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Call for SI Transactions on Computational Sciences Journal, Springer
by Marina Gavrilova 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS Transactions on Computational Sciences Journal, Springer Special Issue on Signal Processing and Security in Distributed Systems Guest Editors: Prof. Khalid Saeed, Bialystok University of Technology and Prof. Nabendu Chaki, University of Calcutta http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-151275-0 CALL FOR PAPERS The Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS) aims to facilitate Ph.D. scholars enrolled with Universities and Research Institutes around the world to present and discuss part of their research work with peers in their fields. Each contributed paper must have at least one enrolled PhD student as the first author of the submission and his/her supervisor(s) as co-author(s). As indicated in the name of Symposium, security remains one of the primary focus areas for this Annual meet. This special issue on Signal Processing and Security in Distributed Systems in the Springer Journal of TCS focuses on novel internal knowledge representation theories, methodologies, mathematical means, models, and technological implementations or simulations towards securing Distributed Systems. Original papers are solicited for this special issue. Particular emphasis will be put on real-world and industrial applied research based on experimental or empirical studies. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Prospective authors may check the Guidelines for Authors of TCS at http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=4-164-6-151275-0. Submitted papers must not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Symposium papers that are short-listed from ACSS 2017 should be significantly extended and revised and more than 40% of new contents must be added in this extended version. All papers will be rigorously refereed. Complete manuscripts in PDF format should be submitted to the Guest Editors before May 7, 2017. Important Dates: Manuscript Submission: May 7, 2017 Author Notification: July 1, 2017 Camera Ready Submission: August 10, 2017 Expected Publication: Fall 2017

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[Deadline Extended: May 1] - CFPs - Brain Informatics 2017
by Yang 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR PAPERS The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17) THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRAIN INFORMATICS November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EXTENDED!!] FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 1, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China) Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US) Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China) Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) ================================================== Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies. BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies, including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a difference in various large-scale brain studies and their applications. BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI. Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing IMPORTANT DATES (Extended): =========================== May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers May 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers June 10, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance June 20, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance June 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts July 10, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions November 17-18, 2017: Main conference PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS: ================================= TYPE-I (Full Paper Submissions; Submission Deadline: May 1, 2017): Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All full length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions; Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. *** Post-Conference Journal Publication *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted papers from the conference, including their Best Paper Award papers, will be expended and revised for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. *** Awards *** Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student paper. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA) Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Chairs Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China) Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA) Organizing Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China) Tutorial Chair Wenming Zheng (South East University, China) Publicity Chairs Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn shouyiw(a)uta.edu yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Fifth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 09 Apr '17

09 Apr '17

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Submission of Papers: April 24, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 · Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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[AHPC] Deadline extension
by Alessandro Papadopoulos 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

AHPC 2017 Call for Papers Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017/workshop10-ahpc Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpc2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genoa, Italy July 17 – July 21, 2017 As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) === Important Dates === Paper Submissions: April 20, 2017 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 03, 2017 === Overview === Due to the increasing complexity, scale and heterogeneity in computing systems and applications, including hardware, software, sensors, communications and networks, there are needs for Autonomic Computing (AC) focusing on self-manageable systems that exhibit self-configuration, self-healing, self-protection, self-optimization, and/or self-monitoring. It is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded and IoT devices. The purpose of this workshop is intended to bring together specialists and researchers in those converging specialties to share views and address technical issues and developments for autonomic and high performance computing. === Topics === * Autonomic computing systems that exhibit Self-configuration, self-healing, self-protection, self-optimization, self-awareness, and/or self-monitoring * Software engineering principles and architectures in Autonomic Computing * Algorithms: machine learning, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based systems, biological-inspired techniques, and socially-inspired techniques * Control-based approaches and Control Theory applied to Autonomic High Performance Computing systems * Autonomic components: hardware accelerators, multi-core servers, storage, and networking * Data analysis and decision techniques * Monitoring systems * Theory and practice of autonomic systems * Self-Organization and Organic Computing * Management of resources including hardware, workloads, faults, security, power, and other challenges * Hypervisor, operating systems, middleware, hardware, or application support for autonomic computing * Knowledge-based and/or intelligent user interfaces * Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems * Cognitive computing and self-awareness in HPC and distributed systems * Modeling, virtualization, operating systems or application in autonomic computing * Biologically inspired computing (evolutionary algorithms, cellular automata, DNA computation, amorphous computing, etc) * Autonomic solutions in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) * Autonomic solutions in security and integrity * Applications of autonomic computing and experiences in science, engineering, business and society === Organizers === Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University, Sweden Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom === Technical Program Committee === * Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Umeå University, Sweden * Mohammad Ashjaei, Mälardalen University, Sweden * Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, Massachusetts, USA * Javier Cámara Moreno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland * Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft. The Netherlands * Paul Kelly, Imperial College London, U.K. * Alberto Leva, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Matteo Mordacchini, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy * Yiannis Nikolakopoulos, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA * Gauthier Picard, Institut Henri Fayol, MINES Saint-Etienne, France * Francesco Quaglia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy * Paolo Romano, Lisbon University & INESC-ID, Portugal * Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France * Luis Tomás Bolívar, RedHat, Spain

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration April 21
by GRLMC 08 Apr '17

08 Apr '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration April 21*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: April 21, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 30 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior academics and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3-4 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Precision Medicine and Biomedical informatics Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Wild Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Generative Modeling and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 9, 2017. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A specific session will be devoted to demonstrations of practical uses of deep learning in industrial processes. Companies/people interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration, the duration requested and the logistics necessary. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017. EMPLOYERS SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Pablo García Bringas (co-chair) José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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IEEE DSAA'2017: IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
by Calls＠DataSciences.org 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

Apologize if this circulation interrupts you. ========================================================================================= CALL For PAPERS & OTHER CALLS IEEE DSAA'2017: 2017 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics Tokyo, Japan October 19-21, 2017 http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/ ========================================================================================= HIGHLIGHTS OF DSAA * A very competitive acceptance rate (about 10%) for regular papers * Jointly supported by IEEE, ACM and American Statistical Association * Strong inter-disciplinary and cross-domain culture * Strong engagement of analytics, statistics and industry/government * Double blind, and 10 pages in IEEE 2-column format * More about DSAA conferences: www.dsaa.co The Program Committee of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA'2017) invites the submission of technical papers for two main tracks: Research and Applications, and a series of Special Sessions of the conference which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 19th to 21th, 2017. DSAA solicits both theoretical and practical works on data science and advanced analytics. All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to conference topics of interest, originality, significance, and clarity. All accepted papers, including in main tracks and special sessions, will be published by IEEE and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE. Top quality papers accepted and presented at the conference will be selected for extension and invited to the special issues of International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA, Springer). IEEE DSAA INTRODUCTION Data science encompasses the areas of data analytics, machine learning, statistics, optimization and managing big data, and has become essential to glean understanding from large data sets and convert data into actionable intelligence, be it data available to enterprises, society, Government or on the Web. DSAA takes a strong interdisciplinary approach, features by its strong engagement with statistics and business, in addition to core areas including analytics, learning, computing and informatics. DSAA fosters its unique Trends and Controversies session, Invited Industry Talks session, Panel discussion, and four keynote speeches from statistics, business, and data science. DSAA main tracks maintain a very competitive acceptance rate (about 10%) for regular papers. Following the preceding three editions DSAA'2016 (Montreal), DSAA'2015 (Paris), and DSAA'2014 (Shanghai), DSAA'2017 aims to provide a premier forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners, as well as potential users of big data, for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. RESEARCH TRACK The Research Track is aimed at collecting original (unpublished nor under consideration at any other venue) and significant contributions related to foundations of Data Science and Analytics. Topics: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfpapers/#topics_research APPLICATIONS TRACK The Applications Track is aimed at collecting original papers describing better and reproducible practices with substantial contributions to Data Science and Analytics in real life scenarios. Topics: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfpapers/#topics_applications SPECIAL SESSIONS DSAA special sessions substantially upgrade traditional workshops to encourage emerging topics in data science while maintain rigorous selection criteria. Proposals to organize special sessions and submissions to respective special sessions are highly encouraged. CONFERENCE VENUE The DSAA’2017 conference will be held at Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. It is just two minutes walk from Shinagawa Station, which is the first stop on the Tokaido Shinkansen from Tokyo Station and is about 20 minutes from Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport). IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2017 Final Camera-ready papers due: August 15, 2017 Early Registration dealine: August 31, 2017 Conference dates: October 19-21, 2017 For further details, please visit the conference website: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/ +++++++++++++++++ OTHER CALLS & IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++++++ Special Session Proposals Proposal submission: February 25, 2017 Acceptance notification: TBA by Special Session Organizers Special session dates: October 19 – 21, 2017 For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfspecsessions/ Tutorial Proposals Proposal submission: May 30, 2017, 11:59pm PST Notification: June 30, 2017 Tutorial slides/other materials due: September 20, 2017, 11:59pm PST Tutorials dates: October 19-21, 2017 For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cftutorials/ Sponsorships IEEE DSAA'2017 will be held between 19-21 October 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Sponsorship and opportunities to collaborate with DSAA'2017 should be directed to the DSAA'2017 Sponsorship Co-chairs at dsaa2017[at]dsaa.co. For more information: http://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/cfsponsors/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Fosca Giannotti, Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council at Pisa, Italy Tomoyuki Higuchi, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan Program Chairs -- Research Track Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Program Chairs -- Application Track Ying Li, DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singapore Rajesh Parekh, Facebook, also with KDD2016 and The Hive, USA Special Session Chairs Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Albert Bifet, Telecom ParisTech, France Trends & Controversies Chairs Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Award Chair Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA NGDS (Next Generation Data Scientist) Award Chairs Kenji Yamanishi, University of Tokyo, Japan Xin Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Tutorial Chairs Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Vincent Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Panel Chairs Geoff Webb, Monash University, Australia Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium Invited Industry Talk Chairs Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo, Japan Hang Li, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong Publicity Chairs Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Japan Diane J. Cook, Washington State University Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Local Organizing Chairs Satoshi Kurihara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Hiromitsu Hattori, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Publication Chair Toshihiro Kamishima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Web Chair Kozo Ohara, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan Sponsorship Chairs Yoji Kiyota, NEXT Co., Ltd, Japan Kiyoshi Izumi, University of Tokyo, Japan Tadashi Yanagihara, KDDI Corp., KDDI R\&D Laboratory, Japan Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Byeong Kang University of Tasmania, Australia CONTACT INFORMATION Hiroshi Motoda motoda(a)ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp Satoshi Kurihara skurihara(a)uec.ac.jp

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CALL FOR PAPERS - The 3nd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017)
by Bilan Zhu 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) (IEEE CS-TCI) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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TNSM Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management (Submissions due: 3 May 2017)
by Yixin Diao 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

=========================================================================== IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-bdm (Submissions due: 3 May 2017) =========================================================================== Cloud and network analytics can harness the immense stream of operational data from clouds and networks, and can perform analytics processing to improve reliability, configuration, performance, and security management. In particular, we see a growing trend towards using statistical analysis and machine learning to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. Research is therefore needed to understand and improve the potential and suitability of Big Data analytics in the context of systems and network management. This will not only provide deeper understanding and better decision making based on largely collected and available operational data, but present opportunities for improving data analysis algorithms and methods on aspects such as accuracy and scalability. Moreover, there is an opportunity to define novel platforms that can harness the vast operational data and advanced data analysis algorithms to drive management decisions in networks, data centers, and clouds. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following the success of TNSM special issue on Big Data Analytics for Management (September 2016), this special issue of TNSM will focus on "Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management," presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions that can exploit Big Data and analytics in management solutions. We welcome submissions addressing the underlying challenges of Big Data Analytics for Management and presenting novel theoretical or experimentation results. Survey papers that offer a perspective on related work and identify key challenges for future research will be considered as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited, to the following: Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning - Analysis, modelling and visualization - Operational analytics and intelligence - Event and log analytics - Anomaly detection and prediction - Monitoring and measurements for management - Harnessing social data for management - Predictive analytics and real-time analytics - Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management Application Domains and Management Paradigms - Cloud and network analytics - Data centric management of virtualized infrastructure, clouds and data centers - Data centric management of storage resources and software defined networks - Data centric management of Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Platforms for analyzing and storing logs and operational data for management tasks - Applications of Big data analytics to traffic classification, root-cause analysis, service quality assurance, IT service and resource management - Analytics and machine learning applications to cyber-security, intrusion detection, threat analysis, and failure detection ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission All papers should be submitted through the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management manuscript submission site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm. Authors must indicate in the submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the "Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management" special issue. Each submission will be limited to 14 pages in IEEE 2-column format. Detailed author guidelines can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/author-guidelines. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 3, 2017 Author Notification: July 15, 2017 Revision Deadline: September 15, 2017 Final Decision: November 1, 2017 Camera Ready: December 1, 2017 Publication: March 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK) Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) Nur Zincir-Heyood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) For more information, please contact the guest editors at TNSM.SI.BDM(a)gmail.com.

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SISAP 2017 -- Call for Papers
by Kröger, Peer 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

(Apologies to those who may have received this message more than once.) CALL FOR PAPERS - SISAP 2017 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications Munich, Germany, October, 4 - 6, 2017 Web site: http://www.sisap.org/2017/ Submission site (EasyChair) is now open at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisap2017. ---------------------------------------- Scope ---------------------------------------- The 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that make use of similarity search as a necessary supporting service. >From its roots in metric indexing, SISAP has expanded to become the only international conference entirely devoted to all issues surrounding the theory, design, analysis, practice, and application of content-based and feature-based similarity search. ---------------------------------------- Topics ---------------------------------------- The specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Similarity queries - k-NN, range, reverse k-NN, top-k, approximate, etc. * Similary measures - graph, structural, time series, complex data, tensors, secondary similarity, etc. * Similarity operations - joins, ranking, classification, categorization, filtering, etc. * Indexing and access methods for similarity-based processing * Evaluation techniques for similarity queries and operations * Merging/combining multiple similarity modalities * Cost models and analysis for similarity data processing * Scalability issues and high-performance similarity data management * Feature selection and extraction for similarity search * Multimedia retrieval systems * Security and privacy of similarity search * Similarity for forensics and security * Distributed similarity search * Similarity search cloud services * Languages for similarity databases * Applications of similarity-based operations * Visual analytics for similarity-based operations * Test collections and benchmarks * Performance studies and comparisons * Industrial applications and case studies * Theory - models of similarity, intrinsic dimensionality, discriminability and contrast, manifolds and subspaces, etc. ---------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------- Abstracts Due: May 12, 2017 Full Papers Due: May 19, 2017 Conference: October 4-6, 2017 ---------------------------------------- Paper Submission and Publication ---------------------------------------- SISAP 2017 allows for three forms of submissions: long research papers (from 9 to 14 pages), short research papers (of up to 8 pages) and demo papers (of up to 8 pages). Full papers are expected to be descriptions of complete technical work, whereas short papers can describe innovative approaches or preliminary results which may nevertheless require more work to mature. Vision papers and other position papers should be submitted as short research papers. Demo submissions should provide the motivation for the demonstrated concepts, the information about the technology and the system to be demonstrated (including a system description, functionality and figures when applicable), and should state the significance of the contribution. The scenarios within which the demonstration applies should also be explained. Evaluation criteria for the demonstration proposals include: novelty, technical advances and challenges, and the overall practical attractiveness of the demonstrated system. By submitting a paper, its authors commit to its presentation at the conference in the event that the paper is accepted. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, at least one of its authors must register for the conference. At SISAP 2017, all research papers will be presented both orally and in a poster session. The demos will also be presented in the poster session - posters should be prepared for these as well. All research and demo papers will be given an entry in the conference proceedings. Papers submitted to SISAP 2017 must be written in English and formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. Papers will be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisap2017) If you experience any problems during the submission, please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs at sisap2017(a)easychair.org. The proceedings of SISAP will be published by Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For SISAP 2016, as in previous years, extended versions of 5 excellent papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Systems. The conference will also confer a Best Paper Award, as judged by the Program Committee Co-Chairs and Steering Committee. ---------------------------------------- Special Session for Industry ---------------------------------------- A special session devoted to industrial applications and case studies will also take place. Submissions are solicited in multimedia, broadcasting, archiving, image processing, social networks, bioinformatics, and any other area in which similarity technology has made a practical impact. Of particular interest are submissions concerned with one or more of the following: * Use cases and scenarios * Best practice for similarity search * Adoption of similarity search in new industrial contexts * Requirements for research and development ---------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers ---------------------------------------- Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University, Denmark Cyrus Shahabi University of Southern California, USA Reinhard Förtsch Deutsches Archäologisches Intitut (German Institute for Archaeology), Germany ---------------------------------------- Organization ---------------------------------------- Steering Committee Edgar Chávez, CICESE, Mexico Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University, Czech Republic General Chair Peer Kröger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Program Committee Co-Chairs Christian Beecks, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Peer Kröger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Local Arrangements Susanne Grienberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Janina Bleicher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Proceedings Chair Felix Borutta, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Web Chair Florian Richter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* *www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>* Lyon, France August 28 - 31, 2017 In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …). *Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big Data Mining. *Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via* numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration *PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: * Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/ starting from January 2017. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 16, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 23, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017 Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK. Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK ***

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CRITIS 2017 Call for Papers
by Cristina Alcaraz 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Dear Colleague, we invite you to submit a contribution to CRITIS 2017, the International Conference on Critical (Information) Infrastructures Security. This year the conference will take place in Lucca, a gorgeous Renaissance city in Tuscany, 9-11 October 2017. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair; for poster contributions, submission can be limited to an extended abstract. All accepted contributions will be included in full length in the pre-proceedings that will appear at the time of the conference; accepted papers are planned to be published in the LNCS Springer-Verlag series. Special attention will be devoted to young talents. To this purpose, a price (YCA: Young Critis Award) will be awarded to the best contribution presented by a young author. On 12-13 October, the conference will be followed by two satellite workshops on Energy and Water. For further details, please visit our website www.critis2017.org . We would appreciate you advertise the conference by the attached leaflet. The organizers: Cristina Alcaraz, Hypatia Nassopoulos, Antonio Scala, Gregorio D’Agostino, Grigore Havarneanu

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[simu-conf] DEADLINE EXTENDED - WinterSim 2017
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Contributed Papers Deadline is April 28, 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: - Agent-Based Simulation - Analysis Methodology - Architecture and Construction - Aviation Modeling and Analysis - Cyber-Physical Systems - Environment and Sustainability Applications - Future of Simulation - Gaming - Healthcare Applications - History of Simulation - Hybrid Simulation - Manufacturing Applications - Logistics, SCM, Transportation - Military Applications and Homeland Security - Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) - Modeling Methodology - Project Management - Simulation Education - Simulation Optimization - Social and Behavioral Simulation - Introductory Tutorials - Advanced Tutorials Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Innovate-Data 2017 - Deadline Extended 18 April 2017 (Firm)
by Innovate-Data 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

------------------------ Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) (IEEE CS-TCI) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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IEEE FiCloud 2017 - Deadline Extended 18 April 2017 (Firm)
by FiCloud Conference 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

----------------------Call for Papers (Deadline Extended: 18 April 2017 (Firm)------------------------------------- The IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 18 April 2017 (Firm) Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Jamal Bentahar, University of Concordia, Canada Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Kashif Saleem, King Saud University, KSA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France Ruben Casado, Accenture, Spain

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Preliminary CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] [Preliminary Call for Papers] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science ARCoSS series by Springer-Verlag (pending approval). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. PC members are strongly encouraged to submit papers. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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CFP - IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
by Peter Mueller 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Call for Papers for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, November 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Co-Located Conferences: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ 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 IEEE ISPA 2017 (15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 15th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2016 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2017 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA 2017 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Interests: (1) Systems and Architectures Track Cloud computing and data center technology Migration of computations Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability Energy management and Green Computing Wireless and mobile networks Internet of Things (IoT) Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC Parallel and distributed algorithms Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development Novel parallel programming paradigms Programming models for cloud services and applications Code generation and optimization Compilers for parallel computers Middleware and tools Scheduling and resource management Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track High-performance scientific and engineering computing Grid and cluster computing Pervasive and ubiquitous computing Databases, data mining, and data management Big data and business analytics Scientific cloud systems and services Internet computing and web services Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission and Publication Information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2017) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings Format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Call for Workshop Proposals: The IEEE ISPA 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 ISPA 2017 Workshops should be related to the scopes of the IEEE ISPA 2017 main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of parallel and distributed systems, theories and applications. The organizers of the IEEE ISPA 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 ISPA 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 ISPA 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. IEEE ISPA 2017 Workshop Chairs: Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden <karl DOT andersson AT ltu DOT se>; Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA <ammari DOT habib AT gmail DOT com>; Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia <syu AT deakin DOT edu DOT au>; Andy Li, University of Florida, USA <andyli AT ece DOT ufl DOT edu> 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 Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ISPA 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (ISPA2017Guangzhou AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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ECCOMAS VipIMAGE 2017 - FINAL Deadline
by VipIMAGE 2017 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2017 www.fe.up.pt/vipimage October 18-20, 2017, Porto, Portugal Chairs: João Manuel R. S. Tavares & Renato Natal Jorge, Universidade do Porto --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the submission deadline of the International Conference VipIMAGE 2017 - VI ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (www.fe.up.pt/vipimage) to be held in October 18-20, 2017, in Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel, Porto, Portugal, has been postponed to April 21 (FINAL deadline). Possible Topics (not limited to) - Signal and Image Processing - Computational Vision - Medical Imaging - Physics of Medical Imaging - Tracking and Analysis of Movement - Simulation and Modeling - Image Acquisition - Industrial Applications - Shape Reconstruction - Segmentation, Matching, Simulation - Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression - 3D Vision - Virtual Reality - Visual Inspection - Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis - Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization - Telemedicine Systems and Applications Invited Lecturers - Mário Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA - Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK - Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA - Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA Thematic Sessions - Advanced Techniques for Image-based Numerical Simulation in Biomedical Applications - Advances in Lung CT Image Processing - Application of Image Analysis in Musculoskeletal Radiology - Computational Vision and Image Processing applied to Dental Medicine - Computer Vision in Robotics - Emotions classification from EEG signals - Image Analysis and Machine Learning for Skin Ulcers - Imaging and Image Processing in Ophthalmology - Imaging and Simulation Techniques for Cardiovascular Diseases - Imaging of Flows in Lab-on-Chip Devices: Trends and Challenges - Infrared Thermal Imaging in Biomedicine - Meta-learning in Deep Learning: New Trends and Directions - Shape Analysis in Medical Imaging: From Math to Clinics Publications Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by Springer under the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" indexed by Elsevier Scopus. Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis international journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Index will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference. Springer Book: A book with invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be organized for publishing by Springer. Important Dates - Deadline for Extended Abstracts: April 21, 2017 (FINAL deadline) - Authors Notification: May 10, 2017 - Deadline for Papers: June 15, 2017 We are looking forward to see you in Porto in October, 2017, João Manuel R. S. Tavares Renato Natal Jorge (VipIMAGE 2017 co-chairs) For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/vipimage, the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/VipIMAGE2017, or join the LinkedIn group at: www.linkedin.com/groups/4752820.

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WPDM 2017 CFP Deadline Extended to April 15 2017
by Massimo Cafaro 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 (extended) Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. The best papers, in extended version, will be selected for possible publication in a special issue of a) Information Sciences, Elsevier; b) International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, Inderscience Publishers. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 15, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------------ May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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IEEE CIBCB 2017 – Extended Deadline 14th April
by Marco S. Nobile 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Final Deadline: 14 April 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/CIBCBss.html> hosted by IEEE CIBCB 2017 <http://cibcb2017.org/> 23-25 August 2017,Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Computational intelligence is frequently exploited to devise efficient heuristics to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology. However, these approaches are computationally challenging as they might require excessively burdensome execution times in the case of real-world problems, therefore limiting their applicability. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational intelligence methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * analysis and visualization of large datasets * analysis and visualization of genome-wide models * biomedical model parameterization * development of synthetic biological devices * drug design * emergent properties in complex biological systems * flux balance analysis * gene expression array analysis * high-throughput data analysis * high efficiency algorithms for solving biological problems * medical image analysis * medical imaging and pattern recognition * metabolic pathway analysis * mining of biomedical data * modelling, simulation and optimization of biological systems * molecular dynamics and molecular docking * molecular evolution and phylogenetics * molecular sequence alignment and analysis * prediction and searching of molecular structure and folding * spectral analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper submission: 14 April 2017 (final deadline) Paper acceptance notification: 2 June 2017 Final paper submission: 30 June 2017 Conference: 23-25 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Marco S. Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Ashlock - University of Guelph, Canada Paolo Cazzaniga - University of Bergamo, Italy Daniela Besozzi - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines * Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight(8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. * Papers must be in PDF and written in English.Detailed instructions and templates for preparing your manuscripts can be found here <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. * At maximum, two additional pages are permittedwith over-length page charge of US$125/page, to be paid during author registration. * Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. * All papers should be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system. Furhter information can be found in the CIBCB2017 submission page <http://cibcb2017.org/index.html#submission>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts Marco S. Nobile, PhD University of Milano-Bicocca Email: nobile(a)disco.unimib.it

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: June 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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SLSP 2017: 1st call for papers
by GRLMC 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

SLSP 2017: 1st call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2017 Le Mans, France October 23-25, 2017 Organized by: Computer Science Lab (LIUM) University of Le Mans Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2017/ ********************************************************************************** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2017, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2017 will take place in Le Mans, in the region Pays de la Loire, a city with well-preserved Gallo-Roman remnants. The venue will be: Claude Chappe Informatics Institute University of Le Mans Avenue Laënnec 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9 SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: anaphora and coreference resolution authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering computer-aided translation corpora and language resources data mining and semantic web information extraction information retrieval knowledge representation and ontologies lexicons and dictionaries machine translation multimodal technologies natural language understanding neural representation of speech and language opinion mining and sentiment analysis parsing part-of-speech tagging question-answering systems semantic role labelling speaker identification and verification speech and language generation speech recognition speech synthesis speech transcription spelling correction spoken dialogue systems term extraction text categorisation text summarisation user modeling STRUCTURE: SLSP 2017 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions posters INVITED SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE) Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, FI) Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse University, US) Xunying Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP) Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven, BE) Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA) Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Holger Schwenk (Facebook, FR) Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Walid Aransa (Le Mans) Adrien Bardet (Le Mans) Abdessalam Bouchekif (Le Mans) Fethi Bougares (Le Mans) Nathalie Camelin (Le Mans) Yannick Estève (Le Mans, co-chair) Mercedes García Martínez (Le Mans) Sahar Ghannay (Le Mans) Anthony Larcher (Le Mans) Antoine Laurent (Le Mans) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Salima Mdhaffar (Le Mans) Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada) Simon Petitrenaud (Le Mans) David Silva (London) Natalia Tomashenko (Le Mans) Kévin Vythelingum (Le Mans) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2017 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2017/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: June 11, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 11, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 21, 2017 Early registration: July 21, 2017 Late registration: October 9, 2017 Submission to the journal special issue: January 25, 2018 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409(a)yahoo.com POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2017 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Université du Maine Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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2nd CFP - ICAIL workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
by Grasso, Floriana 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

(with apologies for cross posting) ** CMNA 2017, the 17th workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument ** 16 June 2017, London, UK DEADLINE 12 April 2017 ===================================================================== CMNA 2017 will be held in conjunction with the ICAIL 2017 (International Conference on AI and Law) conference, which is held in London, UK from 12 to 16 June 2017. The series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument is continuing to attract high quality submissions from researchers around the world since its inception in 2001.The workshop focuses on "natural" argumentation. Topics are as follows. * The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects, cognitive issues, legal aspects). * The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. * The generation of natural argument * Corpus argumentation results and techniques * Argumentation mining * Models of natural legal argument * Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in argumentation. * The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features. * Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems. * Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation. * Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments. * Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision-support and advice-giving). * The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory. * Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate. * Tools for interacting with structures of argument. * Applications of argumentation based systems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are accepting submissions of long and short papers, demonstrations and short abstracts. CMNA17 proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings, and extended versions of selected accepted papers will be published in a special issue of Argument and Computation http://www.iospress.nl/journal/argument-computation/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Key dates are as follows: * Paper submission (all categories): 12th April 2017 * Notification to authors: 1st May 2017 * Final version of papers: 20th May 2017 * Early registration deadline: see the ICAIL website at https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/icail2017/ * CMNA 17: 16 June 2017 Please visit http://cmna.info//CMNA17/ for more information.

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[simu-conf] UPCOMING DEADLINE - WinterSim 2017
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

UPCOMING DEADLINE - Contributed Papers Deadline is April 7, 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89135 www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! >From experimentation to theory; standards and advanced methodologies, modeling and simulation is continually pushing the envelope of the available technologies, as many sectors have growing needs to process, visualize, make readable, understand, and deploy complex models that use immense amounts of data. These players need to transform data into hypothesis building and critical decision-making, and to change their models in response to new hypotheses, usually involving multiple highly specialized experts working together in geographically distant areas. After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. WSC 2017 focus is on addressing how to achieve the goal of having Simulation Everywhere! WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), INFORMS-SIM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation International), with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA (American Statistical Association), ASIM (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation), IEEE/SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). LOCATION WSC 2017 will be held at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, NV. The resort hotel provides an idyllic getaway just minutes from the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip and is ideally situated near the entrance to the Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Center. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. Planned tracks are: - Agent-Based Simulation - Analysis Methodology - Architecture and Construction - Aviation Modeling and Analysis - Cyber-Physical Systems - Environment and Sustainability Applications - Future of Simulation - Gaming - Healthcare Applications - History of Simulation - Hybrid Simulation - Manufacturing Applications - Logistics, SCM, Transportation - Military Applications and Homeland Security - Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems (MSIAAS) - Modeling Methodology - Project Management - Simulation Education - Simulation Optimization - Social and Behavioral Simulation - Introductory Tutorials - Advanced Tutorials Also, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks provide background on established and new methods, tools and application domains. WSC 2017 continues to incorporate the MASM (Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing) Conference, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain operations. KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Vacancy TU Delft TPM: Assistant Professor of Distributed Systems, Design & Simulation
by Esther Holten-Miedema - TBM 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Assistant Professor of Distributed Systems, Design & Simulation Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management Level PhD degree Maximum employment 38 hours per week (1 FTE) Duration of contract Tenure track Salary scale €3,427 to €5,330 per month gross Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) develops robust models and designs, to solve the complex challenges of today’s networked society. TPM combines insights from the engineering sciences with insights from the humanities and the social sciences. The Systems Engineering group within TBM focuses on the design of large-scale, distributed systems that enable and support participation in networked society. The Systems Engineering group is seeking to fill an open tenure-track position in the design of such large-scale, distributed systems, in particular with respect to understanding the dynamics of self-organisation and emergence (www.participatorysystems.org) Job description We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in computer science, artificial intelligence, distributed simulation, or a related field, intrigued by interdisciplinary research in large-scale, socio-technical systems. Examples of large-scale, distributed, socio-technical systems designed and studied within the Systems Engineering group include distributed energy markets, supply-demand networks, international food chain management, crisis management, health systems, and systems designed to support citizen participation. This position extends our current research portfolio to focus on the design of dynamic, multi-agent systems – design, development, simulation, and application in practice. Could you strengthen our international, interdisciplinary, leading-edge research group? Do you have the background, drive, and commitment to explore the design space for participation, to analyse, design, and orchestrate coordination of self-management and emergence, to study dynamics of participatory system behaviour, to explore changing roles and their implications, and to work together with experts from many different fields? A Tenure Track, a process that leads to a permanent appointment as an Assistant Professor at the TU Delft, offers talented academics a clear and attractive career path. During the Tenure Track, you will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognised academic. We offer a structured career and personal development programme designed to offer individual academics as much support as possible. For more information about the Tenure Track and the personal development programme, please visit www.tudelft.nl/tenuretrack. Requirements Applicants should have the following qualifications: • a strong background in (multi-agent) system design, simulation, and development; • a PhD in Computer Science, Multi-Agent Systems, Artificial Intelligence or a related field; • excellent scientific credentials; • strong appreciation for, experience with, and ability to work in an academic, interdisciplinary environment with both social scientists and computer scientists; • demonstrated didactic qualities and experience in interdisciplinary educational programmes; • experience in attracting external funding; • a strong (international) network within academic, industrial, and national and international governmental organisations. Conditions of employment A Tenure Track, a process that leads to a permanent appointment as an Assistant Professor at the TU Delft, offers talented academics a clear and attractive career path. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and an international primary school. Dual Career Services offers support to accompanying partners. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. If you have less than five years of experience and do not yet have your teaching certificate, we allow you up to three years to obtain this. Information and application For more information about this position or to apply, please contact Prof.dr. F.M. Brazier, phone: +31 (0)15-2787529, email: F.M.Brazier(a)tudelft.nl. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, list of publications and references along with a letter of application by 23 April 2017 to Prof. Brazier, vacature-tbm(a)tudelft.nl. When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy number ATTBM17.008. Best regards, E. (Esther) Holten-Miedema Secretary to Prof.dr.F.M. Brazier TU Delft/ Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Department MAS - Systems Engineering Building 31, room B 1.090 Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft P.O.Box 5015 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands T +31 (0)15 27 88380 E E.Holten-Miedema(a)tudelft.nl<mailto:E.Holten-Miedema@tudelft.nl> Working days: Tuesday 08h00-15h30, Thursday 08h00-15h30 and Friday 08h30-17h00

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Conference RPC 2017 - Reminder
by Organizing Committee RPC 2017 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, We remind you that registration on the Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) closes on April 1, 2017. The conference proceedings will be published in the international journal "Information Technology in Industry". It is indexed in Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) by Thomson Reuters. The conference is organized by Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Automation and Control Processes of Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and IEEE New South Wales Section (Australia). The working language of the conference is English. Website: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru Registration: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/en_registration.html Important Dates Registration due: April 1, 2017 Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017 For your information Local authorities have adopted the law of simplification of visa regime in free port of Vladivostok. http://primorsky.ru/news/123229/?sphrase_id=4230841 We will be glad to see you on the conference RPC 2017! Local Organizing Committee Contact Institute of Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok 690041, Russia E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru

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