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CFP- The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
by Francesco Buccafurri 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '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 ****************************************************************************************** *********** 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). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ 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 ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. 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 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, University of Piraeus, Greece 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 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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Last Call: dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track - CfP Due Feb. 3/2017
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- The dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities. The BB-Track invites contributions that discuss pending technological challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on BB thought and knowledge. Some corresponding thoughts have been outlined by scholars in BB Volume (http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319541419) that has been released recently. Moreover, after Vienna, Krems, and Shanghai, BB is comming to the dg.o 2017 in New York! More information regarding dg.o 2017 (18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research) is available on conference's official website (http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/) We're welcoming research papers, works in progress and tutorials that deal with innovation and ideas, which bypass BB and look forward with regard to ICT and governance. All submissions have to be forwarded with the subject "dg'o 17 BB-Track" to both the track chairs: Dr. Alois Paulin, TU Vienna, Austria (alois(a)apaulin.com <mailto:alois@apaulin.com> ) Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Thessaly, Greece (lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> )

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BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10
by GRLMC 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2017 Bari, Italy February 13-17, 2017 Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ******************************************************** --- Regular registration deadline: February 10, 2017 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 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 big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 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, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people 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, 2-3 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: BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute 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 February 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/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: Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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OFC Announces 2017 Technical Program
by OSA 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Advance Registration Deadline: 20 Feb. [1]OFC Registration is Open [2] [3]REGISTER [4]INVITED SPEAKERS [5]HOTEL RESERVATIONS OFC 2017 Technical Program Just Published Online This is your first opportunity to see the entire OFC 2017 technical program online including contributed papers, abstracts and invited speakers. * Browse sessions by type, category or day * Search by author, title, category and more! [6]BROWSE THE PROGRAM [7] Stay up-to-date in advances in the field Over 100 technical sessions, 10 workshops and 15 tutorials feature invited speakers and contributed papers covering hot topics such as integrated photonics, open hardware and software platforms, SDN/NFV, data center interconnects, and much more. Register by 20 February 2017 and save! [8]REGISTER Take advantage of all OFC has to offer. Add a Short Course to your OFC experience. Short Courses are a good way to get clear, concise overviews of important topics in optical communications and networking. You will receive a syllabus with course notes, a valuable take-home reference. Registration fees are required. [9]VIEW SHORT COURSES Make Your Hotel Reservation The best rooms go first so book now to guarantee the best possible hotel experience at the lowest rates! There are many events in town that week so it is more important than ever to reserve your hotel room now through onPeak. It's the most convenient and economical way to make travel arrangements for the event. [10]RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM [11]Image [12]Image [13][14] [15][16] The Optical Society 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, USA 20036 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - References 1. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 2. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 3. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 4. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/ 5. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 6. https://ofc2017.abstractcentral.com/planner.jsp 7. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 8. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 9. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/short-courses/ 10. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 11. https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=1134727 12. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/about/ofc-blog/ 13. http://www.comsoc.org/ 14. http://www.photonicssociety.org/ 15. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ 16. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ This message was sent to computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from: OSA | list(a)igigroup.com | IGI Group, Inc. | PO Box 35880 | Brighton, MA 02135 Unsubscribe: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=36158000&l=29400&s=16FD&m=4…

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[AIS @ CEC 2017] A few days left CfP - AIS: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory
by Mario Pavone 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

* Apologies if you received multiple copies * Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. CALL FOR PAPERS Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/ ais.cec2017(a)gmail.com *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017 *** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System; - Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms; - Novel algorithms and new immune operators; - Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques; - Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and complexity of immune inspired algorithms; - Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques; - Systems & Synthetic Immunology. This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org) * IMPORTANT DATES: paper submission: January 30, 2017 notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017 final paper submission: March 12, 2017 Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017 * ORGANIZERS: Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Jon Timmis, University of York, UK -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ======================================================

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Third Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

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

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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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CGSI'17 CFP
by Marina Gavrilova 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

============================================================ 17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 ============================================================ Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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TSD 2017 - First Call for Papers
by TSD 2017 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017(a)tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017

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Conference RPC 2017 - Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications
by Organizing Committee RPC 2017 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Dear colleagues! We cordially invite you to attend the Second Russia and Pacific Conference on Computer Technology and Applications (RPC-2017) to be held during September 25-29, 2017, on Russky Island at the Far Eastern Federal University Campus. The conference is organized by Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Automation and Control Processes of Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and IEEE New South Wales Section (Australia). The conference proceedings will be published in the international journal "Information Technology in Industry". It is indexed in Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) by Thomson Reuters. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academics and engineers in computer technology to meet, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks. It is a forum which focuses on specific disciplinary research as well as on multi-disciplinary studies. The uniqueness of RPC is that it enables scientists from Russia to link with academics from all around the world and that it gathers researchers not only from technical areas, but also from areas which apply the technologies. The working language of the conference is English. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -- intelligent computing; -- agent-based modeling and web-applications; -- computer networking, telecommunication and mobile communications; -- security and hacking; -- cloud computing: architecture, platforms, applications; -- ontologies for different domains and applications; -- IT in health care and education; -- computer vision, multimedia, GIS. Registration due: April 1, 2017 Full paper submission due: April 30, 2017 The First Information Letter: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/files/inform_2017_eng.pdf. For more information please visit the official website: http://rpc2017.dvo.ru/ Sincerely, Organizing Committee RPC 2017 Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia E-mail: it(a)iacp.dvo.ru

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CFP: Innovate-Data 2017 Conference
by Innovate-Data 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2017) 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 ScalCom 2017
by Gabriele Mencagli 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Apologize for multiple copies of this email. IEEE ScalCom 2017 Nowadays parallel architectures are ubiquitous and the arena of computing and communicating devices is quickly reaching an unprecedented scale. The trend is to keep increasing both the number of cores in a single device as well as the number of communicating devices. In this massively parallel and heterogeneous context, the need for scalable computing is everywhere and scalability is rapidly becoming a central aspect of computing. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2017) provides a forum for researchers willing to present their original work on scalable parallel and distributed computing. ScalCom offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas at the highest technical level related to communication networks, performance analysis, distributed applications with particular emphasis on scalability. We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work relating to all aspects of scalable computing and communications. The program committee will interpret it very broadly; everything from engineering principles to practical experiences on different levels of a parallel and distributed system including High Performance Computing (HPC), massively parallel systems and heterogeneous computing. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. The topics of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications include, but are not limited to: Cloud & fog computing: X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, and Storage performance, dependability, and service level agreements cloud programming models and tools fog computing algorithms and infrastructures. Extreme scale, multi-core, GPU, accelerators and novel architectures for Scalability-Rethinking: parallel programming models and tools GPU, MIC, and FPGA based parallel systems, heterogeneous platforms Extreme scale systems and applications peta-scale and exa-scale workloads high-performance and high-throughput computing fault-tolerance in large scale applications near-data processing and data-centric approaches. Modelling and Simulation of Large Complex Systems: cellular automata, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm Intelligence implementations integrated approach to optimization and simulation high-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems. Mobile, wireless and pervasive computing: queueing theory; design and performance analysis of communication networks distributed applications with emphasis on scalability; distributed applications deployment internet of things, communication protocols, energy aware computing pervasive computing, distributed robotics convergence of communication and computing. Tools for Big Data: statistical data mining extreme big data Hadoop convergence of IoT, cloud and big data Associated Activities: Panels on SCalable Computing and Communications Challenges Industrial Forum on Innovations and Engineering Demo/Expo, Tutorials Co-located Conferences: The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2017) The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017) The 3rd IEEE Smart World Congress The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2017) The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2017) The 2017 Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2017) Paper Submission: Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in length, following the IEEE proceedings format. Over-length submissions will not be accepted. Submissions will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Paper Publication: Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues. Important dates: Paper submission: March 10, 2017 Acceptance notification: May 10, 2017 Camera ready due: June 10, 2017 Registration due: June 16, 2017 Conference: August 4-8, 2017 General Chairs: Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Chairs: Frédéric LOULERGUE, Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA Massimo TORQUATI, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity Chair: Gabriele MENCAGLI, University of Pisa, Italy Mohamed ELWAKIL, Northern Arizona University, USA More details can be found via http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/scalcom/ Contact: scalcom2017(a)googlegroups.com -- ****************************************************** * Dr. Gabriele Mencagli, PhD * * Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa * * Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) * * Phone: 0039 050 2213132 * * Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it * ****************************************************** -- ****************************************************** * Dr. Gabriele Mencagli, PhD * * Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa * * Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) * * Phone: 0039 050 2213132 * * Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it * ******************************************************

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A Call for Book Chapters
by Pethuru Raj Chelliah 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

*<< Sorry for Multiple Postings>* *The Book Title: *Cloud and Fog / Edge Infrastructures for Data Science *Editors* *Pethuru Raj, *Cloud Architect, IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, Bangalore, India *Anupama Raman, *Senior Consultant- Societe Generale Global Solution Center, Bangalore, India Proposals Submission Deadline: Feb. 17, 2017 Full Chapters Due: July 30, 2017 Submission Date: August 30, 2017 *Introduction* The surging popularity of the data science domain is definitely a positive pointer for sustaining the exciting journey of the world economy, which is increasingly digital, insightful, idea and API-driven. Data science is an interdisciplinary field that collectively leverages the distinguished and decisive contributions to machine learning (ML), statistics, Mathematics, computer science, and various analytical methods. It is a new form of art that draws out hidden knowledge in the form of value-adding patterns, associations, opportunities, possibilities, usable tips, actionable insights, predictions, decisions, actions, etc. However, we need highly optimized and organized IT infrastructures for automating the process of knowledge discovery and dissemination through the data science algorithms and methods. Cloud infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) are being touted as the most appropriate one for data science. For real-time data science, the recent model of fog/edge computing is being prescribed. That is, devices at the edge locations and user environments can be clubbed and clustered together in an ad hoc and on-demand fashion to create a kind of device clouds for performing data analytics quickly, easily and affordably. This book is being readied to tell all on the smart leverage of cloud and fog /edge infrastructures for achieving next-generation data science functionalities and facilities. *Objective* We have been fiddling with the programming era. We have programming languages and frameworks in plenty in order to precisely teach compute machines how to process, mining, and analyze data to squeeze out useful and usable information. But the next-generation systems and devices will be cognitive in the sense that they can be self-learning, training, modeling, understanding and reasoning in order to think, decide, interact, and do like humans. Previously we had to feed the data and program logic into the systems towards knowledge discovery. But cognitive systems, while ingesting data, contextualize and automate the process of generating personalized, predictive and prescriptive insights. That is, cognitive systems automatically analyze to exhibit intelligent behavior. Data science is the prominent field of study and research for bringing forth cognitive systems. This book is primarily planned to empower our readers with all the right and relevant algorithms and tools on data science to sustain the cognitive journey. We would like to dig deeper and describe the infrastructural components such as software-defined clouds and fog device clouds for simplifying and streamlining the next-generation data science requirements. There will be chapters on cloud infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) and edge/fog infrastructures that facilitate the formation and sustenance of device clouds in order to have powerful data science facility in place. *Target Audience* · Data Science Researchers and Faculty Members · Cloud Administrators, Architects and Consultants · Data Scientist, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts · Statisticians who want to use data science to derive useful inferences from data · Big data professionals who are aspiring to use data science more efficiently for big data use cases · Professionals in all industries who are aspiring to use data science in their respective domains for process efficiency cost optimization and so on *Recommended Topics* · Business Analytics · Deterministic, Diagnostic and prognostic Analytics · Predictive Analytics · Prescriptive Analytics · Cognitive Analytics · Data Mining Algorithms · Machine Learning Algorithms · Deep Learning Algorithms · Domain-specific Analytics (Retail, healthcare, energy, and utility, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, logistics and transports, banking and Insurance, Automotive electronics and avionics, Life science, metals and mining, Communication, Entertainment, Infotainment, etc.) · Big, Fast, Streaming and IoT Analytics and Applications · Text, Images and Video Analytics · Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Event-driven Architecture (EDA) · RESTful Cloud Services · Software-defined Cloud Infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) · Edge / Fog Infrastructures · Cloud Orchestration and Brokerage Services · Integrated Platforms, Middleware, and Databases for Data Science (Open Source as well as Commercial-grade) · Data Virtualization and Integration Tools and Platforms · Knowledge Visualization Dashboards and Engines and Report-Generation Tools · The Internet of Things (IoT) Edge Data Analytics · Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neural Networks (NN) · Natural Language Processing (NLP) *Submission Procedure* Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *February 17, 2017*, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by *February 28, 2017*, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *July 31, 2017*, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/ publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. *Note:* There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer-review editorial process. All proposals should be submitted through the E-Editorial DiscoveryTM online submission manager. *The Book Publisher* This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2017. *Important Dates* *February 17, 2017:* Proposal Submission Deadline *February 28, 2017*: Notification of Acceptance *July 31, 2017*: Full Chapter Submission *August 30, 2017:* Review Results Returned *September 30, 2017*: Final Acceptance Notification *October 31, 2017*: Final Chapter Submission *Any Inquiries* Pethuru Raj (peterindia(a)gmail.com) Anupama Raman (muralianu2001(a)gmail.com) For more information, please visit this page http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2559 Thanks and regards peter Pethuru Raj PhD Infrastructure Architect IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence IBM India, Bangalore 560045 *Personal Web Site*: www.peterindia.net *Linkedin Page*: http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterindia

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Professorship in High Performance Computing, Umea University, Sweden
by Bo Kågström 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear everyone, Umea University welcomes applications for a permanent position as full Professor in High Performance Computing at the Department of Computing Science. We are seeking a strong academic leader with a clear strategic vision, that will have an important role and large freedom in developing the area of HPC at the department. The position includes research (at least 75% of full-time during the first six years of employment) as well as teaching and supervision at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. Collaboration with or an active role in leadership within the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N, www.hpc2n.umu.se ), is also an opportunity. Link to complete add: http://umu.mynetworkglobal.com/what:job/jobID:127859/ Dead-line for applications is March 2, 2017. An ongoing high-profile extreme-scale computing research project funded by the European Commission within the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program under Horizon 2020 is NLAFET (www.nlafet.eu ). For further information contact Head of Department Pedher Johansson (pedher(a)cs.umu.se) or Professor Bo Kagstrom (bokg(a)cs.umu.se) With best regards, Bo Kagstrom

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FiCloud 2017 Second Call For Papers
by Joyce El Haddad 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

(Please accept our apologies if you receive this email more than once) ----------------------Call for Papers-------------------------------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017) 21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.ficloud.org/2017/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Software Architecture and Middleware - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modeling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Network Design and Architecture - Smart Environment - Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing - Energy Efficiency - Virtualization - Clouds at the Edges - Industry Track - General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/2017/) All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017 Authors Notification: 30 May 2017 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017 Organising Committee: General Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia Program Co-Chairs: Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair: Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Track Chairs: Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Fano Ramparany, Orange, France

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iWAPT 2017 deadline approaching: The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
by Boyana Norris 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

============================================================== :: iWAPT 2017 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2017/ <http://www.iwapt.org/2017/> June 2, 2017 at Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA The iWAPT 2017 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2017. http://www.ipdps.org/ <http://www.ipdps.org/> =============================================================== # Important dates Submission closes: Monday, Jan 23, 2017 (AOE) **Extended** Author notification: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 Camera-ready: Friday, March 10, 2017 Workshop: Friday, June 2, 2017 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017> (If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.) # About iWAPT iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following areas (the list is not exhaustive): * Machine-adaptive algorithms and software * Program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Parallel and distributed computing * Numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures * Compilation, e.g., iterative and empirical compilers * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper Submission guidelines Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: LaTex Package (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> Word Template (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>). Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPS proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE’s online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper. # Program Committee PC Chair: Toshiyuki Imamura, Riken AICS, Japan PC Vice Chair: Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University, USA Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan # Organizing Committee * (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * (General Vice-Chair) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * (SC liaison) Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan * (Finance Chair) Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * (Web Chair) Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * (Publicity Chair) Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan * (PC Chair) Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN AICS, Japan # Contact iwapt2017(a)iwapt.org <mailto:iwapt2017@iwapt.org> =============================================================== iWAPT2017 Program Committee Chair Dr. Toshiyuki Imamura Advanced Institute for Computational Science, RIKEN -- Boyana Norris norris(a)cs.uoregon.edu

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IEEE COMPSAC 2017 - Final Call for Papers (paper submission deadline extended to January 31st)
by IEEE COMPSAC 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear Colleague, please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended until January 31st, 2017. IEEE COMPSAC 2017 www.compsac.org Where: Turin, Italy. July 4–8, 2017 Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2017 IEEE COMPSAC offers opportunities for recommending best papers for inclusions in IEEE publications (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities for more details). ======================================= IEEE COMPSAC 2017 ======================================= COMPSAC (www.compsac.org) is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging problems, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, plenary and specialized panels, fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on emerging and important topics. The theme of the 41st COMPSAC is Building Digital Autonomy for a Sustainable World. COMPSAC 2017 Symposia are as follows: CELT: Computer Education & Learning Technologies CAP: Computer Architecture & Platforms DSAT: Data Sciences, Analytics, & Technologies EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications HCSC: Human Computing & Social Computing ITiP: IT in Practice MOWU: Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Computing NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet, & Web Technologies SEPT: Security, Privacy, & Trust SETA: Software Engineering Technology & Applications Sessions will include topics and issues related to adaptive learning and teaching, autonomous computing, wearable computing, the internet-of-things, social networking, cross-domain data fusion, privacy, security and surveillance, cloud computing, big data, physiological computing, self-aware and self-expressive systems, and emerging architectures and network issues that affect all these developing technology-driven innovations. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. COMPSAC offer publication opportunities in IEEE journals following the "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" and "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Schemes (https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities) ======================================= JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES ======================================= COMPSAC is offering opportunities to recommend our best papers for inclusion in IEEE publications, and to encourage presentation of already published journal papers during the conference. These schemes, to be executed at the discretion of individual COMPSAC symposia and workshops chairs, are as follows: COMPSAC "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" Scheme: Chairs may offer the authors of accepted papers opportunity for publication in an IEEE journal. In this C1J2 Scheme, a chair initiates the process to offer the paper(s), together with their COMPSAC reviews, for publication in an IEEE journal to the journal editor-in-chief (EIC). EICs may or may not use our reviews at their discretion, but may instead prefer to rely solely on their own reviewer communities. Such papers accepted by a journal for publication will appear in the COMPSAC proceeding as only an abstract accompanied by a note that the paper has been submitted to the journal for consideration for publication in that journal. If the paper is accepted for publication, a link to it will be provided in the conference proceedings, thus providing conference participants access to that paper. The paper will still be registered for COMPSAC and must as well be presented during the conference. If such a paper is not accepted by the journal, the paper will be later included in the conference electronic proceedings. COMPSAC "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Scheme: Similar to the above mentioned scheme, but taking place in the reverse order is the J1C2 scheme – journal publication first, conference presentation to follow. A published work in an IEEE journal, say within couple of years, or even accepted but not yet published, may be submitted to and presented at COMPSAC. If accepted, the conference proceedings will contain an abridged abstract and a link to the published version, thus conference participants may have access to that paper. This scheme benefits authors by presenting their work to a wider audience in person, discussion, networking with peers, and driving renewed interest to their work. The process is as follows: the author offers a paper by proposing it as a full-text manuscript submission to a symposium or a workshop; the paper is then lightly reviewed for suitability, scope, technical content and merit by the PC of the symposium/workshop; finally, the PC Chair(s) proposes a notification decision. The author then registers the paper and presents it during the conference at the time identified in the program. ============== KEYNOTES ============== Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley ============== MAIN DEADLINES ============== Main Conference Papers Due: 31 January 2017 Main Conference Notification: 27 March 2017 Workshop Papers Due: 10 April 2017 Workshop Paper Notification: 25 April 2017 Camera Ready and Registration Due: 9 May 2017 --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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GPC-2017: The 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing - May 11-14 - Cetara, Amalfi Coast, Italy - DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Francesco Palmieri 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call For Papers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC-2017) May 11-14, 2017, Cetara, Amalfi Coast, Italy http://gpc2017.di.unisa.it/ Call For Papers Conference Outline ================== Green computing in the context of cloud and pervasive computing is a newly-emerging research field in computer science and engineering. Pervasive computing and cloud computing are two promising paradigms in human's daily life. With the exponential growth in the deployments of techniques in pervasive computing and cloud computing, both of them have to face the critical issues on energy consumption, for example, controlling the energy consumed by the large-scale cloud datacenters, and prolonging the battery life of mobile devices in pervasive computing and Internet of Things. Therefore, new architectures, systems and related techniques, such as mobile cloud computing, software-defined networking and hybrid cloud services, are being developed to make the computing in cloud datacenters and in pervasive wireless devices more productive and energy efficient, for shaping a "Green" world in the future. GPC 2016 is the next event in a series of highly successful events focusing on pervasive and environmentally sustainable computing. In the last nine years, the GPC conference has been successfully held and organized all over the world: Taichung, Taiwan (2006), Paris, France (2007), Kunming, China (2008), Geneva, Switzerland (2009), Hualien, Taiwan (2010), Oulu, Finland (2011), Hong Kong (2012), Seoul, Korea (2013), Wuhan, China (2014), Plantation Island, Fiji (2015) and Xian, China (2016). It aims to establish a high-standard world forum for researchers and developers to share their excellent ideas and experiences in the areas of green computing and communications in the broad context of pervasive computing and cloud computing. GPC 2016 welcomes the original and innovative paper submissions from the academia, industry and government, describing theoretical advances, system design, implementation and experimentation on the following topics, but not limited to: * Energy-efficient computing, communication and virtualization architectures and protocols * Monitoring, sensing, control and management of energy-aware systems * Integration, scheduling and management of renewable energy sources * Cloud, cluster and grid computing * Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive computing * Service-oriented computing * Ubiquitous communications and networks * Social network and services * Sensor, ad hoc networks, mobile agents and networking * Multimedia and machine to machine communications * Instrumentation and measurement studies on energy-efficient systems * Economy and business models in cloud computing and pervasive computing * Innovative technologies for robustness and reliability of energy-aware systems * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guarantee for customers in cloud computing * Incentives and innovative pricing for the management of cloud resources * Multi-core systems, parallel and distributed systems * Internet of things, and cyber physical systems * Trade-offs between performance, energy and other resources in cloud datacenters and pervasive computing * Energy-aware mobile cloud systems and large-scale applications * Semantic web, semantic grid, metadata and ontology related to pervasive and distributed computing * Programming models, tools and environments for distributed and pervasive computing * Modeling and control of variability in demand and supply of green energy sources * Data analytics for energy-efficient systems * Security and privacy in pervasive and cloud computing * Grid and pervasive applications, including e-Science and e-Business applications * Light weight cryptography * Efficient cloud to client secure communication * Efficient secure mobile apps Special Issues ============== - IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE, ISSN: 0163-6804, "Human-Driven Edge Computing and Communication", JCR IF=5.125 (Q1) - Information Sciences, Elsevier, ISSN: 0020-0255, â€œInnovative Smart Methods for Security: Emerging Trends and Research Challengesâ€, JCR IF=3.364 (Q1) - Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-739X, "Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs", JCR IF=2.430 (Q1) - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, ISSN: 1084-8045, "Security in Cloud Computing", JCR IF=2.331 (Q1) - Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-8655, "Robustness, Security and Regulation Aspects in Current Biometric Systems (RSRA-BS)", IF=1.586 (Q2) - Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, ISSN: 1380-7501, "Semantic Approaches for Multimedia Retrieval Applications", JCR IF=1.331 (Q2) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, ISSN: 1532-0634, "Security and Privacy Issues in Fog Computing", JCR IF=0.942 (Q3) - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE, 2377-3782, "Cryptography and Data Security in Sustainable Computing" - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE, 2168-6750, "Cyber Security Threats and Defense Advances" - Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, 2214-2126, "Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust" - - More Special Issues will be added... Please check the section at the conference website here: http://gpc2017.di.unisa.it/gpc2017/index.php/special-issue/ Publication =========== The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. A selection of the best papers will be asked to be extended in SCIE-indexed journals Special Issues. The information about the Special Issues will be advertised later on the conference website. Submission Guidelines ===================== 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. Submissions should be at most 15 pages (*.pdf? including the bibliography and appendices with LNCS template. Submissions must be made to the submission website at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gpc2017 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. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Due: February 10, 2017 ( FIRM ) Authors Notification: February 28, 2017 Camera ready due: March 05, 2017 Registration by: March 05, 2017 Conference Dates: May 11-14, 2017 Organization ============ Honorary Chairs --------------- A B M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji Alfredo De Santis, University of Salerno, Italy Moti Yung, Snapchat and Columbia University, USA Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia General Chairs -------------- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Program Chairs -------------- Man Ho Allen Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Program Vice-Chairs ------------------- Francesco Colace, University of Salerno, Italy Joseph K. Liu, Monash University, Australia Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Chair) Nabil Abdennadher, Univ. of applied Sciences, West. Switzerland Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California - Irvine, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan, China Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada International Advisory Committee -------------------------------- Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Athula Ginige, Western University of Sydney, Australia Fred Glover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Genoveffa Tortora, University of Salerno, Italy (Chair) Xun Yi, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs ---------------- Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Zhe Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada Publication Chairs ------------------ Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Michele Nappi, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs --------------- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Alessandra De Benedictis, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Fang-Yie Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Industry Forum Committee ------------------------ Nicolae Bogdan, Huawei German Research Center, Germany Gerardo Costabile, British Telecom Italy, Italy Leonardo Impagliazzo, Ansaldo STS and Hitachi Rail, Italy Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Giovanni Motta, Google Inc., USA Malek Ben Salem, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Yang Yanjiang, Huawei Singapore Research Centre, Singapore Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Andrea Bruno, University of Salerno, Italy Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Luigi Catuogno, University of Salerno, Italy Raffaele Pizzolante, University of Salerno, Italy Keynote Speakers ------------------------ Paolo Balboni, European Privacy Association, Belgium Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Athula Ginige, Western University of Sydney, Australia Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Cristina Alcaraz, Universidad de MÃ¡laga, Spain Saadat Mehmood Alhashmi, University of Sharjah - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Flora Amato, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Karl Andersson, LuleÃ¥ University of Technology, Sweden Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Lynn Batten, Deakin University, Australia Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Ion Bica, Military Technical Academy, Romania Chiara Boldrini, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Eleonora Borgia, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Raffaele Bruno, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Fulvio Bruno, Ericsson, Italy Giuseppe Bruno, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Bruno Carpentieri, University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Carullo, Coritel - University of Salerno, Italy William Casey, Carnegie Mellon University and CERT, USA Mario Casillo, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Giuseppe Cattaneo, University of Salerno, Italy Raffele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy Rohitash Chandra, The University of South Pacific, Fiji Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Chin-Ling Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Yu Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ray Chak-Chung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Seong-je Cho, Dankook University , South Korea Chang Choi, Chosun University, South Korea Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland Antonio Colella, Italian Army and Italian Atlantic Committee, Italy Clara Maria Colombini, University of Milan, Italy Marco Conti, National Research Council, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Luigi Coppolino, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Napoli â€œParthenopeâ€, Italy Sadie Creese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ciriaco D'Ambrosio, University of Salerno, Italy Salvatore Dâ€™Antonio, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Napoli â€œParthenopeâ€, Italy Gareth Davies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy Ali Dehghantanha, University of Salford, United Kingdom Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Changyu Dong, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy Ugo Fiore, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Raul Garcia Castro, UniversidadÂ PolitÃ©cnicaÂ deÂ Madrid, Spain Jean-Philippe Georges, UniversitÃ© de Lorraine, France Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Meriem Guerar, University of Sciences and Technology of Oran, Algeria Jinguang Han, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, United Kingdom Md Shahadat Hossain, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Fu-Hau Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Mauro Iacono, Second University of Naples, Italy Lu Jiqiang, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore Dan Johansson, UmeÃ¥ University, Sweden Erisa Karafili, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Pan Koo Kim, Chosun University, South Korea Ah-Lian Kor, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Ashok Kumar Das, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India Junzuo Lai, Jinan University, China Cheng-Chi Lee, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Saverio Lemma, University of Salerno, Italy Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada Kaitai Liang, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan Jung-Chun Liu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Marco Lombardi, University of Salerno, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Daniel Xiapu Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Daniele Manini, UniversitaÌ€ degli Studi di Torino , Italy Stefano Marrone, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Ben Martini, University of South Australia, Australia Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Gianluigi Me, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy Weizhi Meng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Fabio Mercorio, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Alessio Merlo, Univerity of Genoa, Italy Mario Mezzanzanica, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Mauro Migliardi, University of Padua, Italy Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Philip T. Moore, Lanzhou University, China Jose A. Morales, Carnegie Mellon University and CERT, USA Vincenzo Moscato, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Paolo Napoletano, UniversitÃ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy Surya Nepal, Data61 CSIRO, Australia Marek R. Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Lidia Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Antonio Picariello, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Antonio Piccinno, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Reza Reyhanitabar, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Sergio Ricciardi, Universitat PolitÃ¨cnica de Catalunya Â· BarcelonaTech, Spain Eric Rondeau, UniversitÃ© de Lorraine, France Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Ioan Salomie, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Carlo Sansone, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Kewei Sha, University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA Siamak Fayyaz Shahandashti, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Roopak Sinha, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Fei Song, Beijing Jiao Tong University, China Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Toronto, Canada Giancarlo SperlÃ¬, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Marco Tambasco, Coritel - University of Salerno, Italy Pierguilio Tempesta, Universidad Complutense, Spain Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Simon Tjoa, St. PÃ¶lten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcello Trovati, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom Allan Tucker, Brunel University London, United Kingdom Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Wei Wang, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Sheng Wen, Deakin University, Australia Tao Xiang, Chongqing University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia Kangbin Yim, Soon Chun Hyang University, South Korea Siu Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea Meng Yu, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China Tsz Hon Yuen, Huawei Singapore, Singapore Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Baokang Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, China Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Xiaomin Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, China

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AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29
by GRLMC 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

AlCoB 2017: submission deadline extended January 29*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: January 29 ***** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ********************************************************************************** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2017 Aveiro, Portugal June 5-7, 2017 Organized by: Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ ********************************************************************************** AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be: Department of Mathematics University of Aveiro Campus Universitário de Santiago 3810-193 Aveiro SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2017 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions posters INVITED SPEAKERS: Michael Biehl (University of Groningen), Prototype-based Models for the Analysis of Biomedical Data Benedict Paten (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Human Genome Variation Map Project Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Villeurbanne), Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, TR) Stephen Altschul (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Yurii Aulchenko (PolyOmica, Groningen, NL) Timothy L. Bailey (University of Nevada, Reno, US) Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US) Philipp Bucher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH) Ken Chen (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US) Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX) Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL) Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University of Munich, DE) Terry Furey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US) Olivier Gascuel (Pasteur Institute, Paris, FR) Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, Denver, US) Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, JP) Osamu Gotoh (Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP) Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, GR) Javier Herrero (University College London, UK) Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, IE) Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, US) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP) Lukasz Kurgan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) Gerton Lunter (University of Oxford, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, ES, chair) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK) William Stafford Noble (University of Washington, Seattle, US) Cedric Notredame (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES) Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GR) Manuel C. Peitsch (Philip Morris International, Bern, CH) Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Graziano Pesole (University of Bari, IT) David Posada (University of Vigo, ES) Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE) Peter Robinson (The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US) Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, ES) David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, CA) Alejandro Schäffer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US) Xinghua Shi (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US) Nicholas D. Socci (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US) Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, DE) Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, US) Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, BE) Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, AT) Kai Wang (Columbia University, New York, US) Haim J. Wolfson (Tel Aviv University, IL) Ioannis Xenarios (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, CH) Jinn-Moon Yang (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, TW) Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, Orlando, US) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US) Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, US) Zhongming Zhao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Diana Costa (Aveiro, CIDMA) Daniel Figueiredo (Aveiro, CIDMA, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Manuel A. Martins (Aveiro, CIDMA) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada) Armando J. Pinho (Aveiro, IEETA) Diogo Pratas (Aveiro, IEETA, co-chair) David Silva (London) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: January 29, 2017 – EXTENDED – Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 9, 2017 Early registration: March 9, 2017 Late registration: May 22, 2017 Submission to the journal special issue: September 7, 2017 COLLOCATED EVENTS: AlCoB 2017 will be collocated with the Fourth Workshop on Molecular Logic: http://molecularlogic2017.weebly.com/ QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2017 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Universidade de Aveiro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Call for Papers - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline 31st January 2017
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Submission Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more information about the submission process (including the “abstract only” option), please consult the conference website ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/) Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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Call for papers: SBP-BRiMS'17
by Donald Adjeroh 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 : February 22 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017 Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 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.

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FINAL CfP Ada-Europe 2017, Sun 22 Jan submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Papers 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 will take place in Vienna, Austria. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition features a focused Special Session on Reliable and Safe Robotics. *** DEADLINE Sunday 22 JANUARY 2017 *** Regular & Special Session Papers + Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair Ben Brosgol <brosgol at adacore.com> For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be

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[Call for paper] ICCST-2017: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Dear colleague, Apologies for multiple postings. Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/ The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges. All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process. Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore. As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city, its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will include a display of flamenco dancing. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017 Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017 Early Registration: August 15, 2017 Best Regards, ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee ICCST-2017 Executive Committee http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/

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[IEEE ATC 2017] Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposal
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Dear colleague, Apologies for multiple postings. In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017), we will organize some workshops. The workshop proposals should be submitted to ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com Further information are provided in the ATC Call for Workshop page: http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartworld/2017/atc/cfw.php All accepted papers will be included in the ATC 2017 proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop/Special Session proposals should contain following information: • The title of the workshop/special session, including both full name and abbreviation (for workshop) • The objectives, scope, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) • The short bios of the key organizers and their related experience • The procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants • A tentative list of program committee members • The (tentative) website/URL of the proposed workshop/special session Important Schedule for ATC Workshops and Special Sessions: • Proposal Due: Jan. 30, 2017 • Proposal Notification: Feb. 05, 2017 • Paper Submission, Notification: TBD by individual workshops • Final Camera-ready Paper Due: June 10, 2017 Best regards, Riccardo Lazzeretti riccardo.lazzeretti(a)math.unipd.it Workshop Chair IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017)

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

19 Jan '17

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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