CallforPapers
The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC'18), August 13-15, 2018, Gran Canaria, Spain
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…>
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL)
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018
- Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018
About
Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2018 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications.
MobiSPC-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems.
Publication
All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsevie…> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.science…>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthomsonreut…>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopus.…>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enginee…>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ei.org%…>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdblp.uni-tr…>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues:
- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springe…>)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cai.sk%…>)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE
(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.…>)
MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with
The 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'18).
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…>
Venue
MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude.
Committees
General Chair
Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden
Program Chairs
Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Local Chair
Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Advisory Committee
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
No‘l de Palma, Universite de Grenoble, France
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Workshops Chair
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Tracks Chairs
Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA
Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China
Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria
Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE
Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK
Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA
International Journals Chair
Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic
Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs-conferen…>
Call for Papers
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2018 International Conference on
Information Communication and Signal Processing
ICSP 2018 September 28-30, 2018, Singapore
URL: http://icsp.org/
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2018 Internatoinal Conference on Information Communication and Signal
Processing
(ICSP 2018) will be held in Singapore on September 28-30, 2018. It focuses
on all
technical and practical aspects of information communication and signal
processing.
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and
practitioners
from academia and industry to focus on information communication and
signal
processing, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Publication:
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference
proceedings, and
submitted for Ei Compendex and Scopus index.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Conference General Chairs
Prof. Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Conference Co-chair
Prof. Xudong Jiang, Nanyang Technological University,
International Technical Committee
International Conference Technical Committees
Prof. Chawalit Benjangkaprasert, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang,
Thailand
Assoc. Prof. Juan Avalo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr. Wan Nural Jawahir Hj Wan Yussof, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu,
Malaysia
SUBMISSION METHOD
Full Paper (publication and oral presentation)
Abstract (oral presentation only)
Electronic Submission System (pdf)
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsp2018
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018
Notification Deadline: June 5, 2018
Registration Deadline: June 20, 2018
CONTACT US
Ms. Rachel Cao
Email: iiicspconference(a)163.com
Tel: +86-13880104217
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The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
August 13-15, 2018
Gran Canaria, Spain
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/
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Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an
active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous
advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless
networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID
technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2018 solicits papers
that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing
users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how
mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers,
computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and
technologies enabling those applications.
MobiSPC-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers,
engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and
developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile
systems.
Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 10, 2018
- Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL)
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018
- Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018
Publication
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All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in
the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer
Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content
platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely
available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (
www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation
Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/).
All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and
Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI
Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be
indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked
references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to
provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website
visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for
publication, in the following special issues:
- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
(IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (
http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)
MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International
Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC,
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/). .
MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran
Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is
the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African
archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015)
that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago.
Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the
northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With
an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at
the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the
archipelago in both area and altitude.
COMMITTEES:
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General Chair
Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden
Program Chair
StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Local Chair
Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Advisory Committee
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale SupŽrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne,
France
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
No‘l de Palma, UniversitŽ de Grenoble, France
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Workshops Chair
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Tracks Chairs
Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA
Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China
Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria
Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE
Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK
Marc Kšrner, TUB Berlin, Germany
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA
International Journals Chair
Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic
Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees
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In exactly two months will start in Vichy, France the
6th School on Universal Logic
http://www.uni-log.org/ULS6
This is a 5-day school with 30 tutorials on all aspects of logic
(historical, philosophical, mathematical, computational)
given by scholars from all over the world.
The school will start by a round table "why study logic?" and will end
with a round table "how to publish?"
There also will be a poster session and the school will be followed by a
6-day congress.
Some videos introducing UNILOG 2018 school tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw
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U N I L O G - World Congress and School on Universal Logic - U N I LO G
Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018
https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/
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Christophe Rey
Co-chair of the organizing committee of UNILOG 2018
UNILOG 2018 : Website <https://www.uni-log.org/vichy2018> - Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/UniversalLogicVichy/> - Registration
<https://api.dsi.uca.fr/paybag/registration/form/event/UNILOG2018> -
Youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9jSSry0zoYz-FdREK5-Uw>
MCF / Associate professor - Université Clermont Auvergne
Email <mailto:christophe.rey@uca.fr> - Homepage
<http://fc.isima.fr/%7Ecrey/>
Laboratoire LIMOS
Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux
1 rue de la Chebarde TSA 60125 - CS 60026
63178 AUBIERE cedex
Tel : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 37
Fax : +33 (0)4 73 40 50 01
IUT d'Allier, Dept MMI Vichy
Pôle Universitaire Lardy
1, av. des Célestins 03200 VICHY
Tel : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 92
Fax : +33 (0)4 70 30 43 78
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C a l l F o r P a p e r s
13th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures
Security CRITIS 2018
Kaunas, Lithuania, September 24-26, 2018
Full-text paper submission due: April 30, 2018
CONFERENCE OUTLINE:
CRITIS 2018 continues the tradition of presenting innovative research
and exploring new challenges in the field of critical (information)
infrastructures protection (C(I)IP), resilience and fostering the
dialogue with stakeholders.
CRITIS 2018 aims at bringing together researchers, professionals from
academia, critical (information) infrastructure operators, industry,
defence sector and governmental organisations working in the field of
the security of critical (information) infrastructure systems.
Moreover, CRITIS aims to encourage and inspire early stage and
open-minded researchers in this demanding multi-disciplinary field of
research. Outstanding research performance demonstrated by young
researchers may compete for the Young CRITIS Award (YCA).
The Projects' Dissemination Session will be an opportunity of
dissemination for ongoing European, multinational, and national
projects, to share the experiences among scientist and experts working
on different projects in the C(I)IP domain.
CRITIS 2018 conference has a special focus on current and future energy
infrastructures within a special session Energy infrastructure operators
and stakeholders: key challenges and solution directions, chaired by
Marcelo Masera (EC Joint Research Centre in Petten, The Netherlands).
Invited speakers will be mainly from European electricity and/or gas
Transmission System Operators (TSO), some representatives from European
electricity and gas Distributed System Operators (DSO), NATO and
European policy-makers.
CRITIS 2018 topics (but not limited to):
http://www.lei.lt/critis2018/call-for-papers.html
Special sessions will be organized by CRITIS 2018 Supporting Chairs:
- “Energy CIP”: Marcelo Masera, European Commission, Joint Research
Centre, the Netherlands
- “CI Resilience”: Marianthi Theocharidou, European Commission,
Joint Research Centre, Italy
- “Human Factor and CIP”: Grigore Havarneanu, UIC, France
- “SCADA Security”: Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University,
Sweden
- “Modelling and Simulation in CIP”: Erich Rome (President 2E!SAC),
Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
- “Interconnected Infrastructures and Systems of Systems”: Enrico
Zio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Ecole Centrale Paris, France
- “IoT Security”: Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU, Norway and University
of Piraeus, Greece
Call for Papers (PDF to download):
http://www.lei.lt/critis2018/assets/critis_2018_call_for_papers.pdf
Accepted papers are to be included to post-proceedings, published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series.
IMPORTANT DATES:
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30 April 2018 -- Full-text submission
18 June 2018 -- Notification of acceptance
9 September 2018 -- Camera-ready papers
Programme Chair
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- Eric Luiijf, TNO (retired) and Luiijf Consultancy, the Netherlands
Steering Committee Chairs
- Bernhard M. Hämmerli, Technical University Lucerne and ACRIS GmbH,
Switzerland
- Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
- Stephen D. Wolthusen, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and
NTNU, Norway
Local Co-Chairs
- Inga Žutautaitė, Lithuanian Energy Institute, Lithuania
- Ričardas Krikštolaitis, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Publicity Chairs
- Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
- Rolandas Urbonas, Lithuanian Energy Institute, Lithuania
CRITIS 2018 Secretary Office
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Lithuanian Energy Institute
Breslaujos g. 3, Kaunas, Lithuania
Tel. +370 37 401948
+370 37 401938
E-mail: critis2018(a)lei.lt
Conference website: www.lei.lt/critis2018
Call for Papers and Participation
The 2018 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2018)
July 16-20, 2018
Orléans, France
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/
In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP
Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: April 07, 2018 - Final Extension
Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions have their own deadlines - Please
check
due dates below
HPCS Proceedings are to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed
by all
major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc.
You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference
through
paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a
tutorial,
an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a
doctoral
dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you.
The conference will include invited presentations by experts from
academia,
industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations
describing
original work on the current state of research in high performance and
large scale
computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design,
performance
and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions,
workshops,
special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium,
and
exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed.
In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed
archived
symposia, workshops and special sessions(have different deadlines): Please
see the
following lists and check the specific track of interest. We also welcome
colleagues
interested in organizing tracks, including those without current
organizers.
Symposia: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia---hpcs2018
Workshops: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2018
Special Sessions:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018
Tutorials:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu…
DDC:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-do…
Demos:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de…
Panels:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-pa…
Posters:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po…
Sponsorships:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp…
Exhibits:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-ex…
SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their
work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals.
HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major
indexing
services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc.
FOLLOW US ON
Twitter: @HPCS Conference
FaceBook: HPCS Conference
LinkedIn: HPCS Conference
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Important Dates:
Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: April 07, 2018 -
Final Extension
-->> Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline: April 27, 2018 <<--
Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts: April 24, 2018
Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: May 11, 2018
Conference Dates: July 16 - 20, 2018
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For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at
URL:
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info or contact one of the organizers.
We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Orléans in July.
Thank you very much. Best Regards.
HPCS 2018 Organizers
CfP 13th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '18)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '18)
held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference -
High Performance,
June 24-28, 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.
(Springer LNCS Proceedings)
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Date: June 28, 2018
Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org
Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 (extended). Springer LNCS,
rolling abstract submission
Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355
Call for Papers
Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for
flexible resource management
in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud
providers need to
manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the
highly dynamic and
heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC
environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable
flexible management of
vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal
provisioning cost, which is
unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.
Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture
in different ways: machine
virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of
multiple under-utilized servers with
heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its
capability to live-migrate a
fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime,
enables novel and dynamic
ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e.,
containerization), with its
capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow
for their co-existence
within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages
of machine virtualization
with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization
allows physical network
interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network
virtualization, with its
capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of
the underlying physical
topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume.
Topics of Interest
The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions
related to
virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus
on the intersection of HPC
and the cloud.
Major Topics
- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in
the cloud and grids
- OS-level virtualization and containers (LXC, Docker, rkt,
Singularity, Shifter, i.a.)
- Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines
- Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments
- Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels
- Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments,
debuggers, profilers
- Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks
([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)
- VM & Container trust and security
- Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation
- GPU virtualization operationalization
- Approaches to GPGPU virtualization including API remoting and
hypervisor abstraction
- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors
- Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors,
FPGAs, etc.)
- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies
- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors
- Software defined networks and network virtualization
- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration
(Kubernetes i.a.)
- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability
- Checkpointing facilitation utilizing containers and VMs
- Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and NUMA in hypervisors
- Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels
- Virtualization in data intensive computing (big data) - HPC convergence
- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance
networks, RDMA, etc.)
- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of
virtualized/cloud workloads
- Latency-and jitter sensitive workloads in virtualized/containerized
environments
- I/O virtualization (including applications, SR-IOV, i.a.)
- Hybrid local facility + cloud compute and based storage systems, cloudbursting
- FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization
- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized
environments
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability
- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments
- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs
- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization
- Configuration management tools for containers (including in
OpenStack, Ansible, i.a.)
- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions
Special Track: GPU - Accelerator Virtualization:
GPU virtualization technologies, performance and benchmarking,
integration with workflow
scheduling systems, integration to cluster managers
GPUs are taking on many HPC workload areas, especially in deep
learning within machine
learning. In addition, a lot of workload is being pushed to elastic environments
utilizing various virtualization technologies on different levels like
hypervisors
(e.g. VMWare, Xen, KVM), kernel (Docker, Kubernetes) or on the
resource manager level
(YARN, Mesos). In this track we invite submissions addressing these problems.
Suggested Themes and Topics:
Technology - What technologies and best practices exist for GPU -
hardware accelerator
virtualization and usage of hardware accelerators in virtual environments on the
hypervisor, kernel or resource manager level
Developers - Real-life experience when addressing HPC/ML/DL problems
with GPUs or
hardware accelerators in virtual environments
Performance - Performance comparisons between different technologies / solutions
The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC) aims to
bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges
posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration,
mutual exchange
of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel
solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.
The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper
presentations, each
followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are
limited to 5 minutes.
Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.
Important Dates
May 15, 2018 (extended) - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS)
May 30, 2018 - Acceptance notification
June 28, 2018 - Workshop Day
July 12, 2018 - Camera-ready version due
Chair
Michael Alexander (chair), Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), OnApp, UK
Romeo Kienzler (co-chair), IBM, Switzerland
Program committee
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe
Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA
Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA
Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA
Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA
Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Uday Kurkure, VMware, USA
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Nikos Parlavantzas, INSA Rennes, France
Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA
Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Na Zhang, VMware, USA
Paper Submission-Publication
Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables
and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a
Springer LNCS volume. .
The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial
submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.
Format Guidelines:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract, Paper Submission Link:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are
strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback
on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results,
early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the
community. Submit abstract via the main submission link.
General Information
The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the
International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2018,
June 24-28, Frankfurt, Germany.
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***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine***
hosted by CIBB 2018 <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/>, 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
6-8 September 2018, Caparica, Portugal
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Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
analysis of robustness of cellular networks
biomedical model parameterization
cancer progression models
clinical image analysis
emergent properties in complex biological systems
flux balance analysis
metabolic engineering
metabolic pathway analysis
model verification and refinement methods
models of neural activity
multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems
parameter estimation methods
personalized models
reverse engineering of reaction networks
software tools for systems biology
spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2018
Acceptance notification: 9 July 2018
Author registration due: 20 July 2018
Camera ready due: 29 July 2018
Conference: 6-8 September 2018
PROCEEDINGS
Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph.
We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions).
PAPER SUBMISSION
Instructions for submission can be found here <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/pages/call-papers>
SESSION CHAIRS
Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Marzia Di Filippo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dario Pescini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
CONTACT
Chiara Damiani, PhD
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca
mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>
phone: +39 02 64487918
The final extension to the deadline for submission is April 19th, 2018
for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and
Simulation (VIRT 2018). Please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info
/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018/session01-vhpc.
*Special Session on **Virtualization in High Performance Computing and
Simulation*
*(VIRT 2018)*
*CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION*
*As part of*
*The 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing &
Simulation (HPCS 2018)*
*http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/> or
http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 <http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18>*
*July 16 – 20, 2018*
*Orléans, France*
*Paper Submission Deadline: April 19, 2018 - Final Extension*
*Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or
posters*
*PURPOSE and SCOPE*
Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of
cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High
Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of
thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed
interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that
the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key
to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures
efficiently.
GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being
deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the
field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree
of virtualization within the systems.
The goal of this session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange
research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be
efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research,
engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system
implementation papers are welcomed.
*The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: *
- *Virtualization in HPC*
o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment
o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC
o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization
mechanisms for HPC
o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization
environment
o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized
HPC
o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for
virtualized environments for HPC
o Running diverse workloads
o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems
o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization
and avoid downtime
o Scheduling of resources and Workloads
o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)
o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems
o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments
o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments
- *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:*
o Virtualized GPUs
§ Scheduling of Virtual GPUs
o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack
§ Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs
- * IO Virtualization*
o Network Virtualization
o SR-IOV
o Software Defined Networking (SDN)
o Storage Virtualization
o RDMA and vRDMA
- *Containers in HPC*
o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces
o Running containers in Virtual Machines
- *Tools*
o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC
environments
o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs,
multi-core CPUs
o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems
o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments
- *Algorithms*
o Distributed Resource Scheduling
o Distributed Computing
- *Virtualization in Simulation*
*INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS*
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above
and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing*.
Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted
elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance,
or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your
full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per
template, and include up to 7 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400
words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should
include a completed online web based form (can also include a cover
page) with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone
numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for
the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters
(please refer to
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po…
for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify
the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all
preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful
comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper
submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2018 .
Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.
*Conference Policies*
Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above.
Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be
selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical
clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the
paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper
will have to register and attend the HPCS 2018 conference to present the
paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the
HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper
submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following
ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the
professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted
to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well
and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please
refer to the Authors Info
<http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/6-participants/author-s-info-hpcs2018>
and Registration
Info <http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/6-participants/registration-info-hpcs2018>
pages.
*Proceedings*
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on
the HPCS 2018 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings
formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of
the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or
ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.
*SPECIAL ISSUE*
Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected
for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed
information will soon be announced and will be made available on the
conference website.
If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session,
please contact the special session organizers.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
*Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 19,
2018 - Final Extension*
*Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 26,
2018*
*Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 11, 2018*
*Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 16 –
20, 2018*
*SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS*
*Uday Kurkure*
VMware, Inc.
3401 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Phone: +1 650-427-1179
Fax: +1 650-
Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu
*Hari Sivaraman *
VMware, Inc.
3401 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Phone: +1 650-427-3681
Fax: +1 650-
Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com
*Lan Vu*
VMware, Inc.
3401 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Phone: +1 650-427-1327
Fax: +1 650-
Email: lanv(a)vmware.com
*Teng Moh*
San Jose State University
Department of Computer Science
San Jose, CA 95192-0249, USA
Phone: +1 408-924-5147
Fax: +1 408-924-5062
Email: teng.moh(a)sjsu.edu
International Program Committee*:
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session
technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS
2018 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2018 Proceedings.
- *Cristina Boeres,* Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
- *Benjamin Camus,* Inria, France
- *Eddy Caron,* LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
- *Isaac Gelado,* Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA
- *Rean Griffith*, Captricity Inc., Oakland, California, USA
- *Kyle Hale,* Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA
- *Shih-Hao Hung,* National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- *Seongbeom Kim,* Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA
- *Brian Kocoloski*, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- *Xiaoyi Lu,* The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA
- *Hans Pabst*, Intel Corp., Zurich, Switzerland
- *Karl Rupp,* Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
- *Alex Sim,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA
- *Josh Simons,* VMware Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- *Feng Yan*, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA
- Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
USA
- *Dong Ping Zhang, *eBay Inc., San Jose, California, USA
- *Na Zhang, *VMware Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA