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[MoCS 2017] Extension Call for papers - Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017)
by Dario Russo 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Call for papers Seventh Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017) http://mocs.disi.unibo.it/ July 3rd, 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Organized by: National Research Council of Italy University of Messina, Italy in association with: The Twenty-Second IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017) Important Dates --------------- Submission: April 1, 2017 Notification: April 17, 2017 Camera-ready: April 24, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 Scope and topics ---------------- The low cost of hardware components and the rapid growth of a business model for Cloud services are two important drivers for the success of the Cloud. Nevertheless, most of the players today require also to analyze data available on the Cloud with a holistic approach provided often by data mining techniques. Under this respect, services designed for complex scenarios like Smart Cities benefit of this new Cloud era. The objective is to track and comprehend the flow of novelty in Cloud systems and to put on the foreground all the features and related issues, with a particular attention to the convergence of Cloud systems together with Smart City systems and on the (re)use of open Cloud platforms for designing services for Smart Cities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Experiences on the use of Cloud systems when applied to services designed for Smart Cities; - Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems scalability and to achieve resource saving in socio-technical Smart City systems - Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective - Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; - New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level, within/between data centres (intra- /inter-domain); - Big Data flows processing for Smart City scenarios; - Relationship between IoT and Cloud systems in Smart City scenarios; - (Re)use of open Cloud-integrated platforms for the design of Smart Cities services. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2017 Proceedings and will submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org) Contacts -------- Michele Girolami: michele.girolami(a)isti.cnr.it Maria Fazio: mfazio(a)unime.it

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Fwd: BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from 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 this huge volume of 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 use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological 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 Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological 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 Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological 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: March 25, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 2, 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 Hasan Oğul, Başkent 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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Three PhD Scholarships available in Big Data or Data Science
by Jinjun Chen 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

We are now offering three PhD scholarships in the broad areas of Big Data and Data Science. Students who are interested in research of big data analytics, casual association rules mining, data knowledge discovery, machine intelligence, as well as challenging and world-changing application areas such as healthcare, transport and energy , are strongly encouraged to apply. These positions will be based in recently established Swinburne Data Science Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is a top ranked most livable city in our world. The PhD research will be performed under the supervision of Professor Jinjun Chen - http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ Scholarship information: · Annual stipend $26,682 (2017 rate) for three years (with possible 6 month extension) · Tuition fees for up to four years · Thesis allowance · Annual travel fund available We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Preference will be given to those students who have: - An excellent track record on Bachelor or Master degree, - Very good programming and math skills, - Very good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and writing, - Background in the fields of statistics, data mining, machine learning, sensing system, Internet of Things, natural language processing, and etc. - Meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements ( http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/) Application: Interested candidates are invited to send their applications to Professor Jinjun Chen (jchen(a)swin.edu.au) by 30 April 2017, including: 1. A cover letter describing your detailed research interest 2. Soft copy of your publications if any (e.g., master’s thesis, conference/journal papers) 3. Your CV 4. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees 5. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not your first language

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '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: July 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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[Conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth] UCAmI 2017 2nd cfp
by UCAmI 2017 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAMI 2017 http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2017 Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NOVEMBER 7 TO 10TH, 2017 Conference Background & Goals The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments and systems. These solutions aim to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services these solutions provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in AmI environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services, such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others. The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference will be "Ambient Intelligence: Sensing, Processing and Using Environmental Information". Publication All accepted conference papers will be included in SPRINGER LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS). Selected papers will be published in the following journals: * Sensors Journal (IF(2015) = 2.033) * Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (IF(2015) = 3.634) * Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (IF(2015) = 0.835) * Computer and Electrical Engineering (IF(2015) = 1.726) Important Dates * Paper submission: * Notification of acceptance: * Camera-ready version: * Conference dates: * MAY 1ST, 2017 * June 15th, 2017 * July 10th, 2017 * November 7 to 10th, 2017 TRACKS HEALTH (AMIHEALTH) (Topics) * Health, wellness and disease monitoring * Communication, cloud, and network architectures for Health * Education and e-Learning systems in Health domains * Knowledge management for health: context, behavior and user modeling * Data Analytics for Health environments * Health ecosystems: frameworks, models and methodologies * Interaction, social, and user experience within Health environments * Mobile and ubiquitous Health * Smart technologies and algorithms for Health AAL (IWAAL) (Topics) * Monitoring of chronic and non-chronic diseases in AAL * Solutions for active ageing, social integration and self-care * Entertainment and promotion of healthy life in AAL * Stress, burden and quality of life in carers of AAL environments * People learning and education in AAL environments * Security and privacy in AAL * Behaviour analysis in AAL environments * Context-Awareness in Assistive environments * Experiences and study cases in AAL * Wearables technologies and sensor networks. Smart homes for AAL * Middleware architectures for AAL * Sensing, Data management and Big data in AAL * Standards and interoperability AD-HOC SENSOR NETWORKS (Topics) * Applications of hybrid wireless ad hoc networks * Self-organizing protocols for heterogeneous ad hoc networks * Device-2-Device Communications (D2D); * Cooperation incentive models for Ad-hoc Networks * Vehicle-to-X communications (V2X) * Protocols for Ad-Hoc networks * Innovative real-world sensor network deployments and applications * Topology control and routing protocols in sensor network deployments * Novel communication paradigms for wireless sensor networks * Mobility management in sensor applications and deployments * Location techniques, routing, medium access control for sensor networks * Energy efficiency, energy efficient protocols for sensor networks SUSTAINABILITY (Topics) * Environmental health and climate monitoring * Sustainable and smart cities * Information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D) * Computational Energy Consumption * Sustainability and Assistive Computing * Ambient Intelligence for Health and Sustainability * Mobile Computing for Sustainability HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Topics) * Natural User Interfaces * Human-centric interfaces for AmI environments * Multimodal interfaces * Use of context and location information in user interfaces * Novel input devices * Robot-human interaction * Human-ambient interaction * Mobile interfaces * Affective interfaces (recognition and enactment of emotions) * User modeling * Personalization and adaptation of user interfaces * Ubiquitous and ambient displays * User experience in ambient computing * Interaction with smart objects and tangible interfaces * Brain computer interaction * Evaluation of interfaces in ambient and ubiquitous environments IOT & SMART CITIES (Topics) * IoT applications and services. Research and Innovation * How IoT technology will affect business and product development * Current and future trends in IoT * Distributed mobile applications based on IoT * Making money with the Internet of Things. New IoT Business Models * Security, privacy and trust in IoT * IoT Interoperability and Integration * Iot in the Transport system. The new VANET * Performance evaluation metrics IoT * Designing ultra-low power IoT nodes * Design and Deployment of the Infrastructure for IoT-enabled systems and applications * Brillo. Google's IoT O.S. Experiences and developments * Internet of Things and the Web of Things applied to smart cities * Web of Data and Linked Data to assemble urban apps * Citizen participation and data generation, controlling data provenance and trust * Security and privacy challenges for IoT, citizen-generated data, and Linked Data * Gaming with a purpose (GWAP) to incentivize citizen participation * Interaction paradigms in the Smart City * Novel context sensing mechanisms in the city * Behaviour Change practices applicable to urban environments * Urban analytics: determining human dynamics in the smart city * City services publication, indexing, discovery, recommendation and consumption * Architectures for consuming and analyzing Urban Broad Data * Real deployments, using cases and experiments * Urban Transports Special Sessions SOCIO-COGNITIVE & AFFECTIVE COMPUTING (Topics) * Affective Computing * Sentient Computing * Social Interaction * Virtual and Augmented Reality * Emotional Robots * Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing * Mobile Computing * Context Aware Computing * Ambient Intelligence * Ambient Assisted Living * Physiological Computing * Brain-Computer Interfaces * Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Systems * Eye Movements, Gaze Monitoring and Eye Blink Activity * Wearable Systems * Applications and Case Studies AMI SYSTEMS & MACHINE LEARNING (Topics) * Learning from observation from humans * Learning from natural instruction * Learning from conversation with a human * Experiential learning * Learning from a human coach (reverse intelligent tutoring systems) * Human Interaction with Ubiquitous and mobile System * User modeling * User Profiling * Human-Ambient Interaction * User experience in Ambient Computing * Evaluation of interfaces in Ambient and Ubiquitous environments Networking Session [1] Contact * grupo.mami at uclm.es * grupo.mami(a)uclm.es In order to view, change, or cancel your subscription to the CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list, please click here [2]. 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SmartIoT 2017, August 25th-27th, 2017 at Dalian, China
by SmartIoT 2017 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017) will be held on 25th-27th, August 2017 at Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017 Submission Due: 10 May 2017 Author Notification: 20 June 2017 The primary goal of SmartIoT 2017 is to exchange, share and discuss the latest research, theories and applications for Smart Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Track 1. Architectures and systems of IoT * Track 2. Sensing, monitoring, networking and routing * Track 3. Cloud computing and Big data analysis * Track 4. Industrial 4.0 and Industrial IoT * Track 5. Localization, tracking and recognizing for IoT * Track 6. Social networks, multimedia and mobile computing * Track 7. Smart cities and internet of vehicles * Track 8. Emerging research or Technologies for CPS * Track 9. Control and decision making for smart IoT or CPS * Track 10. Security and privacy for smart IoT or CPS Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the SmartIoT 2017 submission site: http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017/submission.html Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI. Authors of 50% papers will be invited to submit their paper to a special issue in a SCI-indexed journal. Look forwards to receiving your submission. Best regards. Smart-IoT 2017 Organization Committee smartiot.conf(a)gmail.com 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017), 25th-27th, August 2017 in Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

*** Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24
by GRLMC 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24*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: March 24, 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 Bioinformatics Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real 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] Deep Generative Models 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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POF Symposium at OFC 2017 and POF Technology & Applications Pavilion
by Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

[1] POF Symposium at OFC 2017 Visit POFTO Booth #3859 [2]POF Symposium at OFC 2017 Thursday, 23 March, 2017 (11:00 - 13:00) Expo Theater III Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA The Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) will organize a POF Symposium during OFC 2017 that will cover recent developments in plastic optical fibers (POF) technology, applications, technical standards, industry progress and new markets. Speakers from around the world will review opportunities for POF in areas such as Gigabit POF, 4K/8K ultra high definition television (UHDTV), home networking, active optical cables, aerospace & automobile applications, POF sources & sensors, and high-temperature POF, among others. 11:00 – 11:05 Organizer and Program Chair: Hui Pan, Chief Economist,Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO), USA 11:05 – 11:30 Keynote Presentation: Status of GI POF towards Noise-Free 8K Data Transmission Yasuhiro Koike, Director, Keio Photonics Research Institute( KPRI) and Professor, Keio University, Japan; Dr. Azusa Inoue, Project Senior Assistant Professor, Keio University /KPRI, Japan Presenters 11:30 – 11:50 IEEE Standards on POF Technology in Automotive Applications Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Manager, Plastic Molding Material Department, Fiber Optics Section, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., LTD, Japan 11:50 – 12:10 Winning the Market for Short-Distance High-Speed Data Links: GigaPOF® in Active Optical Cables Frank Graziano, CEO, Board Member, Chromis Fiberoptics, Inc., USA 12:10 – 12:30 POF in Future Access and Home Networks Eugene Dai, Principal Transport Architect, Cox Communications, USA 12:30 – 12:50 High Bitrate Transmission over SI-POF Marco Dietrich, CTO, albis-elcon system Germany GmbH, Germany 12:50 – 13:10 POF-based Indoor Networks For Converged Wired-Wireless Delivery Of Broadband Services Ton Koonen, Professor, COBRA Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands The event is free and open to all OFC attendees. However, for planning purposes, please email the program chair Dr. Hui Pan, [3]hpan(a)igigroup.com to [4]reserve a seat at the POF Symposium. [5]POF Technology and Applications Pavilion at OFC 2017 (booth #3859) POFTO is also organizing a POF Technology and Applications Pavilion at OFC 2017 where POFTO member companies will demonstrate their products and technologies during the show. Attendees can bring their problems and receive design advice on POF solutions from industry experts. Hope to see you there! Dr. Hui Pan[6] [7]POFTO Secretariat[8] Information Gatekeepers Inc. PO Box 35880 Boston, MA 02135, USA Tel: +1-617-782-5033 Fax: +1-617-507-8338[9] hpan(a)igigroup.com[10] References 1. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/exhibit-hall/show-floor-programming… 2. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/exhibit-hall/show-floor-programming… 3. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 4. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 5. http://www.expocadweb.com/17OFC/ec/forms/attendee/index5.aspx#fpPanel 6. http://www.igigroup.com/ 7. http://www.pofto.com/ 8. http://www.igigroup.com/ 9. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 10. mailto:pof2012usa@gmail.com This message was sent to computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from: Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization | list(a)igigroup.com | IGI Group | PO Box 35880 | Brighton, MA 02135 Manage Your Subscription: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=36158000&l=29400&s=16FD&m=4…

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CFP: ACM WiSec '17 -- deadline March 20!
by Prof. Mauro Conti 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks ACM WiSec '17 Boston, USA July 18th - 20th 2017 http://wisec2017.ccs.neu.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract registration/Paper submission: March 20, 2017 (11:59:59 PM EDT) Notification to authors: April 24, 2017 Poster and demo proposal submission: May 17, 2017 Notification to poster/demo presenters: May 19, 2017 Camera-ready version: May 29, 2017 CONFERENCE SCOPE: ACM WiSec is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, cryptography, and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications such as Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security & privacy for smart devices (e.g., smartphones) * Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity * Secure localization and location privacy * Cellular network fraud and security * Jamming attacks and defenses * Key management (agreement or distribution) for wireless or mobile systems * Information-theoretic security schemes for wireless systems * Theoretical and formal approaches for wireless and mobile security * Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security * NFC and smart payment applications * Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems * Wireless or mobile security for emerging applications (e.g, privacy in health, automotive, avionics, smart grid, or IoT applications) * Physical tracking security and privacy * Usable mobile security and privacy * Economics of mobile security and privacy * Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) security * Mobile malware and platform security * Security for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access systems * Security protocols for wireless networking The proceedings of ACM WiSec, sponsored by SIGSAC, will be published by the ACM. FULL AND SHORT PAPERS: Full paper submissions to ACM WiSec 2017 can be up to 10 pages in the ACM conference style excluding the bibliography and well marked appendices, and up to 12 pages in total. ACM WiSec also encourages the submission of short papers with a length of up to 6 pages, which describe mature work of a more succinct nature. All papers must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website. *** New at WiSec 2017 *** OPINION PAPERS: ACM WiSec 2017 invites papers (ACM conference style, up to 3 pages excluding references) that present personal perspectives on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks. Opinion papers could also criticize previous research or research directions, as well as highlight possible promising research directions. The opinions expressed in these papers are expected to be anyway corroborated by theoretical foundations, experiments, or experiences. Like the regular papers, the opinion papers will be reviewed by the WiSec Technical Program Committee. The selected opinion papers will be a part of the WiSec technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Opinion papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must have the prefix "Opinion:". *** New at WiSec 2017 *** WiSec REPRODUCIBILITY LABEL: This year WiSec is pioneering a process to support greater reproducibility in mobile and wireless security experimental research. The goal of this process is to increase the impact of mobile and wireless research, enable dissemination of research results, sharing of code and experiments set-ups, and to enable the research community to build on prior experimental results. Towards this goal, Wisec is introducing a reproducibility label to recognize papers whose results were reproduced by an independent group of researchers. Authors of accepted papers, can participate in this voluntary process by submitting their experiments following the reproducibility evaluation instructions. Authors are encouraged to plan ahead when running their experiments to minimize the overhead of applying for this label. POSTERS AND DEMOS: WiSec also solicits submission of posters and demos. ORGANIZATION: General Chair: * Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Program Chairs: * Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy * Sneha Kumar Kasera, University of Utah, USA Steering Committee: * Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (chair) * William Enck, North Carolina State University * Ivan Martinovic, Oxford University, UK * Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University, USA * Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany * Patrick Traynor, University of Florida, USA -- Prof. Mauro Conti, PhD Head of SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group EU Marie Curie Fellow - IEEE Senior Member Associate Editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE COMST Address : University of Padua - Department of Mathematics Via Trieste, 63 - 35121, Padua, Italy Room : 528 Phone : +39 049 827 1488 Fax : +39 049 827 1479 Email : conti(a)math.unipd.it Web : http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/ http://spritz.math.unipd.it/

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ACM AsiaCCS 2017 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Prof. Mauro Conti 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

ACM AsiaCCS 2017 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017 April 2-6, 2017, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates http://asiaccs2017.com/ ASIACCS is a major international forum for information security researchers, practitioners, developers and users to explore and exchange the newest cyber security ideas, breakthroughs, findings, techniques, tools and experiences. Besides the main conference, there are 5 specialized workshops: * The 4th ACM ASIA Public-Key Cryptography Workshop (APKC 2017) * ACM Workshop on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (BCC 2017) * 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2017) * 3rd International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (IoTPTS 2017) * The Fifth International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC 2017) We received 359 submissions, a new record in the conference's decade-long history. After the review process concluded, 67 full papers were accepted to be presented at the conference, representing an acceptance rate of about 18%. In addition, 5 short papers and 10 posters/demos were also included in the program. The advanced program is available at the conference web site. http://asiaccs2017.com/program/ In addition to technical presentations, there will be the following keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials. Keynotes ----------------------- * Hardware Trojans and Other Threats against Embedded Systems Prof. Christof Paar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum • Monday April 3, 9:30 * What might it mean for security to be sustainable? Prof. Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge • Monday April 3, 18:30 * Advanced Security Research in the World of IoT Gregory Neal Akers, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems • Tuesday April 4, 9:15 Invited Talks ----------------------- The Malware Menace: How Does It Find Its Way to Our Computers? Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Wednesday April 5, 16:35 CoverUp: Privacy Through “Forced” Participation in Anonymous Communication Networks Srdjan Capkun, ETH, Switzerland • Monday April 3, 13:30 Security and Privacy Challenges for Aviation Networks Ivan Martinovic, Oxford University, UK • Monday April 3, 17:25 The Case for System Command Encryption David Naccache, ENS, France • Tuesday April 4, 11:40 Control-Flow Hijacking: Are We Making Progress? Matthias Payer, Purdue, US • Tuesday April 4, 10:45 Security in Personal Genomics: Lest We Forget Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine, US • Monday April 3, 14:30 Tutorials ----------------------- Remote Attestation – Building trust in things you can’t see N. Asokan and Andrew Paverd, Aalto University, Finland • Wednesday April 5, 13:15 Post-quantum cryptography, an overview Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany • Monday April 3, 15:35 On the Security of PoW-based Blockchains Ghassan Karame (NEC) and Alexandra Dmitrienko (ETH, Switzerland) • Thursday April 6, 9:30 Contact --------------------- For inquiries on conference venue and logistics, please contact general chairs: Ramesh Karri, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA - <rkarri(a)nyu.edu> Ozgur Sinanoglu, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE - <ozgursin(a)nyu.edu> For inquiries on technical program, please contact program chairs: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - <ahmad.sadeghi(a)trust.cased.de> Xun Yi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - <xun.yi(a)rmit.edu.au> Sponsors --------------------- Center for Cyber Security - NYU ABU DHABI Web and Further Information --------------------- http://asiaccs2017.com/ -- Prof. Mauro Conti, PhD Head of SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group EU Marie Curie Fellow - IEEE Senior Member Associate Editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE COMST Address : University of Padua - Department of Mathematics Via Trieste, 63 - 35121, Padua, Italy Room : 528 Phone : +39 049 827 1488 Fax : +39 049 827 1479 Email : conti(a)math.unipd.it Web : http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/ http://spritz.math.unipd.it/

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TUDelft job announcement
by Frances Brazier - TBM 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

The Systems Engineering Group at TUDelft has announced a tenure track Assistant Professor position …. (please also see ... https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUD/vacancy/39004/lang/en/ 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<http://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<http://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<mailto:F.M.Brazier@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<mailto:vacature-tbm@tudelft.nl>. When applying for this position, pl

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[Deadline extension] WPDM 2017 International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '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 3, 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. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 3, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 21, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: -------May 03, 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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[CFP] Workshop on Underwater Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Ad Hoc Networks, Niagara Falls, Canada, September 28-29, 2017.
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------- ======================================================================== Call for Papers 9th EAI International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, Workshop on Underwater Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Ad Hoc Networks http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/cf-workshops Niagara Falls, Canada, September 28-29, 2017 Springer Proceedings ** Submission Deadline: 15 May 2017 ** ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 * Acceptance Notification: June 12, 2017 * Camera Ready Version: June 30, 2017 ======================================================================== Scope: Underwater autonomous vehicle and sensor ad hoc networks imply the deployment of elements over large and remote areas. Multiple sensing nodes produce information, e.g., seabed or vertical line hydrophone arrays, magnetometers, moored or surface-float suspended, and mobile autonomous vehicles. The network elements operate strategically throughout areas of interest. They need to communicate with each other, to collect and route data to fusion centres or for control purposes. Underwater conditions rule out the extensive use of conventional electromagnetic and cabling communications. Wireless acoustic communication networks are therefore required. Topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to): * Modem and signalling protocol analysis, design and implementation * Channel modelling and simulation * Communication techniques and protocols (physical, data link and network) * Medium access control * Experimental results * Routing algorithms * Topology control * Network management * Detection, localization, classification and tracking of objects of interest in the underwater environment * Model of serviceable coverage ranges * Data trustworthiness and data provenance * Detection of counterfeit sensor outputs ======================================================================== Highlights: The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. Accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: EI, ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings at Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Accepted Authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to Special Issue in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. ======================================================================== Submission guidelines: Papers should be submitted via Confy system, using the following link: http://confy.eai.eu/#conftrack-overview/conf/52338/cid/52338 Please follow instructions on initial submission (available at http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/initial-submission) and in author's kit (available at http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/authors-kit) when submitting your paper. ======================================================================== Chairs: * Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, CANADA * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Paris-Saclay University, FRANCE ======================================= FURTHER INFORMATION ======================================= Additional information available at: http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/cf-workshops

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16 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, The deadline for paper submission to IEEE ICCI'CC’17 (16th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing) has been extended to April 1, 2017 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-17) Special session proposals and short papers are welcome. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'17 will be published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Extended versions of selected papers will be published in EI or SCI indexed journals. Full papers are expected to be around 6-10 pages in IEEE double column format. Short papers (4-5 pages) that report industrial experience, case studies, work in progress, or graduate students’ research are also welcome. Paper submission site is at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc17 . We look forward to meeting you at University of Oxford during July 26-28, 2017. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'17 Co-Chairs

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CILC 2017: Preliminary Call For Papers
by Dario Della Monica 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

We are happy to announce the following event. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it) Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. We invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ Papers accepted for presentation at the conference (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017(a)easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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Fully funded PhD studentship / scholarship at Univ of Birmingham, UK
by Xin Yao 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

FULLY FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP at the University of Birmingham, UK http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/PhDAdvert.html RPOJECT: Experience-based Optimisation This project aims at improving the efficiency of optimisation processes for problems inspired by industrial application scenarios. The key research issues include the conservation, abstraction and modelling of experience gained from optimising one problem instance and the smart integration of such experience/knowledge in solving related problem instances. In this project, novel algorithms and techniques will be designed that will become more and more effective as they solve more and more problem instances. The key research challenges include: the representation of experience; the mapping/transfer of the problem-solving experience across problem instances; the incorporation of transferred experience into solving the current problem instance at hand. FUNDING: The PhD studentship is for three-years, covering tuition fees and GBP14,553 per year tax-free living stipends. Additional funding is available for conference travels and research collaborations with industry. RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT: The University of Birmingham has a long tradition of supporting outstanding PhD students in natural computation. Our former PhD students have won prestigious IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awards (twice), CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner-up), and highly competitive Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, EPSRC Theoretical Computer Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, etc. APPLICATION DEADLINE AND EXPECTED STARTING DATE: The PhD studentship is available immediately. This position will remain open until it is filled. CANDIDATES: The successful applicant must have at least a 2.1 or above degree in computer science or a closely related field (or a Distinction at the MSc level). We do consider outstanding applicants from mathematics, physics and engineering as long as they have sufficient computer science background. Previous research experience is an advantage, but not essential. Excellence is our top priority. Both EU and overseas applicants are welcome. HOW TO APPLY: Only online applications will be considered. For further details of how to apply, please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate-research/ and follow the instructions and links there. CONTACT PERSON FOR RESEARCH ISSUES: Prof. Xin Yao: x.yao(a)cs.bham.ac.uk.

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '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: July 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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[ASONAM 2017] Call for Research Papers
by Abraham Diebo 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining ASONAM 2017 Sydney, Australia 31 July -03 August 2017 http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca Call for Papers The study of social networks originated in the social science, anthropology, and business communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly; the development of advanced techniques for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the internet, the social web, and other large-scale, socio-technical infrastructures, which are widely analyzed using graph theory, statistics, and data mining and machine learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, and community formation and evolution. These trends have led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics, homeland security, and business. The international conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017) will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue that will bring together practitioners and researchers from a variety of SNAM fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices. ASONAM 2017 is intended to address important aspects with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works reporting original and unpublished research results on social network analysis and mining along with their application to real life situations. More specialized topics within ASONAM 2017 include, but are not limited to: - Accuracy of network data at scale - Analysis of covert networks, Dark Web - Anomaly detection in social network evolution - Application of social network analysis and mining - Community discovery and analysis in large scale online/offline social networks - Computational simulations and modeling - Crowd sourcing of network data generation and collection - Cyber anthropology - Data models for social networks and social media - Economics of transactions in networks - Ethics, privacy and security with network data collection and analysis - Evolution of communities/patterns on the Web and in large organizations - Impact of social networks on recommendations systems - Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization - Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities - Information acquisition and establishment of social relations - Information diffusion - Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis - Migration between communities - Misbehavior detection in communities - Multi-actor/multiple-relationship networks - Network formation and evolution - Network visualization - Open source intelligence - Pattern presentation for end-users and experts - Personalization for search and for social interaction - Political impact of social network discovery - Privacy and security of social networks - Scalability of social networking/search algorithms - Social and cultural anthropology - Social geography and spatial networks - Statistical modeling of large networks - Trust in networks To fully embrace the fast-growing and vigorously dynamic trend of social networks and applications, ASONAM 2017 is eager to consider any breakthroughs in social network analysis and mining in the broadest possible sense. General areas of interest to ASONAM 2017 include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine. Submission The papers will be reviewed and assessed by the program committee. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a length of 8 pages using the IEEE two-column template. We solicit also short paper with a maximum length of 4 pages. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), and abstract on the first page. EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/co nferences/?conf=asonam2017 Papers will be accepted for the conference based on the reviewers' comments on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. A Best Paper Award ceremony will be organized at the banquet. If the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at least one author registers as a full conference participant. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ASONAM 2017 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE eXplore, and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for El indexing through INSPEC by the IEEE. If you have any questions on ASONAM 2017, please send email to asonam2017 (AT) gmail (dot) com. Key Dates Paper submission deadline March 17, 2017 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11) Notification of acceptance May 12, 2017 Camera-ready papers due June 23, 2017 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11) Conference events 31 July - 03 August, 2017

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CFP: IFIP WMNC 2017, Sept. 25-27, 2017. Valencia (Spain)
by Sandra Sendra 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to forward this CFPs to your friends & email lists. ================================================ The 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, September 25-27, 2017, Valencia (Spain) -- WMNC 2017: http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 1st, 2017 SUBMISSION LINK: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21553 =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================= The 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference will be held in Valencia, Spain from September 25 to September 27, 2016. WMNC 2017 provides a forum for discussion for researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and mobile computing. WMNC combines PWC (Personal Wireless Communications conference), MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks conference), and WSAN (Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks conference) into one event. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEEXplore. Authors of papers of special merit will be invited to send their extended versions to a Special Issue organized for this purpose in International Journals indexed in ISI Thomson and Scopus databases. Network Protocols and Algorithms (S.I.: Special Issue on Wireless and Mobile Networking) Link: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/npa Indexed is several Databases, incluided in DBLP. Sensors (S.I.: Special Issue on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms for Sensor Networks) Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Smart_Communication_Prot… Indexed in ISI Thomson and several Databases. I.F.: 2.033 (2015). Q1 TOPICS ================================================= Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages, double column) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at Authors Guidelines (http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/sub_gui.html) . WMNC 2017 includes three tacks focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics: Track 1: Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks 5G Networks, Wireless technologies design and evaluation, Handoff management, Location management, Resource management, Network and service management and control, Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices, Cognitive radio networking, Device, to, device communications, Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks, Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks, Network security solutions and protocols, Subscriber privacy, Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Traffic and network modeling, Analysis, and simulation in wireless/mobile networks, Virtualized and cloud, based wireless. Track 2: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks Cyber-Physical, Systems, Machine to Machine communications (M2M), Communication Technologies for the IoT, Ad-Hoc networking, Delay tolerant networking, Cross, layer design and optimization, In-network processing and aggregation of information, Energy, efficient protocols and power management, Localization and tracking, Middleware for WSN and M2M, Self, organization and reconfiguration, Security for WSN and M2M, Multimedia communications in WSN, Vehicular networks, Robots as actor networks, Nano networks, Fog Networking. Track 3: Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks Wireless multimedia networking, Mobile cloud computing and applications, Multicasting and broadcasting issues, Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments, Digital radio and TV broadcasting, Mobile computing, Protocols and platforms for convergence, QoS and QoE in wireless/mobile networks, Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection, Wireless Internet applications, ITS (Intelligent transportation systems), Infotainment, pervasive systems, RFID, Location, based services, Mobile services, Content management and distribution, Context, aware wireless multimedia applications, Context-aware services, Information centric networking, Social networking. WMNC'2017 technical program committee invites authors to submit manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. The following contributions are welcome: (i) Research papers reporting on new trends and developments, (ii) Application papers reporting on academia developments of technologies, products, services, systems and solutions, (iii) Performance evaluation and experimentation papers, (iv) Industry practice papers. PAPER SUBMISSION ================================================= Submissions will be judged based on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Authors can submit original technical papers, using the EDAS link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21553 The submission system will present an entry form to allow you to enter the paper title, abstract text, author contact information and subject areas. For each paper, it is requested to enter ONE conference track. ALL authors must be entered in the EDAS submission form, and must appear in the same order in which the authors appear on the PDF. IMPORTANT DATES ================================================= Full paper registration: April 24, 2017 Full paper submission: May 1, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2017 Camera ready submission: July 1, 2017 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================= General Chair: Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Program Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Special Issue Chair: Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Keynote Speaker & Tutorial Chair: Francisco Falcone, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain Workshops Chair: Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunica��es, UBI, Portugal Industry Chair: Antonio Sanchez, Telefonica, Spain Web Chair: Alejandro Canovas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Publicity Chairs: Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain Sofiane Hamrioui, University of Haute Alsace, France Submission Chairs: Jose M. Jimenez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Lorena Parra, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Local Organization: Juan R. Diaz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Oscar Romero, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================= Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Edmundo Monteiro, Coimbra University, Portugal George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Giuseppe Bianchi, Universita degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata, Italy Guy Pujolle, Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris 6, France Jozef Wozniak (SC Chair), Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Mario Gerla, UCLA Computer Science Department, US Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University, Czehc Republic Zoubir Mammeri, Paul Sabatier University, France Hannes Frey, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France For more information, visit the conference website: http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/ =================================================

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IEEE Big Data 2017 CFP
by CFP Conference 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

*Call for Papers* *2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)* http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. · The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. · The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2017 will offer* student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Journal Publication * A set of about 10 papers will be selected for a fast-track review and then published at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 9, 2016 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2017 Conference: Dec 11-14, 2017 *PC Co-Chairs* Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research, USA *Industry and Government Co-Chairs:* Raghunath Nambiar, CISCO, USA Ghosh Rumi, BOSCH, USA Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, IncUSA Hui Zang, Huawei Research, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDMyIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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GECCO 2017 Workshop "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology"
by José Santos Reyes 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

GECCO 2017 Workshop “ Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology” http://eccsb2017.irlab.org/ In the last two decades, many computer scientists in Artificial Intelligence have made significant contributions to modeling biological systems as a means of understanding the molecular basis of mechanisms in the healthy and diseased cell. The field of computational biology includes the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems. The focus of this workshop is the use of nature-inspired approaches to central problems in computational biology, including optimization methods under the umbrella of evolutionary computation. Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Genome and sequence analysis with nature-inspired approaches. * Computational systems biology. * Biological network modeling and analysis. * Use of artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems in the modeling of biological problems. * Study and analysis of properties of biological systems like self-organization, self-assembled systems, emergent behavior or morphogenesis. * Hybrid approaches and memetic algorithms in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Multi-objective approaches in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Use of natural and evolutionary computation algorithms in protein structure classification and prediction (secondary and tertiary). * Mapping of protein and peptide energy landscapes. * Modeling of temporal folding of proteins. * Protein design. * Protein-ligand and protein-protein docking. * Stability and dynamics of biomolecular systems. * Applications in atomic clusters: Water clusters, Leonard Jones clusters, metal clusters, etc. * Applications in cellular systems: micelle, single organisms, bacterial cells, etc. * Applications in stem cell differentiation and development, lineage programming and cell fates. * Evolutionary search strategies to assist cryo-electron microscopy and other experimental techniques in model building. * Surrogate models and stochastic approximations of computationally expensive fitness functions of biomolecular systems. Dates : Paper submission deadline: April 15 (strict deadline) Decision notification: April 20 Camera ready articles due: April 24 GECCO 2017 Conference: July 15th-19th 2017, Berlin. Workshop organizers: José Santos (University of A Coruña, Spain), santos(a)udc.es Julia Handl (University of Manchester, UK), j.handl(a)manchester.ac.uk Amarda Shehu (George Mason University, USA), amarda@ cs.gmu.edu Mostafa Ellabaan (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), mostafa.mhashim(a)gmail.com

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Call for Papers - CNSM 2017 - 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Choi, Baek-Young 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] ************************************************************************************* CNSM 2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management 26 - 30 November 2017, Tokyo, Japan http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2017/ ************************************************************************************* The 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2017 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 12, 2017 Rebuttal Phase: Aug. 6-12, 2017 Acceptance Notification: Aug. 27, 2017 Camera Ready due: Oct. 7, 2017 Conference: Nov. 26 ? 30, 2017 TOPICS OF INTEREST Network Management - Software-defined networks - Virtual networks - Overlay networks - Wireless networks and cellular networks - Wireless sensor networks - Internet of Things networks - Information-centric networks - Enterprise networks and campus networks - Data center networks - Optical networks - IP networks - Home networks - Access networks - SCADA networks and distributed control systems - Smart Cities and Smart Grids Management Paradigms - Centralized management - Distributed management - Hierarchical management - Federated management - Autonomic and cognitive management - Policy-based management - Pro-active management - Energy-aware management - Quality of experience-centric management Service Management - Cloud computing services - Content delivery services - Multimedia services - Internet connectivity and Internet access - Internet of Things services - Security services - Context-aware services - Information technology services Business Management - Economic aspects - Multi-stakeholder aspects - Service level agreements - Lifecycle aspects - Process and workflow aspects - Legal perspective - Regulatory perspective - Privacy aspects Functional Areas - Deployment management - Fault management - Configuration management - Accounting management - Performance management - Security management Management Technologies - Network function virtualization - Software-defined networking - Orchestration - Cloud computing and cloud storage - Communication protocols - Middleware - Data models, information models semantic models - Operations support systems and business support systems - Information visualization Methods - Mathematical optimization - Control theory - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory - Machine learning - Evolutionary algorithms - Economic theory and game theory - Mathematical logic and automated reasoning - Data mining and (big) data analysis - Monitoring and measurements - Computer simulation experiments - Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation - Field trials GENERAL CO-CHAIRS - Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda Univ., Japan - Yoshiaki Kiriha, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan VICE CHAIR - Shingo Ata, Osaka City Univ., Japan TPC CO-CHAIRS - Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA - Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Tokushima Univ., Japan - Steven Latré, Univ. of Antwerp - imec, Belgium

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CFP: International Conference on Intelligent, Secure and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments - Springer
by itraore 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

**ISDDC 2017 *International Conference onIntelligent,Secure andDependable Systems inDistributed andCloud Environments, **October 25-27, 2017*, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Proceedings published in Springer LNCS *(Submissions due June 10 2017)* This conference solicits papers addressing issues related to the design, analysis, and implementation, of dependable and secure infrastructures, systems, architectures, algorithms, and protocols that deal with network computing, mobile/ubiquitous systems, cloud systems, and IoT systems. We invite papers on the following topics: - Intelligent secure mobile systems - Modern and Emerging Authentication Paradigms - Digital Fraud detection, social engineering and insider threats - Cyber threat intelligence - Privacy, Security and Trust for Cloud, Mobile, and Internet-of-Things security - Digital forensics, Intrusion Detection, and Biometrics - Emerging Threats, Botnet and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection and control - Dependable Cluster/cloud/ubiquitous computing and grid Computing for mobile applications - Dependable Distributed data mining for mobile applications - Secure Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery - Applications such as cooperative mobile robots, opportunistic networks - Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security - Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems - Wireless or mobile security for emerging applications - Security protocols for wireless networking - Mobile malware and platform security - Distributed Systems Security - Embedded Systems Security - Security architectures for cloud computing - Security protocols for cloud computing - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Identity management for cloud services - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Trust models for cloud services - Security and Privacy of the Internet of Things - Hardware security - Secure computer architectures - Embedded systems security - Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware - Mobile systems security - Distributed systems security - Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention for mobile, cloud and IOT platforms ** For more information, please visit http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/ISDDC17/.

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TNSM Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management (Submissions due: 3 May 2017)
by Yixin Diao 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '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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