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CfDS: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

==== Call For Doctoral Symposium Submissions ==== Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*) is the umbrella for two closely related but independent conferences, the International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) and the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). The FAS* Doctoral Symposium provides an international forum for PhD students working in research areas addressed by FAS*. In this forum, PhD students will get unique opportunities to subject their research to the scrutiny of external experts, gain experience in the presentation of research, connect to peers and experts addressing similar problems, and get advice from a panel of internationally leading researchers. Different from the technical tracks of the conference, the FAS* Doctoral Symposium focuses on the specific needs of young researchers at the beginning of their career. As such, emphasis will be placed on a critical and constructive feedback that shall help participants to successfully conclude their PhD studies. PhD students working in any area addressed by the FAS* conferences are invited to submit a Doctoral Symposium paper in which they describe the key motivation and objectives of their research project, and reflect on the methodology as well as the current status of their PhD studies. Complementing the thematic focus of FAS*, we particularly solicit contributions in the following areas: - Engineering of self-organizing and self-adaptive systems - Complex cyber-physical and socio-technical systems - Self-* approaches in massive-scale decentralized systems - Application of self-* in robotics and spatial computing - Autonomic and cloud computing - Scalable and applied machine learning / data mining ==== Submission Instructions ==== Submissions should have a length of max. two pages (not including references) and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Authors should submit their papers using the EasyChair installation of the main conference, which is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017 Please note that only single-author submissions are accepted, which focus on the topic of the doctoral work. The name of the supervisor should be clearly marked below the author’s name in the paper. Submissions should further adhere to the following structure: - Motivation: motivate the open problem that you want to address and briefly summarize existing approaches along with their deficiencies. - Objectives: describe the key objectives of your PhD project and argue how achieving them will solve the open problem outlined in the motivation. - Methodology: outline what methodology you will adopt to meet the objectives of your project. Clearly state on what existing works your work will build. - Research Plan: describe what preliminary results – if any – you have already achieved and summarize your plans for future work. Please add a rough schedule that allows to judge whether your research plan is feasible. Authors of accepted papers shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the paper, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Doctoral Symposium papers will be advertised in the final program, and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the SASO proceedings. Papers will also be made available in the IEEE Digital Library. ==== Review Process==== Each submission will be reviewed by at least two Doctoral Symposium experts that cover the different areas of interest of the conference. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance, the motivation and quality of the proposed research, as well as the suitability of the chosen methodology. Authors of accepted papers will have different opportunities to present their project at the conference. Besides a full presentation during the PhD Symposium session, an “Elevator Pitch Session” will be organized during the main conference, where authors get the chance to briefly showcase their research. In addition, the Best Doctoral Symposium paper will be selected and the award will be presented during the main conference. Finally, selected authors will have the additional chance to present their work via a poster in the poster session of the main conference. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 10, 2017 Notifications due: July 1, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference date: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Contact Information ==== Any inquiries related to the Doctoral Symposium should be directed to: Jean Botev (jean.botev(a)uni.lu) https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html

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[DBSec 2017] Call For Papers - Submission deadline approaching (March 6, 2017)
by Fengjun Li 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************ 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017, http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu **************************************************************************** ************ DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final a version of the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted Papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 6, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 6, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu.

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[MobiSPC17] CFP 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Aurelia T. Williams, Norfolk State University, USA Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017)
by Shao Ying Zhu 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Call for Papers Second IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017) (website: http://sns2017.eu/) in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017) July 3-7, 2017 Bologna, Italy Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies are radically changing telecommunication networks. NFV virtualizes network services to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware which aids resource management, provides faster service enablement and lowers OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes thereby offering improved programmability, ease of deployment, management, reduced costs, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic. But how does this widespread adoption of NVF-SDN impact on network security, especially with an increased attack surface implied by virtualization? In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks, requirements and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide methods and approaches to assure security and mitigate threats in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: * Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies * Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security * Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks * Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV * Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems * Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions * 5G security architecture, trust and confidence * Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN * Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network * Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT * Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing * Risk and compliance issues in SDN * Security architectures for SDN * Security standards for SDN * Security of SDN data plane * Security of SDN control plane * Security of SDN application plane * Security of routing in SDN * Security as a service for SDN Important Dates * Paper Submission: March 10, 2017 * Notification of Acceptance: April 18, 2017 * Camera Ready: May 3, 2017 Paper Submission Guideline The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via JEMS at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2763. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Co-Chairs * Dr. Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, UK * Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France * Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, UK * Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece Technical Program Committee * Michail-Alexandros Kourtis - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Gergely Biczók - Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Roberto Bifulco - NEC Labs Europe, Germany * Carolina Canales - Ericsson, Spain * Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna * Augusto Ciuffoletti - University of Pisa, Italy * Miguel Angel Garcia - Ericsson, Spain * Ludovic Jacquin - Hewlett Packard Labs, UK * Harilaos Koumaras - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Jianxin Li-Beihang University, China * Antonios Litke - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain * Alan Miller - University of St Andrews, UK * Nikolaos Papadakis - Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany * Sandra Scott-Hayward - Queen's University Belfast, UK * Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui - i2CAT, Spain * George Xilouris - NCSR Demokritos, Greece * Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany Contact Shao Ying Zhu <s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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[CFP] PACMA 2017 Deadline extended to March 15th
by Robertas Damaševičius 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

PACMA 2017 : Physiological and Affective Computing: Methods and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://www.iccsa.org/ When Jul 3, 2017 - Jul 6, 2017 Where Trieste, Italy Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2017 Notification Due Apr 28, 2017 Final Version Due May 15, 2017 Call For Papers Workshop on Physiological and Affective Computing: Methods and Applications (PACMA‘2017) will be held at the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2017) July 3 - 6, 2017 in Trieste, Italy. ICCSA 2017 is the next event in a series of highly successful conferences previously held in Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013) and Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012). SCOPE Physiological interaction goes beyond the physical interfaces that a computer has, to use bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical signals of a human body, captured by hardware sensors, for novel advanced forms of human-computer interaction. A closely related concept is Affective computing, study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. Physiological and Affective Computing research combines engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computational intelligence, and more. TOPICS Include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal user interfaces - Assisted Living Environments - Advanced driver assistance systems - Computational Intelligence methods - Brain Computer Interface - Gaze and gesture tracking - Sentiment analysis - Affect based control - Speech, gait and facial affect recognition - Human biometrics for IT security - Applications for Robotics, interactive learning, gaming, virtual reality, smart environments, healthcare, assistive living, industrial automation, etc. PUBLICATION Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (edited by Springer). Submission: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py ORGANIZERS Robertas Damaševičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Christian Napoli, University of Catania, Italy Marcin Wozniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland CONFERENCE CONTACTS Web site: http://www.iccsa.org/

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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 01 Mar '17

01 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 11, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 18, 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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REV-A 2017 CFP
by Luiz DeRose 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

(Apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP. Please do forward it to interested colleagues.) -------------------- REV-A 2017 CFP --------------------- Re-Emergence of Vector Architectures Workshop - https://rev-a.github.io/ To be held in Conjunction with the IEEE Cluster 2017 September 5, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Paper submission: REV-A Submission<https://easychair.org/conferences/overview.cgi?a=13663824> Papers due: July 09, 2017 The commoditization of high performance computing to a broader range of applications coupled with the reduction in performance improvement from traditional scaling technologies has led to a broad interest in a number of new compute acceleration technologies from GPGPUs to CGRAs and FPGAs. Meanwhile, SIMD widths have been widening to try to keep up with computational demand and general purpose architectures have started incorporating features from the vector architectures that used to dominate high performance computing. From IBM's Vector Media eXtension (VMX) to NEC's SX architecture to Intel's Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX) to ARM's recently announced Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) -- all of the major general purpose architectures seem to have embraced a return to vector based functionality. Supporting these hardware developments there are a number of features being proposed for incorporation into modern programming models and languages in order to support the vector additions as well as restructuring memory access in order to feed the computational pipelines. Meanwhile application developers have been hard at work trying to refactor code to take advantage of wider vector units and more complicated memory hierarchies. Tools and techniques for developing for these new vector architectures are still evolving, particularly on emerging languages and runtimes. The REV-A 2017 workshop will be a full-day meeting to be held at the IEEE Cluster 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on all aspects of vector architectures, programming models, programming frameworks, and applications. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Programming framework * Programming model and language explorations * Compilation and optimization including: o algorithmic improvements o code optimization * Performance Analysis and Debugging Tools * Performance Metrics and Evaluations * Libraries and run-time systems * Design, generation, verification and validation of representative applications * Case-studies of representative applications * Innovative applications for vector architectures * Hardware studies and micro-architectural implementation tradeoffs The REV-A workshop proceedings will be published along with the IEEE Cluster Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should follow the IEEE Xplore format for publication: not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal. Accepted papers will have a page limit of 8 pages, and authors can purchase an additional 2 pages, for a total of 10 pages maximum. Important Dates: Papers due: July 09, 2017 Author notification: August 11, 2017 Camera-ready final papers due: August 25, 2017 REV-A Workshop: September 05, 2017 Workshop Chairs: Luiz DeRose Cray Inc. Eric Van Hensbergen ARM Research Program Committee: David Abramson University of Queensland Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mootaz N. Elnozahy KAUST Roger Espasa SemiDynamics Michael Garland NVIDIA Ian Karlin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory David Lilja University of Minnesota Sally McKee Chalmers University of Technology Sanyam Mehta Cray Inc. Hiroshi Nakashima Kyoto University Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University Mitsuhisa Sato Riken Sunil Shrestha Cray Inc. Mateo Valero Barcelona Supercomputing Center / UPC Jeffrey Vetter Oak Ridge National Laboratory Felix Wolf TU Darmstadt Pen-Chung Yew University of Minnesota

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[IEEE ICCI*CC'17:] IEEE ICCI*CC'17: Deadline Extended to April 1 @Oxford Univ.
by Yingxu Wang 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Dear Colleagues, Upon numerous requests 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 in the areas of computational intelligence, cognitive informatics, cognitive computing, neurocomputation, cognitive machine learning, brain-inspired systems 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 _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of ieeeicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: ieeeicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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Call for Papers - 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017)
by Giovanni Livraga 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- October 9-11, 2017 http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/ IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cyber security researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The 5th IEEE CNS will be held in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada from October 9, 2017 to October 11, 2017. Las Vegas, which in Spanish means ''The Meadows,'' is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Southern Nevada. The city is one of the top three leading destinations in the U.S. for conventions, business and meetings. It is also internationally renowned for its entertainment industry - gambling, shopping, fine dining and nightlife. Las Vegas is well serviced by major domestic and international airlines, with direct flights from major U.S. Cities as well as major cities in Europe and worldwide. The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research results in all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Anonymity and privacy technologies - Attacks and defenses - Computer and network forensics - Cyber deterrence strategies - Game-theoretic security technologies - High-availability communication systems - Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems - Information-theoretic security - Intrusion detection, prevention, and response - Key management, public key infrastructures, certification, and revocation - Location privacy - Malware detection and mitigation - Novel authentication technologies - Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies - Security and privacy for big data - Security and privacy for data and network outsourcing services - Security and privacy for mobile and wearable devices - Security and privacy in cellular networks - Security and privacy in cloud and edge computing - Security and privacy in crowdsourcing - Security and privacy in emerging wireless technologies (dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, millimeter wave communications, MIMO systems, etc.) - Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Security and privacy in single/multi-hop wireless networks: WiFi, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, body-area networks, disruption/delay tolerant networks, etc. - Security and privacy in smart and connected health - Security and privacy in smart cities, Internet of Things, and RFID systems - Security and privacy in social networks - Novel security metrics and models - Security for critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems, etc.) - Security for deep/machine learning applications in communications systems - Security for future Internet architectures and designs - Security for software-defined and data center networks - Secure routing and network management - Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy - Traffic analysis - Usable security and privacy - Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Manuscript submissions should be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) only. The page limit is 9 pages. Font size should be no smaller than 10 points. When you upload your PDF, EDAS should report the margins are no less than 0.625x0.625x1x0.75 with a text region no more than 7.25 inches x 9.25 inches on a standard US Letter document (8.5 inches x 11 inches). The minimum line spacing should be 10pt. More detailed rules on margins can be found in the conference website, and these rules will be automatically enforced by EDAS. PLEASE NOTE: Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the IEEE CNS 2017 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for concrete instructions and submissions rules and regulations and for author requirements of accepted authors. For more detailed information about the conference, please visit the conference website: http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 14, 2017 - Notification date: June 23, 2017 - Final paper: July 7, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS - Moti Yung, Snapchat and Columbia University, USA - Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by res.mb.conference 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposal
by CFP Conference 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

*IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years: The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. 1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. 2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries. 3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries. 4. 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 research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2017 http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* May 20, 2017 Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs June 5, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 20 , 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, Please do not change the camera-ready date) *Oct 10, 2017:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Nov 1, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors *Nov 15, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers *Dec 11-14 2017:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Proposal Submission:* https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Email: cuzzocrea(a)si.dimes.unical.it Prof. Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Email: jtang02(a)syr.edu Prof. Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Email: toyoda(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDE3IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals: IEEE ISPA'17
by Peter Mueller 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

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

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LTA 2017 : 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications
by Robertas Damaševičius 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

LTA 2017 : 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/lta When Sep 4, 2017 - Sep 7, 2017 Where Prague, Czech Republic Submission Deadline May 10, 2017 Notification Due Jun 14, 2017 Final Version Due Jun 28, 2017 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> NLP <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=NLP> text mining <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=text%20mining> computational linguistics <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=computational%20linguistics> natural language processing <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=natural%20language%20processing> Call For Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications(LTA'2017) is to be held at Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 September, 2017. *Scope * Development of new technologies and various intelligent systems creates new possibilities for intelligent data processing. Natural Language Processing (NLP) addresses problems of automated understanding, processing and generation of natural human languages. LTA workshop provides a venue for presenting innovative research in NLP related, but not restricted, to: computational and mathematical modeling, analysis and processing of any forms (spoken, handwritten or text) of human language and various applications in decision support systems. The LTA workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers and professionals working in the domain of NLP to discuss present and future challenges as well as potential collaboration for future progress in the field of NLP. *Topics * The submitted papers shall cover research and developments in all NLP aspects, such as (however this list is not exhaustive): - computational intelligence methods applied to language & text processing - text analysis - language networks - text classification - document clustering - various forms of text recognition - machine translation - intelligent text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods - authorship identification and verification - author profiling - plagiarism detection - knowledge extraction and retrieval from text and natural language structures - multi-modal and natural language interfaces - sentiment analysis - language-oriented applications and tools - NLP applications in education - language networks, resources and corpora *Paper submission * Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file). The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. *Publication * Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be invited to Information Technology and Control journal (IF: 0.623). *CONFERENCE CONTACTS * Web site: https://fedcsis.org/

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CFP: The 3rd Int. Conf. on Big Data Innovation and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017)
by Innovate-Data 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017), IEEE CS-TCI. 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data 2017 conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Innovations in big data - Data models and architectures - Applications of big data - Big data engineering and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee General Chair Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Program Co-Chairs Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Lay Ki Soon, Multimedia University, Malaysia International Liaison Chair Ruben Casado, Accenture Digital, Madrid, Spain Publicity Chair Bilan Zhu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: 14th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017)
by MobiWIS Conference 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2017) (Springer, LNCS) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.mobiwis.org/2017/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and services. The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction. Conference Topics: - Smart and intelligent systems - Mobile software systems - Adaptive approaches for mobile computing - Middleware/SOA for mobile systems - Context- and location-aware services - Pervasive and ubiquitous applications - Data management in the mobile Web - Mobile cloud services - Mobile Web of Things - Mobile Web security, trust and privacy - Mobile networks, protocols and applications - Mobile commerce and business services - HCI in Mobile Applications and Socially Influencing Systems Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Submission Instructions: Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference website. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (tba). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0) Organizing Committee: General Chair Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Co-Chairs Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Local Organising Chair Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Publication Chair Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop Coordinator Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Publicity Chair Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic International Liaison Chair George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24
by GRLMC 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '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 Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training 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. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 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 including 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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SBP-BRiMS'17 -- paper deadline extended
by Donald Adjeroh 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given numerous requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline for the conference. Please see below for the new deadline. SBP-BRiMS 2017 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Abstract Submission : Mar 1 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : Mar 8 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : Mar 27 (Mon), 2017 Final Version Submission : Apr 10 (Mon), 2017 Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival. Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017 Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, including the following: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference) Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night ABOUT SBP-BRiMS: SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing. Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ . CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes * Group interaction and collaboration * Group formation and evolution * Group representation and profiling * Collective action and governance * Cultural patterns & representation * Social conventions, social contexts and processes * Influence process and recognition * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness Behavior Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Methodological Challenges * Mathematical foundations * Verification and validation * Sensitivity analysis * Matching technique or method to research questions * Metrics and evaluation * Methodological innovation * Model federation and integration * Evolutionary computing * Optimization Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Technology and flash crowds * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of health policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Other Applications * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Viral marketing * Reasoning about development aid through social modeling * Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: The conference solicits three categories of papers: Regular papers (max. 10 pages) All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation. Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages) All topics and authors welcome. Published online. Typically a poster presentation. Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages) Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation. Paper Formatting Guideline The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6- 793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal “Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high- profile journal. The submission website will be available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission. PUBLICATION For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches. Tutorial proposal submission: Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the tutorial. * Description of the tutorial topic and structure. * Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the attendees). * Short bio and contact information of the organizers. More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. CHALLENGE: The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted on the conference website. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross- fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. BEST PAPER AWARDS: SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. HOTEL AND LOGISTICS: Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP- BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the STATLER-SBP-BRIMS list, click the following link: https://listserv.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDE0IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2Np…

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CFP - ICA3PP Workshop: PBio 2017 (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in Journal of Computational Biology (IF: 1.537, Q1)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Call for Papers --- ICA3PP Workshop: 5th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (Impact Factor: 1.537, Quartile Q1, ISSN: 1066-5277) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 26, 2017 http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/ https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2017/ https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/workshops.html --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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CfW: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

==== Call for Workshops ==== The FAS* 2017 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conferences SASO 2017 and ICCAC 2017. FAS*W workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems as well as Cloud and Autonomic Computing. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO and ICCAC communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO/ICCAC conference. ==== Important Dates ==== Workshop proposal submission deadline: April 7, 2017* Workshop acceptance notification: April 14, 2017* CfP submission deadline: April 21, 2017 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 7, 2017 Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 21, 2017 Early registration deadline: TBD Camera-ready papers due: July 26, 2017 Workshop notes submission to workshop chairs: July 28, 2017 Workshops dates: September 18 & 22, 2017 * Please submit your workshop proposals as soon as possible (i.e. before April 7)! We will try to decide earlier on workshop acceptance in order to give the organizers more time to solicit papers. ==== FAS*W 2017 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ==== Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: PART 1: - Title of the workshop. - A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conferences. Please specify, which of the two main conferences the workshop assigned to (if any)! - Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. - The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A brief description of the workshop format. - List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations. - List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable). PART 2: The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. - Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. - An indication of the envisaged acceptance rate (if applicable). - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO or ICCAC workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. - All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the FAS*W 2017 Workshop Chairs, via Christopher Frantz, as described below. ==== Selection Criteria ==== The selection of the workshops to be included in the final FAS* 2017 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: - the scientific/technical interest of the topics, - the quality of the proposal, - complementarity with the conference topics, - balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and - the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. ==== Responsibilities of FAS* 2017 Workshop Chairs ==== For all accepted proposals, FAS* 2017 will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshops. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for FAS*. - Arranging for publication of proceedings. ==== Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers ==== Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: - Setting up a web site for the workshop. - Advertising the workshop (and the main FAS* conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. - Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee. - Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. - Writing a 1-page organizers? introduction for the workshop proceedings. Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). - FAS* reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. ==== Submissions and Inquiries ==== Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to: Christopher Frantz (cf(a)christopherfrantz.org) or Jeremy Pitt (j.pitt(a)imperial.ac.uk) https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/committees.html

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CFP Journal Symbolic Computation Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning
by Prof. Tomas Recio 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Please help us disseminating this announcement. Sorry for duplicates. ===================== *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar Journal of Symbolic Computation* https://www.journals. elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation GUEST EDITORS: Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain Zoltán Kovács, The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Austria Tomas Recio, University of Cantabria, Spain IMPORTANT DATES: - submission deadline: September 1, 2017 - notification of acceptance / rejection: February 2, 2018 - final versions: March 30, 2018 SCOPE: Since the last half century, automated deduction in elementary geometry has become one of the most successful achievements in the field of automated reasoning. Along these decades various methods and techniques have been studied and developed for automated proving and discovering of elementary geometry statements. On the other hand, dynamic geometry software systems have emerged, such as Cabri Geometry, C.a.R., Cinderella, DrGeo, GeoGebra, The Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expert, Geometry Expressions or Kig with an ever-increasing presence in mathematics education. Some of them possess a large number of users (over thirty million) all around the world. The merging of these two tools (automatic proving and dynamic geometry) is, thus, a very natural, challenging and promising issue, currently involving logic, symbolic computation, software development, algebraic geometry and mathematics education experts all from over the world. The Special Issue intends to be an opportunity for - presenting the current state of the art concerning the development of automatic proving features on dynamic geometry systems, - discussing the current and potential applications of such features in different contexts, such as CAGD or mathematics education. TOPICS (not restricted to): - Algorithmic aspects: formal, logic and algebraic geometry approaches, constraint solving, invariant and coordinate-free methods, real and complex geometry issues, probabilistic, synthetic approaches, techniques from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics. - Software aspects: Implementation of automated proving methods in dynamic geometry programs, design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed computing, considerations for modern hardware and new devices. User-interface issues, use with systems for digital libraries, courseware, ... - Application aspects: applications to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. Papers should follow the guidelines for JSC submissions (see https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171…) and should be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018) The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: - What is the problem? - Why is the problem important? - What has been done so far on the problem? - What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem? - Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification) - Why is the contribution non-trivial? Make the paper complete (since there is no page limit): - All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed. - All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed. - All the theorems must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed). - All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be illustrated by well-chosen examples. * An international journal, the Journal of Symbolic Computation, founded by Bruno Buchberger in 1985, is directed to mathematicians and computer scientists who have a particular interest in symbolic computation. Automated theorem proving is one of the research areas of interest highlighted in the Journal’s description. The Journal of Symbolic Computation has a 1.030 Impact Factor, according to the last Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (2016).

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

*** Fifth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 21, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by res.mb.conference 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Proposals for Sessions/Workshops/Tutorials: March, 06, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April, 01, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage: https://cd-make.net

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Workshop on Deep Learning
by sara＠dirf.org 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Deep Learning Applications (Co-located with the Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017) Luton, UK August 16-18, 2017 (www.dirf.org/intech) Deep Learning (DL) is an important component of computational intelligence which has the core domain machine learning research in it. It provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, and so on. DL is gaining applications in many domains due to the availability of large amount of data coupled with machine learning algorithms. As the DL applications are on increasing trend a workshop on it will enable to identify the emerging trends in the domain. The proposed workshop will address the below listed but not limited themes. Neural network architectures DL Applications to the Natural Sciences Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Deep Learning for Computer Vision Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Automatic Terminology Extraction Deep Learning of Behaviors Probabilistic Graphical Models Algorithms Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Multi-modal Deep Learning Deep Learning Security Neural Networks From Statistical Decision Theory and Deep Neural Networks Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Deep Learning in the Brain Deep Learning for Sequences Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Deep Learning for Video Games Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Natural Language Understanding Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of many peer reviewed and indexed journals. Important Dates Submission of papers: June 01, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2017 Camera Ready: August 01, 2017 Registration August 01, 2017 Conference: August 16-18, 2017 Organizers Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Engineering and Technology Institute, Mexico Submissions at-http://www.dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ Contact- intech(a)dirf.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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