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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Call for Participation: HiPC 2018 (Bengaluru, India 17-20 December)
by Anand Panangadan 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

HiPC 2018 - For Release 20 November 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Radisson Blu Hotel Bengaluru, India www.hipc.org SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT PRE-CONFERENCE SATELLITE TUTORIALS The HiPC 2018 meeting will offer four tutorials covering topics of interest to the broader HPC and Data Science Communities. Two of the tutorials will be held on December 16th, the day before the conference begins. They are free but may require registration. See web for details. Satellite Tutorial 1: --FPGA-based Accelerated Cloud Computing (Xilinx) Satellite Tutorial 2: --Cloud Services for Performing Scientific Computing and Data Management (Microsoft) Conference Tutorials 3 and 4 (to be held on 20th December as part of conference) --HCLib: A Task based Parallel Programming Model --A Language and Framework for Prototyping and Experimenting with Edge Oriented IoT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE PROGRAM HiPC 2018 is the 25th edition of the IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It serves as a forum to present current work by top researchers in the field and to highlight the activities in Asia in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. To mark the 25th anniversary of HiPC, a special lecture and several celebratory events are planned. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Thirty-three papers out of 149 submissions have been accepted for presentation at the conference (22% acceptance rate). The papers were submitted either to HPC tracks (Algorithms, Applications, Architecture and Software) or to Data Science tracks (Big Data Algorithms and Analytics, Big Data Systems and Software). Accepted papers will be presented in six technical sessions on days 2, 3 and 4: Learning, Graph Algorithms, GPUs, Linear Algebra and Fault Tolerance, Algorithms and Data Analysis, and Applications and System Tools. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Day 2 - Balaraman Ravindran, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Looking Under the Hood of Deep Neural Networks Day 3 - Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Future of Supercomputing Day 4 - Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Secure High-Performance Computer Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities WORKSHOPS Complementing the main technical program, six workshops with programs and speakers that help to broaden the technical scope of the conference will be held on day 1 (December 17th) of the conference: 1: Parallel Fast Fourier Transform (PFFT) 2: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 3: Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) 4: Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing (WDSHPC) 5: Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC&AI) 6: EduHiPC Workshop - Posters only STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM The meeting will also host the 11th Student Research Symposium (SRS) aimed at fostering student research and providing a forum for students to present their work in all areas related to HPC and Data Science. Twenty-one papers have been accepted for poster presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Industry Research & User Symposium (IRUS) and Industry Exhibits The theme for this year’s IRUS is the Impact of Computational and Data Science technologies on emerging Digital Economy. The symposium will be held on 19th December and will contain 3 speakers from established as well as emerging players. On days 2 and 3, there will be a full program of industry exhibits and events. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs: Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India and Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Program Chair, HPC: Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France Program Chair, Data Science: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steering Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP HiPC is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and the HiPC Trust, India In cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Industry sponsors & partners include: Microsoft (Titanium); Intel and Shell (Platinum); and Boston, Google, Infosys, NetApp, TATA, and Xilinx (Gold). Visit the HiPC website to see full listing of all industry partners and exhibitors.

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PETRA 2019 (June 5-7, 2019 - Greece) : Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by PETRA 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

[Image] Call for Workshop Proposals & Conference Papers: We invite you to submit workshops proposals by November 30, 2018. Workshops will be held in conjunction with PETRA'19. Authors are also invited to submit their original work as full, short, poster or workshop papers. The deadline for full and short papers is January 9, 2019. All submissions will be published with PETRA'19 proceedings in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program. Submission Guidelines are available at here<http://petrae.org/submit-system.html>. Aim and Scope: PETRA is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. Topics of Interest: Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: (Extended List<http://petrae.org/cfp.html>) * Healthcare Informatics * Big Data Management * Data Privacy and Remote Health Monitoring * Games for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation * User Interface Design and Usability * Reasoning Systems and Machine Learning * Affective Computing * Cyberlearning : Theory, Methods and Technologies * Human-Robot Interaction * Human-Centered Computing * Human monitoring * Haptics * Gesture and Motion Tracking * Cognitive Modeling * Wearable Computing * Interactions and the Internet of Things (IoT) Upcoming Deadlines * Workshop Proposals: November 30, 2018 * Conference Full/Short Papers: January 9, 2019 * Workshop Papers: February 25, 2019 * Conference Poster Papers: March 1, 2019 * Doctoral Consortium Applications: March 20, 2019 For any questions, please feel free to check our website www.petrae.org or contact us at petrae(a)uta.edu . Unsubscribe<http://petrae.org/unsubscribe.html> [Image] ********** To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit https://listserv.uta.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM3MDQ3IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwu…. **********

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CFP: SDM 2019 FEND Workshop, May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada
by Kai Shu 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Call for Papers Workshop on Data Mining for Fake news in Social Media: Propagation, Detection, and Mitigation (FEND'19), in conjunction with SDM'19 http://pike.psu.edu/fend19/ May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada Social media has become a popular means to consume news. However, the quality of news on social media is lower than traditional news organizations. Because it is cheap to provide news online and much faster and easier to disseminate through social media, large volumes of fake news, i.e., those news articles with intentionally false information, are produced online for a variety of purposes, such as financial and political gain. The extensive spread of fake news can have severe negative impacts on individuals and society. First, fake news can break the authenticity balance of the news ecosystem. For example, it is evident that the most popular fake news was even more widely spread on Facebook than the most popular authentic mainstream news during the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Second, fake news intentionally persuades consumers to accept biased or false beliefs for political or financial gain. For example, in 2013, $130 billion in stock value was wiped out in a matter of minutes following an Associated Press (AP) tweet about an explosion that injured Barack Obama. AP said its Twitter account was hacked. Third, fake news changes the way people interpret and respond to real news, impeding their abilities to differentiate what is true from what is not. Therefore, itâ€™s critical to understand how fake news propagate, developing data mining techniques for efficient and accurate fake news detection and intervene in the propagation of fake news to mitigate the negative effects. The objectives of this workshop are: - Bring together researchers from both academia and industry as well as practitioners to present their latest problems and ideas; - Attract social media providers who have access to interesting sources of fake news datasets and problems but lack the expertise in data mining to use data effectively; - Enhance interactions between data mining, text mining, social media mining, and sociology and psychology communities working on problems of fake news propagation, detection, and mitigation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and social media providers for understanding fake news propagation, improving fake news detection in social media and mitigation. Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - User behavior analysis and characterization for fake news detection - Text mining â€“ mining news contents and user comments - Early fake news detection - Unsupervised fake news detection - Fact-checking - Tracing and characterizing the propagation of fake news and true news - Malicious account and bot detection, user credibility assessment - Visual analysis and exploration with images on the news - News event aggregation and detection - Building benchmark datasets for fake news detection in social media Paper Submission: Papers should be submitted as PDF, using the SIAM conference proceedings style, available at https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/Proceedings/soda2e_061418.zip?v…. Submissions should be limited to nine pages and submitted via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FEND2019. Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 1, 2019 Notification: March 15, 2019 SDM pre-registration deadline: April 2, 2019 Camera ready: April 15, 2019 Conference dates: May 2-4, 2019 Shall you have any questions, please email to szw494(a)psu.edu or kai.shu(a)asu.edu. Workshop Organizers: Suhang Wang Penn State University, USA Dongwon Lee Penn State University, USA Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 Saturday 2 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 2 February 2019 at FOSDEM 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General Information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2020. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6], 2013 [7], 2014 [8], 2015 [9], 2016 [10], and 2018 [11]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 11:00 and 19:00 in one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [12], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [13] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are either 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [13], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by Saturday December 1, 2018 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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30 months PDRA post in Computational Micromagnetism at Edinburgh University
by WILLIAMS Wyn 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

This is a 30 Month PDRA in Computational Micromagnetism at Edinburgh University, open to home and international applications. The link to the job description and application is at: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… Please contact Wyn Williams (<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk>wyn.williams(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk>) for informal enquiries. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Micromagnetic Modelling School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh Grade 7 Salary £33,199 to £39,609 Applications are invited for a 30 month post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) with extensive computational experience to join the mineral magnetism group at the School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh. The position is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council award “Determining ancient magnetic field strengths from the Earth and Solar System”, which is a collaborative project between Prof Wyn Williams (Edinburgh Univ.), Dr. Adrian Muxworthy (Imperial College), and Prof. John Tarduno (Univ. Rochester). The aim of the project is to better understand the magnetic recording fidelity of ‘non-ideal’ magnetic domain states and their ability to hold accurate recordings over periods of billions of years. Using the finite-element micromagnetic modelling software MERRILL (www.rockmag.org<http://www.rockmag.org>) you will develop detailed models of magnetic recording characteristics of particles of iron oxides and sulphides. These models will be compiled into a relational data-base and used to simulate ‘whole-sample’ magnetic recording properties of standard and single crystal paleomagnetic samples. The numerical models will be validated using high-resolution magnetic, mineralogical and tomographic experimental observations from project partners at Imperial College and University of Rochester. You will have a PhD (or near completion) in a physical or computational science with extensive experience of numerical modelling, preferably finite-element modelling and ideally micromagnetic modelling. You should have knowledge of FORTRAN and Python or similar. Experience in parallel programming and database management would be useful but not essential. You should also have a track-record of publishing peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and demonstrate enthusiasm to contribute to the aims of the overall project as part of a wider team. You will also have excellent communication, planning, and team working skills. The position is open from January 2019 with a latest possible start date of April 2019. Closing date: 3 Jan 2019 Wyn Williams Professor of Mineral Magnetism School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FE Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4909 Email: wyn.williams(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:wyn.williams@ed.ac.uk> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[Deadline Extension] Final Call for IEEE DAPPCON 2019
by Young Park 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019) https://dappcon.net The objective of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019) is to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchain, and related technologies. It can be already seen today that Blockchain is making a huge impact on the way digital payments are made. However, the potential implications of Blockchain technologies go far beyond their application as the technological backbone for cryptocurrencies. In recent years, Decentralized Applications (dApps) have emerged as a new model for building massively scalable services. dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor. While Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum are based on compute-intense consensus mechanisms, more recent approaches focus on voting- or staking-based algorithms that support higher transactions per second and are also better-suited to reflect proportions of majority ownership, which are required in many enterprise application scenarios. Also, the integration of Smart Contracts into Blockchains, for example, based on Ethereum or Hyperledger, leads to a plethora of possible use cases for dApps. DAPPCON 2019 will provide a high-quality forum for participants from research and industry. The conference will discuss key theories, algorithms, infrastructures, and significant applications for Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, as well as emerging research topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Blockchain theory - Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) - Decentralized Applications / Smart Contracts - Consensus protocols for Decentralized Applications - Infrastructures for Decentralized Applications - Communication protocols and standards for Decentralized Applications - Identity Management for Decentralized Applications - Token economy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain analytics - dApps/DLT/Blockchain governance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain interoperability - dApps/DLT/Blockchain privacy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain security - dApps/DLT/Blockchain scalability and performance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain policy/law - dApps/DLT/Blockchain applications in areas such as Internet of Things, Logistics, or Health - dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics Important Dates - Extended until Nov. 30, 2018: Abstract registration & paper submission deadline - Jan. 14, 2019: Author notification - Jan. 31, 2019: Camera-ready submission and conference registration - Apr. 5 - 8, 2019: Conference Invitation letters for visa applications will be available on the day of the author notification. Paper submission DAPPCON 2019 solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures. Both full and short papers can be submitted. All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts must include a title, an abstract with 200-250 words, and a list of 4-6 keywords. Each full paper is limited to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and references. Each short paper is limited to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double-column proceedings format. Please see: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html DAPPCON 2019 uses a double-blind review policy. Authors are required to remove their names, affiliation and other identifying information from the header of the manuscript. This also includes meta-data in the submitted document as well as acknowledgment sections. Papers that do not meet these anonymization requirements may be rejected without further review. Authors are encouraged, but not required, to cite their previous work in a neutral manner, for example, avoid “in our previous work [3]” and instead use “as shown in [3]”. The name(s) of the author(s) will not be visible to the reviewer of a paper. The name(s) of the author(s) will be visible in the submission system to the General Chairs and the Program Chairs. Authors are free to indicate any conflict of interest with the list of Technical Program Committee (TPC) members during submission of the manuscript, in which case the Program Chairs will exclude the corresponding TPC member(s) from reviewing the paper. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. Authors must submit their manuscripts using the EDAS conference system via the following link: http://edas.info/N25365 Paper submission is open until Friday, 30 November 2018, 23:59 PST (UTC -8). Paper publication All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in the IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered by one of its authors, and at least one author is required to attend and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be included in the final technical program and the IEEE Digital Library. Special issues The authors of the best papers will be invited to also submit their work (with at least 30% novel contents) to the following special issues: - IEEE Network: Special issue on Blockchains for Scalable IoT Management, Access and Accountability <https://www.comsoc.org/netmag/cfp/blockchains-scalable-iot-management-acces…> - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management: Special Issue on Blockchain Ecosystem: Technological and Management Challenges and Opportunities <http://www.ieee-tems.org/call-for-papers-blockchain-ecosystem/> -- Best Regards, Young. ---------------------------- Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department San Jose State University. Office Phone: 408-924-7854 Department Office Phone: 408-924-4150 Email: younghee.park(a)sjsu.edu -- Best Regards, Young. ---------------------------- Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department San Jose State University. Office Phone: 408-924-7854 Department Office Phone: 408-924-4150 Email: younghee.park(a)sjsu.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS -- IHPCES 2019
by Dominik Bartuschat 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2019) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2019/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2019, the 9th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2019 Conference in Faro, Algarve, Portugal, from June 12-14, 2019. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2019, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: January 1, 2019 Paper Submission Due (up to 14 pages) February 15, 2019 Author Notification April 5, 2019 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2019 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee (tentative): Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takashi Furumura - Universuty of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, USA Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The Universuty of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to receiving your contributions to IHPCES 2019. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2019 co-chairs

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Call for Book Chapter- Springer- Deep learning based approaches for sentiment analysis
by Basant Agarwal 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

*Call for Book Chapter- Springer* *Book Title*: Deep learning based approaches for sentiment analysis *The scope of the book:* With the exponential growth in the use of social media networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and many others, an astronomical amount of big data has been generated. A substantial amount of this user-generated data is in form of text such as reviews, tweets, and blogs that provide numerous challenges as well as opportunities to NLP (Natural Language Processing) researchers for discovering meaningful information used in various applications. Sentiment analysis is the study that analyses people's opinion and sentiment towards entities such as products, services, person, organisations etc. present in the text. Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the most popular and interesting research problem. In recent years, Deep Learning approaches have emerged as powerful computational models and have shown significant success to deal with a massive amount of data in unsupervised settings. Deep learning is revolutionizing because it offers an effective way of learning representation and allows the system to learn features automatically from data without the need of explicitly designing them. Deep learning algorithms such as deep autoencoders, convolutional and recurrent neural networks (CNN) (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have reported providing significantly improved results in various natural language processing tasks including sentiment analysis. Topics of Interest: This book solicits contributions from the field of sentiment analysis using deep learning. Each book chapter should cover the solutions with the state-of-the-art and novel approaches for the sentiment analysis problems and challenges. Topics to be discussed in this edited book include but not are limited to: 1. Introduction to the Deep learning algorithms and sentiment analysis 2. Recent trends and advances in deep learning based sentiment analysis 3. Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis of Short Texts 4. Learning word representations for sentiment analysis 5. Learning sentiment-specific word embeddings for sentiment analysis 6. Improving the performance of the sentiment analysis model using learning representation of out-of-vocabulary words 7. Deep neural network based sentiment analysis model for sarcastic tweets 8. A deep neural network for Cross-domain sentiment analysis 9. Financial Sentiment analysis using deep learning algorithms 10. Sentiment lexicon and knowledge-base construction for sentiment analysis 11. Aspect level sentiment analysis using deep neural network 12. Deep learning based Multi-Domain Sentiment Analysis 13. Fusion of linguistic and deep learning approaches for improved sentiment analysis model 14. Enhancing deep learning sentiment analysis with ensemble techniques 15. Transfer learning based sentiment analysis model for a specific domain 16. Spam Review analysis 17. Detecting hate speech in Twitter 18. Future Directions to research for Sentiment Analysis 19. Any other relevant deep learning based novel application Important Dates: Abstract Submission (abstract with TOC): December 31, 2018 Preliminary acceptance/rejection notification: January 15, 2019 Full chapter Submission: March 31, 2019 First review notification: May 15, 2019 Revised paper submission: June 15, 2019 Acceptance/Rejection notification: June 30, 2019 Camera Ready submission: July 15, 2019 *Editors* 1. Dr. Basant Agarwal, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology Mangt. & Gramothan, Jaipur, India Email: basant(a)skit.ac.in 2. Dr. Richi Nayak, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Email: r.nayak(a)qut.edu.au 3. Dr. Namita Mittal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur India. Email: nmittal.cse(a)mnit.ac.in 4. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Email: patnaik_srikanta(a)yahoo.co.in *Submission Guidelines:* Please send your one-page write up (with abstract of 300- 500 words and 6 keywords) of your Chapter along with tentative table of contents (TOC) through EasyChair portal at this link { https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlsentianalysis2019}. Upon acceptance of the proposal, further instructions for submission guidelines according to the Springer will be communicated. Please feel free to contact any editor if you have any query. “There are NO processing/publication charges for this Springer book” ~Best Regards Basant

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From Skala - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

>> Please, resend this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------- >> Call for Papers and Conference Announcement >> WSCG 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2019 (held annually since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - Decemeber 15, 2018 January 31, 2019 - Abstract, February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Main topics (but not limited to) --------------------------- Computer graphics Scientific visualization Medical visualization Computer vision Image processing Pattern recognition GPU graphics Rendering and animation Virtual reality Haptic systems Medical imaging Graphical human computer interfaces Graphical interaction Computational photography Data compression for graphics Image based rendering Physically based modelling Mathematical methods for graphics and vision Geometric modelling Shape analysis Shape modelling Shape retrieval Surface and volume parameterization Parallel graphics CAD, CAGD and GIS systems -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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