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CFP: RePara 2017 Workshop. Reengineering for Parallelism.
by JOSE DANIEL GARCIA SANCHEZ 08 May '17

08 May '17

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] ________________________________________________________________________ *The 3rd International Workshop on Reengineering for Parallelism in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms (REPARA 2017)* https://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/repara2017/ Held in conjunction with the International Conference of Parallel Computing (ParCo 2017) http://www.hpc.cineca.it/content/parco-2017 Bologna, Italy September, 12-15, 2017 ATTENTION: New Dates =================================== Submission deadline: June, 30, 2017 Notifications: July, 28, 2017 Abstract =================================== In recent years, traditional processors have not been able to directly translate chip fabrication technology advances intro performance gains. To keep satisfying the demand for computing power, there is a shift from homogeneous machines to heterogeneous architectures combining different kinds of processors (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, and other accelerators). While this approach has allowed significant performance and energy efficiency benefits, heterogeneous systems are often highly difficult to program with existing tools. To reduce the cost of system development, reengineering techniques emerge as a solution which may help to balance ease-of-development with better performance, better reliability, and lower maintenance costs. The RePara2017 workshop it aims to join experts from related disciplines to share recent advances in different areas contributing to better transformation of new and legacy applications to different programming models for diverse computing devices in the context of parallel heterogeneous architectures. Scope and Interest =================================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + High-level parallel programming models, libraries and languages for Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Compiler support for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems. + Description languages for Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Parallel patterns for Heterogeneous Platforms. + Autonomic management of Power/Performance trade-offs. + Automated kernel identification and assessment. + Software refactoring approaches for parallel programming models. + Transformations from source code to reconfigurable hardware. + Integration of FPGA accelerators into refactored software. + Runtimes for software coordination and task mapping in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Scheduling for Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Performance modeling and prediction in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Energy efficiency monitoring and prediction in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms. + Software quality assessment in parallel programming models with special attention to maintainability. + Applying partitioning and mapping for parallel Heterogeneous computing architectures. + Application experiences of refactoring to software in industrial domains. Workshop publication =================================== Accepted paper will be published in the proceedings of the ParCo 2017 Conference. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the proceedings book prior to its publication. Journal Publication =================================== Extended version of selected papers from the workshop will be invited by the RePara2017 program committee for publication, after further revision, in an special issue of an International Journal (to be announced). Submission Instructions =================================== Papers submitted to the workshop should be written in English conforming to the IOS Press Book format (see templates at IOS Press site at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word- tools-for-book-authors/). The paper should be submitted through the workshop submission system at EasyChair (https://easychair.org/confere nces/?conf=repara2017). The length of the papers should not exceed 10 pages. Contact =================================== Please email inquiries concerning the workshop to J. Daniel Garcia ( josedaniel.garcia(a)uc3m.es) -- Prof. J. Daniel Garcia Associate Professor - Profesor Titular de Universidad Computer Architecture Group University Carlos III of Madrid Avenida de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés, Madrid. Spain Tel: +34 91 624 6044 Fax: +34 91 624 9129 e-mail: josedaniel.garcia(a)uc3m.es Web: http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel Linked-In: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jdanielgarcia Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jdgarciauc3m -- Prof. J. Daniel Garcia Associate Professor - Profesor Titular de Universidad Computer Architecture Group University Carlos III of Madrid Avenida de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés, Madrid. Spain Tel: +34 91 624 6044 Fax: +34 91 624 9129 e-mail: josedaniel.garcia(a)uc3m.es Web: http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel Linked-In: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jdanielgarcia Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jdgarciauc3m -- Prof. J. Daniel Garcia Associate Professor - Profesor Titular de Universidad Computer Architecture Group University Carlos III of Madrid Avenida de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés, Madrid. Spain Tel: +34 91 624 6044 Fax: +34 91 624 9129 e-mail: josedaniel.garcia(a)uc3m.es Web: http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel Linked-In: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jdanielgarcia Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jdgarciauc3m

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IEEE BIBM 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals
by CFP Conference 07 May '17

07 May '17

*Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine http://muii.missouri.edu/bibm2017/ Nov 13-16, 2017, Kansas City, MO, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 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 bioinformatics and biomedicine. Within these fields, workshops at BIBM form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. 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 Bioinformatics, Biomedicine and Healthcare Informatics. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these three fields. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., “reverse-engineering” of gene regulatory networks from experimental data, computational approaches to drug discovery, mathematical modeling of signaling pathways, analysis of the next-generation sequencing data, oscillations and synchronization of biological rhythms, wireless sensor networks, patient health records, medical signal processing; or broad, e.g., computational proteomics, *in-silico* diagnosis and prognosis, data mining and machine learning algorithms for biomedical applications, application of network research to biology, emerging technology in healthcare, aging research etc. Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* *May *10, 2017: Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs May 20, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 25, 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE BIBM Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., mathematical modeling of signaling pathways) 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 (Please do not change the final camera-ready submission date, feel free to adjust other dates) *Sept 20, 2017:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Oct 10, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors * Oct 25, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers * Nov 13-16, 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:* Pls submit your workshop proposal at: *https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bibm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW <https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bibm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=ProW> * *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Illhoi Yoo, University of Missouri, USA Email: yooil(a)health.missouri.edu Prof. Jane Huiru Zheng, Ulster University, UK Email: h.zheng(a)ulster.ac.uk ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DMB-LIST list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDg2IGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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AlCoB 2017: call for participation
by GRLMC 07 May '17

07 May '17

AlCoB 2017: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2017 Aveiro, Portugal June 5-6, 2017 Organized by: Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA) University of Aveiro Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, June 5 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Michael Biehl: Biomedical Applications of Prototype Based Classifiers and Relevance Learning - Invited lecture 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:50 Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni, Luca Denti, Marco Previtali and Raffaella Rizzi: Mapping RNA-seq Data to a Transcript Graph via Approximate Pattern Matching to a Hypertext Alessio Conte, Roberto Grossi, Andrea Marino, Lorenzo Tattini and Luca Versari: A Fast Algorithm for Large Common Connected Induced Subgraphs 11:50 - 12:05 Break 12:05 - 12:55 Javlon E. Isomurodov, Alexander A. Loboda and Alexey A. Sergushichev: Ranking Vertices for Active Module Recovery Problem John L. Pfaltz: Computational Processes that Appear to Model Human Memory 12:55 - 14:25 Lunch 14:25 - 15:15 Philip J. Gerrish and Nick Hengartner: Inferring the Distribution of Fitness Effects (DFE) of Newly-arising Mutations Using Samples Taken from Evolving Populations in Real Time Jesper Jansson, Ramesh Rajaby and Wing-Kin Sung: An Efficient Algorithm for the Rooted Triplet Distance between Galled Trees 15:15 - 15:30 Break and Group photo 15:30 - 16:20 Benedict Paten: Describing the Local Structure of Sequence Graphs - Invited lecture 16:20 - 16:35 Break 16:35 - 18:05 Poster presentations Martin Ayling and Richard Leggett. MetaCortex: Assembling Variation in Metagenomics Gregory Farrant, Hoebeke Mark, Frédéric Partensky, Gwendoline Andrès, Erwan Corre and Laurence Garczarek. WiseScaffolder: An Algorithm for the Semi-automatic Scaffolding of Next Generation Sequencing Data Daniel Figueiredo and Eugénio Rocha. sDL: A Prover for Hybrid Systems César González, Mariano Pérez-Martínez, Juan M. Orduña, Javier Chaves-Martinez and Ana Barbara Garcia-Garcia. On the Use of Bit Arrays in the Detection of DNA Regions with Methylated Cytosines Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas and Armando J. Pinho. Quantifying Inverted Repeats in DNA Sequences Haneen Najjar, Nagam Khoury and Alexander Bolshoy. Quasi-omnipresent N-grams in M Prokaryotic Genomes John Santerre, James Davis, Fangfang Xia and Rick Stevens. Machine Learning for the Phenotype to Genotype Problem Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros and María Rodríguez-Romero. Multilayer Perceptron Based on Hyperbolic Tangent Hidden Nodes. An Experimental Study Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, Luis Rus-Pegalajar, María Rodríguez-Romero and Jonathan E. Benavides-Vallejo. Ranking-based Feature Selection in Microarray Problems 18:15 - 19:15 Touristic visit --- Tuesday, June 6 09:00 - 09:50 Marie-France Sagot: Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break 10:20 - 11:10 Alex Ozdemir, Michael Sheely, Daniel Bork, Ricson Cheng, Reyna Hulett, Jean Sung, Jincheng Wang and Ran Libeskind-Hadas: Clustering the Space of Maximum Parsimony Reconciliations in the Duplication-Transfer-Loss Model T.M. Rezwanul Islam and Ian McQuillan: CSA-X: Modularized Constrained Multiple Sequence Alignment 11:10 - 11:25 Break 11:25 - 12:15 Ozan Kahramanogullari: Quantifying Information Flow in Chemical Reaction Networks Gabriel H.G. Silva, Edans F.O. Sandes, George Teodoro and Alba C.M A. Melo: Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison in Linear Space with Multiple Adjustable Bands 12:15 - 12:25 Closing 12:25 - Lunch

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Call for Papers: 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17)
by Ishan Thakkar 06 May '17

06 May '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17) ================================================================================================ www.green-conf.org October 23-25 2017, Orlando, Florida IGSC’17 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will consist of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and tutorials on these topics. IGSC’17 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green Computing ----------------- - Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware - Low-power electronics and systems - Power-efficient multi/many-core chip design - Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs - Sensing and monitoring - Power and thermal behavior and control - Data centers optimization - Smart grid and microgrids - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability ----------------------------- - Renewable energy models and prediction - Matching energy supply and demand - Smart transportation and electric vehicles - Smart buildings and urban computing - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture - Computational models for epidemics, infectious diseases, and human well-being - Computational methods for sustainable economy and society Paper submission guidelines ---------------------------------- IGSC’17 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (www.green-conf.org) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Best paper award and journal publication ------------------------------------------ The Technical Committee will select the best contributions to be extended and considered by the Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and special sessions --------------------------------- Proposals are solicited for workshops and special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Special Sessions Chair (iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu) Ph.D. forum ------------ Submissions are solicited for a Ph.D. forum, from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing. Please refer to the IGSC website for specific instructions for extended abstract submission. Important dates ----------------- Deadline for submitting Workshop and Special Session proposals: May 15, 2017 Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: June 16, 2017 Paper submission: June 16, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: Aug 5, 2017 Organization -------------- Steering Committee Chairs: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), shirazi(a)wsu.edu General Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA), weisong(a)wayne.edu Tech. Program Chair: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, USA), sudeep(a)colostate.edu Workshop Chair: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca Publicity Chair: Ishan Thakkar (Colorado State University, USA), ishan9it(a)rams.colostate.edu

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MOD2017: Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2017
by Giuseppe Nicosia 06 May '17

06 May '17

*Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.* MOD 2017: The 3rd International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization & big Data An Interdisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science without Borders ======================================================= September 14 - 17, 2017, Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, Italy http://www.taosciences.it/mod/ Important dates =============== * Full Paper Submissions: May 15, 2017 * Full Paper Notifications: June 30, 2017 * Conference: September 14 - 17, 2017 Best Paper Awards =============== Springer sponsors the MOD 2017 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of EUR 1,000. The Award will be conferred at the conference on the authors of the best paper award. Keynote Speakers =============== + Yi-Ke Guo, Department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, UK Founding Director of Data Science Institute. + Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Director of AI Research at Apple. + Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology, China + Georgios Giannakis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Director of Digital Technology Center, USA (TBC) Special Sessions =============== + "Metaheuristics and Multi-Objective optimization for Big Data" Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille, France Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille, France https://sites.google.com/view/mmo-bd2017/ + “Industrial Session on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science for Real-World Applications” Ilaria Bordino, Marco Firrincieli, Fabio Fumarola, and Francesco Gullo, UniCredit R&D, Italy Tutorial =============== + “Tutorial on Scalable Data Mining on Cloud Computing Systems” Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy The International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization, and big Data (MOD) has established itself as a premier interdisciplinary conference in machine learning, computational optimization, knowledge discovery and data science. It provides an international forum for presentation of original multidisciplinary research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences. The conference will consist of four days of conference sessions. We invite submissions of papers on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization, Knowledge Discovery and Data Science including real-world applications for the Conference Proceedings (Springer - Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS). Topics of Interest The last five-year period has seen a impressive revolution in the theory and application of machine learning, optimization and big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations, algorithms, models and theory of data science, including big data mining. * Machine learning and statistical methods for big data. * Machine Learning algorithms and models. Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Convolutional neural networks. * Unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised Learning. * Knowledge Discovery. Learning Representations. Representation learning for planning and reinforcement learning. * Metric learning and kernel learning. Sparse coding and dimensionality expansion. Hierarchical models. Learning representations of outputs or states. * Multi-objective optimization. Optimization and Game Theory. Surrogate-assisted Optimization. Derivative-free Optimization. * Big data Mining from heterogeneous data sources, including text, semi-structured, spatio-temporal, streaming, graph, web, and multimedia data. * Big Data mining systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, security and privacy. * Computational optimization. Optimization for representation learning. Optimization under Uncertainty * Optimization algorithms for Real World Applications. Optimization for Big Data. Optimization and Machine Learning. * Implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware * Big Data mining for modeling, visualization, personalization, and recommendation. * Big Data mining for cyber-physical systems and complex, time-evolving networks. * Applications in social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, web, marketing, finance, precision medicine, health informatics, medicine and other domains. We particularly encourage submissions in emerging topics of high importance such as data quality, advanced deep learning, time-evolving networks, large multi-objective optimization, quantum discrete optimization, learning representations, big data mining and analytics, cyber-physical systems, heterogeneous data integration and mining, autonomous decision and adaptive control. Submission Guidelines =============== Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages, in the Springer LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 including the bibliography and any possible appendices. All submissions will be 6-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, significance, multidisciplinary, relevance to scope of the conference, originality and clarity. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017 Types of Submissions =============== When submitting a paper to MOD 2017, authors are required to select one of the following four types of papers: + Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 12 pages in Springer LNCS format); + Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 4 pages); + Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference; + Abstract for poster presentation only (max. 2 pages). The poster format for the presentation is A0 (118.9 cm high and 84.1 cm wide, respectively 46.8 x 33.1 inch). For research work which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference. Post-Proceedings =============== All accepted long papers will be published in a volume of the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' from Springer *after* the conference. Instructions for preparing and submitting the final versions (camera-ready papers) of all accepted papers will be available later on. All the other papers (short papers, abstracts of the oral presentations, abstracts for the poster presentations) will be published on the MOD 2017 web site. Presentation =============== MOD uses the single session formula of 30 minutes presentations for fruitful exchanges between authors and participants. Attendance =============== MOD is a premier forum for presenting and discussing current research in machine learning, optimization and big data. Therefore, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete the conference registration and present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and conference program. Organization =============== General Chair: Renato Umeton, Harvard University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Giovanni Giuffrida, University of Catania, Italy & Neodata Group Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Special Session Co-Chairs: Giuseppe Narzisi, New York University Tandon School of Engineering & New York Genome Center, New York, USA Workshop Co-Chair: Piero Conca, CNR, Italy Industrial Panel Chairs: Ilaria Bordino, Marco Firrincieli, Fabio Fumarola, and Francesco Gullo, UniCredit R&D W: http://www.taosciences.it/mod/ E: modworkshop2017(a)gmail.com -- Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Catania Viale A. Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy P +39 095 7383048 nicosia(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia ================================================================== 4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2017 * Biology meets Computer Science & Engineering * July 17-21, 2017 - University of Cambridge, Robinson College, UK http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ Contact Email: ssbss.school(a)gmail.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ Computational Synthetic Biology Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/ ================================================================== 3rd International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization & big Data - MOD 2017 An Interdisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science without Borders September 14-17, 2017 - Volterra (Pisa), Tuscany, Italy modworkshop2017(a)gmail.com http://www.taosciences.it/mod/ ==================================================================

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PGAS Applications Workshop at PPAM 2017
by Piotr Bała 05 May '17

05 May '17

CALL FOR PAPERS PGAS Applications Workshop at PPAM 2017 (http://pcj.icm.edu.pl/pgasapp2017) PGAS APP is a full-day workshop to be held at the PPAM 2017 focusing on PGAS (Partitioned Global Address Space) programming model and its application for large-scale parallel systems and multicore processors. Its goal is to bring together researchers working in the area of PGAS programming paradigm to parallelize large scale applications. The workshop focuses on PGAS programming languages, tools and libraries with the special focus on applications developed within this programming model. The workshop is open to any PGAS languages, with the special focus of new solutions. This workshop will feature papers that explore experiences from application developers in the use of the PGAS programming model for the development of scalable codes. The papers presented practical implementations, scalability and parallelization efficiency are foreseen. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: PGAS Languages and library implementations and their evaluation, Applications development experience with PGAS programming model, PGAS programming model for heterogenous systems, Comparisons between PGAS and other programming models, Benchmark suites and performance studies for PGAS programming model, Optimization techniques. Please submit full papers via the PPAM Conference submission system (formatted according to the PPAM specification), not previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Please acknowledge the workshop chair (address below) by sending an email including a cover page with the title, abstract, names and e-mail of the authors. Please submit pdf files. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper due May 31, 2017 Notification of acceptance June 20, 2017 Final version of the paper due Nov. 15, 2017 Workshop Chair: Piotr Bała, ICM, University of Warsaw Email: pgas2017(a)icm.edu.pl Program Committee Piotr Bała ICM University of Warsaw, Poland Costas Bekas IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland Buğra Gedik Bilkent University, Turkey Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos Queens University Belfast, UK Marek Nowicki Nicloaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland Hans Vandierendonck Queens University Belfast, UK

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Don't Miss Early Registration Rates for SSBSS 2017 + New Keynote Speakers!
by Giuseppe Nicosia 05 May '17

05 May '17

*SSBSS - SYNTHETIC & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL* *Bioengineering, Algorithmics & BioDesign Automation* *University of Cambridge, UK* *, July 17-21, 2017 * Early Registration Now Open! The Best Rates Expire on May 10, 2017 <https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54> http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54 For more info contact Alexis Moreau am2500(a)cam.ac.uk *Keynote Speakers:* Antonino Cattaneo, *Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy* Jasmin Fisher, *Microsoft Research & Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, UK* Carole Goble, *University of Manchester, UK* Jim Haseloff, *University of Cambridge, UK* Jay Keasling, *University of California, Berkeley, USA* Edda Klipp, *Humboldt University, Germany* Natalio Krasnogor, *Newcastle University, UK* Markus Ralser, *University of Cambridge, UK & The Francis Crick Institute, UK* Uwe Sauer, *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland* Gill Stephens, *The University of Nottingham, UK * Mike Stubbington, *EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK* Eriko Takano, *University of Manchester, UK* Sarah Teichmann, *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL, European Bioinformatics Inst., UK* Talks Talks Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Other speakers will be announced soon. Industrial Panel Jonathan Chesnut, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., USA Other speakers will be announced soon. *Call for Talks and Posters:* *Call for Abstracts Deadline: June 17, 2017* Notification: Late Registration will be accepted until June 17, 2017, admission notification will start on May 11, 2017, according to the application time. Those who plan to present talk or a poster must submit the abstract via the EasyChair system *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017>* no lather than June 17, 2017. LATE Registration: May 11 - July 21, 2017 For more information about SSBSS 2017 visit us here <http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/>: http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ Organizer: University of Cambridge, UK FB: https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ Computational Synthetic Biology Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/

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Euro-EDUPAR 2017 - submission deadline extended
by Rizos Sakellariou 04 May '17

04 May '17

[Apologies for crossposting - please kindly disseminate] ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28/29, 2017. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos/euroedupar/index.html Submission deadline: May 12, 2017 (extended) Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In this context, the 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and/or research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2017 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers between 10 and 12 pages presented at the workshop will be included. IMPORTANT DATES May 5, 2017: Paper submission deadline June 16, 2017: Author notification July 21, 2017: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings October 3, 2017: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Program Chair: Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Steering Committee: Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert (Chair), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, Poland and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster, Germany Thilo Kielmann, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, UCD, Ireland Tomas Margalef, UAB, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Milan Mihajlovic, University of Manchester, UK Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Gudula Ruenger, TU Chemnitz, Germany Jesper Larsson Traff, TU Wien, Austria Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia David Walker, Cardiff University, UK

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CIBB 2017 - Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine: Call for papers
by Chiara Damiani 04 May '17

04 May '17

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2017 <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/>, 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 7-9 September 2017, Cagliari, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 4 June 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks   biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems   flux balance analysis   metabolic engineering   metabolic pathway analysis   model verification and refinement methods   models of neural activity multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems   parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks   software tools for systems biology   spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: 4 June 2017 Acceptance: 22 June 2017 Registration due: 17 July 2017 Camera-ready: 22 July 2017 PROCEEDINGS Authors of accepted short papers (4-6 pages) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph, which is planned to be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Best papers will be invited to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/call.php> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Riccardo Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918 Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> _______________________________________________ bimib-group(a)mailing.disco.unimib.it <mailto:bimib-group@mailing.disco.unimib.it> http://strumenti.didattica.unimib.it/mailman//listinfo/bimib-group <http://strumenti.didattica.unimib.it/mailman//listinfo/bimib-group> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) co-located with CSF 2017
by Barbara Kordy 04 May '17

04 May '17

GraMSec 2017 - call for papers The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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