools and environments for software development 14. Distributed systems and applications 15. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 16. Database applications and data mining 17. Biological/molecular computing 18. Bioinformatics 19. Collaborative and cooperative environments 20. Mobile computing and wireless communications 21. Computer Networks 22. Telecommunications 23. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 24. Autonomic computing, reliability, and fault-tolerance 25. Trust, security, and privacy 26. Energy-aware computing Organizers: General Co-chairs: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Program Co-chairs: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The submission may not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures, in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. The authors commit that if the submission is accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcc17 Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS CPS (EI Index), which will be uploaded to IEEE Xplorer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must have full registration and present the work at the conference, otherwise the paper may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference.

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CFP - IEEE DataCom 2017: IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '17

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing（IEEE DataCom 2017） https://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/ Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017 --------------------------- 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 3rd 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 2016 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 Nov. 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. - Future Generation Computer Systems - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - International Journal of Big Data Intelligence - International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems - Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing - International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Journal of Supercomputing - Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Workshop/Special Session notification: (ongoing as received) Paper Submission (Research Track): June 15, 2017 Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop): July 10, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP): July 30, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): August 5th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): August 20, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: August 31, 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, New Zealand Bhekisipho Twala, Univ. Johannesburg, South Africa Hao Wang, Aalesund University College, Norway Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Publication Chair Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Advisory Committee 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 Steering Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA

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CFP - IEEE SC2 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing)
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '17

Call For Papers - IEEESC2 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing（IEEE SC2 2017） http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017 Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- 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 (Elsevier) -Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences -International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science -Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) -International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (ESCI, EI, Scopus) -International Journal of Big Data Intelligence -Sustainability -Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing -China Communication ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Tutorial / Workshop / Special Session Proposal Due: May 29, 2017 Paper Submission (Research Track): July 15, 2017 Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop): Aug 10, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP): Aug 30, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): Sept 5th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): Sept 20, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: October 1, 2017 --------------------------------------------- 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 Steering 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

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CFP - 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017)
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '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 July 31, 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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