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The 9th edition of Educational Knowledge Management (EKM2026)
by Yazan MUALLA 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

[Apology for cross-postings] ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th edition of Educational Knowledge Management (EKM2026) https://csedu.scitevents.org/EKM.aspx In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 18 - 20 may, 2026, Benidorm, Spain Chairs: Assistant Prof. Christine Lahoud, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France Prof. Marie-Hélène Abel, HEUDIASYC CNRS UMR, University of Compiègne, France Associate Prof. Yazan Mualla, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France Scope: The high volume of information in organizations has led researchers to focus on knowledge management (KM) as a form of competitive and success leverage. The interest in KM for the educational domain has been growing in recent years as a strategic approach for sustainable development. The use of KM in education can, for instance, help develop strategies to improve teaching effectiveness and student retention, support decision-making, analyze the impact of social media and games in learning, generate exam questions from text files, or provide personalized student guidance. For this 9th edition, we are opening up to AI-driven educational systems. This new focus highlights the growing impact of Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and Explainable AI (XAI) in shaping next generation learning environments. By expanding our scope, we aim to explore how these technologies enhance personnalization, automation, and educational decision-making. We welcome submissions reporting original research that explores how KM technologies, Agentic AI, and Generative AI can address challenges related to the management and analysis of educational information in academic or professional learning institutions. Topics: We welcome papers describing original work applied to education. A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop includes the following: • Recommendation and Personalized Learning • Educational knowledge management and ontologies • Educational Data and Learning Analytics • Semantic Web and Linked Data in Education • Artificial intelligence, robotics and human-computer interaction in education • Natural Language Processing to improve educational effectiveness • Educational Systems and Software • Practical Learning and Pedagogical Methods • Agentic AI and autonomous educational agents • LLMs and SLMs for educational purposes • Generative AI and large language models for knowledge creation and tutoring • XAI for transparent educational decision-making • Human-centered design and ethics in agentic learning systems • Integrating KM frameworks with AI-driven adaptive learning • Collaborative intelligence and human-AI co-creation in education Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: https://csedu.scitevents.org/Templates.aspx Please also check the Guidelines (https://csedu.scitevents.org/Guidelines.aspx) Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriate button on the conference page. Publications: After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library Important Dates: Paper Submission: (GMT anywhere on earth) Authors Notification: Camera Ready and Registration:

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The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26)
by Yazan MUALLA 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************************************************************************************* The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26) https://www.ciad-lab.fr/calm-26/ In conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-26/ April 14-16, 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye. ************************************************************************************************************************************** Description: ============ Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM) represents three rapidly-growing fields within artificial intelligence research. This workshop aims to establish methodological integration between these disciplines by investigating how causal reasoning, agentic AI, and explainable AI (XAI) techniques can enhance transparency, decision-making, and adaptation in multi-agent systems (MAS). Agentic AI, which emphasizes autonomous goal-driven behavior and self-reflective reasoning in AI systems, introduces new paradigms for control, coordination, and accountability in intelligent agents. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to discuss theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future directions at the intersection of causal AI, agentic AI, XAI, Large Language Models (LLM), and MAS. CALM Workshop goals: ===================== _Explore the role of causal reasoning and agentic AI in enhancing decision-making, coordination, and adaptation in multi-agent systems. _Discuss technical challenges and opportunities for integrating causal AI, agentic AI techniques, and LLM into MAS frameworks. _Develop methodologies and metrics to evaluate the explainability and autonomy of causal reasoning in agents and large models. _Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in causal reasoning, XAI, agentic AI, LLM, and MAS. _Examine how explanations support user trust, cognitive ergonomics, and effective human-agent collaboration. _Identify promising directions for future research and development in this rapidly advancing research domain. Topics: ======= The main topics of the CALM-25 workshop are (but not restricted to): _Theoretical foundations of causal reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) _Causal reasoning capabilities in Large Models (e.g., Large Language Models, LLMs) _Theoretical and practical Agentic-AI for autonomous and reflective agents _Explainable AI (XAI) with active inference techniques _Integration of causal and agentic reasoning for adaptive multi-agent coordination _Applications of XAI techniques in agent-based modeling and simulation _Human-centered evaluation of causal explanations in MAS, LLMs, and agentic systems _Causal inference in complex and dynamic multi-agent environments _Mechanistic Interpretability of Causality in Large Language Models _LLMs for coordination, cooperation, and communication among agents _Challenges and opportunities for incorporating XAI and agentic principles into MAS frameworks _Case studies and empirical evaluations of XAI approaches in agents _Generative AI as preprocessing for MAS _Exploring causality with deep generative models _Digital twins and simulators for interpretable synthetic data generation _Graph neural network causal learning _Interpretable and ergonomically-grounded root cause analysis methods for agent decision-making _Logic and argumentation-based approaches to causal reasoning _Ethical and Responsible XAI and Agentic AI in LLM _Human Factors in XAI and Agentic AI _Adaptive and Personalized Explanations (Context-aware, and Human-centric) _Multi-modal explanations and Cross-cultural ergonomics _Ergonomic evaluation of explanation modalities (visual, textual, interactive) _Explainability in human-agent teaming: Ergonomic principles for effective collaboration in mixed teams (humans + AI agents) Submission guidelines: ====================== Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the Guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. Authors are required to write **The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26)** in the title section of the template, and not the name of the main conference. Kindly refer to the Template in the CALM-26 website. Submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the program committee, who are experts in the field. The acceptance of the submitted papers will be based on scientific rigor, methodological soundness, contribution to causality and explainability in agents and large models, and originality. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=calm26 Proceedings =========== All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. All accepted and registered papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect, and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus and by Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Scopus and Engineering Village (This includes EI Compendex),and DBLP. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Chairs: ======= -Dr. Yazan Mualla, Associate Professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France yazan.mualla[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/yazan_mualla -Dr. Hui Zhao, Assistant Professor, (Tongji University, China). huizhao[at]tongji.edu.cn -Dr. Amro Najjar, Assistant Professor, (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg). amro.najjar[at]list.lu -Dr. Syrine Haddad, PostDoc researcher, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France syrine.haddad[at]utbm.fr Advisory Board: =============== -Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland, Full professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France stephane.galland[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/stephane_galland/ -Prof. Dr. Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Full professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France abdeljalil.abbas-turki[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/abdeljalil_abbas-turki/ Important Dates ================ Submission deadline: December 27th (extended), 2025 Notification: January 20th, 2026 Final date for camera-ready: January 28th, 2026 Workshop: April 14-16, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the day specified, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Previous proceedings: ===================== CALM-24 (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89103-8

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Postdoc position available in XAI
by Yazan MUALLA 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, In our project xHub (Supervision of Autonomous Robot Tractors in Warehouses and Logistics Platforms), we are hiring a post-doc in eXplainable AI. Attached is the job offer (in French). Contract Details: ● Start Date: March 1, 2026. ● Duration: 12 months. ● Work Location: Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CIAD), University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), Belfort, France. ● Supervisors: Dr. Yazan Mualla<https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazan-mualla-51b10a93?originalSubdomain=fr> (UTBM) in collaboration with Dr. Françoise Fessant<https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7oise-fessant-90483616a/> (Orange, Paris). Contact: yazan.mualla(a)utbm.fr<mailto:yazan.mualla@utbm.fr> Thank you for helping to disseminate the word in your networks. Best Regards, Dr. Yazan Mualla Associate Professor Head of Specialty Program: Software Development Council member of the Lab. Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence (CIAD) EA 7533 Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UTBM, F-90010 Belfort, FRANCE Postal Address: Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology, 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg, 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE

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2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application (by "Dec 31, 2025 (23:59:59 PST)")
by Raymond Wong 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application (by "Dec 31, 2025 (23:59:59 PST)") ====================================================================================== Link: https://pakdd.org/awards.html#link3 Thanks to PAKDD Steering Committee, PAKDD will provide Early Career Research Award to an individual in the first 10 years after PhD. The award aims to promote young researchers in KDD fields when they create their career. It consists of a plaque (and potentially cash) to the awardee. The recipient will receive the award at the annual PAKDD Conference during the awards session. For any questions, please contact the PAKDD Junior Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong(a)cse.ust.hk ). Eligibility =========== 1. Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are excluded. The nominator should obtain the endorsement from the nominee before nomination. 2. The nominee’s PhD should have been awarded no earlier than December 31st, current year – 11 years. For example, for the year 2026 awards, this means no earlier than 31st December 2015. 3. The nominee can be anyone except the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee. 4. The nominee must have published at least one full/long paper in PAKDD, and attended at least one PAKDD conference to present his/her results. Selection Criteria ================== The application is evaluated based on the nominee's overall research contributions, leadership, and service in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. The awardee should commit to register for PAKDD 2026 and attend the PAKDD 2026 ceremony on-site to receive the award. The Award Selection Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. Submission Details ================== The nominator should send a single PDF file containing all the following documents by Dec 31, 2025 (23:59:59 PST) to the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong(a)cse.ust.hk ). The email title is “PAKDD: Application of 2026 PAKDD Early Career Research Award”. In the email, please include the nominee in the CC list. 1. Statement including the following. Please use the given form at this link ( https://pakdd.org/Application_Forms/PAKDD%20Early%20Career%20Research%20Awa… ) a. Nominator Information i. Name ii. Email Address iii. Affiliation iv. Homepage URL b. Nominee Information i. Name ii. Email Address iii. Affiliation iv. Homepage URL c. Proposed Citation of Nominee (up to 25 words) d. Detailed Statement to Justify the nomination (500 words or fewer) 2. Endorsement Letter (approximate 1 page) written by at least one SC (Steering Committee) member who is not the nominator. The letter should include detailed statement about the nominee’s overall research, leadership, and service contributions in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. 3. Certificate showing PhD degree awarding intuition and the time receiving the PhD degree Only PDF files are accepted. No other file formats are accepted. Submissions violating the above guideline will be disregarded. Notifications will be sent to the nominators and the nominees by Jan 25, 2026 (23:59:59 PST). Nominations that did not result in an award in the current year can be re-submitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold.

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CFP OLA'2026 Int. Conf. Optimization & Learning @Creta (Greece)
by El-Ghazali Talbi 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2026 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 28-30 April 2026 Chania, Crete, Greece http://ola2026.sciencesconf.org/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and/or machine learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2026 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2026 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages - S3: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication Important dates: =============== Paper submission deadline extension Dec 19, 2025 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the conference. -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2026 10th International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 28-30, 2026, Creta, Greece, https://ola2026.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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A post-doc in eXplainable AI
by Yazan MUALLA 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Hello, In our project (Supervision of Autonomous Robot Tractors in Warehouses and Logistics Platforms), we are hiring a post-doc in eXplainable AI. The job offer (in French) can be found at this link: https://lnkd.in/e4aPAsUq Contract Details: ● Start Date: March 1, 2026. ● Duration: 12 months. ● Work Location: Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CIAD), University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), Belfort, France. ● Supervisors: Dr. Yazan Mualla (UTBM) in collaboration with Dr. Françoise Fessant (Orange, Paris). Thank you for helping to disseminate the word in your networks. Best Regards, Dr. Yazan Mualla Associate Professor Head of Specialty Program: Software Development Council member of the Lab. Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence (CIAD) EA 7533 Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UTBM, F-90010 Belfort, FRANCE Postal Address: Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology, 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg, 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE

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CFP: The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26)
by Yazan MUALLA 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************************************************************************************* The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26) https://www.ciad-lab.fr/calm-26/ In conjunction with The 17th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-26/ April 14-16, 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye. ************************************************************************************************************************************** Description: ============ Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM) represents three rapidly-growing fields within artificial intelligence research. This workshop aims to establish methodological integration between these disciplines by investigating how causal reasoning, agentic AI, and explainable AI (XAI) techniques can enhance transparency, decision-making, and adaptation in multi-agent systems (MAS). Agentic AI, which emphasizes autonomous goal-driven behavior and self-reflective reasoning in AI systems, introduces new paradigms for control, coordination, and accountability in intelligent agents. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to discuss theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future directions at the intersection of causal AI, agentic AI, XAI, Large Language Models (LLM), and MAS. CALM Workshop goals: ===================== _Explore the role of causal reasoning and agentic AI in enhancing decision-making, coordination, and adaptation in multi-agent systems. _Discuss technical challenges and opportunities for integrating causal AI, agentic AI techniques, and LLM into MAS frameworks. _Develop methodologies and metrics to evaluate the explainability and autonomy of causal reasoning in agents and large models. _Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in causal reasoning, XAI, agentic AI, LLM, and MAS. _Examine how explanations support user trust, cognitive ergonomics, and effective human-agent collaboration. _Identify promising directions for future research and development in this rapidly advancing research domain. Topics: ======= The main topics of the CALM-25 workshop are (but not restricted to): _Theoretical foundations of causal reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) _Causal reasoning capabilities in Large Models (e.g., Large Language Models, LLMs) _Theoretical and practical Agentic-AI for autonomous and reflective agents _Explainable AI (XAI) with active inference techniques _Integration of causal and agentic reasoning for adaptive multi-agent coordination _Applications of XAI techniques in agent-based modeling and simulation _Human-centered evaluation of causal explanations in MAS, LLMs, and agentic systems _Causal inference in complex and dynamic multi-agent environments _Mechanistic Interpretability of Causality in Large Language Models _LLMs for coordination, cooperation, and communication among agents _Challenges and opportunities for incorporating XAI and agentic principles into MAS frameworks _Case studies and empirical evaluations of XAI approaches in agents _Generative AI as preprocessing for MAS _Exploring causality with deep generative models _Digital twins and simulators for interpretable synthetic data generation _Graph neural network causal learning _Interpretable and ergonomically-grounded root cause analysis methods for agent decision-making _Logic and argumentation-based approaches to causal reasoning _Ethical and Responsible XAI and Agentic AI in LLM _Human Factors in XAI and Agentic AI _Adaptive and Personalized Explanations (Context-aware, and Human-centric) _Multi-modal explanations and Cross-cultural ergonomics _Ergonomic evaluation of explanation modalities (visual, textual, interactive) _Explainability in human-agent teaming: Ergonomic principles for effective collaboration in mixed teams (humans + AI agents) Submission guidelines: ====================== Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the Guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. Authors are required to write **The 3rd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-26)** in the title section of the template, and not the name of the main conference. Kindly refer to the Template in the CALM-26 website. Submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the program committee, who are experts in the field. The acceptance of the submitted papers will be based on scientific rigor, methodological soundness, contribution to causality and explainability in agents and large models, and originality. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=calm26 Proceedings =========== All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. All accepted and registered papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect, and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus and by Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Scopus and Engineering Village (This includes EI Compendex),and DBLP. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Chairs: ======= -Dr. Yazan Mualla, Associate Professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France yazan.mualla[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/yazan_mualla -Dr. Hui Zhao, Assistant Professor, (Tongji University, China). huizhao[at]tongji.edu.cn -Dr. Amro Najjar, Assistant Professor, (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg). amro.najjar[at]list.lu -Dr. Syrine Haddad, PostDoc researcher, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France syrine.haddad[at]utbm.fr Advisory Board: =============== -Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland, Full professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France stephane.galland[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/stephane_galland/ -Prof. Dr. Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Full professor, CIAD, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard, France abdeljalil.abbas-turki[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/abdeljalil_abbas-turki/ Important Dates ================ Submission deadline: December 20th, 2025 Notification: January 20th, 2026 Final date for camera-ready: January 28th, 2026 Workshop: April 14-16, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the day specified, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Previous proceedings: ===================== CALM-24 (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89103-8

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Call for Papers, PDSEC-2026 Workshop, 25th of May 2026 - New Orleans, USA
by Jean-Claude Charr 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

**CALL FOR PAPERS** The 27th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-2026) (https://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2026/pdsec/ <http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2025/pdsec/>) will be held on the 25th of May 2026 in New Orleans, USA, in conjunction with IPDPS 2026. Deadline: PDSEC-2026 deadline: 19 Jan 2026 Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing (PDC) 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 scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. In particular, we will focus on the following topics in parallel and distributed scientific and engineering applications, and not limited to: - Big scientific data - Performance modeling and simulation for the execution of scalable scientific applications on new heterogeneous architectures - Graph analytics with their (scientific) applications - Code modernization methodologies and experiences for adapting the changes in future computing systems - Languages for scientific computing on hybrid systems (e.g. Python, MPI+X where X is OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc.) - Tools and techniques for improving the performance, reliability and resilience of scientific applications - Use cases of enterprise distributed computing technology (such as MapReduce, Data Analytics and Machine-learning tools) in scientific and engineering applications - Scalable parallel and distributed algorithms supporting science and engineering applications - Performance portability across heterogeneous architecture Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 19th, 2026 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 25th, 2026 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . March 6th, 2026 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25th, 2026 General Chairs Sabine Roller, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Camille Coti, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montréal), Canada Program Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Neda Ebrahimi Pour, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Publicity Chair Jean-Claude Charr, University of Franche-Comte, France Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Web Chair Jiawei Wang, The University of Warwick, UK Jean-Claude charr Maître de conférences +33 3 84 58 77 85 Université Marie et Louis Pasteur IUT NFC - FEMTO-ST DISC 19 avenue maréchal juin 90016 Belfort

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WSCG 2026 - Call for Papers - Prague/Pilsen[ser] - 34. Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2026 computational.science@lists.iccsa.org
by prof. Vaclav Skala [UWB] 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

----------- WSCG 2026 - Call for Papers -------------- >> Please, forward to your fellows, friends and/or PhD students << TO: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org Sent via listserv: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org *34. WSCG 2026 Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision 2026* == HYBRID MODE == (physical attendance strongly preferred, but exceptionally online is possible) -- In cooperation with the Eurographics Association - www.eg.org -- Prague / Pilsen (the city of beer) close to Prague, Czech Republic *May 25-28, 2026* - http://www.wscg.cz - detailed info - http://www.wscg.eu ------------------ *Special workshops/sessions *(already accepted)*: * - Mobile Robotics, Autonomous Vehicle, and Smart Mobility - CAD systems and Virtual Reality - Meshless methods for computer graphics and visualization* * **- Other proposals/agreements expected ------------------ *Important dates & Submission:* January 10, 2026 - special session proposals via email only to the Conference office *Regular submissions: * -------------- *via submission server only* --------------- February 28, 2026 - Abstract - recommended sooner February 28, 2026 - Full, Short papers March 15, 2026 - Poster papers with oral presentation (submission via server only [http://wscgreg.zcu.cz] *Help us as a reviewer?* ====================== 1. Register yourself at https://wscgreg.zcu.cz first, and then login again and check your data 2. Send an email to WSCGconf(a)gmail.com subject: "WSCG reviewer" and include in the message (use ";" as separator - ALL in one line) First(Given) name;Last(Family) name;email address;ORCID;Research ID [Web of Science/ISI];Scopus Auhor ID;URL of your reserch WEB page *Accepted & presented papers (Full, Short, Posters) to be published* in - Computer Science Research Notes [CSRN], ISSN 2464-4617. The best selected papers will be published in the - Journal of WSCG, ISSN 1213-6972 DOI will be given to each paper (doi.org) Recent papers available via Scopus or at the repository (since 1992) http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm *>> At least one author has to present the paper physically or online* << /Proceedings with individual DOIs will be produced after the conference/ and sent for indexing to Scopus, WoS etc. ================== prof. Vaclav Skala www.VaclavSkala.eu ----------------- *Contact - please, all enquiries to the Conference office *======= *Conference office*: mailto:WSCGconf@gmail.com?subject=WSCG2026 or in the case of urgency http://www.VaclavSkala.eu, skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG2026 c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic ------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala WSCG Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision http://www.WSCG.eu http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic tel. (420) 37-763-2473

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Ada-Europe Conference - 2nd Call for Contributions - AEiC 2026
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Contributions 30th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2026) 9-12 June 2026, Västerås, Sweden www.ada-europe.org/conference2026 *** Journal track submissions by 16 January 2026 *** *** Other submissions by 27 February 2025 *** Organized by Ada-Europe and Mälardalen University #AEiC2026 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 30th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2026 aka Ada-Europe 2026) will take place in Västerås, Sweden. The conference schedule comprises keynote talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a regular papers track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. - Journal track papers present journal-level research advances supported by solid theoretical foundation and thorough evaluation. - Industrial track contributions highlight the practitioners' side of a challenging case study or industrial project. - Regular track papers present conference-level (full paper) research advances. - Work-in-progress track papers illustrate novel research ideas that are still at an initial stage, between conception and first prototype. - Tutorials guide attenders through a hands-on familiarization with innovative developments or with useful features related to reliable software. - Workshops provide discussion forums on themes related to the conference topics. - Vendor presentations and exhibitions allow for companies to showcase their latest products and services. *** Schedule 16 January 2026: Deadline for submission of journal track papers 27 February 2026: Deadline for submission of industrial track abstracts, regular track papers, work-in-progress papers, and tutorial and workshop proposals 27 March 2026: First round notification for journal track papers, and notification of acceptance for all other types of submissions 9-12 June 2026: Conference *** Scope and Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia, and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: * Formal methods, testing, and model-based engineering of critical systems; * High-integrity systems and reliability; * AI for safety-critical and high-integrity systems engineering; * Real-time systems; * Ada language and technologies; * Applications and experimental evaluations in relevant domains. More specific topics are described on the conference web page. *** Call for Journal Track Submissions The conference includes a journal track, which seeks original and high-quality papers, not submitted elsewhere, which describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted journal track papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier's JSA (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/) - the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q1 ranked, CiteScore 10.5, impact factor 4.1). Contributions must be submitted by 16 January 2026 and should not exceed 25 pages (in case the authors need more pages the journal track chairs need to be contacted). JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model to speed up the publication process, where Special Issue (SI) papers are published in regular issues but marked as SI papers. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers early and need not wait until the submission deadline. Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review (including major revisions) will be invited to present their work at the conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs. *** Call for Regular Track Submissions The conference includes a regular track, which seeks original and high-quality submissions, not submitted elsewhere, which describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted papers will be published in the Open Access Series in Informatics (OASICS series: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/OASIcs) and should be formatted according to the one-column format, not exceeding 16 pages, excluding references. Contributions must be submitted by 27 February 2026. *** Call for Industrial Track Submissions The conference seeks industrial practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Especially welcome kinds of submissions are listed on the conference web site. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner peer-review process. Interested authors shall submit a one-to-two pages abstract, by 27 February 2026. Authors will will also be invited to expand their contributions into full-fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (www.ada-europe.org/auj/scope/) which will form the proceedings of the industrial track of the Conference. *** Call for Work-in-progress Track Submissions The work-in-progress (WiP) track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research and (b) early-stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4-page papers describing research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal or regular tracks. Early-stage ideas are 1-page papers that pitch new research directions that fall within the scope of the conference. Both kinds of submissions must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent M.Sc. graduates and Ph.D. students are especially sought. Authors shall submit their work by 27 February 2026. Authors will also be offered the opportunity to publish their contributions (and expand to a 4-page article for the 1-pagers) in the Ada User Journal (www.ada-europe.org/auj/scope/) which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the conference. *** Award The Ada-Europe organization will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference. *** Call for Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the conference scope, with an academic-for-practitioner slant, including hands-on or practical elements. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half-day or full-day), the intended level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and a statement motivating attendance. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted at any time, but no later than the published deadline, to the Tutorial Chair, with subject line: "[AEiC 2026: tutorial proposal]". The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half-day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the AEiC conference. Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. Workshop proposals shall be submitted at any time, but no later than the stated deadline, to the respective chair, with subject line: "[AEiC 2026: workshop proposal]". Once submitted, each workshop proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. *** Academic Listing The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal- track proceedings of the conference, is Q1 ranked, with CiteScore 10.5 and Impact Factor 4.1. The OASIcs series, venue for regular track proceedings, provides Open Access online publicationis, and is indexed by SCOPUS and DBPL. The Ada User Journal, venue of the other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Conference Booklet The abstract of the accepted contributions (journal, regular, industrial, WiP) will be included in the conference booklet, which will be distributed to all participants, and made available online. *** Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition, with the option of a 20 minutes presentation as part of the conference program. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair. *** Venue The conference is in-person, and will take place at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. Mälardalen University (MDU), one of Sweden's youngest and most dynamic universities, is a leading institution for applied research and innovation in collaboration with industry and the public sector. Established in 1977 and granted full university status in 2022, MDU is home to over 17,000 students and 1,000 staff members, with strong international ties and research excellence in areas such as embedded systems, future energy, health and welfare, and sustainable development. The university houses several internationally recognized research environments, out of which Embedded Systems, Innovation and Product Realization, and Future Energy are among the most prominent ones. MDU's campuses (Västerås and Eskilstuna) are modern, centrally located, and purpose-built to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. Västerås is one of Sweden's oldest cities and now a hub for advanced technology, energy innovation, and digital transformation. Strategically located just an hour west of Stockholm and easily accessible by train, bus or car, Västerås is home to global tech companies such as ABB, Alstom, Westinghouse. The city sits on the shores of Lake Mälaren and combines scenic beauty, a vibrant cultural life, and excellent infrastructure. Västerås Airport offers direct flights to several European destinations, and Stockholm Arlanda International Airport is reachable within 90 minutes. With its blend of historical charm, green parks, and cutting-edge industry, Västerås offers the perfect setting for an inspiring and high-impact academic and industrial gathering. *** Organizing Committee - General Chairs Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University cristina.seceleanu at mdu.se Kristina Lundqvist, Mälardalen University kristina.lundqvist at mdu.se - Journal track Co-chairs Axel Jantsch, TU Wien axel.jantsch at tuwien.ac.at António Casimiro, University of Lisbon casim at ciencias.ulisboa.pt - Industrial track Co-chairs Sahar Tahvili, Einride AB sahar.tahvili at einride.tech Rong Gu, Mälardalen University rong.gu at mdu.se - Regular papers track Co-chairs Antonio Filieri, Amazon Web Services afilieri at amazon.com Peter Backeman, Mälardalen University peter.backeman at mdu.se - Work-in-progress track Co-chairs Malvina Latifaj, Mälardalen University malvina.latifaj at mdu.se Federico Aromolo, Scuola Sant'Anna federico.aromolo at santannapisa.it - Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Limited dene.brown at sysada.co.uk - Tutorial Chair Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila henry.muccini at univaq.it - Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Tiberiu Seceleanu, Mälardalen University tiberiu.seceleanu at mdu.se - Finance Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH ahlan at ada-switzerland.ch - Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be - Webmasters Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr Leo Hatvani, Mälardalen University leo.hatvani at mdu.se - Local Chair Susanne Fronnå, Mälardalen University susanne.fronna at mdu.se *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 30th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), Warsaw, Poland ('19), online from Santander, Spain ('21), Ghent, Belgium ('22), Lisbon, Portugal ('23), Barcelona, Spain ('24), and Paris, France ('25). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2026 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 30th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2026) * June 9-12, 2026, Västerås, Sweden, www.ada-europe.org/conference2026

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HPC Session in Modelling and Simulation at PDP 2026 - Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
by William Spataro 03 Nov '25

03 Nov '25

12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) at PDP 2026 (sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) The 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Cluj-Napoca (Romania) 25-27 March 2026 https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/ Extended Deadline: November 20th, 2025 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models that allow computers to simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is central to advancing knowledge across scientific and engineering disciplines. In recent decades, growing computational power has greatly expanded the scope of such methodologies, enabling their application in research, industry, and the quantitative study of complex systems. This progress has fostered both the extensive use of numerical methods for solving differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, PIC) and the exploration of alternative paradigms such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Swarm Intelligence. These complementary approaches have proven particularly effective when conventional simulation techniques are constrained by spatial or temporal limitations, opening new possibilities for modelling complex phenomena. Now in its twelfth edition at PDP, the HPCMS Workshop aims to serve as a platform for a multidisciplinary community of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners, and experts from leading universities, institutions, agencies, and companies in Computational Science. Its mission is to foster the exchange of perspectives on trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art advances in computational problems and high-performance computing, with applications spanning engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economics, and beyond. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High Performance Computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, Sycl and CUDA applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms - Hardware approaches (e.g., FPGAs, Neuromorphic computing, etc) of high performance computing in modeling and simulation - HPC Applications in Quantum Computing (e.g., Optimization and Scheduling, Simulation, etc) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 November 2025 (Extended) Acceptance notification: 15 December 2026 Camera ready due: 27 January 2026 Conference: 25 - 27 March 2026 Submission guidelines Authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt) and follow format guidelines found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. For submission, please refer to the Easychair submission system as indicated in the Conference webpage, selecting the "High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation (HPCMS) submission link (https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/) Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. Chairs William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo - University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano - ICAR-CNR, Italy Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy HPCMS Program Committee Gladys Utrera, Universitat Polit cnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Marisa Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Xavier Martorell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Davide Macri, ICAR-CNR, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.496464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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The 2nd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM)
by Yazan MUALLA 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************************************************************************************* The 2nd International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM) https://www.ciad-lab.fr/the-2nd-international-workshop-on-causality-agents-… In conjunction with the Luxembourg Logic & AI Summit https://icr.uni.lu/luxlogai2025/ University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 01-05 December 2025. ************************************************************************************************************************************** Description: ============ Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM) represents three rapidly-growing fields within artificial intelligence research. This workshop aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by investigating how causal reasoning and explainable AI (XAI) techniques can enhance the capabilities of multi-agent systems (MAS). The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to discuss theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future directions at the intersection of causal AI, XAI, Large Language Models (LLM) and MAS. CALM Workshop goals: ===================== -Explore the role of causal reasoning in enhancing decision-making, coordination, and adaptation in multi-agent systems. -Discuss technical challenges and opportunities for integrating causal AI techniques and LLM into MAS frameworks. -Develop methodologies and metrics to evaluate the explainability of causal reasoning in agents and large models. -Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in causal reasoning, XAI, LLM, and MAS. -Examine how explanations support user trust, cognitive ergonomics, and effective human-agent collaboration. -Identify promising directions for future research and development in this rapidly advancing research domain. Topics: ======= -Theoretical foundations of causal reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) -Causal reasoning capabilities in Large Models (e.g., Large Language Models, LLMs) -Theoretical and practical Agentic-AI -Explainable AI (XAI) with active inference techniques -Applications of XAI techniques in agent-based modeling and simulation -Human-centered evaluation of causal explanations in MAS and LLMs -Causal inference in complex and dynamic multi-agent environments -Mechanistic Interpretability of Causality in Large Language Models -LLMs for coordination, cooperation, and communication among agents -Challenges and opportunities for incorporating XAI into MAS frameworks -Case studies and empirical evaluations of XAI approaches in agents -Generative AI as preprocessing for MAS -Exploring causality with deep generative models -Digital twins and simulators for interpretable synthetic data generation -Graph neural network causal learning -Interpretable and ergonomically-grounded root cause analysis methods for agent decision-making -Logic and argumentation-based approaches to causal reasoning -Ethical and Responsible XAI in LLM -Human Factors in XAI and Agentic AI -Adaptive and Personalized Explanations (Context-aware, and Human-centric) -Multi-modal explanations and Cross-cultural ergonomics -Ergonomic evaluation of explanation modalities (visual, textual, interactive) -Explainability in human-agent teaming: Ergonomic principles for effective collaboration in mixed teams (humans + AI agents) Submission guidelines: ====================== Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, who are experts in the field. The acceptance of the submitted papers will depend on their quality, relevance, and originality. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer proceedings Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series devoted to the publication of proceedings of computer science conferences. Participants are therefore invited to submit Long papers: up to 16 pages in length (excl. references) or Short papers: up to 5 pages in length (excl. references). Papers must be edited using the LNCS format and have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=calm25 Chairs: ======= -Dr. Yazan Mualla, Associate Professor, CIAD, Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology yazan.mualla[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/yazan_mualla -Dr. Liuwen Yu, Postdoc, University of Luxembourg liuwen.yu[at]uni.lu https://www.liuwenyu.me/ -Dr. Hui Zhao, Assistant Professor, (Tongji University, China). huizhao[at]tongji.edu.cn -Dr. Amro Najjar, Assistant Professor, (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg). amro.najjar[at]list.lu -Dr. Davide Liga, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Luxembourg davide.liga(a)uni.lu Advisory Board: =============== -Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland, Full professor, CIAD, Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology stephane.galland[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/stephane_galland/ -Prof. Dr. Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Full professor, CIAD, Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology abdeljalil.abbas-turki[at]utbm.fr https://www.ciad-lab.fr/abdeljalil_abbas-turki/ Important Dates ================ Paper submission deadline: October 16th, 2025 (final) Notification of acceptance: October 31st, 2025 Camera-ready: December 13th, 2025 Workshop dates: December 03rd, 2025 All deadlines are at the end of the day specified, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Previous proceedings: ===================== CALM-24 (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89103-8

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The 7th International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
by Marouane Dirchaoui 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

*IWSMAI'2026: The 7th **International Workshop on **Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence* *(SCOPUS Publications)* *April 14-16, 2026, **Istanbul, Türkiye* https://sites.google.com/view/iwsmai/home The 6th International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence (IWSMAI) will be held on *April 14-16, 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye.* The aim of IWSMAI is to bring together researchers, professors and students from around the world to present their latest ideas and research results within the scope of IWSMAI'2026. This workshop will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of the mentioned fields. The workshop will include presentations of contributed papers, poster sessions, and state of the art lectures by invited keynote speakers. *Topics:* · Artificial Intelligence · Statistical methods · Data Analysis and Data mining · Computational Statistic · Supervised and unsupervised learning · Statistical methodology · Bioinformatics · Medical statistics · Deep Learning · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Data Collection and Applications · Data Science and Blockchain Technology · Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Big Data · Mathematical Statistics · Economic intelligence · Statistical Software (R, SAS, Python) All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line (indexed by *Scopus).* Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: -International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer: https://www.springer.com/journal/12652 - International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.69): https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and… - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504): http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index *Important Dates:* · Paper submission deadline: *December 15, 2025* · Notification of acceptance: *January 20, 2026* · Camera-ready submission: *February 09 , 2026* · Conference date : *April 14-16, 2026* *Contact :* Email: abdallah.abarda(a)uhp.ac.ma

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CFP: The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2026)
by Bahman Javadi 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

=================================== IEEE CCGRID 2026: CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2026) In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2026) In-Cooperation with ACM SigHPC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 18-21, 2026, Sydney, Australia https://ccgrid2026.cdms.westernsydney.edu.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGrid) is the premier forum for disseminating the latest advances in distributed systems, cloud computing, systems for AI/ML, distributed intelligence and future computing paradigms. In 2026, for the first time, CCGrid will be proudly hosted in Sydney, Australia, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders from across the globe to explore innovations shaping the future of distributed and cloud technologies. ----------------------- Call for Papers ----------------------- We invite original, high-quality papers that address fundamental research and emerging challenges across a broad spectrum of distributed systems and applications. Submissions may focus on theoretical foundations, system design, implementation, or real-world deployments. We particularly encourage contributions stemming from industry efforts and academia-industry collaborations, including practical experiences, deployed systems, and applied research with tangible impact. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: (*) Track 1: Hardware Systems, Architectures, and Future Compute Platforms Scalable architectures, accelerators, SDN, high-performance interconnects, and novel computing platforms including quantum and neuromorphic systems. (*) Track 2: Software Systems, Applications, and Programming Models Middleware, operating systems, cloud-native platforms, programming frameworks, and distributed applications, including serverless, microservices, orchestration, and data-intensive systems. (*) Track 3: Sustainable Computing and Green Technologies Energy-efficient systems, carbon-aware scheduling, sustainable design across cloud-to-edge, and cost-aware optimization for sustainability and resource efficiency. (*) Track 4: Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization Performance engineering, system benchmarking, modeling, and optimization for distributed and parallel systems, including reproducibility and workflow tuning. (*) Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Reliability Secure infrastructures, confidential computing, privacy-preserving systems, intrusion detection, and resilient, fault-tolerant platforms. (*) Track 6: Systems for AI/ML and Distributed Intelligence Scalable AI/ML systems, model serving, MLOps, edge intelligence, federated learning, and system-level support for distributed AI. ----------------------- Chairs and Committees ----------------------- General Chairs: Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, US Program Committee Chairs: Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, US Workshops Chairs: Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Posters Chairs: Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of North Texas, US Stefan Nastic, TU Wien, Austria Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia Publication Chair: Kanchana Thilakarathna, The University of Sydney, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, US Mohammad Goudarzi, Monash University, Australia Narges Mehran, University of Salzburg, Austria Publicity Chairs: Minxian Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Adv Tech, China Shashikant Ilager, Uni of Amsterdam, Netherlands Leila Ismail, UAE University, UAE Hojjat Baghban, Chang Gung University, Taiwan Guilherme da Cunha Rodrigues, IFSUL, Brazil Vivek K. Pallipuram, University of the Pacific, US Scale Challenge Computation Chairs: Lorenzo Carnevale, University of Messina, Italy Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputer Centre, Germany ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE), UTC-12 timezone. Technical Papers: + Abstract Submission: 1st December 2025 + Paper Submission: 15th December 2025 + Author Notifications: 10th February 2026 + Camera Ready: 15th March 2026 + Conference: May 18-21, 2026 ----------------------- Paper Submission ----------------------- + Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including references, figures and tables using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. + Author and reviewer anonymity: All submissions need to be double-blind. + Review criteria: All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. + Accepted papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. ----------------------- Best Paper Awards ----------------------- CCGrid will present Best Paper Awards to the top paper(s) selected by the Program Committee. The award will be determined based on review comments and ratings, viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact of the research work on science and engineering, and the clarity of presentation.

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[CFP][IEEE PICom 2025] - Regular Paper Deadline Extended: New Due 2 July 2025
by Antonio Guerrieri 22 Jun '25

22 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the IEEE PICom 2025 paper submission deadlines have been officially extended. Please note that these are the *final* extensions, and no further deadline changes will be made. The new due dates are: - *Regular Papers:* 02 July 2025 - *WiP / Poster / Workshop / Special Session Papers:* 10 July 2025 - *LBI Papers:* 07 July 2025 All details have been updated on the conference website: https://cyber-science.org/2025/picom/ The revised Call for Papers is in the following for your reference. With kind regards, --- *Antonio Guerrieri, Ph.D.* *Researcher at * *CNR – National Research Council of Italy* *Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)**, * *Via P.Bucci snc, cubo 8-9C* *87036, Rende (CS), Italy**Phone: +39 0984 492053* *E-Mail : antonio.guerrieri(a)icar.cnr.it <antonio.guerrieri(a)icar.cnr.it>* View this email in your browser <https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=651ae23c0f9b9ccd81e2ca…> The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2025)https://cyber-science.org/2025/picom/ <https://us8.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcyber-science.org%2…> * 2025 IEEE CyberSciTech / PICom / DASC / CBDCom Co-located Conferences(In-Presence/Virtual)* http://cyber-science.org/2025/ <https://us8.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyber-science.org%2F…> *Premier Hotel, Hakodate City, Hokkaido, JapanOctober 21-24, 2025* Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from artificial intelligence, nature-inspired computing, and social-oriented technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom 2025 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, providing a platform for vibrant discussions and exchanges on experimental and theoretical results, ongoing work, cutting-edge designs, and innovative test-environments or testbeds, while also delving into the latest advancements and novel trends in Intelligence and Machine Learning within the realms of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. *Tracks and Topics* *Track 1: Next-Gen Pervasive AI* - GenAI for wireless sensing - Machine-to-machine GenAI - Generative IoT - GenAI for semantic communications - Multi-agent network powered by GenAI - Big Data and Smart Data - Brain-inspired Computing - Mobile Data Mining - Ubiquitous Data Mining *Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications* - Pervasive Networks/Communications - 5G networks and Technologies - AI/ML for smart wireless networks - AI and machine learning-based applications for ad hoc networks - Cooperative and cognitive communication - Middleware for the IoT - Adaptive Middleware for Pervasive Systems - Context-aware applications - Intelligent/Smart IoT - Programming Abstractions for IoT *Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition* - Crowdsourcing and Social Computing - Collective Intelligence - Agent-based Computing - Pervasive Devices and RFIDs - Wearable Devices and Applications - Activity Recognition - Intelligent Social Networking - Pervasive Technologies for ITS - HCI for Pervasive Computing *Track 4: Next Gen Smart Environments* - Smart grid, healthcare, transportation applications - Wearable and human-centric devices and networks - Device Virtualization - Intelligent Cloud Computing - Services for Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Smart Homes - Privacy, Security and Trust in Smart Environments - Autonomous Pervasive Systems - Autonomous IoT - Digital Twins *Track 5: Edge Intelligence Applications* - ML for resource allocation at the Edge - NFV-Edge - 5G-Edge - Edge-assisted IoT - Integration of Edge Computing and Blockchain - Edge-Cloud Continuum - Edge AI *Track 6: Work-in-Progress (WiP) and Late Breaking Innovation (LBI)* - The track covers all the topics, but it is aimed at either papers that have an original but not fully validated proposal (WiP) or present a breakthrough, a new vision, or an out-of-the-box idea on the field to be discussed at the conference (LBI). *Submission Instructions* Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), and workshop/special session papers need to be submitted via EDAS (link available soon) in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html <https://us8.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconfe…> All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high-quality papers. Some papers, originally submitted as full papers and based on review results, can be accepted as short papers or poster papers. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the number of pages of the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. Authors of accepted poster papers will be required (i) to prepare and submit the camera-ready version of the paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings and (ii) to realize the poster (format will be announced later) for its presentation at the conference. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. Full Papers: 6-8 pages - WiP/WS/SS/Short Papers: 4-6 pages - Poster Papers: 2-4 pages - Late-Breaking Innovation (LBI) Papers: 4-8 pages *Important Dates (**All submission deadlines extended**)* Regular Paper Due: *02 Jul 2025 * WiP/Poster/WS/SS Paper Due: *10 Jul 2025* LBI Paper Due: *07 Jul 2025* Authors Notification: *30 Jul 2025* Paper Registration Due: *05 Sep 2025* Camera-ready Submission: *12 Sep 2025* *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chairs* Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney (Australia) Ming Hou, Defence Research & Development Canada (Canada) Tiago Falk, University of Quebec (Canada) *General Chairs* Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR (Italy) Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan) *General Executive Chairs* Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University (Japan) Xiaohong Jiang, Future University Hakodate (Japan) *Advisory Chairs* Jinhua She, Tokyo University of Technology (Japan) Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, Dell (Brazil) Chuan-Yu Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) *Program Chairs* Claudio Miceli, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Ao Guo, Nagoya University (Japan) Lidia Fotia, University of Salerno (Italy) *Track Chairs* Federico Santoro, University of Catania (Italy) Marco Miozzo, CTTC (Spain) Claudio Savaglio, University of Calabria (Italy) Rebeca Motta, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) Andrea Vinci, ICAR-CNR (Italy) Ao Guo, Nagoya University (Japan) *Workshop & Special Session Chairs* Irfanullah Khan, University of Glasgow (UK) Wenjing Zhao, University of Glasgow (UK) *Publicity Chairs* Sun Jingtao, Hitachi (Japan) Wei Li, The University of Sydney (Australia) Gwanggil Jeon, Incheon National University (Korea) Antonino Galletta, University of Messina (Italy) Celimuge Wu, The University of Electro-Communications (Japan) Endang Djuana, Universitas Trisakti (Indonesia) Zhuotao Lian, Hiroshima University (Japan) *Advisory Committee* Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria (Italy) Samee U. Khan, Mississippi State University (USA) Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI (UAE) Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus) D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University (USA) Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University (Taiwan) Victor Chang, Aston University (United Kingdom) *Steering Committee* Jianhua Ma, Hosei University (Japan) Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ. (Canada) Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech. (New Zealand) Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <https://www.unical.it/5x1000>

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[CFP][DEADLINE EXTENDED] AHPC3: The 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
by Valerio Besozzi 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

--Apologies for multiple postings. Share this CFP with anyone you believe may be interested. -- ======================================================================== AHPC3: The 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum Affiliated with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E2025) September 23-26, 2025, Rennes, France Workshop site: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/ Conference site: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2025/ Submission site: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/submissions.html ======================================================================== Important Dates --------------- - June 03, 2025: Submission of paper abstracts -> June 10, 2025 (EXTENDED) - June 16, 2025: Submission of short/regular papers -> June 23, 2025 (EXTENDED) - July 21, 2025: Notification to authors - July 31, 2025: Submission of camera-ready Overview -------- We are witnessing an increasing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. Modern applications require processing of computationally intensive workloads, across diverse domains driven by AI/ML, federated learning, and data-intensive needs in distributed Cloud-Edge-HPC environments. Traditional distinctions between HPC and cloud infrastructures are blurring as modern cloud and edge environments incorporate capabilities historically exclusive to HPC systems. The AHPC3 workshop focuses on achieving HPC via Cloud-Edge architectures, promoting energy-efficient execution, green computing, and intelligent resource management. It explores the adaptation of technologies like serverless computing, microservices, and fine-grained task offloading for scalable and resilient HPC applications. We welcome original contributions on programming paradigms, runtime systems, orchestration frameworks, efficient data management, fault tolerance, security, and sustainability in hybrid environments. Topics of Interest ------------------ - Adaptation of cloud-edge technologies for HPC (e.g., serverless, microservices, task offloading) - Cloud-edge computing architectures for HPC (e.g., resource federation) - Lightweight virtualization, execution environments, and scheduling techniques - Orchestration and deployment of high-performance workflows - Programming paradigms for high-performance Cloud-Edge computing - Communication, data, and resource management in Cloud-Edge computing - Fault tolerance, reliability, and security - Data-intensive workloads and monitoring tools - Energy-efficient computing in Cloud-Edge environments - Accelerated computing (e.g., GPUs, AI/ML accelerators) - Network-aware optimization and data movement - Federated resource-sharing and learning - Novel orchestration algorithms for cloud/edge - ML/AI-based support for Cloud/Edge computing Submissions and Attendance -------------------------- Submission link: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/submissions.html Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Papers (5–9 pages) must follow IEEE conference format. At least one author must register and present the paper. Organisers ---------- - Luca Ferrucci, University of Pisa - luca.ferrucci(a)unipi.it<mailto:luca.ferrucci@unipi.it> - Stefano Forti, University of Pisa - stefano.forti(a)unipi.it<mailto:stefano.forti@unipi.it> - Valerio Besozzi, University of Pisa - valerio.besozzi(a)phd.unipi.it<mailto:valerio.besozzi@phd.unipi.it> - Jacopo Massa, University of Pisa - jacopo.massa(a)di.unipi.it<mailto:jacopo.massa@di.unipi.it>

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Ada-Europe - AEiC 2025 early registration deadline imminent
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 24 May '25

24 May '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Participation *** Early registration DEADLINE May 27 *** 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) 10-13 June 2025, Paris, France www.ada-europe.org/conference2025 *** Extensive info and registration online *** *** Add tutorials and/or a workshop to your conference registration *** #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming Organized by Ada-Europe and Ada-France, in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, supported and sponsored by Embedded France, AdaCore, Emenda, Systerel, Scitools, Pacte Novation, Institut Frederik Bull, and Mines Paris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** UPDATE Ada-Europe - AEiC 2025 early registration deadline imminent Register now: discounted fees until May 27! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/registration.html> Come to the Ada-Europe conference in Paris, experience a packed program in an exciting town, benefit from tutorials on Tuesday, join a workshop on Friday, enjoy the social events and some sightseeing! Extra conference sponsorship allows for an extremely low 25 EUR fee for the Ada Developers Workshop on Friday! See below for an overview, and visit our website for more details about the conference program, registration fees, social events and much more. *** General Information The 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) returns after 11 years to Paris, France. The conference schedule comprises keynote and invited talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. There will be time for networking during breaks and lunches, as well as various social events. AEiC 2025 is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of the Ada programming language and reliable software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. The 2025 edition of the conference continues a number of important innovations started in previous years: - reduced conference registration fee for all authors; - extra low registration fee for Ada Developers workshop; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - compact program with two core days (Wednesday & Thursday); - tutorials on Tuesday, followed by welcome event for all participants; - workshops on Friday, optional chill event on Thursday evening. *** Overview of the Week <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/overview.html> - Tue 10: 4 half-day tutorials, 1 full-day tutorial, welcome reception; - Wed 11: core technical program, conference banquet; - Thu 12: core technical program, post conference chill-out; - Fri 13: 3 full-day workshops. The AEiC 2025 website has extensive information, such as an overview of the program and the schedule, the list of accepted papers and presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote and invited presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The Final Program brochure will be available there as well. *** Venue <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/venue.html> The conference will take place at Mines Paris, a founding member of Université PSL, a leading French engineering school and the French leader institution in research partnerships. It is located along the Luxembourg gardens, next to the Quartier Latin, and is close to public transportation, including line B of the RER to Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). Paris, the capital city of France, is renowned for its rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture. Often referred to as "The City of Light" Paris is home to iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Notre-Dame Cathedral. If you can stay over before or after the conference, there's a lot to see. Check the Practical Information section of the conference website for more info. *** Invited Speakers <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/keynotes.html> This year the conference will once more feature keynotes and invited talks. All will address topics of relevance in the conference scope, with time for questions and answers. - On Wednesday morning, June 11, a keynote talk by Stefano Zacchiroli, of Télécom Paris, France, on "Building a Safer Open Source Supply Chain with Software Heritage, the Great Library of Source Code". - On Wednesday afternoon, June 11, an invited talk by Tullio Vardanega, from University of Padua, Italy, on "Language Ownership: Key Moments in the Lifetime of Ada". - On Thursday morning, June 12, a keynote talk by Claire Pagetti, of ONERA, France, on "Certification of Machine Learning Based System - Contribution of Formal Verification". *** Conference Core Composition <https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/overview.html#title1> The core conference program features six distinct types of technical presentations, with different duration, all followed by various manners of discussion time: journal-track talk (30 minutes), industrial-track talk (20 minutes), work-in-progress-track talk (20 minutes), vendor presentations (20 minutes), keynote (1 hour), invited talk (30 minutes). All papers presented in the journal track, the industrial track and the work-in-progress track have undergone peer review. Presentations are combined into by-theme and not by-track sessions, in order that authors and participants alike enjoy all flavors of the program in a mixed as opposed to segregated combination. The list of accepted papers and presentations, and the detailed schedule, is available on the conference website at <https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/overview.html#schedule> Papers and Presentations: - 2 keynotes and 1 invited presentation; - 6 sessions with a mix of presentations on various topics: Secure Distributed Systems, Ada and Modeling, Multi-core Architectures, Embedded Systems, Real-time and Safety, and Applications; - 6 journal-track talks; - 9 work-in-progress reports; - 4 industrial presentations and experience reports; - 2 vendor presentations; - submissions from around the world. *** Tutorials <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/tutorials.html> A full-day tutorial is offered on Tuesday 10th: - "Developing Bare-metal Embedded Software in SPARK Ada for 64-bit ARM Platforms", by J. Germán Rivera, Tesla, USA. A hands-on tutorial. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own RaspberryPI boards, a development laptop, and a USB-to-serial cable. In parallel, four half-day tutorials are scheduled: - "Multiple Double and Multiword Arithmetic", by Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. "Quality up" is often more meaningful than "speedup": instead of using multi-processors to obtain results faster, obtain results that are more accurate. - "Unleash the Power of Ada Generics", by Gautier de Montmollin, Ada-Switzerland, Switzerland. Generics, known elsewhere as templates or macros, form an abstraction that is prosaically a smart version of a text with gaps, which helps to eliminate code duplication. The Ada flavor of generics, available since the first Ada standard, is remarkably powerful. - "Turning your Programming Language into a Modeling Language", by S. Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA. An introduction to how one could create a productive framework for performing modeling within your favorite programming language. - "Introduction to the ALiRe Package Manager", by Quentin Dauprat, Université de Caen, Normandie, France. The ALiRe project (Ada Library Repository) is a community-oriented package manager for the Ada and SPARK open source ecosystem. Tackles the use of Alire to bootstrap a project with the support of libraries available (and not available) in the community index. *** Satellite Events Three workshops are held on Friday 13th: - 4th ADEPT workshop "AADL by its practitioners". <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/workshop_adept.html> - 10th International Workshop on "Challenges and New Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical System Engineering" (DeCPS 2025). <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/decps.html> - 2nd "Ada Developers Workshop", an informal yet dynamic gathering for developers in the Ada community to meet, share insights, and present their latest projects or project updates; a full "Ada day" with 8 technical presentations on Ada-related topics and 10 authors from 5 countries: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, and USA. <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/workshop_adadev.html> *** Social Program <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/social_program.html> The conference provides several opportunities to socialize: - Each day: coffee breaks and lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking with participants and vendors. - Tuesday evening: Welcome Reception at "Table du Luxembourg". The usual welcome "apéro" will take place at this nice restaurant right in the middle of the Luxembourg garden, a Parisians' favorite! - On conference days: Mineralogy Museum. The École des Mines features a splendid Mineralogy museum. During the conference, you can access it free of charge by showing your name badge. Do not miss this opportunity! - Wednesday evening: Conference Banquet at the "Bouillon Racine", a typical Parisian restaurant built in 1906 and classified as "historical monument". The restaurant is located within walking distance from the conference location. We will have dinner in the beautiful dining room on the first floor, an authentic turn of the 20th century decoration. - Thursday evening: Chill Event at the Café Latin, a casual typical café, to have a little chat with colleagues during an informal dinner (separate registration). For those who want to get a feeling of the Latin Quarter, we prepared an itinerary that will show you the main milestones of the neighborhood while walking to the Café Latin. *** Further Information Registration: - registration information is provided at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/registration.html> - early registration discount until Tuesday May 27, 2025 - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - special low conference fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe and ACM SIGPLAN members - registration includes coffee breaks, lunches and social events - strong discount on conference fees for students - minimal fee for Ada Developers Workshop - see registration page for all details Promotion: - recommended hashtags: #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming The conference is organized by: - Ada-Europe <http://www.ada-europe.org/> - Ada-France <https://www.ada-france.org/> in cooperation with: - ACM SIGPLAN <http://www.sigplan.org/> supported and sponsored by: - Embedded France <https://www.embedded-france.org/> - AdaCore <https://www.adacore.com/> - Emenda <https://emenda.com/> - Systerel <https://www.systerel.fr/> - Scitools <https://scitools.com/> - Pacte Novation <https://www.pactenovation.fr/index.php/ logiciel-critique-ada-fondements-et-enjeux/> - Institut Frederik Bull <https://institutbull.fr/> - Mines Paris <https://www.minesparis.psl.eu/> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. <https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/accommodation.html> For more info and latest updates see the conference website at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025>. We look forward to seeing you in Paris in June 2025! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2025 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 29th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) * June 10-13, 2025, Paris, France * www.ada-europe.org/conference2025

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CfP BigHPC 2025
by Marco PULIMENO 21 May '25

21 May '25

BigHPC2025: Special Track on Big Data and High-Performance Computing at the ITADATA25 Conference Following the success of the past editions, BigHPC is back! Contributions are welcome from academia and industry, presenting research results on all theoretical and practical aspects standing at the intersection of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. The event focuses on contributions to HPC architectures, algorithms, models, and management approaches for large data collections, including data processing, analysis, reporting, data protection, experimental studies, hands-on insights, datasets, and lessons learned. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: HPC Architectures and systems for big data Parallel and distributed algorithms for big data processing HPC-enabled data analytics High-performance data storage and retrieval systems Performance modeling and evaluation of HPC systems for big data HPC in machine learning and artificial intelligence HPC for scientific computing and simulations HPC in the cloud for big data processing Energy-efficient and green HPC for big data Hybrid classical-quantum computing: integration, benchmarking, and HPC-based emulation Quantum algorithms for machine learning, optimization, and generative models Quantum natural language processing and AI applications Compilation, gate synthesis, and error correction in quantum systems Post-quantum cryptography and security in the quantum era BigHPC25 accepts two different submissions for review, including: - Original research papers (min 6 pages, max 10 pages). This type of contribution should not have been published elsewhere and should not currently be under consideration for another journal, conference, or workshop. Original research papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings and must follow the CEUR-ART style files (1 column) available here. - Extended abstracts (min 2 pages, max 5 pages). This type of contribution may present work in progress or contributions that have already been published or are in preparation for publication. The extended abstracts must follow the CEUR-ART style files (1 column) available here. Manuscripts must be submitted to the "BigHPC" track using the ITADATA submission site. Contributions will be evaluated and selected based on their quality, originality, and relevance. As last year, we are working to provide a journal special issue. Authors of the best original research papers—whether full papers or innovative extended abstracts—will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for evaluation. The details will be announced soon. Important dates Submissions due: June 1st, 2025 Author notification: July 20th, 2025 Camera-ready paper and registration due: August 3rd, 2025 Website https://www.itadata.it/2025/bighpc2025 The BigHPC25 Chairs Alessia Antelmi, University of Turin Massimo Cafaro, Università del Salento Italo Epicoco, Università del Salento Marco Pulimeno, Università del Salento --

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HPC Containers to AI Workloads: May 25 VHPC'25 Extended Deadline
by Michael Alexander 16 May '25

16 May '25

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 20th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '25) held in conjunction with the European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Aug 25-29, 2025, Dresden, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ========================================================== Paper submission deadline: May 25th, 2025 AoE (extended) Date: August 25, 2025 Workshop URL: vhpc dot org To submit an abstract or paper, please follow the link provided in the Call for Papers (CfP) announcement at the end of this message. Call for Papers This year, we are calling the timely topic of virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads including, but not limited to: - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization: Techniques for virtualizing GPU memory to allow flexible and efficient allocation across multiple workloads, enabling higher utilization of GPU resources - Flat CPU/GPU memory page tables/TLB: Unified virtual memory spaces and page table structures that allow both GPUs to address CPU memory mapped to accelerator global memory space - Storage/filesystem to virtual memory mapped approaches - Distributed memory virtualization - Memory compression and reduction techniques: approaches for compressing model parameters, activations, and gradients to reduce memory requirements during training - Out-of-core training algorithms - Efficient memory allocation and management: Techniques for optimizing memory allocation, reducing fragmentation, and improving memory utilization during training - Memory-efficient data formats and processing: Data formats and processing techniques that minimize memory overhead while maintaining training efficiency - Benchmarking and profiling tools: Tools and methodologies for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing memory usage in LLM training workloads - Case studies and applications: Real-world examples and applications of virtualization techniques in LLM training scenarios The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for manyvirtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O virtualization, in turn, allows physical network interfaces to exchange traffic with multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays independently from the underlying physical topology, is another fundamental enabling technology for Cloud/HPC infrastructures. Last, storage virtualization needs to evolve to support increasingly demanding requirements in terms of performance and reliability for the managed application data. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers/ virtualization and cloud computing. Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and\ configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker/Podman, Nitro/Firecracke, Singularity) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, NPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - Use of Risc-V related technologies for cloud, virtualized and HPC use-cases - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Cloud-based quantum compute services - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - Virtualized/Cloudified instances to support Lambda / Function-as-a- Service (FaaS) Paradigms - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernels and lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/ cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud with an emphasis on AI GPUs/TPUs/NPUs - Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures - Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications, including the use of cloud functions / FaaS Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Measuring and controlling "OS/Virtualization noise" - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - GPU virtualization operationalization The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Rolling abstract submission May 25th, 2025 AoE (extended) - Paper submission deadline Jun 23th, 2025 - Acceptance notification Jul 2, 2025 - Camera-ready due Aug 25, 2025 - Workshop Day Chair Michael Alexander (chair), Austrian Academy of Sciences Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubificus Ltd., UK Tentative Technical Program Committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Gabriele Ara, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Jakob Blomer, CERN, Switzerland Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA François Diakhaté, CEA DAM, France Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Switzerland Lutz Schubert, University of Ulm, Germany Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA - Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 points. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are in a non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstracts via the main submission link. General Information The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing on Aug 25, 2025, Dresden, Germany. Please contact ahead of time for presenting remotely via video. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/N33172 LNCS Format Guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Follow VHPC Updates on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vhpc.bsky.social

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Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, AEiC 2025
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 12 May '25

12 May '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) 10-13 June 2025, Paris, France www.ada-europe.org/conference2025 *** Early registration DEADLINE May 27 *** *** Extensive info and registration online *** *** Add tutorials and/or a workshop to your conference registration *** #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming Organized by Ada-Europe and Ada-France, in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, supported and sponsored by Embedded France, AdaCore, Emenda, Systerel, Scitools, Pacte Novation, Institut Frederik Bull, and Mines Paris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preparations for AEiC 2025, the 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Software Reliable Technologies, are well underway! Come to the Ada-Europe conference in Paris, experience a packed program in an exciting town, benefit from tutorials on Tuesday, join a workshop on Friday, enjoy the social events and some sightseeing! Register now: discounted fees until May 27! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/registration.html> Extra conference sponsorship allows for an extremely low 25 EUR fee for the Ada Developers Workshop on Friday! See below for an overview, and visit our website for more details about the conference program, registration fees, social events and many more. *** General Information The 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) returns after 11 years to Paris, France. The conference schedule comprises keynote and invited talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. There will be time for networking during breaks and lunches, as well as various social events. AEiC 2025 is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of the Ada programming language and reliable software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. The 2025 edition of the conference continues a number of important innovations started in previous years: - reduced conference registration fee for all authors; - extra low registration fee Ada Developers workshop; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - compact program with two core days (Wednesday & Thursday); - tutorials on Tuesday, followed by welcome event for all participants; - workshops on Friday, optional chill event on Thursday evening. *** Overview of the Week - Tue 10: 4 half-day tutorials, 1 full-day tutorial, welcome reception; - Wed 11: core technical program, conference banquet; - Thu 12: core technical program, post conference chill-out; - Fri 13: 3 full-day workshops. Extensive information on AEiC 2025 will be on the conference website, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote and invited presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The Final Program brochure will be available there as well. *** Venue <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/venue.html> The conference will take place at Mines Paris, a founding member of Université PSL, a leading French engineering school and the French leader institution in research partnerships. It is located along the Luxembourg gardens, next to the Quartier Latin, and is close to public transportation, including line B of the RER to Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). Paris, the capital city of France, is renowned for its rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture. Often referred to as "The City of Light," Paris is home to iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Notre-Dame Cathedral. If you can stay over before or after the conference, there's a lot to see. Check the Practical Information section of the conference website for more info. *** Invited Speakers <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/keynotes.html> This year the conference will once more feature keynotes and invited talks. All will address topics of relevance in the conference scope, with time for questions and answers. - On Wed morning, June 11, a keynote talk by Stefano Zacchiroli, of Télécom Paris, France, on "Building a Safer Open Source Supply Chain with Software Heritage, the Great Library of Source Code". - On Wed afternoon, June 11, an invited talk by Tullio Vardanega, from University of Padua, Italy, on "Language Ownership: Key Moments in the Lifetime of Ada". *** Conference Core Composition The core conference program features three distinct types of technical presentations, with different duration, in addition to the keynote and invited talks: journal-track talks (25 minutes), industrial-track talks (20 minutes), vendor presentations (15 minutes), work-in-progress-track talks (10 minutes). All papers presented in the journal track, the industrial track and the work-in-progress track have undergone peer review. Presentations are combined into by-theme and not by-track sessions, in order that authors and participants alike enjoy all flavors of the program in a mixed as opposed to segregated combination. The list of accepted papers and presentations, and the detailed schedule, will be announced shortly. *** Tutorials <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/tutorials.html> A full-day tutorial is offered on Tuesday 10th: - "Developing Bare-metal Embedded Software in SPARK Ada for 64-bit ARM Platforms", by J. Germán Rivera, Tesla, USA. In parallel, four half-day tutorials are scheduled: - "Multiple Double and Multiword Arithmetic", by Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; - "Unleash the Power of Ada Generics", by Gautier de Montmollin, Ada-Switzerland, Switzerland; - "Turning your Programming Language into a Modeling Language", by S. Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA; - "Introduction to the ALiRe Package Manager", by Quentin Dauprat, Université de Caen, Normandie, France. *** Satellite Events Three workshops are held on Friday 13th: - 4th ADEPT workshop "AADL by its practitioners". <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/workshop_adept.html> - 10th International Workshop on "Challenges and New Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical System Engineering" (DeCPS 2025). <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/decps.html> - 2nd "Ada Developers Workshop", an informal yet dynamic gathering for developers in the Ada community to meet, share insights, and present their latest projects or project updates; a full "Ada day" with 8 technical presentations on various Ada-related topics and 10 authors from 5 countries: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, and USA. <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/workshop_adadev.html> *** Social Program <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/social_program.html> The conference provides several opportunities to socialize: - Each day: coffee breaks and lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking with participants and vendors. - Tuesday early evening: Welcome Reception (details to be announced). - On conference days: Mineralogy Museum. The École des Mines features a splendid Mineralogy museum. During the conference, you can access it free of charge by showing your name badge. Do not miss this opportunity! - Wednesday evening: Conference Banquet at the "Bouillon Racine", a typical Parisian restaurant built in 1906 and classified as "historical monument". The restaurant is located within walking distance from the conference location. We will have dinner in the beautiful dining room on the first floor, an authentic turn of the 20th century decoration. - Thursday evening: Chill Event at the Café Latin, a casual typical café, to have a little chat with colleagues during an informal dinner (separate registration). For those who want to get a feeling of the Latin Quarter, we prepared an itinerary that will show you the main milestones of the neighborhood while walking to the Café Latin. *** Further Information Registration: - registration information is provided at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/registration.html> - early registration discount until Tuesday May 27, 2025 - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - special low conference fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe and ACM SIGPLAN members - registration includes coffee breaks, lunches and social events - strong discount on conference fees for students - minimal fee for Ada Developers Workshop - see registration page for all details Promotion: - recommended hashtags: #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming The conference is organized by: - Ada-Europe <http://www.ada-europe.org/> - Ada-France <https://www.ada-france.org/> in cooperation with: - ACM SIGPLAN <http://www.sigplan.org/> supported and sponsored by: - Embedded France <https://www.embedded-france.org/> - AdaCore <https://www.adacore.com/> - Emenda <https://emenda.com/> - Systerel <https://www.systerel.fr/> - Scitools <https://scitools.com/> - Pacte Novation <https://www.pactenovation.fr/index.php/ logiciel-critique-ada-fondements-et-enjeux/> - Institut Frederik Bull <https://institutbull.fr/> - Mines Paris <https://www.minesparis.psl.eu/> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. <https://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025/accommodation.html> For more info and latest updates see the conference website at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2025>. We look forward to seeing you in Paris in June 2025! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2025 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 29th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) * June 10-13, 2025, Paris, France * www.ada-europe.org/conference2025

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[CFP] AHPC3: The 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
by Valerio Besozzi 10 May '25

10 May '25

--Apologies for multiple postings. Share this CFP with anyone you believe may be interested. -- ======================================================================== AHPC3: The 2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum Affiliated with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E2025) September 23-26, 2025, Rennes, France Workshop site: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/ Conference site: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2025/ Submission site: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/submissions.html ======================================================================== Important Dates --------------- - June 03, 2025: Submission of paper abstracts - June 16, 2025: Submission of short/regular papers - July 21, 2025: Notification to authors - July 31, 2025: Submission of camera-ready Overview -------- We are witnessing an increasing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures. Modern applications require processing of computationally intensive workloads, across diverse domains driven by AI/ML, federated learning, and data-intensive needs in distributed Cloud-Edge-HPC environments. Traditional distinctions between HPC and cloud infrastructures are blurring as modern cloud and edge environments incorporate capabilities historically exclusive to HPC systems. The AHPC3 workshop focuses on achieving HPC via Cloud-Edge architectures, promoting energy-efficient execution, green computing, and intelligent resource management. It explores the adaptation of technologies like serverless computing, microservices, and fine-grained task offloading for scalable and resilient HPC applications. We welcome original contributions on programming paradigms, runtime systems, orchestration frameworks, efficient data management, fault tolerance, security, and sustainability in hybrid environments. Topics of Interest ------------------ - Adaptation of cloud-edge technologies for HPC (e.g., serverless, microservices, task offloading) - Cloud-edge computing architectures for HPC (e.g., resource federation) - Lightweight virtualization, execution environments, and scheduling techniques - Orchestration and deployment of high-performance workflows - Programming paradigms for high-performance Cloud-Edge computing - Communication, data, and resource management in Cloud-Edge computing - Fault tolerance, reliability, and security - Data-intensive workloads and monitoring tools - Energy-efficient computing in Cloud-Edge environments - Accelerated computing (e.g., GPUs, AI/ML accelerators) - Network-aware optimization and data movement - Federated resource-sharing and learning - Novel orchestration algorithms for cloud/edge - ML/AI-based support for Cloud/Edge computing Submissions and Attendance -------------------------- Submission link: http://ahpc3.di.unipi.it/submissions.html Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Papers (5–9 pages) must follow IEEE conference format. At least one author must register and present the paper. Organisers ---------- - Luca Ferrucci, University of Pisa - luca.ferrucci(a)unipi.it<mailto:luca.ferrucci@unipi.it> - Stefano Forti, University of Pisa - stefano.forti(a)unipi.it<mailto:stefano.forti@unipi.it> - Valerio Besozzi, University of Pisa - valerio.besozzi(a)phd.unipi.it<mailto:valerio.besozzi@phd.unipi.it> - Jacopo Massa, University of Pisa - jacopo.massa(a)di.unipi.it<mailto:jacopo.massa@di.unipi.it>

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Deadline Extension: Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC) co-located with Euro-Par 2025
by nardelli＠ing.uniroma2.it 05 May '25

05 May '25

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ************************************************************************************************** WSCC 2025: Euro-Par 2025 International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum Date: 25 August 2025 Location: Dresden, Germany Workshop web page: https://wscc.di.unipi.it/ Euro-Par web page: https://2025.euro-par.org/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2025 ************************************************************************************************** * Call for Papers The “Compute Continuum” paradigm is transforming how we manage the heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud, this paradigm enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption or leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs). These capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth consumption, improved privacy protection, and enable the development of novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers without having to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed. To fully harness the potential of the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential. This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods. In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the area of distributed systems with particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and autonomic features to deal with variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures. A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following: - Scalable architectures and systems for the Compute Continuum - Orchestration, deployment, and management of resources and applications in the Compute Continuum - Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum - Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis - Function-as-a-Service and Backend-as-a-Service in the Compute Continuum - Energy-efficient and carbon-aware solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum - Lightweight virtualization for the Compute Continuum - AI-driven optimization and AI-related workloads in the Compute Continuum (e.g., federated, distributed, decentralized learning) - Scalable applications for the Compute Continuum (e.g., IoT, microservices, serverless) - Data processing and analytics in the Compute Continuum - Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum - Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum - Heterogeneous hardware acceleration and domain-specific architectures - Workflows in the Compute Continuum - Convergence and integration of HPC and Continuum platforms - Resilience and fault-tolerant strategies for the Compute Continuum - Benchmarks, reproducibility frameworks, and real-world experimental platforms * Submission Instructions The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They should be between a minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 pages. * Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Journal Special Issue. We are in contact to propose a Special Issue in a high-quality journal. Information will appear soon on the WSCC web site. * Important Dates May 21st, 2025 (extended) Paper submission deadline June 23rd, 2025 Paper acceptance notifications July 7th, 2025 Camera-ready due * Workshop Co-Chairs - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Patrizio Dazzi, University of Pisa, Italy - Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy - Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy - Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy We look forward to receiving your contributions!

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[4th CfP] SSTD 2025, 25-27 August, Osaka University, Nakanoshima center, Japan
by WANG Libin 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

# ONE WEEK BEFORE THE DEADLINE! # 19th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD 2025) ## 25-27 August 2025, Osaka, Japan **Website:** https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html There is about one week before the abstract submission deadline. Here is the **Fourth Call for Papers** for SSTD 2025, which will be held in Osaka, Japan, coinciding with the Expo 2025. Abstract submissions and paper registrations are still open, and we invite you to contribute to this premier forum for spatial and temporal data research. ## SUBMISSION DEADLINES - APPROACHING SOON - **Abstract submission (all tracks):** April 27, 2025 - **Paper submission deadline (all tracks):** May 4, 2025 - **Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track submissions:** May 18, 2025 - **Tutorial proposals deadline:** May 4, 2025 - **Notification date:** July 1, 2025 - **Camera-ready:** July 15, 2025 All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ## KEY TRACKS AND SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES ### A. Research / Demo / Industry Tracks SSTD 2025 has expanded its scope beyond traditional databases to embrace the broader landscape of spatial and temporal data. We welcome contributions spanning: - **Research Track:** Long papers (10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) presenting original contributions - **Demo Track:** System demonstrations (4 pages) showcasing developed or in-progress systems - **Industry Track:** Papers (10 pages) highlighting practical applications and real-world challenges ### B. NEW! Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track We are excited to introduce the first edition of the Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track, offering Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to share their research with the SSTD community. Papers are limited to 4 pages, including references. ### C. Tutorial Proposals We invite tutorial proposals (up to 1.5 hours) on topics relevant to spatial and temporal data management, databases, and mining. Proposals should be submitted directly to the tutorial chairs. ## TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: - Spatial Foundations - Spatial Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Analytics - Spatial Statistical Analysis - Data Management and Storage - Spatial Networks and Graphs - Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) - Visualization and Interaction - Quality, Uncertainty, Fairness and Privacy - Applications and Emerging Domains ## SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - Submit papers via: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSTD2025 - Use the double-column ACM SIG Conference Proceedings template - Page limits (excluding references): - Long research papers and industry papers: 10 pages - Short research papers and demo papers: 4 pages - Thesis and Dissertation Workshop papers: 4 pages (including references) - Tutorial proposals: Submit directly to tutorial chairs (max 4 pages) ## SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT: OSAKA EXPO 2025 SSTD 2025 coincides with the World Expo 2025 in Osaka (April 13 to October 13, 2025), offering participants a unique opportunity to experience this global event alongside the symposium. The Expo venue is just 30 minutes by metro from the SSTD 2025 venue. ## BEAUTIFUL VENUE: NAKANOSHIMA ISLAND The symposium will be held at Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, located on Nakanoshima Island - Osaka's cultural and business center. The area offers museums, historic architecture, and convenient access to major attractions. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Osaka in August 2025! --- For more details on submission guidelines, topics of interest, and attractions in Osaka, please visit our website: https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html

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Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2025: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X
by Morris Wright, Karla Vanessa 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

***************************************************************** Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2025: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X Held in conjunction with SC25, St. Louis, MO Submissions deadline: July 24, 2025 Notification to authors: August 30, 2025 Workshop date: November 16|17|21, 2025 https://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ **************************************************************** SUMMARY As supercomputers become more and more powerful, the number and diversity of applications that can be tackled with these machines grow. Unfortunately, the architectural complexity of these supercomputers grows as well, with heterogeneous processors, multiple levels of memory hierarchy, and many ways to move data and synchronize between processors. The MPI+X programming model, use of which is considered by many to be standard practice, demands that a programmer be expert in both the application domain and the low-level details of the architecture(s) on which that application will be deployed, and the availability of such superhuman programmers is a critical bottleneck. Things become more complicated when evolution and change in the underlying architecture translates into significant re-engineering of the MPI+X code to maintain performance. Numerous alternatives to the MPI+X model exist, and by raising the level of abstraction on the application domain and/or the target architecture, they offer the ability for "mere mortal" programmers to take advantage of the supercomputing resources that are available to advance science and tackle urgent real-world problems. However, compared to the MPI+X approach, these alternatives generally lack two things. First, they aren't as well known as MPI+X and a domain scientist may simply not be aware of models that are a good fit to their domain. Second, they are less mature than MPI+X and likely have more functionality or performance "potholes" that need only be identified to be addressed. PAW-ATM is a forum for discussing HPC applications written in alternatives to MPI+X. Its goal is to bring together application experts and proponents of high-level languages to present concrete example uses of such alternatives, describing their benefits and challenges. SCOPE AND AIMS The PAW-ATM workshop is designed to be a forum for discussion of supercomputing-scale parallel applications and their implementation in programming models outside of the dominant MPI+X paradigm. Papers and talks will explore the benefits (or perhaps drawbacks) of implementing specific applications with alternatives to MPI+X, whether those benefits are in performance, scalability, productivity, or some other metric important to that application domain. Presenters are encouraged to generalize the experience with their application to other domains in science and engineering and to bring up specific areas of improvement for the model(s) used in the implementation. In doing so, our hope is to create a setting in which application authors, language designers, and architects can present and discuss the state of the art in alternative scalable programming models, while also wrestling with how to increase their effectiveness and adoption. Beyond well-established HPC scientific simulations, we also encourage submissions exploring artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging application areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using high-level parallel programming languages and frameworks * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity * Applications from artificial intelligence, data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas * Performance evaluation of applications developed using alternatives to MPI+X and comparisons to standard programming models * Novel algorithms enabled by high-level parallel abstractions * Experience with the use of new compilers and runtime environments * Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation Papers that include description of applications that demonstrate the use of alternative programming models will be given higher priority. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are solicited in two categories: 1) Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submitted papers must describe original work that has not appeared in, nor is under consideration for, another conference or journal. Papers shall be eight (8) pages minimum and not exceed ten (10) pages including text, figures, and non-AD/AE appendices, but excluding bibliography and acknowledgments. PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC25. Submissions shall include an Artifact Description (AD) appendix, and may optionally include an Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. Authors should include a draft of the AD/AE appendices with the initial manuscript PDF submission. You will have the opportunity to revise the appendix before its final submission. See https://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ for further details. 2) User experience abstracts: * Abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings. Submissions in this track include a title and 1-4 pages abstract. The content may include any combination of novel and/or previously published work that is relevant to the workshop's scope. Content that highlights the experiences of users of alternatives of MPI, and their applications, will be prioritized within this submission category. Abstracts may optionally include AD/AE appendices, not included in the abstract page count, but such appendices will not be evaluated and no badges will be awarded. WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Vanessa Morris Wright - Sandia National Laboratories ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Engin Kayraklioglu - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Kenjiro Taura - University of Tokyo PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS * Daniele Lezzi - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Katherine Rasmussen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Marjan Asgari - National Resources Canada * Dan Bonachea - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Jan Ciesko - Sandia National Laboratories * Irina Demeshko - NVIDIA * Nils Deppe - Cornell University * Nelson Dias - Federal University of Paraná * Michael P. Ferguson – Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Magne Haveraaen - University of Bergen * Engin Kayraklioglu - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Daniele Lezzi - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise/Cray Retired * Nouredine Melab - University of Lille * Esteban Meneses Rojas - National High Technology Center * Henry Monge Camacho - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Karla Vanessa Morris Wright - Sandia National Laboratories * Irene Moulitsas - Cranfield University * Katherine Rasmussen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Julian Samaroo - Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Michael Schlottke-Lakemper - University of Augsburg * Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory * Gabriel Tanase - Amazon Web Services * Kenjiro Taura - University of Tokyo * Miwako Tsuji - Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise/Cray Retired * Damian W. I. Rouson - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ARTIFACT EVALUATION COMMITTEE CHAIR * Irene Moulitsas - Cranfield University * Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ARTIFACT EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez - New Jersey Institute of Technology * Keylor Arley - Universidad Costa Rica * Fabio Durastante - University of Pisa * Guillaume Helbecque - University of Lille * Jonas Posner - University of Kassel * Soren Rasmussen – National Center for Atmospheric Research * Anjiang Wei - Stanford University IMPORTANT DATES * Manuscript Submissions deadline: July 24, 2025 * Artifact Description (AD) Stage 1 (mandatory) Submissions deadline: July 24, 2025 * Notification to authors: August 30, 2025 * Artifact Evaluation (AE) Stage 2 (optional) Submissions deadline: September 4, 2025 * AE and Reproducibility Badges review period: September 5–26, 2025 * Final AD/AE/Badges decisions and notification to authors: September 27, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due from authors: September 28, 2025 * Final program: September 29, 2025 * November 16|17|21, 2025: Workshop at SC25

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Live Webinar on April 10 – Cloud Scaling Strategies for Southeast Asian Data Centers
by Egine Nalbandian 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Scaling Strategies for Southeast Asian Data Centers This virtual event explores key challenges and strategies in scaling cloud infrastructure in the Southeast Asian (SEA) market, focusing on Indonesia’s evolving cloud landscape. Researchers and professionals interested in IT infrastructure, cloud computing, data center efficiency, and OpenStack-based solutions will gain valuable insights from real-world case studies. Date: April 10th, 2025 Time: 3 PM (Jakarta, GMT+7) l 10 AM (CEST) Registration: https://www.sardinasystems.com/webinar-winning-the-market-with-datacomm/ Attendance is free of charge. The webinar is hosted by Sardina Systems and Datacomm, a leading IT service provider in Indonesia, which successfully transitioned from traditional data services to comprehensive cloud and data solutions. Speakers: Kenneth Tan, Executive Director at Sardina Systems; Nizar Bawazir, Cloud Technical Lead at Datacomm. This session will examine: - The role of cloud adoption in digital transformation in the SEA region; - Strategies for ensuring high availability and redundancy in cloud services; - Regulatory challenges related to data sovereignty and compliance; - The impact of open-source technologies like OpenStack and Ceph on cloud infrastructure scalability. Contact: info(a)sardinasystems.com Sardina Systems team

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CFP: Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC) co-located with Euro-Par 2025
by Matteo Nardelli 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ************************************************************************************************** WSCC 2025: Euro-Par 2025 International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum Date: 25-26 August 2025 Location: Dresden, Germany Workshop web page: https://wscc.di.unipi.it/ Euro-Par web page: https://2025.euro-par.org/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2025 ************************************************************************************************** * Call for Papers The “Compute Continuum” paradigm is transforming how we manage the heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud, this paradigm enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption or leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs). These capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth consumption, improved privacy protection, and enable the development of novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers without having to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed. To fully harness the potential of the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential. This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods. In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the area of distributed systems with particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and autonomic features to deal with variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures. A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following: - Scalable architectures and systems for the Compute Continuum - Orchestration, deployment, and management of resources and applications in the Compute Continuum - Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum - Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis - Function-as-a-Service and Backend-as-a-Service in the Compute Continuum - Energy-efficient and carbon-aware solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum - Lightweight virtualization for the Compute Continuum - AI-driven optimization and AI-related workloads in the Compute Continuum (e.g., federated, distributed, decentralized learning) - Scalable applications for the Compute Continuum (e.g., IoT, microservices, serverless) - Data processing and analytics in the Compute Continuum - Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum - Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum - Heterogeneous hardware acceleration and domain-specific architectures - Workflows in the Compute Continuum - Convergence and integration of HPC and Continuum platforms - Resilience and fault-tolerant strategies for the Compute Continuum - Benchmarks, reproducibility frameworks, and real-world experimental platforms * Submission Instructions The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They should be between a minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 pages. * Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Journal Special Issue. We are in contact to propose a Special Issue in a high-quality journal. Information will appear soon on the WSCC web site. * Important Dates May 5th, 2025 Paper submission deadline June 23rd, 2025 Paper acceptance notifications July 7th, 2025 Camera-ready due * Workshop Co-Chairs - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Patrizio Dazzi, University of Pisa, Italy - Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy - Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy - Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy We look forward to receiving your contributions!

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Available PhD Position: Multimodal AI-based Diagnosis of ADHD
by Amir Aly 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Dear All *Apologies for cross-posting* We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a tax-free fully funded PhD studentship - *Multimodal AI-based Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -* at Plymouth University, UK. The closing date for applications is *12 noon on 28th March 2025** (**UK time) **(**The difference in tuition fees between national and international students will be waived for international candidates**)*. This exciting project aims to transform ADHD diagnosis by developing a multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework that addresses the significant limitations of current, subjective diagnostic practices. Although AI is emerging in ADHD research, its integration into standard clinical practices remains minimal. This project seeks to enhance diagnostic accuracy through a sophisticated integration of AI-driven insights that complement existing approaches. Some basic questions (among others) that this project will try to explore are: 1. How can machine learning and deep learning models be tailored to various data types like neuroimaging to uncover distinct ADHD diagnostic patterns? 2. What methods can be used to analyse fMRI data to delineate active brain regions and their connections, and how can these findings be linked to ADHD behaviours and cognitive functions? 3. How can we refine AI models to handle high data dimensionality and heterogeneity and enhance decision-making transparency in clinical settings using Explainable AI (XAI) methods? 4. What are the best practices to assess the robustness of AI models against the variability in ADHD diagnostic data? This ambitious project will allow the student to engage in a groundbreaking study at the intersection of AI, neuropsychiatry, and healthcare and gain experience in a highly collaborative environment supported by a strong supervisory team and international experts. The research leverages our team's extensive background in neuro-developmental disorders like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), where we recently discussed important brain regions related to ASD diagnosis (link) <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.15374>. This PhD opportunity offers a deep dive not only into the diagnosis of ADHD using explainable AI but also into other related *co-occurring* disorders like ASD, providing a holistic perspective on patient care and intervention strategies across the spectrum of these interrelated conditions. This project is suitable for students from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science and artificial intelligence. More details about the topic and *how to apply* are available at: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-stu… If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me Regards -------------------------------------------- *Dr. Amir Aly*, PhD, FHEA, SIEEE Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme Manager of Artificial Intelligence UK and Ireland IEEE RAS Chapter Vice Chair Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics Room A307 Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA University of Plymouth, UK

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6 Available PhD Positions at the Intersection of Psychology, AI, and Computer Science
by Amir Aly 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

*Dear All, * **Apologies for cross-posting** *Applications are invited for three-year PhD studentships at the University of Plymouth, UK. * *The studentships will start on Wednesday 1 October 2025.* *The closing date for applications is Friday 9 May 2025 (midnight, UK time).* A list of projects can be found below. It is essential that candidates discuss their proposal/plans with their intended supervisor(s), prior to writing their proposal and submitting an application. The school can only consider PhD research proposals that have the support of a supervisor (see required documents). ------------------------------------------------- *1- AI-Based Analysis of Voice Biomarkers in Neurodevelopmental Disorders* This interdisciplinary PhD project will harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies to analyse vocal patterns within clinical populations, specifically targeting Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The project aims to develop innovative diagnostic models, such as deep learning models, that accurately identify and differentiate unique vocal characteristics to each disorder utilising extensive and varied datasets of autistic, ADHD and neurotypical people, enhancing our understanding and diagnostic capabilities for these conditions. Candidates should have a basic knowledge in AI and machine learning techniques, especially those applicable to audio processing and speech analysis. While knowledge of psychological or neurological principles is advantageous, it is not compulsory. The candidate will be part of a collaboration between Clinical Psychology and Computer Science, offering a unique chance to pioneer in the application of AI to clinical diagnostics. This interdisciplinary effort aims to push the boundaries of how machine learning can improve understanding and treatment strategies for neurodevelopmental disorders. *- Contact: Dr. Gray Atherton*, gray.atherton(a)plymouth.ac.uk *2- Virtual Reality Training for Spatial Familiarity with Autistic Individuals* This PhD project aims to develop a virtual reality (VR) training program to help autistic individuals navigate unfamiliar spaces with reduced anxiety as well as explore new imaginary spaces that can build confidence. Utilising VR technology, the project will recreate common environments to allow participants to engage with these spaces in a safe and controlled setting. The use of a VE2 walking treadmill will intensify the realism of the experience, enabling participants to physically walk through these virtual spaces, thereby improving spatial familiarity and comfort. Candidates are expected to have a foundational understanding of VR programming, including expertise in Unity. Skills in integrating sophisticated sensory technologies such as eye-tracking and face recognition are appreciated, as they will be used to tailor and adapt scenarios based on real-time user reactions and interactions. This role calls for a blend of technical acumen and creative problem-solving, offering a chance to pioneer VR applications that extend beyond entertainment into therapeutic settings. This interdisciplinary initiative bridges the gap between Clinical Psychology and Computer Science, offering candidates an opportunity to pioneer methods that could significantly advance therapeutic practices for neurodevelopmental disorders. *- Contact: Dr. Liam Cross*, liam.cross(a)plymouth.ac.uk *3- Enhancing Social Interaction for Autistic Individuals through Anthropomorphic Augmented Reality * This PhD project seeks to explore how autistic individuals often show a preference for interacting with non-human entities such as animals, cartoons, and robots, possibly due to the simpler social cues and lack of negative biases associated with human faces. Leveraging these insights, the project will develop an augmented reality (AR) application designed to overlay human faces with non-human characteristics, thereby enhancing comfort, social attention, and engagement among autistic participants. We are seeking a PhD candidate proficient in AR technologies, with hands-on experience in platforms like Hololens, and a good foundation in computer science. The successful candidate will be driven by a desire to apply cutting-edge AR solutions to real-world challenges in education and healthcare settings. The candidate will engage in developing complex AR interfaces and utilise user-centred design principles to create applications that significantly improve social interactions for autistic individuals. Familiarity with the psychological aspects of autism will be crucial in customizing the technology to meet user needs effectively. *- Contact: Dr. Gray Atherton*, gray.atherton(a)plymouth.ac.uk *4-* *Examining Cohesion and Authoritarianism through Synchronised VR Interactions* This project seeks to explore how moving in synchrony with others within a virtual reality (VR) environment influences social behaviour, enhancing cohesion and potentially promoting obedient tendencies. The research will employ VR to simulate scenarios where participants can engage in synchronized activities, studying the psychological effects of these interactions. These effects have historical significance in contexts such as war, riots, an other scenarios. The project will manipulate environmental factors, virtual agents, and reward systems to observe how these controlled variables influence behaviours related to conformity and personal control. We are looking for a PhD candidate with a good experience in VR programming, tools and platforms, interested in using this technology to probe the complex dynamics of human behaviour and applying their technical skills to investigate social psychological phenomena. This interdisciplinary initiative provides a unique opportunity to explore how synchronized movements in virtual environments can shape social behaviours and influence group dynamics, enhancing our understanding of technology's role in social cohesion and control. *- Contact: Dr. Liam Cross*, liam.cross(a)plymouth.ac.uk *5*- *Pure Fantasy: Harnessing VR to Explore and Enhance the Ideal Self in Autistic Individuals* This innovative project taps into the enduring popularity of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), particularly within the autism community, to explore and enhance self-concept through immersive virtual reality (VR). D&D has long served as a valuable tool for autistic individuals to experiment with their identities and improve social skills. Our project aims to create a groundbreaking VR D&D experience that allows players to design avatars embodying traits they aspire to develop or accentuate. Leveraging the Proteus effect, which suggests that the characteristics of an avatar can influence a user’s behaviour, this study will observe how players navigate complex social interactions and quests within a richly detailed virtual world. Players will physically navigate this world using VE2 treadmills, enhancing the immersion and physicality of the experience. We seek a PhD candidate with good skills in VR development, eager to push the boundaries of what VR can achieve in psychological and therapeutic contexts. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with the Computer Sciences department at the University of Plymouth to refine VR paradigms and should possess an interest in the psychological aspects of VR immersion, specifically how it relates to behaviour change and self-concept in special populations. This interdisciplinary initiative offers a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, psychology, and role-playing games, aiming to provide meaningful insights into how virtual experiences can influence real-world behaviour and self-perception. *- Contact: Dr. Gray Atherton*, gray.atherton(a)plymouth.ac.uk *6- Board games for autistic wellbeing * Board games offer educational and social benefits, particularly for neurodiverse players who thrive in structured settings. This project will establish a board gaming hub for neurodiverse adults, partnering with clinical services to combine social engagement with mental health support. There are currently multiple sites and practices in the Devon area and wider UK keen to take part, and the candidate will have good communication and organisational skills commiserate with working across sites and disciplines. Specifically, we seek a candidate with experience in working with clinical populations and a passion for board gaming. This role suits those interested in intervention design, adult social care, and gaming development for special populations. The candidate will be interested in understanding how to adapt board games for individuals with different needs, and how to liase with research teams and clinical health providers to understand how to most effectively deliver an intervention of this nature. This role will involve working in schools and with young people. *- Contact: Dr. Liam Cross*, liam.cross(a)plymouth.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------- *Eligibility and funding* Applicants should have a first-class honours degree in an appropriate subject and preferably a relevant MSc or MRes qualification. If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum English requirements for the programme, an academic IELTS score of 6.5 (with no less than 5.5 in each component test area) or equivalent. The studentship is supported for three years and includes full home tuition fees plus a stipend of at least £18,655 per annum (2025/26 rate still to be determined). *To apply* To apply, please complete our online application form <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpgtapply.…> for *PhD Psychology *for entry in* October 2025 *and submit the following mandatory documents <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.plymo…> : - *A research proposal (max 1,000 words). *Your research proposal should contain a short review of relevant literature, research questions/hypotheses, overview of methods, and a time plan (all included in the word count). Your proposal may also include up to one figure (not included in the word count). The proposal should name the suggested supervisor(s) and include a reference list (not included in the word count). Research proposals that exceed the word count will not be considered. - *Personal statement. *Please clearly state that you are applying for a PhD studentship within the School of Psychology and the name of a potential supervisor(s) on the top of your personal statement. - *Supervisor support statement. *Please submit a short statement (signed and dated) from your intended supervisor in which they confirm that they would supervise your PhD project. - *Evidence of up-to-date qualifications.*Certificates and transcripts for masters or bachelor degrees, plus any relevant professional qualifications. - *CV/résumé* - *English proficiency certificate. *Required for non-UK nationals. - *The details of two academic referees.*Please provide names and details on the application form. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me Regards -------------------------------------------- *Dr. Amir Aly*, PhD, FHEA, SIEEE Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme Manager of Artificial Intelligence UK and Ireland IEEE RAS Chapter Vice Chair Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics Room A307 Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA University of Plymouth, UK

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Postdoctoral Research Position in Ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction
by Yazan MUALLA 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hello, In our project (Supervision of Autonomous Robot Tractors in Warehouses and Logistics Platforms), we are hiring a post-doc in ergonomy and human-computer interaction Kindly find attached the job offer in two versions (English and French). We appreciate your help in disseminating it in your networks. Contract Details: ● Start Date: February 1, 2025. ● Duration: 24 months. ● Gross Salary: 3050 euros. ● Work Location: Orange (Paris/Paris region), in collaboration with the Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CIAD), University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). ● Supervisors: Dr. Yazan Mualla (UTBM), Dr. Moustafa Zouinar (Orange). Best Regards, Dr. Yazan Mualla Associate Professor Head of Specialty Program: Software Development Council member of the Lab. Distributed Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence (CIAD) EA 7533 Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UTBM, F-90010 Belfort, FRANCE Postal Address: Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology, 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg, 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE

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[2nd CfP] SSTD 2025, 25-27 August, Osaka University, Nakanoshima center, Japan
by WANG Libin 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

# SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS # 19th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD 2025) ## 25-27 August 2025, Osaka, Japan **Website:** https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html We are pleased to announce the **Second Call for Papers** for SSTD 2025, which will be held in Osaka, Japan, coinciding with the Expo 2025. Abstract submissions and paper registrations are still open, and we invite you to contribute to this premier forum for spatial and temporal data research. ## SUBMISSION DEADLINES - APPROACHING SOON - **Abstract submission (all tracks):** April 27, 2025 - **Paper submission deadline (all tracks):** May 4, 2025 - **Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track submissions:** May 18, 2025 - **Tutorial proposals deadline:** May 4, 2025 - **Notification date:** July 1, 2025 - **Camera-ready:** July 15, 2025 All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ## KEY TRACKS AND SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES ### A. Research / Demo / Industry Tracks SSTD 2025 has expanded its scope beyond traditional databases to embrace the broader landscape of spatial and temporal data. We welcome contributions spanning: - **Research Track:** Long papers (10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) presenting original contributions - **Demo Track:** System demonstrations (4 pages) showcasing developed or in-progress systems - **Industry Track:** Papers (10 pages) highlighting practical applications and real-world challenges ### B. NEW! Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track We are excited to introduce the first edition of the Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track, offering Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to share their research with the SSTD community. Papers are limited to 4 pages, including references. ### C. Tutorial Proposals We invite tutorial proposals (up to 1.5 hours) on topics relevant to spatial and temporal data management, databases, and mining. Proposals should be submitted directly to the tutorial chairs. ## TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include, but are not limited to: - Spatial Foundations - Spatial Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Analytics - Spatial Statistical Analysis - Data Management and Storage - Spatial Networks and Graphs - Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) - Visualization and Interaction - Quality, Uncertainty, Fairness and Privacy - Applications and Emerging Domains ## SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - Submit papers via: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSTD2025 - Use the double-column ACM SIG Conference Proceedings template - Page limits (excluding references): - Long research papers and industry papers: 10 pages - Short research papers and demo papers: 4 pages - Thesis and Dissertation Workshop papers: 4 pages (including references) - Tutorial proposals: Submit directly to tutorial chairs (max 4 pages) ## SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT: OSAKA EXPO 2025 SSTD 2025 coincides with the World Expo 2025 in Osaka (April 13 to October 13, 2025), offering participants a unique opportunity to experience this global event alongside the symposium. The Expo venue is just 30 minutes by metro from the SSTD 2025 venue. ## BEAUTIFUL VENUE: NAKANOSHIMA ISLAND The symposium will be held at Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, located on Nakanoshima Island - Osaka's cultural and business center. The area offers museums, historic architecture, and convenient access to major attractions. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Osaka in August 2025! --- For more details on submission guidelines, topics of interest, and attractions in Osaka, please visit our website: https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html SSTD 2025<https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html> About. The International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD) has a long and distinguished history as a premier forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to present and discuss spatial and temporal data management innovations. Since its inception in 1989, SSTD has been at the forefront of advancing foundational theories, systems, and applications that address the ... sstd2025.github.io

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Distributed Machine Learning @ IEEE ICDCS 2025. Deadline: March 16th, 2025
by HotDiML-Workshop 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We would appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your friends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, We are honored that IEEE ICDCS 2025 (https://icdcs2025.icdcs.org <https://icdcs2025.icdcs.org/>) will be hosting the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Distributed Machine Learning (HotDiML) this year! HotDiML provides researchers working in the Distributed Machine Learning field with a platform for critical thinking, sharing both successes and failures, and fostering constructive discussions. The workshop encourages novel directions, accepting papers that offer fresh perspectives or critical analyses, even if not fully developed. These papers can provide valuable insights to advance the field. We invite you to contribute with your recent work presented as position, research, experimental evaluation or report papers on Distributed Machine Learning. The accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and a plenary discussion will be held alongside these presentations. Please check the call for paper here: https://hotdiml.github.io/HotDiML2025/cfp/. Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: March 16th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 2nd, 2025 Camera-ready: April 16th, 2025 Workshop days: July 20th, 2025 Important Note: For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register and attend the workshop in-person to present their paper on-site. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and removed from the ICDCSW companion conference proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE ICDCSW companion conference proceedings and IEEE digital library. Note that the authors should adhere to ethic and professional standards of IEEE. Please refer to IEEE Code of Ethics and IEEE Policy of AI-Generated Text. We look forward to your submission and the eventual inspiring conversations in Glasgow, Scotland, UK! All the best! HotDiML 2025 Organizers Andrea Agiollo, Enkeleda Bardhi, Paolo Bellavista, Rajiv Khanna and Riccardo Lazzeretti hotdiml.workshop(a)gmail.com <mailto:hotdiml.workshop@gmail.com>

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Available PhD Position: Multimodal AI-based Diagnosis of ADHD
by Amir Aly 01 Mar '25

01 Mar '25

Dear All *Apologies for cross-posting* We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a tax-free fully funded PhD studentship - *Multimodal AI-based Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -* at Plymouth University, UK. The closing date for applications is *12 noon on 28th March 2025** (**UK time) **(**The difference in tuition fees between national and international students will be waived for international candidates**)*. This exciting project aims to transform ADHD diagnosis by developing a multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework that addresses the significant limitations of current, subjective diagnostic practices. Although AI is emerging in ADHD research, its integration into standard clinical practices remains minimal. This project seeks to enhance diagnostic accuracy through a sophisticated integration of AI-driven insights that complement existing approaches. Some basic questions (among others) that this project will try to explore are: 1. How can machine learning and deep learning models be tailored to various data types like neuroimaging to uncover distinct ADHD diagnostic patterns? 2. What methods can be used to analyse fMRI data to delineate active brain regions and their connections, and how can these findings be linked to ADHD behaviours and cognitive functions? 3. How can we refine AI models to handle high data dimensionality and heterogeneity and enhance decision-making transparency in clinical settings using Explainable AI (XAI) methods? 4. What are the best practices to assess the robustness of AI models against the variability in ADHD diagnostic data? This ambitious project will allow the student to engage in a groundbreaking study at the intersection of AI, neuropsychiatry, and healthcare and gain experience in a highly collaborative environment supported by a strong supervisory team and international experts. The research leverages our team's extensive background in neuro-developmental disorders like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), where we recently discussed important brain regions related to ASD diagnosis (link) <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.15374>. This PhD opportunity offers a deep dive not only into the diagnosis of ADHD using explainable AI but also into other related *co-occurring* disorders like ASD, providing a holistic perspective on patient care and intervention strategies across the spectrum of these interrelated conditions. This project is suitable for students from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science and artificial intelligence. More details about the topic and *how to apply* are available at: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-stu… If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me Regards -------------------------------------------- *Dr. Amir Aly*, PhD, FHEA, SIEEE Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme Manager of Artificial Intelligence UK and Ireland IEEE RAS Chapter Vice Chair Director of the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS) School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics Room A307 Portland Square, Drake Circus, PL4 8AA University of Plymouth, UK

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AEiC 2025 - Ada-Europe conference - CfC for Additional Tracks
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions - Additional Tracks 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) 10-13 June 2025, Paris, France www.ada-europe.org/conference2025 *** 2nd submission DEADLINE 7 March 2025 (extended) *** *** Industrial & Work-in-Progress track, Tutorials, Workshops *** Organized by Ada-Europe and Ada-France in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025 aka Ada-Europe 2025) will take place in Paris, France. The conference schedule comprises keynote talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. - Journal track papers present research advances supported by solid theoretical foundation and thorough evaluation. - Industrial track contributions highlight the practitioners' side of a challenging case study or industrial project. - Work-in-progress track papers illustrate novel research ideas still at an initial stage, between conception and first prototype. - Tutorials guide attenders through a hands-on familiarization with innovative developments or with useful features related to reliable software. - Workshops provide discussion forums on themes related to the conference topics. - Vendor presentations and exhibitions allow for companies to showcase their latest products and services. *** Schedule [CLOSED] Submission deadline for journal track papers 7 March 2025: Extended deadline for submission of industrial track papers, work-in-progress papers, and tutorial and workshop proposals 28 March 2025: First round notification for journal track papers, and notification of acceptance for all other types of submissions 10-13 June 2025: Conference *** Scope and Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia, and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to (more specific topics are described on the conference web page): - Formal and Model-Based Engineering of Critical Systems; - High-Integrity Systems and Reliability; - AI for High-Integrity Systems Engineering; - Real-Time Systems; - Ada Language; - Applications in relevant domains. More specific topics are described on the conference web page, at www.ada-europe.org/conference2025. *** Call for Journal Track Submissions Following a journal-first model, this edition of the conference includes a journal track, which seeks original and high-quality papers that describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted journal track papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier JSA - the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q1 ranked, CiteScore 8.5, impact factor 3.7). Accordingly, the conference is listed as "Journal Published" in the latest update of the CORE Conference Ranking released in August 2023. [Submission details removed. Call is closed now.] Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review will be invited to present their work at the conference. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. Please note that the Ada-Europe organization will waive the Open Access fees for the first four accepted papers, which do not already enjoy OA from other agreements with the Publisher. Subsequent papers will follow JSA regular publishing track. *** Call for Industrial Track Submissions The conference seeks industrial-practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Especially welcome kinds of submissions are listed on the conference web site. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner.peer-review process. Interested authors shall submit a one-to-two pages abstract, by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Industrial Track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style. Templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be invited to expand their contributions into full-fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the industrial track of the Conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to its chairs, Daniela Cancila and Laurent Gouzenes. *** Call for Work-in-progress Track Submissions The work-in-progress (WiP) track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research and (b) early-stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4-page papers describing research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal track. Early-stage ideas are 1-page papers that pitch new research directions that fall within the scope of the conference. Both kinds of submissions must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent MSc graduates and PhD students are especially sought. Authors shall submit their work by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Work-in-progress Track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style. Templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be offered the opportunity to expand their contributions into 4-page articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs, Hai Nam Tran and Anish Bhobe. *** Award The Ada-Europe organization will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference. *** Call for Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the conference scope, with an academic-for-practitioner slant, including hands-on or practical elements. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half-day or full-day), the intended level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and a statement motivating attendance. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025 to the respective chair, Robert Cholay, by email, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: tutorial proposal]". The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half-day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled on the Friday of the AEiC conference. Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. Workshop proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025 to the respective chair, Anish Bhobe, by email, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: workshop proposal]". Once submitted, each workshop proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. *** Academic Listing The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal- track proceedings of the conference, is Q1 ranked, with CiteScore 8.5 and Impact Factor 3.7. The Ada User Journal, venue of all other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition, with the option of a 20 minutes presentation as part of the conference program. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair, Ahlan Marriott. *** Venue The conference will take place at Mines Paris. Mines Paris - PSL, a founding member of Université PSL, is a leading French engineering school and the French leader institution in research partnerships. Founded 240 years ago to help spur the energy efforts called by the Industrial Revolution, it has been since training engineers in a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. With about 1,500 students, including 100 PhD graduates per year, Mines Paris - PSL hosts 18 research centers and 5 academic departments. It is located along the Luxembourg gardens, next to the Quartier Latin, and is close to public transportation, including line B of the RER to Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). Paris, the capital city of France, is renowned for its rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture. Often referred to as "The City of Light," Paris is home to iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Notre-Dame Cathedral. The city is a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy, science and culture, attracting millions of visitors each year. *** Organizing Committee - Conference Chair Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog & Ada-France rosen at adalog.fr - Journal track Co-chairs Laurent Pautet, Telecom Paris laurent.pautet at telecom-paris.fr Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sara.royuela at bsc.es - Industrial track Co-chairs Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST daniela.cancila at cea.fr Laurent Gouzenes, Pacte-Novation lgouzenes at pactenovation.fr - Work-in-progress track Co-chairs Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Tutorial Chair Robert Cholay, Systerel robert.cholay at systerel.fr - Workshop Chair Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH ahlan at ada-switzerland.ch - Finance Chair Paul Duquennoy paul.duquennoy at free.fr - Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be - Local Chair Pierre Jouvelot, Mines Paris, PSL University pierre.jouvelot at minesparis.psl.eu - Webmaster Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr *** Journal Track Committee Alejandro Mosteo, CUD Zaragoza, Spain Andrea Marongiu, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Ann Laguna, De La Salle University, USA Angeliki Kritikakou, University of Rennes, France António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Bjorn Andersson, SEI, USA C. Michael Holloway, NASA, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA Frank Singhoff, University of Brest, France George Lima, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Isaac Amundson, Rockwell Collins, USA Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI, USA John B Goodenough, CMU, USA Kerstin Bach, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway Laura Carnevali, University of Florence, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Leonidas Kosmidis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Inria, France Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP & INESC TEC, Portugal Mario Aldea Rivas, University of Cantabria, Spain Martina Maggio, Saarland University, Germany Matthias Becker, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Patricia López Martínez, University of Cantabria, Spain Risat Pathan, Chalmers University, Sweden Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Sergio Sáez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Susanne Graf, University Grenoble Alpes, France Steven Xiaotian Dai, University of York, UK Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy Xhevahire Ternava, Telecom Paris, France *** Industrial Track Committee Alexander Viehl, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany Ana Rodríguez, Silver Atena, Spain Claire Dross, AdaCore, France Daniela Cancila, CEA, France Elena Lisova, Volvo CE, Sweden Enricco Mezzetti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Federico Aromolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Helder Silva, Edisoft, Portugal Hugo Torres Vieira, Evidence Srl, Italy Irune Agirre, Ikerlan, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Laurent Gouzènes, Pacte Novation, France Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France Michael Pressler, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Raúl de la Cruz, Collins Aerospace, Ireland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Saqib Hasan, Collins, USA, USA *** Work-in-Progress Track Committee Abderaouf Nassim Amalou, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Alan Oliveira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alexandre Honorat, INRIA Grenoble, France Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris, France Audrey Quedet, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France J. Javier Gutiérrez, University of Cantabria, Spain Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France José Cecílio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Kalinka Branco, University of São Paulo, Brazil Leandro Buss Becker, University of Manchester, UK Samuel Tardieu, Telecom Paris, France Sara Abbaspour, Mälardalen University, Sweden Shuo-Han Chen, NYCU, Taiwan Stéphane Rubini, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France Tiago Carvalho, ISEP, Portugal *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 29th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), Warsaw, Poland ('19), online from Santander, Spain ('21), Ghent, Belgium ('22), Lisbon, Portugal ('23), and Barcelona, Spain ('24). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2025 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 29th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) * June 10-13, 2025, Paris * France, www.ada-europe.org/conference2025

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[CfP] SSTD 2025, 25-27 August, Osaka University, Nakanoshima center, Japan
by WANG Libin 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

19th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data, 25-27 August 2025, Osaka, Japan Website: https://sstd2025.github.io/index.html There are four sections in the following: A. Call for Research / Demo / Industry Track Papers B. Call for Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track Papers C. Call for Tutorial Proposals D. Attractions/Events in Osaka ============================================================== # A. Call for Research / Demo / Industry Track Papers Scope: The 19th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD) expands its scope beyond traditional databases to embrace the broader and rapidly evolving landscape of spatial and temporal data. While previous editions focused on foundational database systems and techniques, this year’s symposium welcomes research that addresses the full spectrum of challenges and innovations in managing, analyzing, and leveraging spatial and temporal data. We invite contributions spanning data management, analytics, mining, machine learning, visualization, and real-world applications across diverse domains, reflecting the growing significance of spatial and temporal data in today’s data-driven world. This expanded scope aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions and accommodate emerging trends where spatial and temporal data intersect with cutting-edge technologies. SSTD 2025 solicits submissions in three tracks. -Research Track Authors are invited to submit long and short research papers presenting original contributions. The selection criteria include quality, novelty, correctness, and relevance to SSTD. The short research papers are expected to discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through extensive experimental validation or lacking a strong theoretical foundation. -Demo Track We invite authors to submit demo papers featuring systems that are fully developed or currently under development but reasonably complete and mature. Demonstration proposals will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical innovations, the challenges being addressed, and the overall practical appeal of the showcased system. -Industry Track We invite the submission of industry papers that highlight practical applications, address real-world challenges, share original insights and demonstrate the successful translation of research into impactful solutions for businesses and organizations. -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following in the context of spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data. -Spatial Foundations *Spatial and temporal data models, representations, and standards *Computational geometry algorithms *Theoretical frameworks and complexity analysis *Spatial approximation, sampling, and compression strategies *Topological, geometric, and semantic relationships -Spatial Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Analytics *Foundation models and LLMs for spatial data *Data warehousing and decision support *Pattern recognition, clustering, and outlier detection *Predictive modeling and forecasting *Integration of deep learning and Geo-AI techniques *Recommender systems -Spatial Statistical Analysis *Spatial autocorrelation and regression models *Spatial point process analysis *Geostatistical methods *Bayesian models *Analysis of spatial heterogeneity *Spatio-temporal statistical methods -Data Management and Storage *Data types and query languages *Database design and conceptual modeling *Storage and retrieval techniques *Access methods and indexing *Query processing and optimization *Distributed and cloud-based architectures *Stream processing and real-time indexing *Moving objects applications *Methods for data integration and harmonization -Spatial Networks and Graphs *Transportation and mobility analytics *Network modeling and route optimization *Graph-based techniques *Sensor networks -Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) *Spatially-aware search engines *Geotagging and geographic text analysis *Location-based information retrieval *Integration of spatial and textual data *Ontologies and taxonomies *Semantic analysis of geographic entities *Spatial-keyword search -Visualization and Interaction *Novel visualization techniques *Human-computer interaction *AR/VR environments and immersive visualizations -Quality, Uncertainty, Fairness and Privacy *Data quality assessment and cleaning *Handling uncertainty and incomplete data *Privacy-preserving methods *Data bias, fairness, transparency -Applications and Emerging Domains *Location-based services and social networks *Experiments and performance evaluation *Smart cities and urban planning *Public health and emergency management *IoT-based sensor networks *Computer vision for spatial data *Crowdsourcing and user-generated content *Indoor spaces and mobility *Spatial quantum modeling *New hardware platforms -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Submission Instructions Submissions for the three tracks should be done from the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSTD2025 selecting the appropriate track. Submissions should be formatted using the double-column ACM SIG Conference Proceedings template found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. If you use Overleaf, you can access the ACM official template found at: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ. This template requires switching the document class from "manuscript" to "sigconf" to ensure the required double-column format. Submissions cannot have been or be submitted to another venue while being reviewed at SSTD and must have significant new content compared to previous publications. Long research papers and industry papers are limited to 10 pages. Short research papers and demo papers are limited to 4 pages. These page limits exclude the references. The review process is single-blind: the reviewers are not identified, while author names are listed in the submission. The fair use of AI tools is permitted and must comply with the ACM policies regarding AI tools in authorship and the peer-reviewing process. For more information, please see: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies and https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Important Dates Abstract submission (all tracks): April 27, 2025 Paper submission deadline (all tracks): May 4, 2025 Notification date: July 1, 2025 Camera-ready: July 15, 2025 All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ============================================================== # B. Call for Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track Papers We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track. This new track offers a unique opportunity for Ph.D. candidates to share their research with the SSTD community. Early-stage Ph.D. students can present their preliminary studies, receive feedback, and explore new research opportunities. For later-stage Ph.D. students, this track offers an opportunity to present their recent results and share their work with the community. Submissions will be evaluated based on the research stage: papers from early-stage students will be assessed on the originality and potential impact of their research directions, while papers from later-stage students will be evaluated primarily on their results and overall contributions to the field. -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following in the context of spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data. -Spatial Foundations -Spatial Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Analytics -Spatial Statistical Analysis -Data Management and Storage -Spatial Networks and Graphs -Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) -Visualization and Interaction -Quality, Uncertainty, Fairness, and Privacy -Applications and Emerging Domains -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Important Dates Paper submission deadline (Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track): May 18, 2025 Notification date: July 1, 2025 Camera-ready: July 15, 2025 All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Submission Guidelines Papers are limited to 4 pages, including the references. Submissions for the track should be made using the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSTD2025 choosing the SSTD2025 Theses and Dissertations workshop track. Submissions should be formatted using the double-column ACM SIG Conference Proceedings template found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. If you use Overleaf, you can access the ACM official template found at: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ. This template requires switching the document class from "manuscript" to "sigconf" to ensure the required double-column format. Submissions cannot have been or be submitted to another venue while being reviewed at SSTD and must have significant new content compared to previous publications. The review process is single-blind: the reviewers are not identified, while author names are listed in the submission. The fair use of AI tools is permitted and must comply with the ACM policies regarding AI tools in authorship and the peer-reviewing process. For more information, please see: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies and https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions ============================================================== # C. Call for Tutorial Proposals We invite proposals for tutorials of general interest to the spatio-temporal data management/database/mining research and development community. Topics relevant to the SSTD conference are encouraged, with particular emphasis on emerging research areas or well-established fields that remain highly relevant. We welcome proposals that offer a comprehensive and insightful overview of the chosen topic, covering related literature. While presenters are welcome to highlight exemplary works, the tutorial should not focus exclusively on the presenters' own contributions. Proposals must specify the intended length of the tutorial (up to 1.5 hours). If proposing multiple topics or a broader scope, please ensure the content is suitable for the 1.5-hour format. Additionally, proposals should indicate any previous venues where all or part of the tutorial has been presented and describe how this version differs from past iterations. The proposal should also define the target audience, outline the expected prerequisite knowledge, and explain the anticipated benefits for participants. -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Important Dates Important dates are listed as follows: - Tutorial submission due: May 4, 2025 (Sunday) - Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2025 (Wednesday) - Camera-ready copy due: TBD All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE). -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Submission Guidelines Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email to all two chairs (see contact details below). Submissions should be at most 4 (four) pages, excluding references, with the [same format](https://sstd2025.github.io/submit.html) as SSTD2025 research papers. Each submission should include the following information: ### Tutorial Title - Tutorial Presenters: Name, affiliation, email, postal address, phone number, and a brief bio highlighting the presenters' expertise in the tutorial domain. - Length: Specify the proposed length (up to 1.5 hours). Please ensure the content fits within the maximum duration. ### Abstract - Scope and Depth: Provide a detailed outline of the topics to be covered, including their scope and depth. If available, include a URL to previous slides or materials for evaluation purposes. - Hands-on Tutorial: Indicate whether the tutorial will include hands-on components. Specify any required operating systems, software, tools, or equipment that attendees need to bring. - Target Audience: Describe the intended audience, the expected prerequisites, the relevance of the tutorial to SSTD, and the anticipated benefits for participants. - Prior Offerings: If any part of the tutorial has been presented previously, provide details such as the event dates, locations, and URLs to associated slides or notes. Highlight how this proposal differs from previous versions. - References: A list of primary references that will be covered during the tutorial. -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Tutorial Chairs Xue Hao, \<hao.xue1(a)unsw.edu.au>, University of New South Wales Yuxuan Liang, \<yuxliang(a)outlook.com>, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) ============================================================== # D. Attractions/Events in Osaka ## Expo 2025 A World Expo is an event that brings together people and innovations from around the world in an effort to address issues facing humankind on a global scale. The Osaka Expo 1970, the first World Expo held in Japan and Asia, became a symbol of Japan's rapid economic growth and remains one of the country's most significant events. Twenty years after the Aichi Expo 2005, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai will welcome the international community back to Japan. *Schedule: April 13 to October 13, 2025 (184 days, including SSTD 2025 period: August 25-27) *Venue: Yumeshima, Osaka (30-min by Osaka Metro from the SSTD 2025 venue) *Website: https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/ ## Osaka Castle Park Osaka Castle stands as one of Japan's most iconic landmarks, playing a crucial role in the country's unification during the sixteenth century. The castle museum showcases the history of both the castle and the city through exhibits of historical artifacts, including samurai armor, weapons, and important documents. Visitors can enjoy panoramic city views from the castle tower, while the surrounding park is particularly famous for its cherry blossoms in spring. *Access: 20-min from the Nakanoshima Station (5-min by Osaka Metro plus 15-min walk) *Website: https://osakacastlepark.jp/?lang=en ## Dotonbori District Dotonbori represents Osaka's most popular entertainment district and culinary destination. This energetic area is renowned for its spectacular neon signs, iconic 3D signage (including the famous Glico Running Man), and an abundance of restaurants serving authentic Osaka cuisine. Visitors should try local specialties such as takoyaki (octopus dumplings), okonomiyaki (savory pancakes), and kushikatsu (breaded and deep-fried skewers). *Access: 30-min from the Nakanoshima Station (15-min by Osaka Metro plus 15-min walk) *Website: http://www.dotonbori.or.jp/en/ ## Nakanoshima Island The SSTD 2025 venue, Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, is located on Nakanoshima Island, a sophisticated district in central Osaka―just 5 minutes by metro or a pleasant 15-minute walk from Osaka Station. This unique island, formed by the Dojima and Tosabori rivers, serves as Osaka's cultural and business center, where historic architecture harmoniously coexists with modern museums, galleries, and office towers. *City Central Public Hall. A magnificent Neo-Renaissance building from 1918 (20-min walk) Website: https://osaka-chuokokaido.jp/english/ *Nakanoshima Museum of Art. Contemporary art exhibitions in an architecturally striking underground building (3-min walk, next to the conference venue) Website: https://nakka-art.jp/en/ *The National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO). Modern and contemporary art museum (4-min walk, next to the conference venue) Website: https://www.nmao.go.jp/en/ *Museum of Oriental Ceramics. World-renowned collection of Asian ceramics and pottery (3-min by Osaka Metro) Website: https://www.moco.or.jp/en/ *Osaka Science Museum. Interactive science exhibits and planetarium (4-min walk, next to the conference venue) Website: https://www.sci-museum.jp/osaka-science-museum/ *Nakanoshima Park. Riverside green space featuring seasonal rose gardens and walking paths (3-min walk) *River Cruise. Evening cruises offering unique perspectives of Osaka's waterfront cityscape Website: https://en.osaka-info.jp/spot/nakanoshima-river-cruise/ ## Day Trips to Kyoto and Nara Kyoto and Nara, Japan's ancient capitals, are perfect for day trips from Osaka: *Kyoto: Access: 30 to 45-min by train from Osaka Station Iconic temples and shrines including the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji) Historic Gion district with preserved traditional architecture and geiko (geisha) culture Arashiyama area featuring bamboo groves and monkey park Fushimi Inari Shrine's tunnel of thousands of vermillion torii gates *Nara: Access: 45-min by train from Osaka Station Todaiji Temple, housing Japan's largest bronze Buddha statue Nara Park, home to hundreds of free-roaming deer considered sacred messengers UNESCO World Heritage sites including ancient temples and shrines Traditional Japanese gardens and historic architecture

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Extended deadline ECCO'2025 Combinatorial Optimization @Marrakech
by El-Ghazali Talbi 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

************************************************************************************* ECCO'2025 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization 8-10 May 2025 Marrakech, Morocco https://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org ************************************************************************************* The 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization will be held in Marrakech (Morocco) from 8 till 10 May 2025. AIMS The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the following subject areas to submit an abstract: - Theory and applications of combinatorial optimization - Optimal solution methods, approximation algorithms and metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems - Integer programming, global optimization, stochastic integer programming, multi-objective programming, mixed optimization, graph theory and network flows - Application domains include, but are not limited to, logistics and supply chain optimization, manufacturing, energy production and distribution, land consolidation, telecommunications, bioinformatics, finance, discrete tomography, discrete and hybrid dynamical systems. IMPORTANT DATES Extended deadline for abstract submission 28 Feb 2025 Notification of acceptance 14 March 2025 Deadline for early registration 28 March 2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1,500 characters in plain text format (no formulas are allowed). Please note that the submission MUST be done by the person who will present the paper. For each submitted paper, ONE unique registration must be submitted (e.g., for two submitted papers, two separate registrations must be submitted). SOCIAL EVENTS Conference Dinner: Friday 9 May at Chez Ali PUBLICATIONS Book of Abstracts Special Issue: A special issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization will be devoted in papers presented in the conference. All articles will be refereed according to the high standards of the journal. Details of the process will be given during the conference. COMMITTEES Conference chair El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille, France Program and steering committee Jacek Blazewicz, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Bo Chen, University of Warwick, UK Van-Dat Cung, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Alain Hertz, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Silvano Martello, Università di Bologna, Italy Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven, Belgium El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille and INRIA, France Paolo Toth, Università di Bologna, Italy CONTACT Prof. El-ghazali Talbi email: ecco2025(a)sciencesconf.org -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 23-25, 2025, Dubai, https://ola2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** ECCO'2025 EURO Conference on the European Chapter of Combinatorial Optimization May 8-10, 2025, Marrakech, Morocco, http://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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From Skala - WSCG2025 - Call for Papers - Submission February 2025; Event Prague/Pilsen May 26-29, 2025
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

>> Apologies for duplicates, if any << >> *33. conference WSCG 2025 - Prague/Pilsen, Czech Republic* << >> Please, resend to your colleagues << Dear colleague, I would like to invite you to the annual WSCG conference * *WSCG 2025 - 33. International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2025 (celebrating 50 years of Computer Graphics in Pilsen - the city, where BEER was born)* *www.wscg.cz * OR www.wscg.eu - WEB pages updated to be held in Prague/Pilsen, Czech Republic (as usual for the last 32 years) in *May 26-29, 2025 Co-Chairs *prof. Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva/MIRALab, Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Hon. Causa, U. of Ottawa, and U. of Hannover *Keynote speakers* Gianmarco Cherchi, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy - Robust Hexahedral Meshing with Grid-based Approaches - Abstract Other agreements pending *Submission dates*: Full/short/poster paper: February 2025 submission open already Conference will be held in the *HYBRID *mode, however *physical presence is strongly preferred*. *Recent papers* are available in the Digital Repository o http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm * *Accepted papers* are published in the *Computer Science Research Notes [CSRN], ISSN 2464-4617* and the best selected papers are published in the *Journal of WSCG, ISSN 1213-6972* Each paper has an *individual DOI *registered with http://www.doi.org Indexed by Scopus etc. and with individual DOI for each paper. * *Recent Keynote speakers* can be found in o http://wscg.zcu.cz/Keynotes/keynote.htm * *Register your contact at the submission server* o http://wscgreg.zcu.cz to be kept updated (there will be no CfP sent) *Research collaboration proposal is welcome.* Maybe that our recent related research results might be of your interest. Related PDFs of our research results are available at: * http://afrodita.zcu.cz/~skala/publications.htm Feel free to contact me at: * skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz - in research oriented questions * WSCGconf(a)gmail.com - WSCG related questions Yours prof. Vaclav Skala WSCG organizer since 1992 *annually held* in Pilsen, Czech Republic www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia Pilsen, Czech Republic -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu http://afrodita.zcu.cz/~skala/publications.htm tel. 37-763-2473 ID verification:https://www.zcu.cz/cs/Employees/person.html?personId=16821 c/o University of West Bohemia Computer Graphics and Visualization Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0001-8886-4281 ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications DBLP:https://dblp.org/orcid/0000-0001-8886-4281 https://dblp.org/pid/s/VaclavSkala.html ACM:https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100496969 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jakákoli ujednání vzešlá z této e-mailové/elektronické komunikace se do jejich písemného potvrzení podepsaného oprávněnými osobami nepovažují za platná, účinná a vůči ZČU závazná. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any arrangements arising from this e-mail / electronic communication shall not be considered valid, effective and binding upon the UWB until their written confirmation signed by the authorized persons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu http://afrodita.zcu.cz/~skala/publications.htm tel. 37-763-2473 ID verification:https://www.zcu.cz/cs/Employees/person.html?personId=16821 c/o University of West Bohemia Computer Graphics and Visualization Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0001-8886-4281 ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications DBLP:https://dblp.org/orcid/0000-0001-8886-4281 https://dblp.org/pid/s/VaclavSkala.html ACM:https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100496969 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jakákoli ujednání vzešlá z této e-mailové/elektronické komunikace se do jejich písemného potvrzení podepsaného oprávněnými osobami nepovažují za platná, účinná a vůči ZČU závazná. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any arrangements arising from this e-mail / electronic communication shall not be considered valid, effective and binding upon the UWB until their written confirmation signed by the authorized persons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Call for Paper: ICDE25 - PhD Symposium (Deadline: February 8, 2025)
by Raymond Wong 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Paper PhD Symposium The 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Hong Kong SAR, China 19-23 May, 2025 https://ieee-icde.org/2025/call-for-phd-symposium-submissions/ Submission deadline: February 8, 2025 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for PhD Symposium Submissions ================================== The ICDE 2025 Ph.D. Symposium provides a forum for Ph.D. students to present their research ideas and interact with and receive feedback from senior members of the research community in academia and industry. The focus of the Symposium is to provide mentorship and constructive feedback to the students. The Symposium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. Submissions are encouraged from students who have not yet received their Ph.D. degrees. Submissions from students in the early stages of their research should provide a clear statement of the problem being addressed and a clear outline of the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are farther into their research should clearly state the contributions made so far and the work lying ahead. Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: February 8, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2025 Camera-ready copy due: March 25, 2025 Symposium date: One of days in the conference period (19-23 May, 2025) Submission Guidelines ===================== - Must be single-authored by the student. - Must specify the student’s name as the sole, primary author. - Must provide the expected Ph.D. graduation date, in parenthesis next to the name. - Must specify the name of the supervisor(s), marked as “Supervised by”, under the author’s name. - The manuscripts should contain the statement of the problem being addressed, an outline of the planned methodology, contributions made so far, and the work lying ahead. - Ph.D. Symposium papers must not exceed 5 (five) pages, including the bibliography. The five-page manuscripts must be prepared following the submission guidelines for them to be included in the IEEE proceedings and follow the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) - Manuscripts must be submitted to the Ph.D. Symposium Track of the ICDE 2025 submission website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICDEPhDSym2025) After Acceptance ================ Accepted papers will be published by IEEE as an ICDE workshop and will be indexed by DBLP and IEEE Xplore. Students with accepted papers will be required to make a brief presentation, as well as prepare and present a poster during the poster presentation event of the main conference. Ph.D. Symposium Chairs ====================== Raymond Wong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China Xiao Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Jiajie Xu, Soochow University, China

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Ada-Europe conference - 7 Feb Journal Track Extended Deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Contributions 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) 10-13 June 2025, Paris, France www.ada-europe.org/conference2025 *** Journal-track deadline EXTENDED to 7 February 2025 *** *** Other submissions by 24 February 2025 *** Organized by Ada-Europe and Ada-France #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025 aka Ada-Europe 2025) will take place in Paris, France. The conference schedule comprises keynote talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. - Journal track papers present research advances supported by solid theoretical foundation and thorough evaluation. - Industrial track contributions highlight the practitioners' side of a challenging case study or industrial project. - Work-in-progress track papers illustrate novel research ideas still at an initial stage, between conception and first prototype. - Tutorials guide attenders through a hands-on familiarization with innovative developments or with useful features related to reliable software. - Workshops provide discussion forums on themes related to the conference topics. - Vendor presentations and exhibitions allow for companies to showcase their latest products and services. *** Schedule 7 February 2025: EXTENDED submission deadline for journal track papers 24 February 2025: Deadline for submission of industrial track papers, work-in-progress papers, and tutorial and workshop proposals 28 March 2025: First round notification for journal track papers, and notification of acceptance for all other types of submissions 10-13 June 2025: Conference *** Scope and Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia, and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to (more specific topics are described on the conference web page): - Formal and Model-Based Engineering of Critical Systems; - High-Integrity Systems and Reliability; - AI for High-Integrity Systems Engineering; - Real-Time Systems; - Ada Language; - Applications in relevant domains. More specific topics are described on the conference web page, at www.ada-europe.org/conference2025. *** Call for Journal Track Submissions Following a journal-first model, this edition of the conference includes a journal track, which seeks original and high-quality papers that describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted journal track papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier JSA - the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q1 ranked, CiteScore 8.5, impact factor 3.7). Accordingly, the conference is listed as "Journal Published" in the latest update of the CORE Conference Ranking released in August 2023. Contributions must be submitted by 7 February 2025 (extended). Submissions should be made online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/, selecting the "VSI:AEiC2025" option as article type of the paper. General information for submitting to the JSA can be found at the Journal of Systems Architecture website. JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model to speed up the publication process, where Special Issue (SI) papers are published in regular issues, but marked as SI papers. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers early, and need not wait until the submission deadline. Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review will be invited to present their work at the conference. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. Please note that the Ada-Europe organization will waive the Open Access fees for the first four accepted papers, which do not already enjoy OA from other agreements with the Publisher. Subsequent papers will follow JSA regular publishing track. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs, Laurent Pautet and Sara Royuela. *** Call for Industrial Track Submissions The conference seeks industrial-practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Especially welcome kinds of submissions are listed on the conference web site. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner.peer-review process. Interested authors shall submit a one-to-two pages abstract, by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Industrial Track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style. Templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be invited to expand their contributions into full-fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the industrial track of the Conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to its chairs, Daniela Cancila and Laurent Gouzenes. *** Call for Work-in-progress Track Submissions The work-in-progress (WiP) track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research and (b) early-stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4-page papers describing research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal track. Early-stage ideas are 1-page papers that pitch new research directions that fall within the scope of the conference. Both kinds of submissions must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent MSc graduates and PhD students are especially sought. Authors shall submit their work by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Work-in-progress Track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style. Templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be offered the opportunity to expand their contributions into 4-page articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs, Hai Nam Tran and Anish Bhobe. *** Award The Ada-Europe organization will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference. *** Call for Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the conference scope, with an academic-for-practitioner slant, including hands-on or practical elements. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half-day or full-day), the intended level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and a statement motivating attendance. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025 to the respective chair, Robert Cholay, by email, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: tutorial proposal]". The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half-day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled on the Friday of the AEiC conference. Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. Workshop proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025 to the respective chair, Anish Bhobe, by email, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: workshop proposal]". Once submitted, each workshop proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. *** Academic Listing The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal- track proceedings of the conference, is Q1 ranked, with CiteScore 8.5 and Impact Factor 3.7. The Ada User Journal, venue of all other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition, with the option of a 20 minutes presentation as part of the conference program. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair, Ahlan Marriott. *** Venue The conference will take place at Mines Paris. Mines Paris - PSL, a founding member of Université PSL, is a leading French engineering school and the French leader institution in research partnerships. Founded 240 years ago to help spur the energy efforts called by the Industrial Revolution, it has been since training engineers in a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. With about 1,500 students, including 100 PhD graduates per year, Mines Paris - PSL hosts 18 research centers and 5 academic departments. It is located along the Luxembourg gardens, next to the Quartier Latin, and is close to public transportation, including line B of the RER to Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). Paris, the capital city of France, is renowned for its rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture. Often referred to as "The City of Light," Paris is home to iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Notre-Dame Cathedral. The city is a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy, science and culture, attracting millions of visitors each year. *** Organizing Committee - Conference Chair Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog & Ada-France rosen at adalog.fr - Journal track Co-chairs Laurent Pautet, Telecom Paris laurent.pautet at telecom-paris.fr Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sara.royuela at bsc.es - Industrial track Co-chairs Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST daniela.cancila at cea.fr Laurent Gouzenes, Pacte-Novation lgouzenes at pactenovation.fr - Work-in-progress track Co-chairs Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Tutorial Chair Robert Cholay, Systerel robert.cholay at systerel.fr - Workshop Chair Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH ahlan at ada-switzerland.ch - Finance Chair Paul Duquennoy paul.duquennoy at free.fr - Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be - Local Chair Pierre Jouvelot, Mines Paris, PSL University pierre.jouvelot at minesparis.psl.eu - Webmaster Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr *** Journal Track Committee Alejandro Mosteo, CUD Zaragoza, Spain Andrea Marongiu, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Ann Laguna, De La Salle University, USA Angeliki Kritikakou, University of Rennes, France António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Bjorn Andersson, SEI, USA C. Michael Holloway, NASA, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA Frank Singhoff, University of Brest, France George Lima, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Isaac Amundson, Rockwell Collins, USA Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI, USA John B Goodenough, CMU, USA Kerstin Bach, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway Laura Carnevali, University of Florence, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Leonidas Kosmidis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Inria, France Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP & INESC TEC, Portugal Mario Aldea Rivas, University of Cantabria, Spain Martina Maggio, Saarland University, Germany Matthias Becker, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Patricia López Martínez, University of Cantabria, Spain Risat Pathan, Chalmers University, Sweden Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Sergio Sáez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Susanne Graf, University Grenoble Alpes, France Steven Xiaotian Dai, University of York, UK Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy Xhevahire Ternava, Telecom Paris, France *** Industrial Track Committee Alexander Viehl, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany Ana Rodríguez, Silver Atena, Spain Claire Dross, AdaCore, France Daniela Cancila, CEA, France Elena Lisova, Volvo CE, Sweden Enricco Mezzetti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Federico Aromolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Helder Silva, Edisoft, Portugal Hugo Torres Vieira, Evidence Srl, Italy Irune Agirre, Ikerlan, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Laurent Gouzènes, Pacte Novation, France Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France Michael Pressler, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Raúl de la Cruz, Collins Aerospace, Ireland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Saqib Hasan, Collins, USA, USA *** Work-in-Progress Track Committee Abderaouf Nassim Amalou, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Alan Oliveira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alexandre Honorat, INRIA Grenoble, France Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris, France Audrey Quedet, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France J. Javier Gutiérrez, University of Cantabria, Spain Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France José Cecílio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Kalinka Branco, University of São Paulo, Brazil Leandro Buss Becker, University of Manchester, UK Samuel Tardieu, Telecom Paris, France Sara Abbaspour, Mälardalen University, Sweden Shuo-Han Chen, NYCU, Taiwan Stéphane Rubini, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France Tiago Carvalho, ISEP, Portugal *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 29th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), Warsaw, Poland ('19), online from Santander, Spain ('21), Ghent, Belgium ('22), Lisbon, Portugal ('23), and Barcelona, Spain ('24). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2025 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 29th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) * June 10-13, 2025, Paris * France, www.ada-europe.org/conference2025

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Deadline extended CFP OLA'2025 Optimization & Learning @Dubai
by El-Ghazali Talbi 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 23-25 April 2025 Dubai http://ola2025.sciencesconf.org/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and/or machine learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2025 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2025 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages Important dates: =============== Paper submission deadline extension Jan 24, 2025 Notification of acceptance Feb 21, 2025 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the conference. -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 23-25, 2025, Dubai, https://ola2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** ECCO'2025 EURO Conference on the European Chapter of Combinatorial Optimization May 8-10, 2025, Marrakech, Morocco, http://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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Call for Papers, PDSEC-2025 Workshop, 3rd of June 2025 - Milan, Italy
by Jean-Claude Charr 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

**CALL FOR PAPERS** The 26th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-2025) (http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2025/pdsec/) will be held on the 3rd of June 2025 in Milan, Italy, in conjunction with IPDPS 2025. Deadline: PDSEC-2025 deadline: 19 Jan 2025 (extension until February 2nd) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing (PDC) 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 scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. In particular, we will focus on the following topics in parallel and distributed scientific and engineering applications, and not limited to: - Big scientific data - Performance modeling and simulation for the execution of scalable scientific applications on new heterogeneous architectures - Graph analytics with their (scientific) applications - Code modernization methodologies and experiences for adapting the changes in future computing systems - Languages for scientific computing on hybrid systems (e.g. Python, MPI+X where X is OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc.) - Tools and techniques for improving the performance, reliability and resilience of scientific applications - Use cases of enterprise distributed computing technology (such as MapReduce, Data Analytics and Machine-learning tools) in scientific and engineering applications - Scalable parallel and distributed algorithms supporting science and engineering applications - Performance portability across heterogeneous architecture Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 19, 2025 (extension until February 2nd) Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 26, 2025 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . March 6, 2025 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .June 3, 2025 General Chairs Sabine Roller, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Kevin Huck, University of Oregon, USA Program Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Neda Ebrahimi Pour, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Publicity Chair Jean-Claude Charr, University of Franche-Comte, France Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Web Chair Jiawei Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Sincerely, Jean-Claude Charr Associate professor at IUT NFC University of Franche-Comte, France

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Ada-Europe Conference - 2nd Call for Contributions - AEiC 2025
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Contributions 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) 10-13 June 2025, Paris, France www.ada-europe.org/conference2025 *** Journal-track submissions by 20 January 2025 *** *** Other submissions by 24 February 2025 *** Organized by Ada-Europe and Ada-France #AEiC2025 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 29th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025 aka Ada-Europe 2025) will take place in Paris, France. The conference schedule comprises keynote talks, a journal track, an industrial track, a work-in-progress track, a vendor exhibition, parallel tutorials, and satellite workshops. - Journal track papers present research advances supported by solid theoretical foundation and thorough evaluation. - Industrial track contributions highlight the practitioners' side of a challenging case study or industrial project. - Work-in-progress track papers illustrate novel research ideas still at an initial stage, between conception and first prototype. - Tutorials guide attenders through a hands-on familiarization with innovative developments or with useful features related to reliable software. - Workshops provide discussion forums on themes related to the conference topics. - Vendor presentations and exhibitions allow for companies to showcase their latest products and services. *** Schedule 20 January 2025: Deadline for submission of journal track papers 24 February 2025: Deadline for submission of industrial track papers, work-in-progress papers, and tutorial and workshop proposals 28 March 2025: First round notification for journal track papers, and notification of acceptance for all other types of submissions 10-13 June 2025: Conference *** Scope and Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia, and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to (more specific topics are described on the conference web page): - Formal and Model-Based Engineering of Critical Systems; - High-Integrity Systems and Reliability; - AI for High-Integrity Systems Engineering; - Real-Time Systems; - Ada Language; - Applications in relevant domains. More specific topics are described on the conference web page, at www.ada-europe.org/conference2025. *** Call for Journal Track Submissions Following a journal-first model, this edition of the conference includes a journal track, which seeks original and high-quality papers that describe mature research work on the conference topics. Accepted journal track papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier JSA - the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q1 ranked, CiteScore 8.5, impact factor 3.7). Contributions must be submitted by 20 January 2025. For details see conference web site. JSA has adopted the Virtual Special Issue model to speed up the publication process, where Special Issue (SI) papers are published in regular issues, but marked as SI papers. Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis. Therefore, authors are encouraged to submit papers early, and need not wait until the submission deadline. Authors who have successfully passed the first round of review will be invited to present their work at the conference. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. Please note that the Ada-Europe organization will waive the Open Access fees for the first four accepted papers, which do not already enjoy OA from other agreements with the Publisher. Subsequent papers will follow JSA regular publishing track. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs, Laurent Pautet and Sara Royuela. *** Call for Industrial Track Submissions The conference seeks industrial-practitioner presentations that deliver insight on the challenges of developing reliable software. Especially welcome kinds of submissions are listed on the conference web site. Given their applied nature, such contributions will be subject to a dedicated practitioner peer-review process. Interested authors shall submit a 1-to-2 pages abstract, by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Industrial track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style; templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be invited to expand their contributions into full-fledged articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the industrial track of the Conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to its chairs, Daniela Cancila and Laurent Gouzenes. *** Call for Work-in-progress Track Submissions The work-in-progress (WiP) track seeks two kinds of submissions: (a) ongoing research and (b) early-stage ideas. Ongoing research submissions are 4-page papers describing research results that are not mature enough to be submitted to the journal track. Early-stage ideas are 1-page papers that pitch new research directions that fall within the scope of the conference. Both kinds of submissions must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Submissions by recent MSc graduates and PhD students are especially sought. Authors shall submit their work by 24 February 2025, via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aeic2025, selecting the "Work-in-progress track". The format for submission is strictly in PDF, following the Ada User Journal style; templates are available at http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/guide. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet. The corresponding authors will get a presentation slot in the prime-time technical program of the conference and will also be offered the opportunity to expand their contributions into 4-page articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, which will form the proceedings of the WiP track of the conference. Prospective authors may direct all enquiries regarding this track to the corresponding chairs, Hai Nam Tran and Anish Bhobe. *** Award The Ada-Europe organization will offer an honorary award for the best technical presentation, to be announced in the closing session of the conference. *** Call for Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars on themes falling within the conference scope, with an academic-for-practitioner slant, including hands-on or practical elements. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half-day or full-day), the intended level of the contents (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and a statement motivating attendance. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025, by e-mail to the respective chair, Robert Cholay, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: tutorial proposal]". The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration, halved for half-day tutorials. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops The conference welcomes satellite workshops centred on themes that fall within the conference scope. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled on the Friday of the AEiC conference. Workshop organizers shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. Workshop proposals shall be submitted at any time but no later than 24 February 2025, by e-mail to the respective chair, Anish Bhobe, with subject line: "[AEiC 2025: workshop proposal]". Once submitted, each workshop proposal will be evaluated by the conference organizers as soon as possible. *** Academic Listing The Journal of Systems Architecture, publication venue of the journal- track proceedings of the conference, is Q1 ranked, with CiteScore 8.5 and Impact Factor 3.7. The Ada User Journal, venue of all other technical proceedings of the conference, is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors The conference will include a vendor and technology exhibition, with the option of a 20 minutes presentation as part of the conference program. Interested providers should direct inquiries to the Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair, Ahlan Marriott. *** Venue The conference will take place at Mines Paris. Mines Paris - PSL, a founding member of Université PSL, is a leading French engineering school and the French leader institution in research partnerships. Founded 240 years ago to help spur the energy efforts called by the Industrial Revolution, it has been since training engineers in a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. With about 1,500 students, including 100 PhD graduates per year, Mines Paris - PSL hosts 18 research centers and 5 academic departments. It is located along the Luxembourg gardens, next to the Quartier Latin, and is close to public transportation, including line B of the RER to Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). Paris, the capital city of France, is renowned for its rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture. Often referred to as "The City of Light," Paris is home to iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and Notre-Dame Cathedral. The city is a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy, science and culture, attracting millions of visitors each year. *** Organizing Committee - Conference Chair Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog & Ada-France rosen at adalog.fr - Journal track Co-chairs Laurent Pautet, Telecom Paris laurent.pautet at telecom-paris.fr Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sara.royuela at bsc.es - Industrial track Co-chairs Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST daniela.cancila at cea.fr Laurent Gouzenes, Pacte-Novation lgouzenes at pactenovation.fr - Work-in-progress track Co-chairs Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Tutorial Chair Robert Cholay, Systerel robert.cholay at systerel.fr - Workshop Chair Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris anish.bhobe at telecom-paris.fr - Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH ahlan at ada-switzerland.ch - Finance Chair Paul Duquennoy paul.duquennoy at free.fr - Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be - Local Chair Pierre Jouvelot, Mines Paris, PSL University pierre.jouvelot at minesparis.psl.eu - Webmaster Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest hai-nam.tran at univ-brest.fr *** Journal Track Committee Alejandro Mosteo, CUD Zaragoza, Spain Andrea Marongiu, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Ann Laguna, De La Salle University, USA Angeliki Kritikakou, University of Rennes, France António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal Bjorn Andersson, SEI, USA C. Michael Holloway, NASA, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA Frank Singhoff, University of Brest, France George Lima, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Isaac Amundson, Rockwell Collins, USA Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI, USA John B Goodenough, CMU, USA Kerstin Bach, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway Laura Carnevali, University of Florence, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Leonidas Kosmidis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Inria, France Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP & INESC TEC, Portugal Mario Aldea Rivas, University of Cantabria, Spain Martina Maggio, Saarland University, Germany Matthias Becker, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Patricia López Martínez, University of Cantabria, Spain Risat Pathan, Chalmers University, Sweden Sara Royuela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Sergio Sáez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Susanne Graf, University Grenoble Alpes, France Steven Xiaotian Dai, University of York, UK Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy Xhevahire Ternava, Telecom Paris, France *** Industrial Track Committee Alexander Viehl, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany Ana Rodríguez, Silver Atena, Spain Claire Dross, AdaCore, France Daniela Cancila, CEA, France Elena Lisova, Volvo CE, Sweden Enricco Mezzetti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Federico Aromolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Helder Silva, Edisoft, Portugal Hugo Torres Vieira, Evidence Srl, Italy Irune Agirre, Ikerlan, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Laurent Gouzènes, Pacte Novation, France Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France Michael Pressler, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Raúl de la Cruz, Collins Aerospace, Ireland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Saqib Hasan, Collins, USA, USA *** Work-in-Progress Track Committee Abderaouf Nassim Amalou, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Alan Oliveira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alexandre Honorat, INRIA Grenoble, France Anish Bhobe, Telecom Paris, France Audrey Quedet, Univeristy of Nantes, LS2N, France Hai Nam Tran, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France J. Javier Gutiérrez, University of Cantabria, Spain Jérémie Guiochet, LAAS-CNRS, France José Cecílio, University of Lisbon, Portugal Kalinka Branco, University of São Paulo, Brazil Leandro Buss Becker, University of Manchester, UK Samuel Tardieu, Telecom Paris, France Sara Abbaspour, Mälardalen University, Sweden Shuo-Han Chen, NYCU, Taiwan Stéphane Rubini, University of Brest, Lab-STICC, France Tiago Carvalho, ISEP, Portugal *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 29th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), Warsaw, Poland ('19), online from Santander, Spain ('21), Ghent, Belgium ('22), Lisbon, Portugal ('23), and Barcelona, Spain ('24). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2025 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be * 29th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2025) * June 10-13, 2025, Paris * France, www.ada-europe.org/conference2025

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12th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2025 - Sun 2 Feb - Brussels
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 12th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2025 Sunday 2 February 2025, Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/25/250202-fosdem.html fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/ada/ Organized in cooperation with Ada-Belgium [1] and Ada-Europe [2] #AdaFOSDEM #AdaDevRoom #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2025 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. The 2025 edition takes place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February. It is free to attend and no registration is necessary. In this edition, the Ada FOSDEM community organizes once more a set of presentations related to Ada and Free or Open Software in a s.c. Developer Room. The "Ada DevRoom" at FOSDEM 2025 is held on the morning of the 2nd day, and offers a variety of presentations on the Ada programming language, tools and projects: a total of 11 Ada-related presentations by 11 authors from 7 countries! Program overview: - Welcome to the Ada DevRoom, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain, and Dirk Craeynest, Belgium - Updates on the Ada Ecosystem, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain - Get started with Ada in 2 minutes or less!, by A.J., USA - Advent of Compression: writing a working BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days, by Gautier de Montmollin, Switzerland - Ada and Mini-Ada: a solution to the two-language problem, by Gautier de Montmollin, Switzerland - Understanding liquid types, contracts and formal verification with Ada/SPARK, by Fernando Oleo Blanco, Spain - The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada, by Oli Scherer, Germany - Cryptography in SPARK: building the foundation with constant-time bigints, by César Sagaert and Fabien Chouteau, France - Multiword Arithmetic and Parallel Computing, by Jan Verschelde, USA - Developing device drivers for Ironclad using Ada, by streaksu - AdaBots - programmable minetest bots, by Tama McGlinn and Rudolf Batke, the Netherlands The Ada at FOSDEM 2025 web-page has all details, such as the full schedule, abstracts of presentations, biographies of speakers, and pointers to more info, including live video streaming and recordings afterwards. For the latest information at any time, contact Fernando Oleo Blanco <irvise(a)irvise.xyz> or see: [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ [2] http://www.ada-europe.org/ [3] https://fosdem.org/2025/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Ada DevRoom team Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Dirk.Craeynest(a)kuleuven.be

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CFP ECCO'2025 Optimization @Marrakech
by El-Ghazali Talbi 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

************************************************************************************* ECCO'2025 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization 8-10 May 2025 Marrakech, Morocco https://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org ************************************************************************************* The 38th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization will be held in Marrakech (Morocco) from 8 till 10 May 2025. AIMS The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the following subject areas to submit an abstract: - Theory and applications of combinatorial optimization - Optimal solution methods, approximation algorithms and metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems - Integer programming, global optimization, stochastic integer programming, multi-objective programming, mixed optimization, graph theory and network flows - Application domains include, but are not limited to, logistics and supply chain optimization, manufacturing, energy production and distribution, land consolidation, telecommunications, bioinformatics, finance, discrete tomography, discrete and hybrid dynamical systems. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission 31 January 2025 Notification of acceptance 26 February 2025 Deadline for early registration 21 March 2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1,500 characters in plain text format (no formulas are allowed). Please note that the submission MUST be done by the person who will present the paper. For each submitted paper, ONE unique registration must be submitted (e.g., for two submitted papers, two separate registrations must be submitted). SOCIAL EVENTS Conference Dinner: Friday 9 May at Chez Ali PUBLICATIONS Book of Abstracts Special Issue: A special issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization will be devoted in papers presented in the conference. All articles will be refereed according to the high standards of the journal. Details of the process will be given during the conference. COMMITTEES Conference chair El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille, France Program committee Jacek Blazewicz, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Bo Chen, University of Warwick, UK Van-Dat Cung, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Alain Hertz, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Silvano Martello, Università di Bologna, Italy Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven, Belgium El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille and INRIA, France Paolo Toth, Università di Bologna, Italy Organizing committee El-Ghazali Talbi (chair), University of Lille Amir Nakib (co-chair), University of Paris Est CONTACT Prof. El-ghazali Talbi email: ecco2025(a)sciencesconf.org -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2025 International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 23-25, 2025, Dubai, https://ola2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** ECCO'2025 EURO Conference on the European Chapter of Combinatorial Optimization May 8-10, 2025, Marrakech, Morocco, http://ecco2025.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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2025 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application (by "December 31, 2024 (23:59:59 PST)")
by Raymond Wong 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

2025 PAKDD Early Career Research Award Application (by "December 31, 2024 (23:59:59 PST)") ========================================================================================== Link: https://pakdd.org/awards.html#link3 Thanks to PAKDD Steering Committee, PAKDD will provide Early Career Research Award to an individual in the first 10 years after PhD. The award aims to promote young researchers in KDD fields when they create their career. It consists of a plaque (and potentially cash) to the awardee. The recipient will receive the award at the annual PAKDD Conference during the awards session. For any questions, please contact the PAKDD Junior Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong(a)cse.ust.hk ). Eligibility =========== 1. Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are excluded. The nominator should obtain the endorsement from the nominee before nomination. 2. The nominee’s PhD should have been awarded no earlier than December 31st, current year – 11 years. For example, for the year 2025 awards, this means no earlier than 31st December 2014. 3. The nominee can be anyone except the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee. 4. The nominee must have published at least one full/long paper in PAKDD, and attended at least one PAKDD conference to present his/her results. Selection Criteria ================== The application is evaluated based on the nominee's overall research contributions, leadership, and service in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. The awardee should commit to attend the PAKDD 2025 ceremony on-site to receive the award. The Award Selection Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. Submission Details ================== The nominator should send a single PDF file containing all the following documents by Dec 31, 2024 (23:59:59 PST) to the current PAKDD Award Selection Committee Chair, Raymond Wong (email: raywong(a)cse.ust.hk ). The email title is "PAKDD: Application of 2025 PAKDD Early Career Research Award". In the email, please include the nominee in the CC list. 1. Statement including the following. Please use the given form at this link ( https://pakdd.org/Application_Forms/PAKDD%20Early%20Career%20Research%20Awa… ) a. Nominator Information i. Name ii. Email Address iii. Affiliation iv. Homepage URL b. Nominee Information i. Name ii. Email Address iii. Affiliation iv. Homepage URL c. Proposed Citation of Nominee (up to 25 words) d. Detailed Statement to Justify the nomination (500 words or fewer) 2. Endorsement Letter (approximate 1 page) written by at least one SC (Steering Committee) member who is not the nominator. The letter should include detailed statement about the nominee’s overall research, leadership, and service contributions in KDD fields since the awarding of the PhD. 3. Certificate showing PhD degree awarding intuition and the time receiving the PhD degree Only PDF files are accepted. No other file formats are accepted. Submissions violating the above guideline will be disregarded. Notifications will be sent to the nominators and the nominees by Jan 25, 2025 (23:59:59 PST). Nominations that did not result in an award in the current year can be re-submitted or updated in subsequent years as long as the eligibility conditions for the award still hold.

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Live free 'AIDA AI Excellence e-Lecture' by Prof. Dr. Juergen Gall (University of Bonn) : "From Forecasting Human Behavior to Forecasting Extreme Weather and Climate Events", December 17, 2024 - 17:00 CET.
by Efi 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. Dr. Juergen Gall (University of Bonn) will deliver the e – lecture: "*From Forecasting Human Behavior to Forecasting Extreme Weather and Climate Events":* 📅 *Date: 17th December 2024* 🕒 *Time*: *17:00 – 18:00 CET* 🔗 *Join via Zoom: [**Zoom link <https://authgr.zoom.us/j/99185567964?pwd=WaMcen3c1jVkf53m1CguRKIbn3br6P.1> **& passcode: 114050]* *🌐* For more details, click *here <https://www.i-aida.org/events/from-forecasting-human-behavior-to-forecastin…>* The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) <http://www.i-aida.org/>*, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media <https://ai4media.eu/>, ELISE <https://www.elise-ai.eu/>, Humane AI Net <https://www.humane-ai.eu/>, TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/>*, *VISION <https://www.vision4ai.eu/>, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series <https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/> on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: - Top highly cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> and CVML email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml>. Upcoming AI Excellence Lectures: - Associate Prof. Ekaterina Shutova, "Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models, 30/1/25, 15:00 CET. - Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, “How to train large scale 3D human foundation models”, 4/2/25, 17:00 CET Best regards Profs. N. Sebe, M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas

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Live free 'AIDA AI Excellence e-Lecture' by Prof. Sean Gong (Queen Mary University of London): "LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning", December 3, 2024 - 17:00 CET.
by Efi 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Professor Sean Gong (Queen Mary University of London) will deliver the e – lecture: "*LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning*" 📅 *Date: **3**rd.** December 2024* 🕒 *Time*: *17:00 – 18:00 CET* 🔗 *Join via Zoom: [Zoom link <https://authgr.zoom.us/j/99477867727?pwd=AqclCfiTJxBypCU0LFOJ1GKPJ7n7aq.1>& passcode: 114050]* *🌐* For more details, click *here <https://www.i-aida.org/events/llms-for-more-reliable-small-data-learning/>* The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)* <http://www.i-aida.org/>, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media <https://ai4media.eu/>, ELISE <https://www.elise-ai.eu/>, Humane AI Net <https://www.humane-ai.eu/>, TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/>*, *VISION <https://www.vision4ai.eu/>, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series <https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/> on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: - Top highly cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> and CVML email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml>. Upcoming AI Excellence Lectures: - Prof. Dr. Juergen Gall, “From Forecasting Human Behavior to Forecasting Extreme Weather and Climate Events”, 17/12/24, 17:00 CET - Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, “How to train large scale 3D human foundation models”, 4/2/25, 17:00 CET Best regards Profs. N. Sebe, M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, J. Stefanowski AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series committee members

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Join the AIIA/AIDA free short e-course/tutorial “Big Data Analytics for Natural Disaster Management”, 3/12/2024.
by Efi 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Dear AI/CS/ECE student/scientist/engineer/enthusiast, the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA <https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/>) Lab of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in cooperation with the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA <https://www.i-aida.org/>), is excited to invite you to register and attend the online short course “*Big Data Analytics for Natural Disaster Management* <https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/short-course-on-big-data-analytics-for-natural-d…> ”. 📅 *Date*: December 3, 2024 🕒 *Time*: 08:35 - 19:30 EET (09:35 - 20:30 CET) This course offers ten in-depth lectures on the following cutting-edge topics: - Drone Imaging - Computer Vision - Image Segmentation - Object Detection - Privacy Protection - Simulation and Modeling of Natural Disasters - Big Data Analytics - Cloud Computing - Multimodal Data Analysis 🔗 *Join via Zoom*: [Zoom Link <https://authgr.zoom.us/j/96937475591?pwd=0FRfulV1vnPdy0atPcbmSdVfvthZSC.1>] 🔑 *Passcode*: 114050 *🌐** Register now*: Please register in advance in this course* for free *through the above-mentioned short course www page <https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/short-course-on-big-data-analytics-for-natural-d…>and find more details. For AIDA students only: On the top of the above registration, we strongly encourage you to also enroll in this course through the AIDA website <https://www.i-aida.org/course/big-data-analytics-for-natural-disaster-manag…>, so that a successful attendance of this course appears in the AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance. Students/Scientists, Engineers from other scientific disciplines having the necessary mathematical background are also welcomed to register. This short course is organized by the Horizon Europe R&D project TEMA <https://tema-project.eu/>, and is part of the e-2024 “AIIA/AIDA Winder School on ‘AI and big Data Analytics for Inspection/Surveillance, Disaster Prevention and Management <https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/winder-school-on-ai-and-big-data-analytics-for-i…> ”. We look forward to your participation! School Organizer: Prof. Ioannis Pitas Chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Live free 'AIDA AI Excellence e-Lecture' by Prof. Gül Varol (École des Ponts ParisTech.): "Text-driven 3D human motion synthesis", November 26, 2024 - 17:00 CET
by Efi 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Associate Professor Gül Varol (École des Ponts ParisTech) will deliver the e – lecture: "*Text-driven 3D human motion synthesis*". 📅 *Date: 26th November 2024* 🕒 *Time*: *17:00 – 18:00 CET* 🔗 *Join via Zoom: [Zoom link <https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98240130814?pwd=mQbJ4GYyoFauzgPzTxeqx4BKlh3LGI.1> & passcode: 114050]* *🌐* For more details, click *here <https://www.i-aida.org/events/text-driven-3d-human-motion-synthesis/>* The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)* <http://www.i-aida.org/>, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media <https://ai4media.eu/>, ELISE <https://www.elise-ai.eu/>, Humane AI Net <https://www.humane-ai.eu/>, TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/>*, *VISION <https://www.vision4ai.eu/>, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series <https://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/> on several current hot AI topics. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: - Top highly cited senior AI scientists internationally or - Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) These lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> and CVML email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml>. Upcoming AI Excellence Lectures: - Prof. Sean Gong, “LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning”, 3/12/24, 17:00 CET - Prof. Dr. Juergen Gall, “From Forecasting Human Behavior to Forecasting Extreme Weather and Climate Events”, 17/12/24, 17:00 CET - Prof. Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, “How to train large scale 3D human foundation models”, 4/2/25, 17:00 CET Best regards Profs. N. Sebe, M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, J. Stefanowski AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series committee members

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The 9th International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-25)
by Yazan MUALLA 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-25) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies ANT 2025 April 22 - 24, 2025, Patras, Greece. https://www.ciad-lab.fr/9th-international-workshop-on-agent-based-modeling-… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. SARL-25 provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. SARL workshop was born with the SARL agent programming language, but the scientific results presented in SARL-25 are not restricted to SARL; other languages and agent platforms may be presented. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration. These high-level features are now considered as the major requirements for an easy and practical implementation of modern complex software applications. We are convinced that the agent-oriented paradigm holds the keys to effectively meet these features. Considering the variety of existing approaches and meta-models in the field of agent-oriented engineering and more generally multi-agent systems, our approach remains as generic as possible and highly extensible to easily integrate new concepts and features. The goal of SARL-25 is to provide a place where the different points of view on the modeling and the simulation with agent platforms and agent programming languages may be discussed. SARL-25 will be held in Patras, Greece (April 22 - 24, 2025) in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2025). Topics ====== The main topics of the SARL-25 workshop are (but not restricted to): * Methods and Models: * Agent based Modeling and Simulation; * Agent programming language; * Agent based Simulation; * Agent oriented analysis and design methods; * Ontologies and theories about large urban systems; * Formal models of agent-based simulation; * Organizational models. * Applications: * Traffic/Transport; * Crowds; * Smart grids and smart buildings; * Land-Use; * Energy. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: January 10, 2025; * Notification: January 26, 2025; * Final date for camera-ready copy: February 9, 2025 (hard); * Workshop: April 22 - 24, 2025. Submission ========== All workshop accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series online. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. You are invited to submit full length papers in PDF format on EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sarl25) not exceeding 6 pages in length, in single-column format including diagrams and references while following the Procedia Computer Science guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits. All papers will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics listed above. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to present the paper. Workshop Chairs =============== Stéphane GALLAND (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France) Nicolas GAUD (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France) Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (RMIT, Australia) Publicity Chair ================ Yazan MUALLA (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France).

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Call for Papers, PDSEC-2025 Workshop, 3rd of June 2025 - Milan, Italy
by Jean-Claude Charr 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

**CALL FOR PAPERS** The 26th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-2025) (http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2025/pdsec/) will be held on the 3rd of June 2025 in Milan, Italy, in conjunction with IPDPS 2025. Deadline: PDSEC-2025 deadline: 19 Jan 2025 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing (PDC) 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 scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. In particular, we will focus on the following topics in parallel and distributed scientific and engineering applications, and not limited to: - Big scientific data - Performance modeling and simulation for the execution of scalable scientific applications on new heterogeneous architectures - Graph analytics with their (scientific) applications - Code modernization methodologies and experiences for adapting the changes in future computing systems - Languages for scientific computing on hybrid systems (e.g. Python, MPI+X where X is OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc.) - Tools and techniques for improving the performance, reliability and resilience of scientific applications - Use cases of enterprise distributed computing technology (such as MapReduce, Data Analytics and Machine-learning tools) in scientific and engineering applications - Scalable parallel and distributed algorithms supporting science and engineering applications - Performance portability across heterogeneous architecture Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 19, 2025 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 26, 2025 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . March 6, 2025 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .June 3, 2025 General Chairs Sabine Roller, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA Program Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Neda Ebrahimi Pour, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Publicity Chair Jean-Claude Charr, University of Franche-Comte, France Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Web Chair Jiawei Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Sincerely, Jean-Claude Charr Associate professor at IUT NFC University of Franche-Comte, France

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