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CFP : Special Issue on Parallel Computing in Modelling and Simulation on JPDC
by William Spataro 16 May '17

16 May '17

SPECIAL ISSUE ON PARALLEL COMPUTING IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION Journal: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing SCOPE and OBJECTIVES Model development for the simulation of the evolution of artificial and natural systems is essential for the advancement of Science. Recently, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of parallel computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. This Special issue aims to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the Parallel Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. The intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. TOPICS of INTEREST Tentative authors are invited to submit original unpublished works on topics from a wide range of parallel computing methods, including but not limited to the following: * Parallel algorithms for modelling and simulation * High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications * Complex systems modelling and simulation * Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations * Integrated approach to optimization and simulation * MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science * Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science * Software developed to solve science (e.g.,biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems * Hardware approaches of parallel computing in modelling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 15th September 2017 First Notification: 1st December 2017 Revision Submission: 15th January 2018 Second Notification: 1st March 2018 Final version Submission: 1st April 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Regarding the paper submission, we expect that papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference/workshop papers must contain at least 40%-50% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. During submission please select paper type “VSI:ParCompModelSimu” under Manuscript Category. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be reviewed following the journal standard review process. GUEST EDITORS William Spataro (University of Calabria, IT) spataro(a)unical.it Giuseppe A. Trunfio (University of Sassari, IT) trunfio(a)uniss.it Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace, GR) gsirak(a)ee.duth.gr -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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PDP 2018 - Call for Papers
by Ivan Merelli 16 May '17

16 May '17

***************************************************************************************** PDP 2018 - Call for Papers -http://www.pdp2018.org ***************************************************************************************** Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced programming models, improved efficiency and novel application domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view. PDP 2018 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level. PDP 2018 will be held in Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018. Conference web sitehttp://www.pdp2018.org ***************************************************************************************** * Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation. - Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks. - Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications. - Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems. - Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems; middleware and distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management. - Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications. * In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics: - GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing - Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine - Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing - Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations - Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications - High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation - On-chip parallel and network-based systems - Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing - High Performance Computing for Neuroscience - High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology - Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores ***************************************************************************************** * Important dates: - Paper submission: 15 Sep, 2017 -Acceptance notification:13 Oct, 2017 - Camera ready due: 17 Nov, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 ***************************************************************************************** * Submission of papers Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018>). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. ***************************************************************************************** Ivan Merelli Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 93, via F.lli Cervi, 20090 Segrate (Mi), Italy Phone:+39 02 2642-2606 <tel:+39%2002%202642%202606> E-Mail:ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it <mailto:ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it> Pietro Liò Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 15, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK Phone:+44 (0)1223-763604 <tel:+44%201223%20763604> E-Mail:pl219@cam.ac.uk <mailto:pl219@cam.ac.uk> Igor Kotenko Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, SPIIRAS 39, 14th. Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia Phone:+7 (812) 328-71-81 <tel:+7%20812%20328-71-81> E-Mail:ivkote@comsec.spb.ru <mailto:ivkote@comsec.spb.ru> ******************************************************************************************** Euromicro is an international scientific organization advancing sciences and applications of Information Technology and Microelectronics. A major focus is on organizing conferences and workshops in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Euromicro is a non-profit association founded in 1974 and annual conferences have taken place in more than 20 countries all over Europe. Find out more athttp://www.euromicro.org.

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FROM 2017
by From 2017 15 May '17

15 May '17

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2017 - Second Call for Papers http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017 WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM 5 - 8 July 2017 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bucharest Deadline for abstract submissions: 21 May 2017 Aims and Scope Formal methods use mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. The formal methods can be used to specify, verify, and analyse in any part of the system life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on the one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user to effectively apply these methods/frameworks in the life cycle of the system. ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi organize FROM 2017, the first one from a yearly workshop series, meant to bring together Romanian researchers in formal methods and to foster international collaborations. Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work for formal methods by contributing with new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation is available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures (the current list can be seen on the workshop web page) and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages Methods of interest include: - Model checking - Deductive verification - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Symbolic computation Applications of interest include: - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware, - Computational logic, - Computer mathematics, - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of 2 pages, excepting the references, formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The abstracts should be submitted before 21 May 2017, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2017 The notification of acceptance will be received by 31 May 2017. Depending on the number and the quality of submissions, we intend to publish extensions of selected presentations in peer-reviewed well-ranked journal. Registration There is no conference fee, but valid registration is required in order to participate at the conference. All participants registered with an abstract will receive the conference kit. There is an additional fee of 50 RON for the social dinner at Casa Universitarilor. For details and updates see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017/

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[Call for Papers] Programming Model Alternatives to Message Passing (PMAMP)-2017
by Emani, Murali 15 May '17

15 May '17

Call for papers First Annual Workshop on Programming Model Alternatives to Message Passing (PMAMP)-2017 September 25, 2017, Chicago, IL in collaboration with EuroMPI/USA 2017 https://memani1.github.io/pmamp17/ Overview: Message-passing programming models have dominated high-performance computing (HPC) for the past quarter century. With the continued breakdown of the (uniform) communicating sequential processors abstract machine model, many researchers have questioned the continued viability of message passing as a model for direct, application-level interaction. Recent years have seen an explosion of new paradigms in programming models for distributed-memory computing. The move to the next generation of HPC platforms presents a wider variety of challenges than ever before, that include the increased need for asynchrony, increased heterogeneity and performance non-uniformity, decreased hardware reliability and increased failure rates, increased hardware diversity, and the maintainability of increasingly complex scientific code bases. This workshop proposes to promote a dialogue between researchers who work on extensions or augmentations to message-passing models (the “evolutionary” crowd) to alternative programming models and to expose those who develop fundamentally different programming models (the “revolutionary” crowd) to the recent advances in message-passing programming models. It aims to help understand the relative importance of the concerns these new approaches address. The workshop seeks to garner a better understanding of key motivations for alternative programming models, key insights from advances in message passing (and how they can be applied to alternative models), and key opportunities for collaboration between researchers on both sides. Topics: We solicit preliminary work on programming models that offer extensions or alternatives to message passing, with emphasis on addressing emerging concerns in high performance computing (HPC), including topics relating to (but are not restricted to) the following: * Asynchrony * Heterogeneity * Performance non-uniformity * Fault-tolerance and resilience * Performance portability: a posteriori adaptability (“one code for many machines”) in situ adaptability (reactive and dynamic runtime system solutions) * Maintainability (particularly in the presence of these other challenges) * Testability and debuggability (particularly in the presence of these other challenges) * Experimental comparative results (particularly with emphasis on overall time-to-solution) * Relevance of alternate programming models to particular scientific kernels Also, we solicit position papers on analyzing the importance (or lack thereof) of the above topics for the future of HPC, again with emphasis on the need (or lack thereof) to address these concerns at the programming model level (thus, for instance, arguments for why the challenges can be addressed at other levels of the software stack without programming model intervention will also be considered). Important Dates: * Paper submission: June 15, 2017 * Author Notification: July 10, 2017 * Camera-ready papers due: July 30, 2017 * Workshop Date: September 25, 2017 Committee: Workshop Organizers: · David S Hollman, Sandia National Laboratory · Murali Emani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Committee: (Preliminary) * Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Alex Aiken, Stanford * Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien * Karl Fuerlinger, LMU Munich * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory * Zoran Budimlic, Rice University * Hartmut Kaiser, Louisiana State University * Sean Treichler, Nvidia * Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Submission: Interested authors are encouraged to submit full papers (8-10 pages) or short/position papers (4 pages) in "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 template. This page limit includes figures, tables and appendices but not references. Authors should submit their work at (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmamp1) More details of this workshop could be found at https://memani1.github.io/pmamp17/. — Murali Emani, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA https://memani1.github.io<https://memani1.github.io/>

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CFP: 2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference
by Kin Fun Li 15 May '17

15 May '17

Dear Colleagues: The 2017 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing will be held August 21-23 on the beautiful campus of the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. This is a great opportunity to present your work at an internationally recognized conference held biennially for the past 30 years. Please encourage your research group and graduate students to participate and submit papers. Submission deadline: June 8, 2017. Conference URL: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~pacrim/pacrim17/ Sincerely, IEEE PacRim 2017 Organizing Committee

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FGCS Journal - Special Issue on Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing.
by Anna Kobusińska 14 May '17

14 May '17

*Future Generation Computer Systems - The international Journal of eScience* https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems **Special Issue on Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing.** https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… The future development of cloud computing systems is more and more influenced by Big Data and IoT. There are research and industrial works showing applications, services, experiments and simulations in the Cloud that support the cases related to IoT, Big Data and Security. Cloud users and cloud service providers face a variety of new challenges like encrypted data search, share, auditing, key management security and privacy. There is also a need for protocols that facilitate big data streaming from IoT to the cloud and QoS. This special issue encourages submissions related to all aspects of IoT, Big Data and Cloud Computing. In particular, it aims to examine the prospects and challenges that arise in conjunction with the trending topic in the field of Internet of Things and Big Data which are essential to comply with the necessities of modern cloud applications. Promoting the submission of the ongoing work with the existing important theoretical and practical results, along with position papers and case studies of already present verification projects, this special issue will highlight the art in this domain. As one of the goals, this special issue intends to convene researchers and practitioners to review the diverse range of features of security, privacy, trust and reliability in IoT and Cloud. It also examines significant theories, scrutinies technology enablers, formulates significant application and devise new methods to overcome the major problems that this research area poses. The objective of this special issue is to capture the latest advances in research topics that include but are not limited to: * Big Data and IoT on the Cloud * IoT Services and Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust in IoTSensor Networks * Remote Diagnosis and Development * Data Analysis and Visualization for IoT * Performance Evaluation and Modeling for IoT * Networking and Communication Protocols for IoT * Physical Security and Data LocationTechnological focus for Smart Environments * Data and Knowledge Management * Data Mining * Big Data Security * Cloud Computing Platforms, Applicationsand Management * Cloud Security and Privacy Management * Mobile Cloud Computing * Services Computing * Hybrid Cloud Computing * Virtualization of Resources in Clouds * Energy Efficiency in Clouds * Data Storage in Clouds * Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring *Important Dates* Paper submission due: June 30, 2017 First-round acceptance notification: September 1, 2017 Revision: October 15, 2017 Final decision: December 15, 2017 Submission of final paper: January 15, 2018 Publication date: March, 2018 *Submission Guideline* Paper submissions for the special issue should follow the submission format and guidelines for regular Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the FGCS reviewing procedures. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Authors should select “*SI:**Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing*” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Top conference papers from SC2-2016 (http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2016) and IoTDBS 2017 (http://www.iotbds.org) will be invited for extended and enhanced version for this special issue. Extended conference contributions must have *at least 50%* difference from the original works (the authors must indicate the conference name and make the reference to the base conference paper). * Guest Editors* Anna Kobusinska (Lead guest editor), Faculty of Computing, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Raghavendra S, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Carson Leung, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Robert Hsu, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Victor Chang, International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University China.

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 13 May '17

13 May '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. PC members are strongly encouraged to submit papers. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017): Call for Papers (Springer-LNCS Proceedings)
by Abdessamad Imine 12 May '17

12 May '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- 1) Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) Title: "Electronic voting: how logic can help" 2) Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Title: "Privacy and Fairness Concerns with PII-based Targeted Advertising on Social Media" 3) Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Title: to be announced later Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification : September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a "position paper" to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention "Position paper" in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ------------ General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr Abdessamad IMINE Université de Lorraine & LORIA-INRIA Nancy Grand-Est 615 rue du Jardin Botanique 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Tel: +33 (0)3 54 95 85 35 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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CFP SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop): 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing
by roman 12 May '17

12 May '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** ============================================================================== C a l l F o r P a p e r s SPIFEC 2017: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing (In conjunction with ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway, September 14, 2017 Website: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec ============================================================================== Overview The main goal of Fog Computing and other related Edge paradigms, such as Multi-Access Edge Computing, is to decentralize the Cloud and bring some of its services closer to the edge of the network, where data are generated and decisions are made. Cloud-enabled edge platforms will be able to cooperate not only with each other but with the cloud, effectively creating a collaborative and federated environment. This paradigm shift will fulfill the needs of novel services, such as augmented reality, that have particularly stringent requirements like extremely low latency. It will also help improve the vision of the Internet of Things by improving its scalability and overall functionality, among other benefits. To enable this vision, a number of platforms and technologies need to securely coexist, including sensors and actuators, edge-deployed systems, software-defined networks, hardware virtualization, data mining mechanisms, etc. However, this paradigm shift calls for new security challenges and opportunities to leverage services for new scenarios and applications. The field of edge computing security is almost unexplored, and demands further attention from the research community and industry in order to unleash the full potential of this paradigm. Topics This workshop expects original research papers on, but not limited to, the topics described below: • Edge devices security • Attacks and Countermeasures to Edge computing platforms • Authentication and Access control in Edge computing • Accountability and Accounting in Edge computing • Identity management systems in Edge computing • Secure federation of Edge computing devices • Secure Orchestration and Management of Edge devices • Secure Software-Defined Networking for Edge computing • Secure Virtualization in Edge Computing • Secure Migration of resources in Edge Computing • Data and Computation integrity in Edge Computing • Trust and Reputation Management in Edge computing • Privacy in Edge Computing • Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems for Edge computing • Digital Forensics in Edge Computing • Risk Analysis in Edge Computing • Incident Management in Edge Computing Important dates: - Submission deadline: 30th June 2017 - Authors’ notification: 30th July 2017 - Camera ready version: 27th August 2017 Paper Submission Guidelines: Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spifec2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or submitted to another conference or journal. Papers must be written in English and they must adhere to 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 18 pages total. Only PDF format is accepted. Revised accepted papers will be published as a joint post-proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with other ESORICS Workshops (confirmed). 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 PC Chairs - Rodrigo Roman University of Malaga, Spain - Chunming Rong University of Stavanger, Norway General Chair - Ruben Rios University of Málaga, Spain Program Committee (More to be added) - Ketan Bhardwaj Georgia Tech, USA - Egemen K. Çetinkaya Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Xiaofeng Chen Xidian University, China - Nathan Clarke Plymouth University, UK - Mauro Conti University of Padova, Italy - Jose M. De Fuentes University Carlos III Madrid, Spain - Roberto Di Pietro Nokia Bell Labs, France - Martin G. Jaatun SINTEF, Norway - Donghyun Kim Kennesaw State University, USA - Costas Lambrinoudakis University of Piraeus, Greece - Qun Li College of William and Mary, USA - Kaitai Liang Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Flavio Lombardi Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy - Javier López University of Malaga, Spain - Masahiro Mambo Kanazawa University, Japan - Haralambos Mouratidis University of Brighton, UK - Abderrahmen Mtibaa New Mexico State University, USA - Jose A. Onieva University of Malaga, Spain - Fernando M.V. Ramos University of Lisbon, Portugal - Pierangela Samarati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Juan E. Tapiador University Carlos III Madrid, Spain For any inquiries please contact the PC Chairs at: spifec2017(a)nics.uma.es

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IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals
by CFP Conference 11 May '17

11 May '17

*IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in Big Data research, development and practice. Within these fields, workshops at Big Data form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Here are a summary of the conferences in the previous years: The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. 1. The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/ regular paper acceptance rate: 17.0%) was held in Santa Clara, CA from Oct 6-9, 2013 with more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries. 2. The IEEE Big Data 2014 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm, regular paper acceptance rate: 18.5.0%) was held in Washington DC, Oct 27-30, 2014 with more than 600 registered participants from 45 countries. 3. The IEEE Big Data 2015 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2015/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 16.8%) was held in Santa Clara, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015 with more than 780 registered participants from 49 countries. 4. The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Big Data. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in Big Data research, development and practice. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., Clouding Computing/Grid Computing/Stream Computing for Big Data; Big Data stream Mining, Big Graph Data Mining, or broad, e.g., Big Data Foundations , Big Data management, Big Data Mining and Searching, Big Data Privacy and Security, Big Data Application, etc (Pls refer to the IEEE Big Data 2017 http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ for more possible workshop topics). Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* May 20, 2017 Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs June 5, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 20 , 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE Big Data Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., Visualization and Analytics for Big Data) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (These dates are for your reference except the Camera-ready submission date, Please do not change the camera-ready date) *Oct 10, 2017:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Nov 1, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors *Nov 15, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers *Dec 11-14 2017:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Proposal Submission:* https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Email: cuzzocrea(a)si.dimes.unical.it Prof. Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Email: jtang02(a)syr.edu Prof. Masashi Toyoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Email: toyoda(a)tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDkwIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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