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Live e-lecture by Prof. Efstratios Gavves: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET. Upcoming AIDA AI excellence lectures
by Ioanna Koroni 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, Prof. Efstratios Gavves (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), a prominent young AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: ‘The Machine Learning of Time: Past and Future’, on Tuesday 9th February 2021 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: <http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/ai-lectures/ You can join for free using the zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/93863728654 The <http://www.i-aida.org/> International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects <https://ai4media.eu/> AI4Media and <https://www.vision4ai.eu/> Vision and Humane AI Net currently in the process of formation, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics, starting with the above mentioned e-lecture. Lectures will be offered alternatingly by: Top highly-cited senior AI scientists internationally or Young AI scientists with promise of excellence (AI sprint lectures) Lectures will be typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. Other upcoming lectures: 1. Prof. Pietro Perona, ‘Measuring algorithmic bias in face analysis — towards an experimental approach’, 23rd February 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 2. Prof. Björn Schuller: ‘There will be Artificial Emotional Intelligence’, 9th March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET 3. Prof. Andreas Geiger, ‘Towards Robust End-to-End Driving’, 23rd March 2021 17:00 – 18:00 CET More lecture infos in: <http://www.i-aida.org/future-lectures/> http://www.i-aida.org/future-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 <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml> CVML email list. Best regards Profs. I. Pitas, N. Sebe, B. O’Sullivan, M. Chetouani AIDA AI Excellence lecture series committee -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2021 - First call for papers
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

***************************************************************************** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. First Call for Papers (Scopus and ISI index) Deadline March 28, 2021 ***************************************************************************** Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2021<https://cas2020.webnode.com/> - https://cas2020.webnode.com/) Workshop of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021, https://iccsa.org) will be held on July 5-8, 2021, in Cagliari, Italy. The ICCSA 2021 conference will again we organized in Cagliari, Italy, and we are once more planning for robustness. Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning to offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the pandemic situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for mixed online/in-presence sessions. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 28, 2021: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance. May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends. May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2021 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2021 organizer)

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ICCSA 2021: Computational Optimization and Applications
by Ana Rocha 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2021) Workshop of the 21th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021, <http://www.iccsa.org/> http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 5 - 8, 2021 in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy, in blended form. Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning to offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the pandemic situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for mixed online/in-presence sessions. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 28, 2021: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance. May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends. July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2020 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2021 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs> http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: <http://ess.iccsa.org/> http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site ( <http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors> http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha ( <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt> arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt) <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> ALGORITMI Center (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha ( <mailto:hrocha@fe.uc.pt> hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt) <https://www.uc.pt/en/feuc> Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra), <https://www.uc.pt/en/uid/ceber> CeBER (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2021 organizers)

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ICCSA 2021: Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

-- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it IEEE and ACM Senior Member Department Deputy Chair

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CFPs (SEIT 2021)The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by Hana GHARRAD 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2021) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 The goal of the SEIT 2021 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2021 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2021 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the faÃ§ade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21/#programCommittees

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CFPs (SEIT 2021)The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by Hana Gharrad 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2021) Leuven, Belgium August 9-12, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Workshop Proposal Due: February 20, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2021 The goal of the SEIT 2021 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2021 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2021 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the faÃ§ade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the faÃ§ade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitÃ©cnica de Madrid, Spain Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Advisory Committee Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-21/#programCommittees

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*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Final Submission Deadline Extension ***
by Dominik Bartuschat 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Eleventh International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2021) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2021/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2021, the 11th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2021 Conference in Krakow, Poland, from June 16-18, 2021. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing We welcome full (up to 14 pages) and short (up to 7 pages) papers in Springer LNCS format (we can not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS 2021, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: February 12, 2021 Paper Submission Due March 15, 2021 Author Notification April 5, 2021 Camera-Ready Papers Due IHPCES 2021 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee (tentative): Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel Parallel Computing Lab, USA Sebastian Kuckuk - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2021. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2021 co-chairs -- Dr.-Ing. Dominik Bartuschat, M.Sc. (hons.) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik 10 - Systemsimulation Cauerstrasse 11 D-91058 Erlangen Tel: +49 9131 85 28925 Fax: +49 9131 85 28928 E-Mail: dominik.bartuschat(a)fau.de

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[CfP] VHPC 21 - HPC Virtualization (Springer LNCS)
by Michael Alexander 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 16th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 21) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 24 - July 2, 2021, Zoom Online Event. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: July 2, 2021 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Online Zoom Event registration [free, limited slots] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ux8jRopGhCYku3Z_FFMfud3RLwMg4-DABE_EeqlLmAQ Abstract Registration Deadline: February 15, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 5, 2021 Springer LNCS Call for Papers 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. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widen the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. 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 coexistence 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 many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. 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 the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Rootless Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes, Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC, Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declarative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch (Scheduling / job management, Execution paradigm - workflow, Data management, Deployment, Multi-cluster/scalability, performance, Workflow / execution paradigm) - End-to-end rootless Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking (SDN / NVF, SR-IOV, Network Slicing & provisioning, polling, federated learning OS abstractions). - Lightweight Virtualization (Micro VMMs: Rust-VMM / AWS Firecracker / solo5, Xen, KVM, Nitro, RVirt, Rust based hypervisors / Cloud Hypervisor / Novel hypervisors - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V (hypervisor extensions / ports / IOMMU specification) - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Merging of high throughput computing and HPC - Novel schedulers for job to data placement - Containerizing Scientific Codes (Building / Deploying / Securing / Storage / Monitoring) - High performance containers - Portability of containers/images, impact on performance - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation 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. 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 February 15, 2021 - Abstract registration deadline April 5, 2021 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2021 - Acceptance notification July 2, 2021 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2021 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubis, Greece Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN, Japan Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA 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 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=28004 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are 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 abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2021, June 24 - July 2.

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************ --

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Paper Invitation to Special Issue "Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications"
by Anna Napoli 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to inform you that a Special Issue of the Mathematics Journal (a peer-reviewed open access journal ISSN 2227-7390 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics>, WoS impact factor 1.747, Q1 and top 10%) dedicated to polynomial sequences and their applications is now open to receive submission for possible publications. Special Issue: *Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications.* Website:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_sequence…> Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Francesco Aldo Costabile, Prof. Dr. Maria I. Gualtieri, Prof. Dr. Anna Napoli Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 30/A, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy. Deadline for manuscript submissions: *30 June 2021.* Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: ·Modern Umbral Calculus (Binomial, Appell, Sheffer Polynomial Sequences). ·Orthogonal polynomials, Matrix orthogonal polynomials, Multiple orthogonal polynomials and Orthogonal polynomials of several variables. ·Operational methods and Monomiality Principle. ·Generating functions, special classes. ·Matrix and determinant approach to special polynomial sequences. ·Applications of special polynomial sequences in approximation theory, in boundary value problems and in quadrature formulas. ·Number theory and special classes of polynomials. ·Asymptotic methods in orthogonal polynomials. ·Fractional Calculus. ·Extrapolation methods. *Description* Polynomials are an incredibly useful mathematical tools as they are simply defined and can be calculated quickly on computer systems. They can be differentiated and integrated easily, and can be pieced together to form spline curves. Furthermore, from Weierstrass’s Approximation Theorem, every continuous function defined on a closed interval can be uniformly approximated by polynomials. Therefore sequences of polynomials perform an important role in several branches of sciences: mathematics, phisics, engineering etc. For examples, polynomial sequences arise in physic and approximation theory as the solutions of certain ordinary differential equations. Orthogonal polynomials play an important role in the applications. In statistics Hermite polynomials are very important, which are, also, orthogonal polynomials. In algebra and combinatorics umbral polynomials are used such as: rising factorials, falling factorials, Abel, Bell, Bernoulli, Euler, Boile, ciclotomic, Dickson, Fibonacci, Lucas, Touchard etc. polynomials. Some of these belong to special classes, such as Sheffer, Appell and the binomial type.For this reason the research in this field appears in different Journals/Magazines. A special issue that makes the state of art of current research would be very useful for the mathematical community. We warmly invite you to contribute to our Special Issue. Don't hesitate to forward this message to anyone who could be interested. Thank you very much for your kind consideration and apologies for multiple copies. We look forward to hearing from you. Francesco A. Costabile, Maria I. Gualtieri, Anna Napoli

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Job ad: Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
by Sanjay Purushotham 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

[Apologies for multiple copies] Application link: https://apply.interfolio.com/81030 *Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)* The Department of Information Systems (IS) at UMBC invites applications for an open rank tenure-track faculty position starting August 2021. Successful candidates will complement and extend our current strengths. More information about research interests of our faculty can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/research/areas-of-research/. Candidates with research interests cross-cutting multiple areas are particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates must have earned a PhD in related fields no later than August 2021. The Department has 33 full-time faculty and over 1,600 students, including over 80 PhD students. The department offers undergraduate degrees in Information Systems and Business Technology Administration. Graduate degree programs, MS and PhD, are offered in both Information Systems and Human-Centered Computing, including an innovative online MS program in IS. In addition, the Department houses the Master’s in Health Information Technology, which is a professional degree program. Our faculty are actively engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research within and across departments and institutions, and four of our current faculty have received NSF CAREER awards. Further details can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/. UMBC is a public research university that is leading the world in inclusive excellence in research and teaching. We are redefining how to teach and we are one of the most innovative universities in the nation (US News). To continue to support this goal, the Faculty Development Center provides excellent support such as classroom observation, collection and analysis of student feedback as well as regular workshops and pedagogical demonstrations. Our research is bold, cross disciplinary, and leverages our location near to the hospitals in Baltimore, NIH, NASA, NSF, and the USGS. UMBC’s strategic location in the Baltimore-Washington corridor puts us close to many high-tech companies as well. The 2018 Chronicle of Higher Education also named UMBC as one of the best colleges to work for, for the ninth year in a row. The department, college and UMBC are deeply committed to the success of all of our faculty. We have various mentoring programs such as “launch committees” to offer regular and structured mentorship for faculty to develop a thriving and successful research program and the Eminent Scholar mentoring program to build relationships with leaders in the field beyond UMBC. The campus is close to both energetic urban centers and family-friendly suburbs. Nearby cities such as Columbia and Ellicott City have been routinely ranked as top 10 best places to live in the US. Candidates are expected to establish a collaborative, externally funded, and nationally recognized research program and contribute to teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses offered by the department effectively. We expect candidates to be innovative in terms of pedagogical methods, course content, and curriculum development, and be committed to advising, mentoring and supporting student success. All candidates should have experience in – or have the potential for – building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment in teaching, mentoring, research, life experiences, or service. Candidates for the Associate and Full Professor rank should also demonstrate a track record of inclusive excellence. Candidates for the Associate Professor rank should also have a strong record of research, teaching, service, and a sustained externally-funded research program. Candidates for the Full Professor rank should also demonstrate leadership in their field, hold an excellent academic record, and show a history of securing external funds for multiple sizable research projects. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been under-represented in the professoriate. We especially welcome applications from candidates who are willing to contribute to the diversity mission of the university and the department. UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM. Examples of these are our Meyerhoff Scholar programs ( http://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/) the Center for Women in Technology ( http://cwit.umbc.edu) and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs. Inclusive excellence is a hallmark of UMBC and a foundational value of our community. UMBC is the nation’s #1 producer of African American undergraduates who go on to complete an M.D./Ph.D. and #2 nationally for African American undergraduates who complete a STEM Ph.D. The IS department is proud to support a diverse student and faculty body in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity. The IS faculty has a culture of inclusiveness of excellence, demonstrated by both academic research such as community engaged scholarship, research on improving accessibility of technology to disabled, as well as efforts to address diversity issues in STEM such as CWIT scholar program and starting a regional chapter of Women in Data Science and Machine Learning. More than half of the leadership positions in the department including the chair are currently held by women faculty. Applications for the positions must be submitted as PDF files via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/81030. Review of applications will start in December 2020 but will continue until positions are filled. All interviews will be conducted online but applicants are welcome to talk to IS faculty to learn about Baltimore and the surrounding area. A complete submission will consist of: 1) Cover letter 2) CV 3) One-page statement of teaching philosophy. 4) Two-page statement of research interests. 5) One-page statement of demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence. 6) Names and contact information of at least three references. Letters will be required later for short-listed candidates. Candidates’ experience will be evaluated commensurate to the rank to which they are applying. For inquiries, please email to is_faculty_search_2020(a)umbc.edu. An informational webinar will be also held in late November or early December. If you are interested in the webinar, please register at https://forms.gle/CmugCMfPdnPRoT386. Review of applications will begin in December, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. *UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.*

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Ada-Europe 2021 Conference - EXTENDED 14 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

The Ada-Europe 2021 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most submissions is extended to Thursday 14 January 2020. 2 weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Contributions - EXTENDED DEADLINE 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation. If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a full virtual event. The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and Invited Presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited Presentations *** 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 and 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. Should the situation allow it, the presenters will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021 Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 14 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the participation. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. 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), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees for virtual participants. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th 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), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

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Paper Invitation for Frontiers in Robotics and AI "Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving"
by T. Hoang Ngan Le 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Frontiers in Robotics and AI has launched a new Research Topic, "Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving". As a leading expert in your field, we would like you to participate by submitting your research. This is a great chance to have your research published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. With a CiteScore of 4.7 and indexed on ESCI, ISSN 2296-9144 (Web of Science), the journal investigates the theory and integration of robotics, bringing the latest technology and artificial intelligence to the modern world. This Research Topic welcomes contributions on topics including, but not limited to, the following: • Driving Scene Understanding • Objective Detection, Localization, and Tracking • Efficient Video Feature Extraction • Online Video Analysis • Compressed/Light-Weight/Low-Cost Models • Low Power/Energy Models • Depth Estimation • Point Cloud Reconstruction • Scene Prediction • Early Event Prediction • Motion Planning, Navigation • Models Fusing • Databases, evaluation, and benchmarking in driving safety YES - I would like to participate: https://research-topic-management-app.frontiersin.org/manage/contributor-co… Topic Editors: Dr. Ngan Le, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States Dr. Hien Nguyen, University of Houston, Houston, United States Dr. Tien Bui, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Dr. S. Kevin Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China Dr. Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States Dr. Khoa Luu, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States Visit the homepage for this Research Topic for a full description of the project:https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16771 Help to make this collection even more successful by alerting other experts in the field who could submit their own article. Simply copy and send the following link to your colleagues: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16771/scene-understanding-in-au… The submission deadline for this Research Topic is 30 March 2021. Click here to let us know if you don’t wish to participate this time: https://research-topic-management-app.frontiersin.org/manage/contributor-de… More about Research Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frontiers’ Research Topics are collections of peer-reviewed articles around an emerging or cutting-edge theme. As a contributing author, you will benefit from: • high visibility and the chance to be included in a downloadable ebook • rigorous, transparent and fast peer-review for your article • publication throughout the year, as soon as your article is accepted • advanced impact metrics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More about publishing with us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Articles will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted for publication, are subject to publishing fees: ( https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees ). All applications for fees support: (https://frontiers.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_51IljifwFBXUzY1) are considered. • We collaborate with leading institutions to make open access publishing even more accessible for authors. See whether your institution is collaborating with us: ( https://www.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I look forward to your response. Kind Regards, Ngan Le Topic Editor, Robot and Machine Vision Section, Frontiers in Robotics and AI On behalf of the Topic Editors. Research Topics can be listed in more than one journal. A list of contributing journals and sections is included on the homepage for this Research Topic: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16771. Please choose the most relevant option when submitting your article. Check each journal page for information about its scope, accepted article types and APCs. Frontiers is committed to providing you with relevant updates in your field. If you do not want to receive any updates from Frontiers, you can unsubscribe by forwarding your request to support(a)frontiersin.org. If you wish to learn about how we protect personal data, you can read our Privacy Policy available on our website. -- Ngan Le Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Phone: 479 575 2000 Homepage: https://www.nganle.net

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[Deadline Approaching, January 10] 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin), Financial Cryptography 2021
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

[apologies for cross-posting] Call for Papers ================== 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) 2021 -- Regulators meet Industry meet Devs meet Researchers-- March 5, 2021, held in collaboration with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/) 1. Venue and Website ==================== Venue: Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grenada Website: https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/ Submission of papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codecfin21 2. Important Dates ================== Submission deadline: January 10, 2021 Author notification: February 10, 2021 Workshop: March 5, 2021 3. Background ============= On June 8th and 9th 2019, Distributed Ledger Technology-related innovations have been referenced in the Communique at the G20 Finance and Central Bank Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, referencing the report produced by the Financial Stability Board (FSB). G20 Communique Section 13 "We welcome the FSB report on decentralized financial technologies, and the possible implications for financial stability, regulation and governance, and how regulators can enhance the dialogue with a wider group of stakeholders.” FSB Report Decentralized financial technologies: Report on financial stability, regulatory and governance implications; Direct link to the FSB Report document Blockchain Governance Initiative Network(BGIN - pronounced BEGIN) was initiated on March 10, 2020 after several multi-stakeholder workshops including CoDeFi 2020, an associated workshop with Financial Cryptography 2020. This is a multi-stakeholder discussion network which aims at providing an open and neutral sphere for all stakeholders to deepen common understanding and to collaborate to address issues they face in order to attain sustainable development of the blockchain community. 4. Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) ================================================================ This workshop is designed to identify and discuss technology and operation issues of permissionless blockchain and decentralized finance. As permissionless blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms evolve and mature, there is an urgent need for multi-stakeholders to engage in their planning, development, roll-out, and operation, in order for innovation of a wide variety of financial applications to proliferate and become mainstream. Thus far it has been mainly developer & startup communities which are driving these protocols, platforms, and applications for this new era of computing. New standards, governance mechanisms and design patternsare evolving and need input from a variety of perspectives. There is a growing trend towards decentralized computing systems in which distributed ledger technologies are a fundamental component. These systems are designed to be global computing systems; they will likely form the basis of new financial services and businesses including a distributed Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI). These new financial services and businesses could bring huge benefit to the global financial system, e.g. resiliency over efficiency, and predictability over resiliency. However financial regulators, central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), while recognizing the potential of DLT systems, have also been keenly aware of the challenges in the adoption, and designing for the consumer protections required to balance usability, safety while supporting innovation. While it is likely that many G20 countries will be leading the design and development of these new infrastructures, all cities and countries should be considered and encouraged to participatein the planning. Discussions of this workshop are expected to contribute to discussions of Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN), where common documents on blockchain technology and operations are created backed by all stakeholders. Hence, CoDecFin 2021 will be directly connected to the general meeting of BGIN. The second general meeting of BGIN (Block #2) will be held right after CoDecFin. Note: This workshop does not endorse any specific decentralized finance projects and products. 5. Basic Structure of the Workshop ================================== The workshop is composed of three parts: Presentations of academic and practical results on blockchain technology and operations Selected talks from alla variety of stakeholders Discussions by multi-stakeholders on selected discussion topics. 6. Call for papers ================== We call for papers on technology and operational issues related to decentralized finance and permissionless blockchain, and future directions to solve these issues with specifying background the author(s) have. (i) regular papers (15 pages LNCS format excluding references and appendices), (ii) short papers (8 pages LNCS format in total), submission process is conducted by using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codecfin21 This year, we encourage to submit a paper associated with the current discussion topic at BGIN. - Key management at centralized/decentralized Custodian (see the draft of work stream at BGIN) - Decentralized Financial Technologies and Privacy, Identity and Traceability (see the draft of work stream at BGIN) - Reactions to FATF 12 month review to achieve both regulatory goals and privacy - Blockchain-based standard development mechanisms and process to accommodate multi-stakeholders Other topics, but are not limited to: ====================================== - Identity, privacy, and key management - Centralized custody and decentralized custody - 2021 Scaling Cryptocurrency and Regulatory Challenges, and mainstream adoption - Common understandings on "Regulatory Goals" - FATF: AML and privacy - Policy on End to End Encryption - Security of exchanges and decentralized finance protocols - Algorithm agility of permissionless blockchain - Regulatory challenges of decentralized finance protocols - Risk and resilience in cryptocurrency financial systems - Harmonization of automated systems, human intervention and regulation - Standards: Technical, Regulatory - Regulation of exchanges and consumer protection - Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) - Interoperability among existing financial infrastructure, permissionless ledgers and CBDCs - Governance of protocols, implementations 7. Organizing and Program Committees ===================================== (Alphabetical Order) Julien Bringer, Kallistech Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis & Institut Polytechnique de Paris Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London Byron Gibson, Program Manager at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research Feng Chen, University of British Columbia Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University, NTT Research and BSafe.network (tentative chair) Steven Nam, Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy Michele Benedetto Neitz, Golden Gate University Roman Pavlov, SafeStead Inc. Robert Schwentker, DLT Education and BSafe.network Yonatan Sompolinsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, DAGlabs Shigeya Suzuki, Keio University Ryosuke Ushida, JFSA and Georgetown University Robert Wardrop, University of Cambridge Judge Business School Pindar Wong, BSafe.network Aaron Wright, Cardozo Law School Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association Aviv Zohar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Further details at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/codecfin/

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ANT & EDI40 2021 CfPs (Final Extension): Warsaw, Poland (March 23 - 26, 2021)
by Elhadi Shakshuki 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Call for Papers The 12th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) & The 4th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40) Warsaw, Poland March 23-26, 2021 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/ & http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-21 Important Date * Paper Submission Due Date: December 30, 2020 (FINAL) ANT & EDI40 organizing committee invites you to submit papers. Please encourage your colleagues, research group members and fellow scientists to contribute and participate in this event. ANT & EDI40 conferences in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.770 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Journals Speciaal Issues * Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) * International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) * International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) Publication ANT & EDI40 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com<http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex<http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Your contributions and support are appreciated. Sincerely

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[Future Internet] Special Issue on "Service-Oriented Systems and Applications"
by Stefano Forti 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

*** Special Issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) on *** ******* "Service-Oriented Systems and Applications" ****** Submission Deadline: 31 August 2021 Website: <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/S_Oriented_Syste ms_A> https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/S_Oriented_System s_A ***************************************** ************ Call for Papers ************ ***************************************** Modern applications are inherently distributed, as they integrate various heterogeneous components and stand-alone (micro)services. How to compose and orchestrate services, as well as how to integrate and adapt them, has thus become a core issue in such distributed, service-oriented systems and applications. Theoretical and practical approaches to modelling and analysing such systems and applications would simplify their development; enable their validation and evaluation; and enhance their interoperability, reusability, and maintainability. The goal of this Special Issue is to allow researchers and practitioners to discuss common problems and present novel solutions in the aforementioned fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Cloud/fog/edge computing, and large-scale distributed systems; * Design principles, architectural smells, and architectural refactoring of service-oriented systems and applications; * Resource and application management in next-gen Cloud-IoT systems; * Dynamic service-oriented architectures and self-* systems and application; * Fault localization and resilience in service-oriented systems and applications; * Formal methods, models, and techniques for service-oriented systems and applications; * Microservices; * Model-driven design and development of peer-to-peer systems and blockchains; * Programming languages for service-oriented systems and applications; * Reverse engineering for service-oriented systems and applications; * Security in service-oriented systems and applications; * Service composition, coordination, orchestration, integration, and adaptation; * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); * Support for business processes-from design- to run-time; * QoS monitoring, modelling, and analysis in service-oriented systems and applications; * Verification and testing solutions for service-oriented systems and applications. Guest Editors Dr. Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy [http://pages.di.unipi.it/soldani] Dr. Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy [http://pages.di.unipi.it/forti/]

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ICCSA 2021: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

The 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2021 - University of Cagliari, Sardinia Island, Italy July 5-8, 2021 https://iccsa.org CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We encourage and invite interested parties to submit a proposal for organizing a Workshop at ICCSA 2021, which will be organized hopefully in a blended way because of pandemic: part in presence, part online, building on the experience of ICCSA 2020 held in July 2020. Workshop proposals will be collected and evaluated as they are received until December 23, 2020 and notification of acceptance / rejection will be sent before December 27, 2020. The Workshop proposals should be submitted from the researcher's home page on the ICCSA 2021 Electronic Submission System: https://ess.iccsa.org. The form to be filled will require the following information: 1) Title of the Workshop Please select a simple name, close to the aim of the workshop. Do not include here the acronym. 2) The Acronym of the Workshop including the year, 2021 (e.g.: VRA 2021) 3) The selected publisher (LNCS) of the proposed workshop. If you are interested publishing the papers of your Workshop on IEEE-CPS Xplore, please specify IEEE. 4) Description of the Workshop, including the detailed list (name, affiliation, country) of the Program Committee members 5) Description of the topics (themes) of the workshop 2) Name, the affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the Workshop organizer(s). 3) Previous experience of the organizer(s) in organizing Workshops (if any). 4) Name, the affiliation, and e-mail addresses of at least three colleagues of the organizer(s) who can assess the ability to organize a Workshop 7) A short description on how the workshop will be advertised. The organization of successful workshops in previous editions of ICCSA (at least 5 papers accepted in the Proceedings, minimum no-show up, several discussions and questions during/after presentations), including the participation of the Workshop Organizers to the Conference, will be given priority ranking for acceptance. The information provided by the workshop organizer(s) to the Conference Chairs shall remain strictly confidential. The Workshop Organizers are responsible for all the organizational aspects including soliciting submissions and providing the details of an adequate number of reviewers for the Workshop papers. Workshop Organizers are also fully responsible for ensuring that only high quality papers are accepted for publication in the Proceedings and for verifying the correctness of the layout adopted by the authors (which depends from the editor selected for the workshop). They are also responsible for choosing the actual reviewers (at least three) for each paper and for monitoring the reviewing process on the reviewing system, in collaboration with the Conference Program Chairs. Workshop Organizers (or their Deputies) are expected to attend ICCSA 2021, set the order of presentations and chair their related workshop(s). Due to their active role, Workshop Organizers will receive some incentives, depending on the number and quality of accepted and registered papers. Paper submission ---------------- GENERAL TRACKS PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. WORKSHOP PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules or 7 to 11 pages for CPS-Xplore publications. SHORT PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 7 to 9 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. PHD SHOWCASE PAPERS The submitted paper must be between 7 to 9 pages long and formatted according to the CPS -XPlore rules. Proceedings The proceedings will be published as a special series of volumes of the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) edited by Springer. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Papers published by IEEE-CPS will be published as Post Conference Proceedings and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. -- Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia (Italy) email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com Tel: +39 075 5855048 Fax: +39 075 5855024 URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it IEEE and ACM Senior Member Department Deputy Chair

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CFP: 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

========================================================================= 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Australia In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 URL: https://icfec2021.eeecs.qub.ac.uk ========================================================================= We are delighted to invite you for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be held as part of and in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. INTRODUCTION Billions of devices and sensors ranging from user gadgets to more complex systems with sensing and actuating capabilities, such as power grids or vehicles, from the physical world are getting connected to the Internet. However, the need to operate the scale of heterogeneous devices and sensors while being performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the data generated by the devices and sensors are transferred to and processed centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds. This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the ingress bandwidth demand. A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage resources located at the edge of the network and along the continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may be geographically or in the network topology be closer to devices and sensors, such as home router, gateways or more substantial micro data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected services from the cloud to accelerate an application or host edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is harnessed is referred to as 'Fog/Edge computing'. The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility of service deployments, make use of opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the network latency and bandwidth diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise when using edge resources, which requires the re-examination of operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware techniques for fabric management. Extensions to current programming and storage models are required and new abstractions that will allow developers to design novel applications that can benefit from massively distributed and data-driven systems need to be developed. Addressing security, privacy and trust of the edge resources is of paramount importance while managing the resources and context for mobile, transient and hardware constrained resources. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and machine/deep learning need to be supported over such platforms. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions covering both theory and practice over system software and domain-specific applications related to next-generation distributed systems that use the edge. Some representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge computing * Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models for Fog/Edge computing * Storage and data management platforms for Fog/Edge computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Distributed and federated machine learning on Fog/Edge * Performance monitoring and metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Legal issues and business aspects of Fog/Edge computing * Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in Fog/Edge computing * Modeling and simulation of Fog/Edge environments * Novel, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications of Fog/Edge computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. The manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, written in English. Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE format template for conference proceedings available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date may not be reviewed. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers may be submitted online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2021 IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 12 January 2021 23:59 GMT * Author notifications of acceptance: 14 February 2021 * Camera Ready Paper: 03 March 2021 PUBLICATION Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. ORGANIZATION General Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Program Chairs * Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk * Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA, mlena(a)udel.edu Steering Committee * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France * Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

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MEDI 2021 - Call for Workshops - Deadline March 30, 2021
by Antonio Corral 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: -------------------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops ------------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure ------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: * George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru * Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr * Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es * Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: * Workshop title * Estimated length (one day or half day) * Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs * Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) * A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) * The main goals of the workshop * The list of workshop topics + Preliminary CFP + How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support --------------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ------------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates ------------------- * Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 * Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 * Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 * Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Antonio Corral, and Jüri Vain

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[CfP: CPSS 21] 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop, (CPSS 2021)
by Alessandro Brighente 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

*7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2021)* held in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'21 Hong Kong, China, 7 June 2021 https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS *Important Dates* Submissions Due: January 27, 2021 AoE Notification: February 26, 2021 Camera-ready Due: March 15, 2021 The 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop will take place together with the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021). It will be held on June 7th, 2021. For more information: ACM ASIACCS 2021 https://asiaccs2021.comp.polyu.edu.hk *Call for Papers* Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Attack detection for CPS Authentication and access control for CPS Autonomous vehicle security Availability and auditing for CPS Blockchain for CPS security Data security and privacy for CPS Digital twins for CPS Embedded systems security Formal methods in CPS Industrial control system security IoT security Legacy CPS system protection Lightweight crypto and security Maritime cyber security Recovery from cyber attacks Security and risk assessment for CPS Security architectures for CPS Security by design for CPS Smart grid security Threat modeling for CPS Transportation system security Vulnerability analysis for CPS Wireless sensor network security *Submission and Final Preparation Instructions* Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, workshop, or conference with proceedings. The review process is single-blinded, i.e., the papers should not be anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>, and should not exceed 12 pages. We also welcome position papers describing work in progress, Systematization of Knowledge papers (distinguished with "SOK:" in the title), and papers describing novel testbeds. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. *Program Chairs* Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) *Web Chair* Federico Turrin (University of Padua, Italy) * Publication Chair* Alessandro Brighente (University of Padua, Italy) *Program Committee* Ali Abbasi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Lejla Batina (Radboud University, Netherlands) Federica Battisti (University of Padua, Italy) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA) Yanick Fratantonio (CISCO Talos, Austria) Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) Marina Krotofil (ABB, UK) Nicola Laurenti (University of Padua, Italy) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Mihalis Maniatakos (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Daisuke Mashima (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore) Aditya Mathur (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Martín Ochoa (AppGate Inc., Colombia) Federica Pascucci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Radha Poovendra (University of Washington, USA) Xi Qin (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Awais Rashid (University of Bristol, UK) Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research, Austria) Chia-Mu Yu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sencun Zhu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) *Contact* Website: https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/CPSS E-mail: cpss21(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Call for Papers - 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021)
by Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) July 6-8, 2021 http://www.secrypt.icete.org SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) will be held in streaming, July 6-8, 2021. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Anonymity Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Blockchains Security Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-Repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Machine Learning and AI Security Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and Privacy for Big Data Security and Privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-Based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security Requirements Security usability Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust Management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://www.insticc.org/primoris Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://www.secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: February 16, 2021 - Authors Notification: April 15, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: April 29, 2021 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Authors Notification: May 6, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 19, 2021 CONFERENCE CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM CHAIR Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, United States Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Peter Amthor, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Muhammad Asghar, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Diogo Barradas, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Ning Cao, WalmartLabs, United States Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Frederic Cuppens, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Mario Di Raimondo, Università of Catania, Italy Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Morocco Alberto Ferrante, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jinguang Han, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom David Megias Jiménez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories, Germany Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, United States Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yunlong Mao, Nanjing University, China Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alessio Merlo, University of Genoa, Italy Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Yunior Ramirez Cruz, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Andreas Schaad, Wibu, Germany Fabio Scotti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Corrado Visaggio, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy Roopa Vishwanathan, New Mexico State University, United States Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Haining Wang, University of Delaware, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jiawei Yuan, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States Qiang Zeng, University of South Carolina, United States Shengzhi Zhang, Boston University, Metropolitan College, United States Yongjun Zhao, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore (list not yet complete) For any questions, please contact the conference and program chairs: sabrina.decapitani(a)unimi.it, pierangela.samarati(a)unimi.it

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MEDI 2021 - Call for Workshops - Deadline March 30, 2021
by Antonio Corral 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: -------------------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops ------------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: * George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru * Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr * Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es * Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: * Workshop title * Estimated length (one day or half day) * Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs * Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) * A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) * The main goals of the workshop * The list of workshop topics + Preliminary CFP + How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support --------------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ------------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates ------------------- * Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 * Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 * Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 * Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Antonio Corral, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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Re: Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems"
by Eleonora Losiouk 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems", Computer Networks CFP:https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/sid… Submission deadline: December, 31 2020 Guest Editors *Mauro Conti*, University of Padua, Italy,conti(a)math.unipd.it *Radha Poovendran*, University of Washington, Seattle, USA,rp3(a)uw.edu *Eleonora Losiouk*, University of Padua, Italy,elosiouk(a)math.unipd.it *Riccardo Spolaor*, Shandong University, Qingdao, China,rspolaor(a)sdu.edu.cn Best regards, Eleonora Losiouk

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Special issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************ --

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CfC 25th Ada-Europe Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation. If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a full virtual event. The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 7 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and Invited Presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited Presentations *** 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 and 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. Should the situation allow it, the presenters will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 7 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021 Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 7 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the participation. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. 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), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees for virtual participants. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th 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), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

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IEEE HiPC 2020 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2020 https://hipc.org/ *********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 is the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The conference focus is not only HPC but also includes Data Science. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be held virtually on December 16, 17, and 18. Each day of the three day event will open with a keynote talk, followed by two one-hour live remote sessions to present the technical program of thirty-three peer reviewed papers. All papers accepted for the conference will be published as part of the proceedings that will be available before, during, and after the week of the scheduled conference. The online publication will include both papers and presentations (slides) for each paper. Access to the online publication is part of the free registration to attend the virtual live sessions. See here (https://hipc.org/register2020/) to register. Below is the planned program schedule for the conference. Return regularly for updates and details on how to attend. All times below are India Standard Time (IST). Wednesday, December 16th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Kathy Yelick University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing and Data Challenges in Climate Change Best Papers Session (10:10 AM IST – start time) SimGQ: Simultaneously Evaluating Iterative Graph Queries Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang and Rajiv Gupta WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs Daniel Jünger, Robin Kobus, André Müller, Kai Xu, Weiguo Liu, Christian Hundt and Bertil Schmidt Session 1: Applications (11:20 AM IST – start time) Towards High Performance, Portability, and Productivity: Lightweight Augmented Neural Networks for Performance Prediction Ajitesh Srivastava, Naifeng Zhang, Rajgopal Kannan and Viktor K. Prasanna. Performance Optimization and Scalability Analysis of the MGB Hydrological Model Henrique R. A. Freitas, Celso Luiz Mendes and Aleksandar Ilic Exploring Task Parallelism for the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Michael Lingg, H. Metin Aktulga, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Stephen Hughey and Doga Dikbayir SparsePipe: Parallel Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds Keke Zhai, Pan He, Tania Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan and Sanjay Ranka HyPR: Hybrid Page Ranking on Evolving Graphs Hemant Kumar Giri, Mridul Haque and Dip Sankar Banerjee Distributing Sparse Matrix/Graph Applications in Heterogeneous Clusters -- an Experimental Study Charilaos Tzovas, Maria Predari and Henning Meyerhenke ************************************************************************************************ Thursday, December 17th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Animashree Anandkumar California Institute of Technology and Machine Learning Research, NVIDIA Role of HPC in next-generation AI Session 2: Scalable Data Science (10:10 AM IST – start time) Processor Pipelining Method for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Embedded Devices Akshay Parashar, Arun Abraham, Deepak Chaudhary and Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran Avoiding Communication in Logistic Regression Aditya Devarakonda and James Demmel A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad and Thierry Winter Blink: Towards Efficient RDMA-based Communication Coroutines for Parallel Python Applications Aamir Shafi, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar K. Panda Content-defined Container Delivery Yuta Nakamura, Tanu Malik and Raza Ahmad Model Checking as a Service using Dynamic Resource Scaling Surya Teja, Yuvraj Singh, Adhish Singla, Suresh Purini and Venkatesh Choppella Session 3: Algorithms (11:20 AM IST – start time) Parallel Hierarchical Clustering using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Lawton Manning, Grey Ballard, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Haesun Park Pipelined Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Distributed Memory Systems Manasi Tiwari and Sathish Vadhiyar Fair Allocation of Asymmetric Operations in Storage Systems Thomas Keller and Peter Varman A GPU Algorithm for Earliest Arrival Time Problem in Public Transport Networks Chirayu Anant Haryan, G. Ramakrishna, Rupesh Nasre and Allam Dinesh Reddy 2D Static Resource Allocation Strategies for Load Balancing in Compressed Linear Algebra under Communication Constraints Olivier Beaumont, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Mathieu Verite Algorithms for Preemptive Co-scheduling of Kernels on GPUs Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Cristiana Bentes ************************************************************************************ Friday, December 18th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Fabrizio Petrini Parallel Computing Lab Intel Corporation Breaking the Scalability Wall Session 4: Runtime Systems (10:10 AM IST – start time) Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror and Ali R. Butt AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal and Jing Li Extending SLURM for Dynamic Resource-Aware Adaptive Batch Scheduling Mohak Chadha, Jophin John and Michael Gerndt On the Marriage of Asynchronous Many Task Runtimes and Big Data: A Glance Joshua Suetterlein, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez and Gunag Gao Exposing data locality in HPC-based systems by using the HDFS backend Jose Rivadeneira, Felix Garcia-Carballeira, Jesus Carretero and Javier Garcia-Blas PufferFish: NUMA-Aware Work-stealing Library using Elastic Tasks Vivek Kumar Design and Study of Elastic Recovery in HPC Applications Kai Keller, Konstantinos Parasyris and Leonardo Bautista Session 5: System Software and Architecture (11:30 AM IST – start time) Accelerating Force-directed Graph Layout with Processing-in-Memory Architecture Ruihao Li, Shuang Song, Qinzhe Wu and Lizy K. John Nonblocking Persistent Software Transactional Memory Alan Beadle, Wentao Cai, Haosen Wen and Michael Scott GPU-FPtuner: Mixed-precision Auto-tuning for Floating-point Applications on GPU Ruidong Gu and Michela Becchi Batched Small Tensor-Matrix Multiplications On GPUs Keke Zhai, Tania Banerjee, Adeesha Wijayasiri and Sanjay Ranka Temporal Based Intelligent LRU Cache Construction Pavan Nittur, Anuradha Kanukotla and Narendra Mutyala Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau and Antonio González

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CFP: The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing ACM SIGARCH Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * INRIA, France * Macquarie University, Australia * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Due (Abstract): 8 December 2020 Paper Due (Final submission) : 15 December 2020 Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. Best Paper Awards: ================== CCGrid will present Best Paper Awards to the author(s) of top three papers selected by the Program Committee. The award will be determined based on review comments and ratings, viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. Journal Special Issue: ====================== Highly rated Top 5 papers from the CCGrid 2021 conference will be invited for submission of extended version for publication in a special issue of the "Software: Practice and Experience" Journal published by Wiley Press. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Vice Chairs: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming Jesus Carretero, Univ Carlos 3, Madrid, Spain Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia Architecture, Networking, Data Centers Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Storage, and I/O Systems Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Beomseok Nam, SungKyunKwan University, Korea Programming Models and Runtime Systems Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Scheduling and Resource Management Eddy Caron, ENS Lyon, France Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling and Evaluation Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alba Cristina Magalhaes, University of Brasilia, Brazil Cyber-Security and Privacy Miguel Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Sustainable and Green Computing Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Toulouse, France Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Paul Roe, QUT, Australia Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan PC Members:: ============================================================ Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University, USA Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan Kazunori Nozaki, Osaka University, Japan Imdad Ullah, PSAU, Saudi Arabia Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Beomseok Nam, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Chunghan Lee, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee, USA Issam Rais, UiT, Norway Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University, USA Eddy Caron, ENS-Lyon, INRIA, France Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Hirotake Abe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Chonho Lee, Osaka University, Japan Stacy Patterson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Aravinda Rao, The University of Melbourne, Australia Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Patricia Stolf, University of Toulouse, France Alba Cristina M. A. Melo, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Mohammad Shojafar, University of Surrey, UK Qingye Jiang, Amazon Web Services, Australia Yu Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Shixuan Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zeyi Wen, The University of Western Australia, Australia Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal C.L. Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Sungjin Lee, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Korea Diana Moise, Cray Inc., USA Houjun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anthony Kougkas, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Michael Kuhn, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Silvina Caíno-Lores, University of Tennessee, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Xavier Martorell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Nezer Zaidenberg, College of management academic studies, Israel Pedro Inácio, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Vlad Tiberiu,INSA Lyon, France Cristina Alcaraz, UMA, Spain Nuno Santos, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Paolo Mori, IIT-CNR, Italy Carlos Maziero, UFPR, Brazil André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Rong Ge, Clemson University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Marcos Assuncao, Inria, France Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ligang He, The University of Warwick, UK Deze Zeng, The University of Aizu, Japan Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo, Brazil Philippe Navaux, UFRGS, Brazil Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia Weiguo Liu, Shandong University, China Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Zichuan Xu, Dalian University of Technology, China Yinlong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Qiufen Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Rizos Sakellariou, The University of Manchester, UK Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Wenzheng Xu, Sichuan University, China Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Shadi Ibrahim, Inria,France Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Felix Garcia-Carballeira, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France Carlos Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Lei Liu, Shandong University, China Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Jose Moreira, IBM, USA Ali Anwar, IBM, USA Kalyana Chadalavada, Intel, USA Julian Martin Kunkel, University of Reading, UK Preeti Malakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Dong Dai, UNC Charlotte, USA Bin Dong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anna Queralt, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University, USA Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory, USA George Teodoro, University of Maryland, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Youngjae Kim, Sogang University, Korea Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Annette Bieniusa, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Young-Ri Choi, UNIST, Korea Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, University of Macau, China Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA Woongki Baek, UNIST, Korea Dongseong Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Bing Bing Zhou, The University of Sydney, Australia Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Shuhao Zhang, TU Berlin, Germany Jiong He, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yao Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Sheng Di, ANL, USA Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen, Germany Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Lúcia Drummond, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lizhe Wang, China University of Geosciences, China Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ashish Verma, IBM Research, USA Kimmy Mu, HDF group, USA Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea Yongseok Son, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastien Lafond, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Adrien Lèbre, Inria, France Mike Wittie, Montana State University, USA Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Devesh Tiwari, Northeastern University, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA Miao Hu, Sun Yat-sen University, China Abhinav Vishnu, AMD, USA Zhen Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Tor Skeie, IFI/UIO, Norway Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Shinichi Yamagiwa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Romain Rouvoy, Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF, France Graham Kirby, University of St Andrews, UK Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India Vignesh Adhinarayanan, AMD Research, USA Lei Yang, South China University of Technology, China Francois Tessier, ETH, Switzerland Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Felix Garcia-Carballeria, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shanika Karunasekera, The University of Melbourne, Australia Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Ian Atkinson, James Cook University, Australia Jason Haga, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Ousmane Thiare, Gaston Berger University, USA Heru Suhartanto, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France Cedric Tedeschi, INRIA, France Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Toinard, ENSI Bourges, France Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Ritu Arora, University of Texas (UT) at Austin, USA Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Dongkyun Kim, KISTI, Korea Bu Sung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Shancang Li, University of the West of England, UK Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay, India Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Deakin University, Australia Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India Hagen Lauer, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Amazon Web Services, USA Chai Kiat Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, University of Florida, USA Daniel Sun, CSIRO, Australia Bruno Martin, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, New Zealand ============================================================

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PDSEC 2021 Workshop - Call for Papers
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

(apologies for cross-postings) The 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-21) (http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2021/pdsec/) will be held on May 21, 2021 in Portland, Oregon in conjunction with IPDPS 2021. Given the pandemic, the conference organizers are planning for different potential scenarios, including a fully virtual conference. Deadline: PDSEC-21 deadline: 22 Jan 2021 (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. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 22, 2021 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 28, 2021 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 13, 2021 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 2021 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Organizing Chair Neda Ebrahimi Pour, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Web Chair Yihong Chen, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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HPBench 2020 : Call for Demo Presentations
by Samar Aseeri 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Call for Demos HPBench 2020 track http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-hpbench about HPC Benchmarking & Optimization is calling for demo related participations. The conference is going online, therefore it is an opportunity to have your contribution recorded online. Demos usually go for 25-30 minutes. The Demos page on the web site has more info about demos. http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de…. Follow the submission guide in the page but mention in the email title that submission is for HPBench. The deadline for HPBench 2020 is 20 Nov. Best Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CFP: 19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

*19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)* AusPDC 2021 will be held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) <http://www.acsw.org.au/>, 1 - 5 February 2021. *Scope of the Symposium* In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 19th in 2021 in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): - Cloud computing - Fog/edge computing - Grid and Cluster computing - Big Data processing and analytics - Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers - Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge - Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things - Data storage, placement and replication - Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains - Multi-core systems - Peer-to-peer computing - GPUs and other forms of special-purpose processors - Service computing and workflow management - Managing large distributed data sets - Middleware and tools - Network function virtualisation and Software-defined networks - Performance evaluation and modelling - Datacentre and Interconnection networks - Performance accelerators - Problem-solving environments - Parallel programming models, languages and compilers - Operating systems and runtime systems - Resource scheduling and load balancing - Data mining and machine learning - Computational Science and Engineering - Agent-based computing - Reliability, security, privacy and dependability - e-Science and e-Health Applications The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however, in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. *Paper Submission*The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2021. Papers should be formatted in double-column according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow> ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions: - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for posters. - Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted. - Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. - Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. - Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission. Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2021 Easy Chair Submission Site <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsw2021>. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee. *Awards* A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. *Committees:General Co-Chair*Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia *Program Committee Chairs* Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Irene Moser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Steering Committee*Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/auspdc2021/

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - 17th IEEE eScience Conference 2021
by Vella Flavio 08 Nov '20

08 Nov '20

---------------------------------------------------------- Call for Proposals for WORKSHOPS - Due March 15, 2021 https://escience2021.org/call-for-workshops ---------------------------------------------------------- 17th IEEE eScience Conference September 20-23, 2021 Innsbruck, Austria https://escience2021.org/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2021 ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------- The 17th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Innsbruck, Austria on September 20-23, 2021. eScience 2021 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held with the main conference on Monday, September 20 and Thursday, September 23, 2021. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting broad and well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself, and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to, interdisciplinary research, advanced cyberinfrastructure, data science, and education. eScience 2021 accepts two types of workshop proposals: workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and workshops with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee, paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. The proceedings of the workshops will be included in the eScience 2021 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library if the following criteria will be followed: * The solicitation for papers must be open. * All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. * The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for expected number of submissions. * The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers (for a half-day workshop) or 6 papers (for a full-day workshop), at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2021 to present the paper in person. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to: escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of submissions/accepted papers * Prior history of this workshop, if any Workshops with invited talks and no proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2021 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of talks and their length * Tentative list of speakers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of speakers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Prior history of this workshop, if any Key Dates: * Workshop Submissions Due: Monday March 15, 2021 * Workshop Acceptance Notification: Tuesday March 30, 2021 * All Camera-ready Submissions Due (for workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Program with list of speakers (for workshops with invited talks and no proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Conference Dates: September 20-23, 2021 * Workshop Dates: September 20 and September 23, 2021 Contact information: Michela Taufer - taufer(a)utk.edu Flavio Vella - Flavio.Vella(a)unibz.it

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Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2017 - Papers due August 28
by Engelmann, Christian 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA’17: 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2017, Denver, CO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2017> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala17>. Full papers will be published with the SC'17 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2017 - Final paper submission (firm): October 9, 2017 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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Research Associate Position for 3 years, salary level E13, at Steinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
by ivan.kondov＠kit.edu 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, We have an open position in the new project “Virtual Research Environment for Materials Modeling and Data Analysis” of the Joint Lab “Virtual Materials Design” starting in January 2021. Workflow management, data analysis and visualization in materials science rely currently on generic tools and frameworks and general-purpose languages that require from domain researchers programming and command-line skills, and significant learning, development, validation and maintenance efforts. The main task is to devise a use-case driven domain specific language covering common objects and frequent tasks in computational materials science. This language should allow expressions covering selected use cases and abstract from knowledge of the underlying workflow models and data analysis tools. The new language is expected to increase productivity of domain scientists and enable rapid prototyping. In addition, language processors (interpreter or generator) and supporting tools have to be developed and integrated into an interactive platform (JupyterLab) together with established generic workflow management, data analysis and visualization tools. The successful candidate should have a master degree in computer science or a similar discipline and a very good knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python. Good programming and software engineering skills, knowledge of DSL frameworks, for example Xtext, textX or JetBrains MPS, and/or modeling frameworks (for example EMF or PyEcore) will be beneficial. We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step toward computational science with focus on materials science. Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu) With my best regards, Ivan Kondov -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Mathematics Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Phone: +49 721 608 28644 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu Web: www.scc.kit.edu Registered office: Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association

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Call for Abstracts for the workshop: Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021
by Ebrahimi Pour, Neda 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Call for Abstract contribution - Deadline extension Submission deadline: 13th of November 2020 (extended) Workshop on Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021, January 20-22, Jeju, South Korea This workshop will provide a platform for presentations and discussions on advances in numerical simulation for complex multi-scale, multi-physics and coupled problems. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers (computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, material sciences etc.) working on different disciplines but all facing challenges in multi-scale and multi-physics as well as coupled simulations on HPC systems. This workshop is the second event in the series; the first was held at HPCAsia 2020, in Fukuoka, Japan. The main focus will be set on computational issues regarding performance and suitability for high-performance computing. Furthermore, the underlying strategies to enable these simulations will be highlighted. Keeping these aims in mind, contributions from all aspects of engineering applications will be considered. Topics of applications will include (but not be limited to): - Multi-scale problems - Multi-physics problems - Molecular dynamics - Multi-domain/Concurrency - Multi-scale and/or multi-physics modelling for biomedical or biological systems - Novel approaches to combine different scales and physics models in one problem solution - Challenging applications in industry and academia, e.g. multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions, chemical engineering, material science, biophysics, automotive industry, etc. - Load balancing - Adaptivity - Heterogeneous architectures - New algorithms for parallel-distributed computing, specific to this topic. More information about this workshop and the submission procedure can be found on our webpage: https://www.mb.uni-siegen.de/sts/workshops/mmcp2021/ If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your contribution! Organizers: Neda Ebrahimi Pour Osni Marques Sabine Roller

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Call for Papers Research Topic on Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches [Frontiers in Genetics]
by Alessio Martino 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dearest Colleagues, I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Associate Editor for a Research Topic titled: "Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches" to appear in Frontiers in Genetics: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17011 <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Hypergraphs> With this call for papers, I invite you and/or your co-authors to submit an original research paper, or a focused review, for our special issue. Deadline for abstract submissions: 25 January 2021 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 April 2021 Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, the paper will be published in open access form soon after professional editing. Thank you in advance for your consideration and I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to contribute to this Special Issue. If you believe that you will be able to submit a manuscript, I would also greatly appreciate if you could respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience. “Frontiers in Genetics” (ISSN 1664-8021, IF: 3.258) is an open access journal published online by Frontiers and indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, PubMed Central, amongst others. Best Regards Alessio Martino PostDoctoral Research Fellow University of Rome "La Sapienza" | Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications p: +39 0644585745 <tel:+39 0644585745> w: web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> e: alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> a: Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessio_Martino> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessioxmartino> <https://join.skype.com/invite/omvT1LoeWLcF> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. --

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

============================================================================= The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP on Evolutionary Algorithms in Artificial Intelligent Systems, open access special issue
by Valentina Franzoni 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Deadline: 31 December 2020 Journal Mathematics (indexed on Scopus, WoS, JCR) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Artificial_Intellig… Dear Colleagues, Evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristics are widely used to provide efficient and effective approximate solutions to computationally hard optimization problems. Successful early applications of the evolutionary computational approach can be found in the field of numerical optimization, while they have now become pervasive in applications for planning, scheduling, transportation and logistics, vehicle routing, packing problems, etc. With the widespread use of intelligent systems in recent years, evolutionary algorithms have been applied, beyond classical optimization problems, as components of intelligent systems for supporting tasks and decisions in the fields of machine vision, natural language processing, parameters optimization for neural networks (neuroevolution), and features selection in machine learning systems. Moreover, they are also applied in areas like complex networks dynamics, evolution and trend detection in social networks, emergent behaviour in multiagent systems and adaptive evolutionary user interfaces, to mention a few. In these systems, the evolutionary components are integrated into the overall architecture and they provide services, e.g., pattern matching services, to the specific algorithmic solutions. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together recent theoretical and applicative research advancements in the area of evolutionary algorithms as components of intelligent systems, with a focus on solutions and methodologies that can be reused to solve subclasses of problems recurring in intelligent applications. Contributions are welcome on theoretical models and applications to intelligent systems of evolutionary algorithms for, but not limited to, single-objective and multiobjective optimization, numerical continuous nonlinear optimization, combinatorial optimization, graph matching and pattern matching, agents, and automata optimization. Evolutionary paradigms to be considered, non-exhaustively, include continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm-based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired metaheuristics. The selection criteria will be primarily based on the formal and technical soundness, the experimental support, and the relevance of the contribution and its impact on the reusability of the results for solving subgroups of problems recurring in a class of intelligent applications. Prof. Dr. Alfredo Milani Dr. Valentina Franzoni *Guest Editors* ------------------------------ Valentina Franzoni, *Ph.D. Engineering for Computer Science* Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Computer, Control and Management Engineering *Research Fellow* University of Perugia, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia, Italy --- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any review of, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender by e-mail and delete the content.

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2-years position (INF/01) in Milan: Data integration and Artificial Intelligence for Life science
by Chiara Damiani 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, I am writing to advertise a research fellowship for a Data Scientist/Computational Biology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where I work as as fixed-term researcher and where I am starting a research group in Data Integration and Complex Systems. The lab collaborates actively with the Department of Computer Science and with the Joint Research Unit ISBE-it. The announcement of selection will be published soon on https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/>. The deadline will be 30 days after the publication day. The position will start on January 1st 2021. You can find a description of the position and of the candidate we would like to attract in attachment or here <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Please help me disseminate this post among your colleagues and students. Thanks for your attention, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Cari colleghi, vi scrivo per segnalare un assegno di ricerca in INF/01 per Data Scientist/Computational Biology al dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, dove ho recentemente preso posizione come ricercatore (RTD-B in INF/01) e dove sto avviando un gruppo di ricerca in Data Integration and Complex Systems. Il laboratorio collabora attivamente con il Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione e con l’infrastruttura di ricerca ISBE-it. Il bando uscirà a giorni su https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/> (con scadenza a 30gg) e la posizione decorrerà dal primo gennaio 2021. Trovate una breve descrizione della posizione del candidato che vorremmo attrarre in allegato o qui <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Vi pregherei di segnalare il post a chi fosse interessato e di girarlo nelle vostre mailing lists di dottorandi, assegnisti, studenti. Grazie mille per l’attenzione, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Awards - Call for Nominations
by IEEE TCCLD 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Dear all, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] As a friendly reminder, please nominate qualified candidates for the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) awards listed below by 2020-10-20. Please also help with distributing the call for nominations. - *TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award. * TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. thesis award is presented to a researcher whose Ph.D. thesis has the potential of a very high impact in cloud computing or gives direct evidence of such an impact. Only a Ph.D. degree obtained in 2019/2020 is considered for this award. *Chair*: Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>. Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - *TCCLD Rising Star Award (within 5 years of receiving Ph.D degree)* It recognizes outstanding young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and made a significant contribution to the field of cloud computing. Only candidates who receive their Ph.D. within 5 years are eligible. *Chair:* Prof. Ling Liu. Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - *TCCLD Research Innovation Award.* Anyone or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations are in the field of cloud computing. The contributors must have a long-term impact on advancing the theory and practice in cloud computing. *Chair:* Prof. Yo-Ping Huang Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - *TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award* This award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding leadership contributions in the field of cloud computing. Also, the outstanding contributions in the application of cloud computing which affect and improve global business and help organizations and individuals are considered. *Chair:* Prof. Beniamino Di Martino. Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - *TCCLD Outstanding Service Award* This award recognizes one individual who has outstanding services to building the cloud computing community with significant and persistent volunteer efforts, such as services to IEEE TCCLD activities worldwide, annual related events. *Chair*: Martin Gilje Jaatun. Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no - *TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Award* It recognizes women leaders who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of cloud computing and solve real problems. *Chair*: Prof. YuanYuan Yang. Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - *TCCLD Impact Award* It recognizes senior researchers or educators for her/his significant/distinguished contribution in the field of cloud computing. *Chair*: Prof. Christophe Cérin. Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org. *Details on the awards and the nomination process are available at * https://tc.computer.org/tccld/awards/ . *Eligible applicants* 1. The TCCLD members. Join TCCLD Now <https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage…> 2. Qualified candidates except for the IEEE TCCLD chairs, TCCLD executive committee members, and the past IEEE TCCLD awardees. 3. Nominees that have not been recognized for the TCCLD award will be reviewed with higher priority. 4. In terms of the TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Ph.D. degree should have been obtained in 2019/2020. *Nomination Process* o Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are not accepted. o Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less), and personal/team web page URL of the nominee. o Two supporting letters are required for each nomination. The letters should address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. o Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. o The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners for each award category. *Important Dates:* - Oct. 20: Nomination due - Nov. 20: Selection results. (Internal) - Nov. 30: Announcement of Winners (Web & CloudCom 2020) CloudCom 2020 <https://2020.cloudcom.org/> *Submission Link* All nominations should be sent through the following link. All the files should be merged into one PDF file. The submission link is as follow. * TCCLD Award Nomination <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ7k-ruXSTUUrjHdWlfRk0b6f10wILgHN…>* Note: If you require further information, feel free to contact ieeetccld(a)gmail.com <ieeetccld(a)gmail.com> *Awards committee chairs* - Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>, Middlesex University, UK.* ( TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Chair.) * Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - Prof. Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.* (TCCLD Research Innovation Award Chair)*. - Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - Prof. Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France. (TCCLD Impact Award Chair) - Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org - Prof. Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy. *( TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award Chair)* - Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - Prof. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. *(TCCLD Rising Star Award Chair) * - Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - Prof. YuanYuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA. *(TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Awar Chair) * - Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway *(TCCLD Outstanding Service Award Chair) * - Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no Meanwhile, Awardees will be publicized through TCCLD social media channels as follow. I. Facebook: IEEE Cloud Computing ( https://www.facebook.com/ieeecloudcomputing/) II. Twitter: IEEE Cloud Computing (https://twitter.com/ieeecloud) ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the tccld-announce list, click the following link: https://cs-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tccld-announce&A=1

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CFP - Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS)
by William Spataro 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2021 (www.pdp2021.org/) The 29th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Valladolid (Spain) (online) 10-12 March 2021 https://www.pdp2021.org/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 21th, 2020 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops at PDP (since 2014), we are glad to invite you to our seventh edition which will take place in Valladolid (Spain). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. 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, GPGPU 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 - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Paper submission: 21 October 2020 Acceptance notification: 23 December 2020 Camera ready due: 17 January 2021 Conference: 10 - 12 March 2021 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). 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. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2021 and select the "High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation" track. Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Program Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 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 Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 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, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, 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 -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° 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 -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <https://www.unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view.cfm?100061>

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HPBench CFP - Don't miss this opportunity! Today is last day
by Samar Aseeri 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - 3 days to deadline
by Samar Aseeri 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale and energy-efficient computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Developing next-generation machine learning and AI approaches for science * Advancing quantum computing technologies, software, algorithms and applications * Evaluating or developing new and promising HPC systems and networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large-scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due November 9, 2020. Letters of Reference are due November 16, 2020. Details of the application process can be found at https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/2021-alvarez-hopper-postdoctoral….

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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - Deadline has been Extended
by Samar Aseeri 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors' email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. 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[HPCS 2020] High Performance Computing and its applications (Core-B quality). Deadline: 25th sept of Workshop MSPDS (Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems)
by JOSE LUIS GUISADO LIZAR 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Dear Colleague, Deadline of the 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) is approaching (September, 25th): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020/workshop19-mspds This Workshop is to be hold within the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020, 18th Annual Meeting) in 10 - 14 December 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 We want to highlight your attention for the following reasons: 1. HPCS congress is one of the most important conferences in High Performance Computing and its applications (classified as Core-B according to http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/653/ ). 2. Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral…, are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Moreover, plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in other reputable journals as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. 3. The goal of this workshop is very specific: to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. Please note that this workshop deadline (25th of September) is one week later than that of the Main Track Full Paper Submission Deadline. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. Please find attached the CFP for a complete information. Kind regards, Fernando Diaz-del-Rio Jose Luis Guisado-Lizar University of Seville (Spain) The 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 10 - 14 December 2020 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Large parallel systems have become mainstream of both commercial and scientific computing. At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has witnessed a revolution that has turned it into a jungle populated by very different types of parallel computing systems exploiting parallelism at different levels. They include multi- and many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs or heterogeneous systems joining together several of those types of devices. Shared-memory systems with hundreds of processors are commercially available, while a new generation of massively parallel systems have pushed the limits of scalability to unprecedented levels. Designing and understanding these systems requires new simulation and modeling approaches that can be effective at those scales. New software- and hardware-based simulation techniques have been developed to cope with those challenges. The goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas: MSPDS Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas: * Simulation of Exascale Systems * Simulation of Interconnection Architectures and Technologies * Workload Characterization to help Simulation Studies * Parallel and Distributed Simulators * Hardware accelerators for simulating parallel systems * Bootstrapping: Using a current generation system to design the next generation * Modeling and simulation at the data centers level * Use of reconfigurable logic for simulation of parallel systems * Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation * Machine learning for developing models of parallel systems * New and novel approaches to modeling and simulation of large and complex systems * Modeling techniques, including reuse of models, modeling languages, agent-based M&S, and spatially explicit M&S * M&S to manage and/or optimize operational systems and methodological challenges arising from these applications such as online simulation, symbiotic simulation, dynamic data-driven, real-time and embedded simulation, and emulation of real systems. * Simulation of breaking technologies (e.g. quantum computing, wireless photonics, etc) * Simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems * Modeling of HPC systems and components * Modeling in various domains of knowledge using HPC and parallel systems and algorithms, including (but not limited to) parallel models of complex systems, multiscale models, multi-agent systems, P-systems models, cellular automata and stencil computation, neuromorphic models, etc. * Modeling and Evaluation Methods and Studies INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to modeling and simulation of high performance parallel and distributed computing systems and applications. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop's paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mspds2020. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and soundness, presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the Symposium as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Plans are underway to have the best papers related with the rest of topics, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Additional detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 25 September 2020 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 09 October 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Fernando Díaz-del-Rio Department of Computer Architecture and Technology University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 61 47 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: fdiaz(a)us.es<mailto:fdiaz@us.es> José-Luis Guisado-Lizar Computer Architecture and Technology Department University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 62 41 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: jlguisado(a)us.es<mailto:jlguisado@us.es> International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Workshop's technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. Coming Soon (* Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.) For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the Conference's organizers. Dr. José Luis Guisado Lizar Profesor Titular de Universidad (Associate Professor, tenured) Depto. de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores E.T.S. Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla Avda. Reina Mercedes, S/N 41012-Sevilla, Spain Tel.: (+34) 954 55 62 41 E-mail: jlguisado(a)us.es Web: http://personal.us.es/jlguisado Twitter: @JLGuisado<https://twitter.com/jlguisado> [https://sic.us.es/sites/default/files/servicios/correo/Archivos/us_logo.jpg] www.us.es<http://www.us.es/> Por favor considere el medio ambiente antes de imprimir este correo electrónico. - Este correo electrónico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, contiene información de carácter confidencial exclusivamente dirigida a su destinatario o destinatarios. Si no es Vd. el destinatario del mensaje, le ruego lo destruya sin hacer copia digital o física, comunicando al emisor por esta misma vía la recepción del presente mensaje. Gracias

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HPCS 2020 going online - The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Please Post. Thank you kindly. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** ** **The 2020 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** **(HPCS 2020)** ** **10-14 December, 2020** **Barcelona, Spain (fully virtual/online)** ** **http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20** * *In Cooperation with (Forthcoming)** ** **(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 17 September 2020 - Final Extension)** **(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest web page.)** * Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference Covid-19 Announcement 2: Under the extenuating circumstances due to the international pandemic, HPCS 2020 is going fully virtual/online. Accepted and presented papers in the HPCS 2020 will be published in the conference proceedings as usual and submitted for inclusion in the Digital Library after they are successfully presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for the virtual presentation will be posted on the conference website and sent separately. Registration fees for the HPCS 2020 will be adjusted accordingly and posted on the HPCS 2020 website as well. *INVITATION:* You are cordially invited to contribute and participate in this conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: (some still need co-organizers; please let us know if you are interested) *_Symposia_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia-hpcs2020 SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2020) SYM04: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2020) SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2020) SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2020) SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2020) *_Workshops_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020 W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing (DRMEC 2020) W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed Computing Systems (OPTIM 2020) W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2020) W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects (HPINI 2020) W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2020) W06: Advances in Parallel Programming Models and Frameworks for the Multi-/Many-core Era (APPMM 2020) W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2020) W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2020) W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2020) W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2020) W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2020) W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2020) W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation (CIPEC 2020) W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2020) W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2020) W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences (BILIS 2020) W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN 2020) W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2020) W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks (PCNN 2020) W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2020) W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (LSAUC 2020) W23: Parallel Optimization using/for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing (POMCO 2020) W24: HPC and Collaborative Networking for Real Time Agricultural Applications (AgrApps 2020) *_Special Sessions_**:* (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and Optimization (HPBench 2020) SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2020) SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2020) SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2020) SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2020) SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2020) SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2020) SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications (IoT-HPC 2020) SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2020) SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2020) SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering (FSASE 2020) SS13: High Performance Computing and Modeling & Simulation Education (HPCEd 2020) SS14: Quantum Computing (QuanC 2020) SS15: Smart Cities and Systems in the Era of HPC (SCS-HPC 2020) *Proceedings* All accepted papers in the conference and its tracks are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. The plan is to have the proceedings formally published and be available at the time of the conference. The accepted & presented proceedings papers will subsequently be included in the Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc.. *Journals Opportunities* Plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the official conference website. ============================================================== *Important Dates:** * * Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline 17 September 2020 - Final Extension** ** Other Tracks Paper & Poster Paper Submission Deadline Please check the track** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline 25 September 2020** ** Main Track Notifications of Acceptance start 09 October 2020** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due 19 October 2020** ** Conference Dates 10-14 December 2020** * ============================================================== For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the organizers. Please stay safe and healthy. We look forward to your contributions and meeting you virtually in December. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2020 Organizers

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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