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Call for Position Papers - 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017)
by SECRYPT 2017 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS ************************************************************************ 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) Madrid, Spain, 24-26 July 2017 http://secrypt.icete.org ************************************************************************ The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) to be held in Madrid, Spain, 24-26 July 2017, is now welcoming the submission of position papers whose deadline is April 18, 2017. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics. Please check further details about position papers submission at the conference website http://www.secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security requirements Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security POSITION PAPERS SUBMISSION Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.insticc.org/primoris/. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx . After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Position Papers will be accepted as Short Papers. Submission page limit is 6 pages. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES (Position Papers only) - Paper Submission: April 18, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 24, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: June 6, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Antunes, U. Porto, Portugal, Portugal Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy Prithvi Bisht, Adobe, United States Carlo Blundo, Universita' di Salerno, Italy Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Dario Catalano, Universita' di Catania, Italy Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Jun Dai, California State University, United States Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Tassos Dimitriou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece and Kuwait University, Kuwait Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Alberto Ferrante, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Mines-Telecom, TELECOM SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, United States Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Olivier Markowitch, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, United States Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Cristina Serban, AT&T, United States Daniele Sgandurra, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vicenc Torra, University of Skovde, Sweden Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Salerno, Italy Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, The College of William and Mary, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Qiben Yan, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States Yongjun Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore For any questions, please contact the program chair: secrypt2017(a)unimi.it

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Final Extension for main track submission deadline - HPCS 2017
by Waleed Smari 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

[Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation*** ** *The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference* *(HPCS 2017)* *The 15th Annual Meeting* ** *July 17 - 21, 2017* *Genoa, Italy*** ** *http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info**or**http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17*** ** *In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP*** ** *Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _April 03, 2017_– Final Extension* *(**Symposia* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017>*, **Workshops* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017>*and **Special Sessions* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017>*have their own deadlines**- please check the track of interest)* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, software and middleware in HPC systems, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be *tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits.* Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived *symposia, workshops and special sessions (**may have different deadlines)*: Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest.We also welcome colleagues interested in organizing tracks, including those without current organizers. Symposia: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 Workshops: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 Special Sessions: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 Tutorials: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu… DDC:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-doctoral-colloquium Demos:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-demos Panels:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-panels Posters:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters Sponsorships: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp… *SPECIAL ISSUES* Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. *FOLLOW US ON* *Twitter:*https://twitter.com/HPCS_Conference *Facebook:*https://www.facebook.com/HPCSConference/ ================================================================= *_Important Dates_**:* Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ———- *April 03, 2017 – Final Extension* Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————- *April 03, 2017* Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts ———————— *April 24, 2017* Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— *May 11, 2017* Conference Dates ——————————————————— *July 17 - 21, 2017* ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/orhttp://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Genoa in July. Thank you very much.Best Regards. HPCS 2017 Organizers

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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) Reggio Calabria (Italy) - Deadline is approaching!
by Francesco Buccafurri 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 31, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David, Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian, Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe, Feltus Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena, Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel Carl von Ossietzky, Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil, Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University ,US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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CFP: Euro-EDUPAR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
by Rizos Sakellariou 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

[Apologies for crossposting - please kindly disseminate to your colleagues] ***** 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 5, 2017 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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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: June 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2017 - Papers due May 5
by Christian Engelmann 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017 <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017>> in conjunction with the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28 - September 1, 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es <http://europar2017.usc.es/>> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 12 pages, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>>. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2017 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017 <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017>> - Resilience 2017 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops>> - Euro-Par 2017 website: <http://europar2017.usc.es <http://europar2017.usc.es/>> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 5, 2017 - Workshop author notification: June 16, 2017 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2017 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2017 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov <mailto:scottsl@ornl.gov> - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu <mailto:box@latech.edu> Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu <mailto:bridges@cs.unm.edu> - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov <mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA - Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov <mailto:engelmannc@ornl.gov> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info <http://www.christian-engelmann.info/>

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IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP
by OpenMP ARB 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

*IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP* September 21-22, 2017 Stony Brook, NY, USA https://you.stonybrook.edu/iwomp2017/ *Background* For many years, OpenMP has provided a very rich and flexible programming model for shared memory architectures. OpenMP 4.0 is a major advance that adds new forms of parallelism: device constructs for accelerators, SIMD constructs for vector units, and several significant extensions for work-sharing and task-based parallelism. OpenMP 4.5 further extends OpenMP for use with today's complex heterogeneous architectures. The International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) is an annual workshop dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP. It is the premier forum to present and discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas, and results related to OpenMP. We solicit submissions of unpublished technical papers detailing innovative, original research and development related to OpenMP. *Topics* All topics related to OpenMP are of interest, including OpenMP performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness tools, proposed OpenMP extensions, and OpenMP applications in any domain (e.g., scientific and numerical computation, video games, computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization, text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing, and machine learning). Advances in technologies, such as new kinds of memory, deep memory hierarchies, multi-core processors, and support in OpenMP for devices (accelerators such as GPGPUs, DSPs and FPGAs), Multiprocessor Systems on a Chip (MPSoCs), present new opportunities and challenges for software and hardware developers. Recent advances in the C, C++ and Fortran base languages also offer interesting opportunities and challenges to the OpenMP programming model. IWOMP 2017 particularly solicits submissions in these areas as well as ones that discuss how to apply OpenMP to additional models of parallelism such as event loops. *Paper Submission and Registration* Submitted papers for review should be limited to 12 pages and follow LNCS guidelines. Submission deadline is April 28, 2017 (AOE). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a final paper of up to 15 pages. As in previous years, IWOMP 2017 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers in Springer Verlag's LNCS series. *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2017 Deadline for final version: June 8, 2017 *Organizers* General Chair: - Abid Malik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Co-chairs: - Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

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WPDM 2017 CFP
by Massimo Cafaro 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: April 3, 2017 (extended) Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 3, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 21, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------------ May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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International Conference on Dependency Linguistics - 1st Call for Papers
by Depling 2017 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics Pisa, Italy 18-20 September 2017 Conference web site: http://depling.org/depling2017/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE AIMS The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have become very widespread in natural language processing. However, the linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need to discuss the theoretical and formal foundations of dependency-based concepts is felt strongly by many people working in these domains. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: - The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written and spoken texts; - Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics; - The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and their link to classical logic; - The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations; - Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for example, topological field theories; - Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model discourse phenomena; - The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure; - History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative approaches to language; - Dependency grammar and linguistic universals. SHARED TASK This year Depling is co-located with the "International Workshop on Parsing Technologies" (IWPT 2017), which will take place immediately after Depling 2017. The two conferences will have an overlapping day, September 20th, in which the results will be reported of a joint shared task playing the role of Depling-IWPT "bridge event" and focusing on "Extrinsic Parser Evaluation" (EPE). The goal of this shared task is to try to shed light on the relative `utility' of different types of dependency representations for downstream applications that depend on grammatical analysis. For background and information on participation, see: http://epe.nlpl.eu/ PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the Depling2017 EasyChair site ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=depling2017 ). Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references). All submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates created for the Depling 2017 conference. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2017 Final version of papers due: July 15, 2017 Depling conference: September 18-20, 2017 For the shared task timetable, see website. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa Felice Dell'Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Maria Simi, University of Pisa Email contact: depling2017(a)depling.org

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AlCoB 2017: call for posters
by GRLMC 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

AlCoB 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2017 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal) on June 5-6, 2017. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by May 22, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 260 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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