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Fwd: BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* *www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>* Lyon, France August 28 - 31, 2017 In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …). *Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big Data Mining. *Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via* numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration *PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: * Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/ starting from January 2017. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 2, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 9, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017 Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK. Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK ***

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Sixth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

*** Sixth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Submission Deadline: 17 April 2017 (extended) *** The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper with students as first authors will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: April 17, 2017 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CfPD: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

************************************************************************* CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017 https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/ ************************************************************************* Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017) ==== Aims and Scope ==== FAS* conference continues its tradition of offering poster and demo sessions, which are a great opportunity for an interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on FAS* topics. These sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge. Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and present original, cutting-edge ideas inclusive of speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: - Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds. - Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design, deployment, management and control, validation. - Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self-adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc. - Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, dependability assessment and analysis. - Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective awareness, gamification and serious games. - Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and cloud computing. - Autonomic Cloud Computing: Self-managing cloud services. Autonomic resource and energy management in cloud computing. Autonomic cloud applications and services - Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods: Evaluation, validation and quality and correctness assessment of autonomic loops. Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analyzing autonomic computing systems, control and decision theory - Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications: Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications. Stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications Demos may target virtual systems (e.g., software applications), physical systems (e.g., robots or sensor networks), or cyber-physical systems combining the two. Physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid solutions using both simulations and real platforms. Submissions which highlight the utility and general applicability of the contribution - whether short, medium or long term - are particularly solicited, and interactivity of a demo is considered a further asset. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 30, 2017 Notification: July 9, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Submission Instructions ==== For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract for their poster or demo. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here. Demo submissions must include a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work. Please visit the SASO website for further information on how to submit: www.saso-conference.org ==== Accepted Posters and Demos ==== If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera-ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from the reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters and Demos will be advertised in the final program, and authors’ two-page extended abstracts will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author of accepted posters or demos is required to register at the conference, give a brief presentation of the poster or demo in the interactive session, as well as stay with the poster and/or demo to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled session. ==== Poster Content and Layout Guidelines ==== Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved session, taking into consideration that all posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation needed to understand the work. - Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work. - A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters. - Where to find additional information. This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work; how to contact the authors, including email addresses; for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. The format and nature of posters require authors to capture the viewers’ attention effectively, and present core concepts to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the poster is A0, and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters to the conference. ==== Demo Guidelines ==== At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarising their system and demo, following the above guidelines. ==== Evaluation and Awards ==== Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse). At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees. The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both. ==== Contact Information ==== For any further information, please contact the Posters and Demos Chair.

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IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Papers
by CFP Conference 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

*Call for Papers* *2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)* http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. · The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. · The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2017 will offer* student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Journal Publication * A set of about 10 papers will be selected for a fast-track review and then published at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* 8.5" x 11" (DOC <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.doc>, PDF <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf>) *LaTex Formatting Macros* <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.…> *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 9, 2016 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2017 Conference: Dec 11-14, 2017 *PC Co-Chairs* Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research, USA *Industry and Government Co-Chairs:* Raghunath Nambiar, CISCO, USA Ghosh Rumi, BOSCH, USA Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, IncUSA Hui Zang, Huawei Research, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDQyIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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CAI 2017 -- Kalamata - Greece -- *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 ***
by Ilias Kotsireas 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

============================================================================ Third Call for Papers CAI 2017 7th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics June 25-28, 2017 Kalamata, Greece http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/CAI2017/ CAI is the biennial conference serving the community interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science, algebra, and related areas. CAI 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective five-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. ** Important Dates ** *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 *** Author notification: April 15, 2017 Early registration deadline: May 15, 2017 CAI 2017 General Chair Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CAI Steering Committee Symeon Bozapalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Olivier Carton, Universite Paris 7, Denis Diderot, France Manfred Droste, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany Zoltan Esik (deceased), University of Szeged, Hungary Werner Kuich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Dimitrios Poulakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Arto Salomaa, University of Turku, Finland Proceedings The CAI 2017 conference proceedings will be published in electronic form. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier). Topics Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track 1: Automata Theory and Logic Chair: Manfred Droste (Germany) Invited Speaker: Heiko Vogler (TU Dresden, Germany) Topics: This includes all topics of theoretical computer science with connections to automata theory and logic in computer science, in the broad sense. Submissions by e-mail: droste(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de A PC will select the 10% best submissions for a 'distinguished lecture'. Authors will receive a confirmation of this and will have more time than the usual talks. Track 2: Cryptography and Coding Theory Chairs: Stephane Ballet (France), Dimitrios Poulakis (Greece), Robert Rolland (France) Invited Speaker: Claude Carlet (Universite Paris 8, France) Topics: - Elliptic Curves Cryptography - Lattice Cryptography - Cryptanalytic Methods - Identity Based Cryptography - Symmetric Ciphers - Public Keys Cryptosystems - Digital Signatures - Steganography - Quantum Cryptography - Cryptographic Protocols - Computational Number Theory - Boolean Functions - Error-Correcting Codes - Algebraic-Geometric Codes - Code Based Cryptography - Quantum Codes Submissions by e-mail: stephane.ballet(a)univ-amu.fr, poulakis(a)math.auth.gr, robert.rolland(a)acrypta.fr Track 3: Computer Algebra Chairs: Rafael Sendra (Spain), Franz Winkler (Austria) Invited Speaker: Michael Wibmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Topics: - symbolic mathematical computation - exact algorithms - implementation of symbolic algorithms - applications Submissions by e-mail: Rafael.Sendra(a)uah.es, Franz.Winkler(a)risc.jku.at Track 4: Design Theory Chairs: Lucia Moura (Canada), Dimitris Simos (Austria) Invited Speaker: Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, USA) Topics: - algebraic and combinatorial methods in design theory - algorithms for construction and classification of designs - applications of combinatorial designs in computer science, coding theory and information theory - complexity problems in design theory Submissions by e-mail: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca , CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org Submission instructions: At the bottom of this mail. Track 5: Natural and Quantum Computing Chair: Mika Hirvensalo (Finland) Invited Speaker: Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada) Topics: - evolutionary algorithms - molecular computing - neural networks - quantum computing Submissions by e-mail: mikhirve(a)utu.fi For general inquiries regarding CAI 2017, please send e-mail to ikotsire(a)wlu.ca Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research. Submitted papers should not exceed 25 pages. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by e-mail to the track Chairs. All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. ======================================================== Instructions for Submissions for the Design Theory Track, CAI 2017: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 6 pages), containing original research results. The authors are responsible for convincing the reviewers of the correctness and interest of their results using only those six pages. Authors can add an optional appendix with proofs, sketches of proofs, or additional material. If included, the appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers if required to reach a decision. The appendix has no page limit, and because it will not be published, it cannot be referenced in the extended abstract. Submission of a paper implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of a lecture or academic thesis), that it is not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form. A special volume of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) will be dedicated to accepted extended abstracts to the Design Theory track of CAI 2017 and the publication date is expected for the second semester of 2018. The extended abstracts must comply with the ENDM LaTeX style and are limited to 6 pages, including the front matter, text, and references. Instructions for submission preparation may be obtained in the ENDM web page http://www.elsevier.com/locate/endm. Once prepared, the paper should be submitted by e-mail to the Design Theory track chairs using BOTH the email addresses below: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca, CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org NOTE: The publication of the extended abstract in the Design Theory track (ENDM) is independent and complementary to a possible submission of full papers to the volume of Theoretical Computer Science dedicated to best papers among all tracks of CAI 2017. =================================================

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP
by Barbara Kordy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '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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CFP: Euro-EDUPAR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
by Rizos Sakellariou 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), in conjunction with Euro-Par 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 presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. 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 Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 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 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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The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS'17)
by Peter Mueller 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

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: March 24, 2017 - Extended 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. http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 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 - March 24, 2017 - Extended Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline - March 10, 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/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or 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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2nd CFP: CIBCB Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods
by Marco S. Nobile 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/CIBCBss.html> hosted by IEEE CIBCB 2017 <http://cibcb2017.org/> 23-25 August 2017,Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Computational intelligence is frequently exploited to devise efficient heuristics to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology. However, these approaches are computationally challenging as they might require excessively burdensome execution times in the case of real-world problems, therefore limiting their applicability. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational intelligence methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * analysis and visualization of large datasets * analysis and visualization of genome-wide models * biomedical model parameterization * development of synthetic biological devices * drug design * emergent properties in complex biological systems * flux balance analysis * gene expression array analysis * high-throughput data analysis * high efficiency algorithms for solving biological problems * medical image analysis * medical imaging and pattern recognition * metabolic pathway analysis * mining of biomedical data * modelling, simulation and optimization of biological systems * molecular dynamics and molecular docking * molecular evolution and phylogenetics * molecular sequence alignment and analysis * prediction and searching of molecular structure and folding * spectral analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper submission: 31 March 2017 Paper acceptance notification: 2 June 2017 Final paper submission: 30 June 2017 Conference: 23-25 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Marco S. Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Ashlock - University of Guelph, Canada Paolo Cazzaniga - University of Bergamo, Italy Daniela Besozzi - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines * Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight(8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. * Papers must be in PDF and written in English.Detailed instructions and templates for preparing your manuscripts can be found here <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. * At maximum, two additional pages are permittedwith over-length page charge of US$125/page, to be paid during author registration. * Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. * All papers should be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system. Furhter information can be found in the CIBCB2017 submission page <http://cibcb2017.org/index.html#submission>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts Marco S. Nobile, PhD University of Milano-Bicocca Email: nobile(a)disco.unimib.it

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[CfP] ICCST-2017: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/ The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges. All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process.Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore. As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city, its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will include a display of flamenco dancing. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017 Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017 Early Registration: August 15, 2017 Best Regards, ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee ICCST-2017 Executive Committee http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/

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