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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

WPDM 2018 The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 23, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 March 23, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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Logic Colloquium 2018 (LC18): 2nd call for contributions
by Dario Della Monica 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

We are happy to announce the following event and we would be glad if you could forward this message to whom it might interest. LC 2018 Udine, Italy July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it ________________________________________________________________________ LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it The Logic Colloquium 2018 is the annual European summer meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) (http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm) It will be held during July 23-28, 2018, at the University of Udine, Italy, and is organized by the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine. The latest meetings took place in Paris (2010), Barcelona (2011), Manchester (2012), Evora (2013), Vienna (2014), Helsinki (2015), Leeds (2016), and Stockholm (2017). The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry. The Association holds two major annual meetings to present current research in all aspects of logic in a way that is accessible to all logicians. IMPORTANT DATES: ============================ Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 Deadline for grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: ================== U. Sattler (University of Manchester) K. Tent (WWU Münster) INVITED SPEAKERS: ================= M. Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) A. Atserias (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) V. Brattka (Universität der Bundeswehr München) A. Ciabattoni (TU Wien) P. D’Aquino (Università degli Studi della Campania) P. Oliva (Queen Mary University of London) L. Patey (Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon) A. Tserunyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) S. Unger(Tel Aviv University) M. Viale (Università degli studi di Torino) D. Westerstahl (Stockholm University) GOEDEL SPEAKER: ================ R. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) SPECIAL SESSIONS: ================= 6 special sessions with topics: * Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems: - Chairs: B. Miller (Universität Wien) A. Törnquist (København Universitet) - Speakers: C. Conley (Carnegie Mellon University) J. Melleray (Université Lyon I) T. Tsankov (Université Paris Diderot) R. Tucker-Drob (Texas A&M University) * Model theory: - Chairs: E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) F. Wagner (Université Lyon I) - Speakers: A. Deloro (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) I. Goldbring (UC Irvin) N. Hempel (UCLA) N. Ramsey (UC Berkeley) * Proof theory and constructivism: - Chairs: S. Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano) G. Sambin (Università degli Studi di Padova) - Speakers: R. Akiyoshi (Waseda University) M. Escardó (University of Birmingham) A. Palmigiano (TU Delft) C. Xu (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) * Temporal and multivalued logics: - Chairs: B. Gerla (Università dell'Insubria) M. Lange (Universität Kassel) - Speakers: A. Kurucz (King's College London) D. Mundici (Università degli Studi di Firenze) P. K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; IIT Mumbai) A. Vidal (Czech Academy of Sciences) * Computability theory: - Chairs: P. Shafer (University of Leeds) A. Sorbi (Università di Siena 1240) - Speakers: J. Franklin (Hofstra University) T. Kihara (Nagoya University) S. Ng (Nanyang Technological University) L. B. Westrick (University of Connecticut) * Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: - Chairs: J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki) G. Sagi (University of Haifa) - Speakers: B. Halimi (Université Paris Nanterre) S. Hewitt (University of Leeds) L. Picollo (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) N. Wyatt (University of Calgary) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ============= D. Macpherson (Chair) (University of Leeds) S. Demri (CNRS) A. Kechris (California Institute of Technology) C. Laskowski (University of Maryland) A. Marcone (Università degli Studi di Udine) A. Montalban (UC Berkeley) P. Pudlàk (Czech Academy of Sciences) G. Sher (UC San Diego) D. Sinapova (University of Illinois at Chicago) LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: ============= Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics University of Udine, Italy G. D'Agostino (Co-Chair) A. Montanari (Co-Chair) V. Dimonte G. Gherardi A. Marcone F. Parlamento C. Piazza D. Della Monica M. Fiori Carones N. Gigante A. Molinari M. Valenti For questions, please contact lc18(a)uniud.it SUBMISSIONS: =================== Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as LaTeX source code, via EasyChair, at the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc18. If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you can create one at https://easychair.org/ Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instructions http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html using the ASL abstract style (available at http://aslonline.org/abstractresources.html) The deadline for submissions is April 27, 2018. If electronic submission is not possible, abstracts should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Abstracts are published as part of the meeting report in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic only if at least one author is a member of the ASL at the time the report is sent for publication. Abstracts of contributed papers submitted by ASL members will be published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, provided that they satisfy the Rules for Abstracts (see above). APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT GRANTS: ======================= The ASL, the NSF, and the local organizing committee will make available modest awards to graduate students in logic and to recent PhDs to attend the meeting. For more details on the grants, see: http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html . Applications for student grants and recommendations should be received by May 4, 2018. They should be submitted electronically, by email to LC18grant(a)uniud.it If electronic submission is not possible, applications and recommendations should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. The application should follow the instructions on https://lc18.uniud.it/applications Students waiting for the acceptance of a grant application should not register, since the grant may include discounts to the registration fee. After the acceptance, an ad hoc registration form will be available for them. Students whose application is declined will still have time to register before the early registration deadline. ______________________________________________ The event is made possible thanks to the financial support of: * ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) https://www.aslonline.org * NSF (National Science Foundation) https://www.nsf.gov * SILFS (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze) http://www.silfs.it * AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e sue Applicazioni) http://www.ailalogica.it * Università degli Studi di Udine https://www.uniud.it/ * GNSAGA - INdAM http://www.altamatematica.it/gnsaga * Italian Chapter of EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/italian-chapter ______________________________________________ Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL): http://www.aslonline.org ASL newsletters: https://www.aslonline.org/info-newsletter.html -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2018)
by Uday Kurkure 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

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: March 12, 2018* *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 HPCo Running diverse workloadso Running heterogeneous Operating Systemso Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtimeo 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-posters 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: ------------------------------------------- March 12, 2018* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 11, 2018* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 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 <(650)%20427-1179> 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 <(650)%20427-3681> 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 <(650)%20427-1327> 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 <(408)%20924-5147> Fax: +1 408-924-5062 <(408)%20924-5062> 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 For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 or contact one of the Conference's organizers. *---Uday*

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CFA (DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 19) - Stream on Hyper-heuristics @ EURO 2018, Valencia
by Mustafa MISIR 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Stream on Hyper-heuristics at the 29th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2018), Valencia/Spain, July 8 - 11, 2018 Abstract submission deadline: March 19, 2018 (EXTENDED)Submission: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro29/ Call for Abstracts (Max. 1500 characters): ----------------------------------- - Session: Selection Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 665d9460) - Session: Generation Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 2480ffb0) Hyper-heuristics are problem-independent generic solvers which have been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial search problems both from academia and real-world, such as timetabling, scheduling, routing, rostering, cutting and packing. The studies on this field is mainly considered under two categories, namely Selection and Generation Hyper-heuristics. Selection Hyper-heuristics operate by automatically choosing (low-level) heuristics from an existing heuristic set while the latter type focuses on generating heuristics from scratch based on predefined components. This stream is expecting studies focusing on either of these hyper-heuristic types -offering different learning approaches, utilizing distinct (meta-) heuristic techniques while dealing with various problems. This stream will be organized in connection with the Task Force on Hyper-heuristics within the Technical Committee of Intelligent Systems and Applications at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Organizers: ---------- - Prof. Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven, Belgium - Dr. Mustafa Misir, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China - Dr. Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK- Dr. Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK Important Dates: -------------- Abstract Submissions: March 19, 2018 (Extended) Notification to Authors: March 21, 2018 Early Registration: April 6, 2018 Registration: April 20, 2018 For more details: https://mustafamisir.github.io/ss-hh.html Best regards, Patrick De Causmaecker (KU Leuven) Mustafa Misir (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Ender Ozcan (University of Nottingham)Rong Qu (University of Nottingham) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mustafa MISIR ----------------------------------------------------Machine lEarning and Operations Research (MEmORy) Lab Institute of Machine Learning and Computational IntelligenceCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Office: 230Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics29 Jiangjun Road, Jiangning, 211106 Nanjing/Jiangsu, China Web: http://mustafamisir.github.io | http://memoryrlab.github.io ----------------------------------------------------

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TSD 2018 - Second Call for Papers
by TSD 2018 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

********************************************************* TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) 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, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Columbia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Marko Robnik Šikonja, Slovenia Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Vitomir Štruc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wróblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from Springer. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. The registration fee is the same as in 2016: Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10,000 CZK (approx. EUR 395) Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12,000 CZK (approx. EUR 475) The fee has a "all in one" form, to keep equality between participants. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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ESORICS 2018 - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ESORICS 2018 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Barcelona, Spain -- September 6-7, 2018 ESORICS Website: https://esorics2018.upc.edu/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2018. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: March 23, 2018 * Notification of decision: April 02, 2018 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org) The following application form should be used. (Also available in Word format at https://esorics2018.upc.edu/esorics2018-cfw) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2018 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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Call for Papers - 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018)
by Giovanni Livraga 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

======================================================================== *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s ESORICS 2018 : Twenty-third European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Barcelona, Spain -- September 3-7, 2018 WWW: https://esorics2018.upc.edu ======================================================================== Overview ------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates --------------------- * Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2018 * Notification to authors: June 15, 2018 * Camera ready due: June 25, 2018 Topics of Interest ----------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * blockchain and finance security * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * deep learning for attack and defense * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------- Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2018 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee -------------------------------- General Chair: * Miguel Soriano, UPC, Spain Organization Chair: * Josep Pegueroles, UPC, Spain Workshop Chair: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom-Sud Paris, France Program Committee Chairs: * Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain * Jianying Zhou, SUTD, Singapore Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Carlo Blundo, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Levente Buttyan, BME, Hungary Jan Camenish, IBM, Switzerland Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Josep Lluis Ferrer, UIB, Spain Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & University of Connecticut, USA Alejandro Hevia, University of Chile, Chile Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway Kwangjo Kim, KAIST, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Mark Manulis, University of Surrey, UK Kostas Markantonakis, RHUL, UK Olivier Markowitch, UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Gunther Pernul, UniversitÃ¤t Regensburg, Germany Christina Popper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Ozgur Sinanoglu, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland Luca Vigano', King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Publicity Chairs: * Giovanni Livraga - Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy * Rodrigo Roman - University of Malaga, Spain

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HPBench 2018 Special Session - IEEE HPCS 2018 (The 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation)
by Laurent Lefevre 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2018) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018) http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large number of combinations of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core to cluster configuration to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive the modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolution, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. **** IMPORTANT DATES ****  Papers Due: March 12, 2018 Author Notification: April 11, 2018 Camera-Ready Submission: May 03, 2018 **** TOPICS ****  The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Open Platforms for parallel and distributed application benchmarking and optimization; - Benchmarking on the Cloud; - Benchmarking of clusters and large-scale systems; - Benchmarking of I/O; - Benchmarking of energy and energy efficiency; - Benchmarking of Web Services; - Virtualization for distributed benchmarking; - Data distribution for benchmarking; - Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms; - Scalability aspects of benchmarking; - Benchmarking of parallel business applications; - Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages. - Tools and frameworks for performance modelling systems and applications; - Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring; - Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike); -Mathematical foundations of benchmarking, metrics and heuristics **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://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/HPBench2018. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. **** HPBench 2018 GENERAL CHAIRS **** Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Courtenay Vaughan, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, ENS Lyon, France Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France For more information see http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018/sessio… ****TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE**** Cosimo Anglano, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas W. Doerfler, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Gowtham, Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany Sylvain Jubertie, University of Orleans, France Bok Jik Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara (UVT), Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Gudula Rünger, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate if you could forward this email to interested colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

WPDM 2018 The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 23, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 March 23, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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 Abstracts (DEADLINE: March 5) - Stream on Hyper-heuristics @ EURO 2018
by Mustafa MISIR 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Stream on Hyper-heuristics at the 29th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2018), Valencia/Spain, July 8 - 11, 2018 Abstract submission deadline: March 5, 2018Submission: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro29/ Call for Abstracts (Max. 1500 characters): ----------------------------------- - Session: Selection Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 665d9460) - Session: Generation Hyper-heuristics (Submission Code: 2480ffb0) Hyper-heuristics are problem-independent generic solvers which have been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial search problems both from academia and real-world, such as timetabling, scheduling, routing, rostering, cutting and packing. The studies on this field is mainly considered under two categories, namely Selection and Generation Hyper-heuristics. Selection Hyper-heuristics operate by automatically choosing (low-level) heuristics from an existing heuristic set while the latter type focuses on generating heuristics from scratch based on predefined components. This stream is expecting studies focusing on either of these hyper-heuristic types -offering different learning approaches, utilizing distinct (meta-) heuristic techniques while dealing with various problems. This stream will be organized in connection with the Task Force on Hyper-heuristics within the Technical Committee of Intelligent Systems and Applications at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Organizers: ---------- - Prof. Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven, Belgium - Dr. Mustafa Misir, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China - Dr. Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK- Dr. Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK Important Dates: -------------- Abstract Submissions: March 5, 2018 Notification to Authors: March 21, 2018 Early Registration: April 6, 2018 Registration: April 20, 2018 For more details: https://mustafamisir.github.io/ss-hh.html Best regards, Patrick De Causmaecker (KU Leuven) Mustafa Misir (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Ender Ozcan (University of Nottingham)Rong Qu (University of Nottingham) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mustafa MISIR ----------------------------------------------------Machine lEarning and Operations Research (MEmORy) Lab Institute of Machine Learning and Computational IntelligenceCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Office: 230Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics29 Jiangjun Road, Jiangning, 211106 Nanjing/Jiangsu, China Web: http://mustafamisir.github.io | http://memoryrlab.github.io -----------------------------------------------------

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