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FMEC 2017 CFP: The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE FMEC 2017 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Co-loacated with (SDS 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php Call for Papers: Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2017 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Ejaz Ahmed, NIST, USA * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA. Publication Co-Chairs: * Ali Safa Sadiq, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Publicity Chair: * Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. Steering Committee: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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2nd CfP: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org <http://www.smap2017.org/> ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Special Session proposals: January 20, 2017 Special Session approval: January 27, 2017 Submission of full papers: February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks special sessions proposals addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27
by GRLMC 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: January 27, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 28 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), tba George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), tba Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), tba OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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SDS 2017 CFP: The Fourth International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017), Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE SDS 2017 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE -Spain Section) Co-loacated with (FMEC 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Call For Papers: Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and managements (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers.One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015 and SDS'2016), The fourth International confernce on Software Defined Systems 2017 (SDS'2017) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2017 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCS MS2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yojiro UO, IIJ Innovation Institute Inc., Japan. Publication Co-Chairs: * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. * Angelo Furfaro, University of Calabria, Italy Publicity Chair: * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Steering Committee: * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA (Chair) * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on SDS 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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PDSEC/IPDPS-17 workshop: extended deadline Jan 27
by Peter Strazdins 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

(apologies for cross-postings) DEADLINE: PDSEC-17: extended deadline: Jan 27 (final) The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-17) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec17 will be held on Jun 02, 2017, Florida USA in conjunction with IPDPS 2017. Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, systemwide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. The focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due (FINAL EXTENSION) . . . . . January 27, 2017 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 24, 2017 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2017 (TBC) Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 02, 2017 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GHCE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EXTENDED! Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline has been extended until January 15, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time), extended until Jan 15, 2017 ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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call for papers CMMSE 2017
by Prof. Jesús Vigo-Aguiar 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

CMMSE 2017 17th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (including the celebration of the 70th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Sproessig ) Barceló Costa Ballena Golf & SPA July 4-8, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain. http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/ Call for Presentations CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: The 2017 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE-2017), is the fourteen of this conference series. CMMSE2015 aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields and participate in special sessions different from but still close to their own interests. Standard presentation: 20+5 minutes in length. Special Sessions: Minimum of 8 presentations. Symposiums more than 10 presentations. Symposiums chairs can act as plenary speakers. FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS contact: <mailto:cmmse@usal.es> cmmse(a)usal.es IMPORTANT DATES: May 17, 2017 -- Deadline for submission of Abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (12 pages). May 26, 2017 -- Notification of Acceptance June 12, 2017 – Registration (with podium) June 20, 2017 -- Registration (without podium) August 10, 2017 -- Deadline for submission (SPECIAL ISSUES). Sept. 10, 2017-- Special issue final selection. JOURNALS INVOLVED: (all indexed by SCI-ISI) Computational Chemistry & Mathematical Chemistry · Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer) · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures (Taylor & Francis). Computational Mathematics · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier) (solicited) · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). · International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Computer Science · Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). · International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (solicited, Word Scientific)

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 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… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including PhD consortia and workshops. WORKSHOPS Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entitites. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gamper(a)inf.unibz.it · Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl The proposal should include: · a workshop title · estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day) · names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · a (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · a workshop main goals · the list of a workshop topics · preliminary CFP · how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: · organize the workshop's program committee · disseminate the workshop call for papers · solicit submissions · conduct the reviewing process · prepare the final workshop program The official language of workshops is English. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. PUBLICATION Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in Computer and Information Science'. We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017 · Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017 · Workshops held: September 24, 2017 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs. 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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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Scietech 2017 - Bali Indonesia : Call for Keynote Speakers
by Rudy Lolo 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Dear Professors and Researchers, The 5th International Conference on Science & Engineering in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics 2017 (ScieTech 2017) will be held at the The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, during 21 - 22 January 2017. The detail of ScieTech 2017 is in http://scietech.org/ We would like to announce with 3 (three) Keynote speakers positions with qualifications at least PhD in one of the areas of Physics, Mathematics and or Chemistry with depth publications in Journals and have solid research on those areas. The ScieTech 2017 will cover the accomodation in The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali for two nights as well as support of the travel from origin country to Bali round trip. Kindly please send your CV and abstract for review whether aligned with ScieTech 2017 via email to scietechconf(a)gmail.com on the latest 11 January 2017. Sincerely yours, ScieTech 2017 Committee

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