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CFP - ICA3PP 2020 - 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
by Henry Q 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

The 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2020) http://www.cloud-conf.net/ica3pp2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: *May 1st, 2020* Author notification: July 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 1st, 2020 Registration: August 1st, 2020 Conference date: Ocotber 2nd-4th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*ICA3PP 2020 is the 20th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian, Japan, Zhangjiajie, Granada, Helsinki, Guangzhou, and Melbourne, ICA3PP 2020 will be held in New York, USA. The objective of ICA3PP 2020 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2020 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e. architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: *Parallel and Distributed Architectures* - Parallel Architectures - Parallel Programming Paradigms - Heterogeneous Systems - Service-Oriented Architectures *Blockchain Systems* – Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain – Blockchain application in social networking – Smart contract and distributed ledger – P2P network analysis for blockchain – Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing – Blockchain-enabled services *Software Systems and Programming Models* - Cluster, Distributed & Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware - Programming Models for Compute and Storage - Parallel File Systems and Storage - Parallel and Distributed Databases - Tools for Programming and Analysis of System Software *Distributed and Network-based Computing* - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Cloud, Grid, and Services Computing - Web and Internet Computing - Interconnection Networks - Network Simulations *Big Data and its Applications* - Architecture, Networks and Systems of Big Data - Big Data Applications, Algorithms and Data Structures - Research and Development Trends of Big Data - Big Data Benchmarking, Interoperability, Monitoring, Security, Privacy and Management - Distributed Data Analytics and Feature Extraction - Big Data Interoperability and Orchestration - Parallel Processing for Big Data *Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications* - Reliability and Fault-tolerant Computing - High-performance Scientific Computing - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Resource Management and Scheduling - Multimedia in Parallel Computing - Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics - Parallel Machine Learning Algorithms - Industrial Applications *Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems* - Dependability Issues in Computer Networks and Communications - Dependability Issues in Distributed and Parallel Systems - Dependability of Software Defined Networks - Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems - Network and Information Security - Trust, Security and Privacy in Cloud computing, Social Networks, and Internet of Things *Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing* - Social Computing and Analytics on Cyber-Physical Data - Smart Communities with Cyber-Physical Systems - Ubiquitous Sensing in Social Networks - Building Social Life Networks - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Control, Computing and Networking - Cyber-Physical Systems and Networks - Cyber-Physical Social Applications and Case Studies *Performance Modeling and Evaluation* - Performance of Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems - Software and Hardware Reliability, Testing, Verification and Validation - Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development - Optimization, Modeling and Simulation - Stochastic Analysis, Statistical Analysis and Simulation - Data Collection and Analysis - Planning, Scheduling and Quality-of-Service - Game theory, Economics and Control Theory

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CFP - Several Special Issues - 10th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2020
by Didier Elbaz 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. *************************************************************************** The 10th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2020) https://pdco2020.sciencesconf.org/ held in conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2020) May 18-22, 2020 New Orleans, USA http://www.ipdps.org <http://www.ipdps.org/> *************************************************************************** ============================================ FIXED DEADLINE (no more extensions): February 16, 2020 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to one of the following *Special Issues*: - Journal of Applied Sciences - Optimization, Processing, and Visualization of Data for Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/optimization_processing…> - Algorithms Journal - Optimization Algorithms and Applications <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Optimization_Algorit…> - Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Multi-swarms of unmanned autonomous systems <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12547/multi-swarms-of-unmanned-…> =========================================== Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing; * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be completed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, E-Bus Competence Center, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2020 submission system: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFul… <https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFul…> Abstract and paper can be uploaded until February 16, 2020. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available on IPDPS website <http://www.ipdps.org/>. Special Issue: ============ Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to one of the following Special Issues: - Journal of Applied Sciences - Optimization, Processing, and Visualization of Data for Sustainability <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/optimization_processing…> - Algorithms Journal - Optimization Algorithms and Applications <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Optimization_Algorit…> - Frontiers in Robotics and AI - Multi-swarms of unmanned autonomous systems <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12547/multi-swarms-of-unmanned-…> Important Dates: ================ - Submission Deadline: February 16, 2020 - Author notification: March 6, 2020 - Camera ready version: March 22, 2020 - Workshop: May 18, 2020 Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at pdco2020(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2020@sciencesconf.org>

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CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: March 17, 2020 Full Paper Submission: March 24, 2020 Author Notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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Multiple Academic Vacancies at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi, It’s a great time to join one of the world’s leading Schools of Computing and Information Systems: We are hiring across several academic recruitment campaigns at The University of Melbourne: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901974/lecturersenior-lecturer-in-mac… http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901760/lecturersenior-lecturer-women-… http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/901494/teaching-fellow-senior-teachin… Thanks, Uwe Aickelin Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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CfP: Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020
by Werner Benger 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure and privilege to invite you for the workshop *Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering 2020* ENGAGE 2020 on 23rd of June 2020 at CGI 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The *abstract submission (ca. 200 words) deadline* for all participants has been postponed to: */March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* Please see the Call for Papers (below) for details. And please consult the CGI 2020 website as well: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ We very much hope, that you will be able to participate in ENGAGE 2020 and present your latest research results in this field at the shore of Lake Geneva. With kind regards, Eckhard Hitzer (On behalf of the organizing team of ENGAGE 2020) * * *Call for Papers : Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering Workshop @ CGI 2020 – 23rd June 2020* CGI 2020 URL: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/ Since ACM SIGGRAPH2001 and 2003 conferences, there has been limited attention on the benefits of employing W. K. Clifford’s geometric algebras (GA), quaternions and octonions in solving computer graphics and vision problems. In the meantime, the geometric algebra community focused on GA applications and greatly advanced it as an adequate and viable computing technology. The Workshops at CGI’2016 on “Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering” and at CGI’2017, 2018, 2019 on “Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering” began to bridge that gap. Under the auspices of *CGI’20 *(22-25 June), ENGAGE (Empowering Novel Geometric Algebra for Graphics & Engineering) on *June 23rd* in Geneva, Switzerland, will again engage in a multi-disciplinary approach from mathematics, applied to computer graphics, computer vision and general computer science fields where GA has strong potential to answer existing mathematical problems. GA is in a particularly well suited to allow cross-disciplinary solutions in software engineering as it provides an intuitive and insightful common denominator across mathematical disciplines that have often advanced application specific. Understanding GA enables us to relate distinct, seemingly incompatible paths by providing a common mathematical base. We invite original contributors in the form of full and short papers, which advance the state-of-the-art of the application of geometric algebra as well as of its computing technology in *topics related, but not limited to:* * Feature Detection & Data Analysis * LIDAR and Point Cloud Algorithms * Scientific & Information Visualization * Computer graphics rendering * Computer animation and video processing * Holographic optics & Holographic maps * Geographic Information Systems * Soundscape & Electromagnetic landscape Modelling * Augmented and Virtual Reality * Application of Clifford Fourier transforms and Clifford wavelets to 2D and 3D images, including color images * Higher dimensional geometric algebras * GA Computing and Quantum Computing * GA hardware implementations * GA for Artificial Intelligence * GA for ubiquitous information processing * GA for Big Data processing & visualization * Other engineering/applied science applications using GA Authors should submit short and full papers directly to the CGI conference LNCS proceedings, by April 7th deadline. All authors of accepted ENGAGE related papers will be invited either to an oral or poster presentation. For Springer LNCS CGI proceedings author instructions please refer to http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi20/?page_id=1359. Post workshop extended and more advanced ENGAGE papers (15 pages plus) can be published in the topical collection “Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering” of the Journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA), published by Birkhauser, and should have been orally presented at the conference. See the “Instruction for Authors” at AACA. Online paper submission at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aaca/Default.aspx has deadline of October 31, 2020. At the time of submission, authors must indicate the topical collection “ENGAGE 2020-Geometric Algebra for Computing, Graphics and Engineering”. *IMPORTANT DATES* *All participants:* * *Abstract submission (ca. 200 words): /March 31, 2020/ to hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>* *Full and Short ENGAGE Papers: *(to appear in Springer LNCS proceedings, full 8-12 pages and short 5-7 pages) * Paper submission: /April 7//, 2020/ * Paper notification: /April 25, 2020/ * Camera ready papers due: /May 01, 2020/ *Full AACA Papers: (15 pages+, Latex using birkjour.cls)* * Paper submission: /October 31, 2020/ For *further information*, please contact one of the ENGAGE Workshop organizers: * Andreas Aristidou (Cyprus) * Werner Benger♯ (benger(a)ahm.co.at <mailto:w.benger@ahm.co.at>) (Innsbruck) * Dietmar Hildenbrand♯ (hildenbrand(a)gmail.com <mailto:dietmar.hildenbrand@gmail.com>) (Darmstadt) * Eckhard Hitzer♯ (hitzer(a)icu.ac.jp <mailto:hitzer@icu.ac.jp>) (Tokyo) * Joan Lasenby (Cambridge) * Kit Ian Kou (Macao) * Vincent Nozick (Paris) * George Papagiannakis♯ (papagian(a)ics.forth.gr <mailto:papagian@ics.forth.gr>) (Crete) * Stacey Staples (Edwardsville) * Kanta Tachibana (Tokyo) * Lars Tingelstad (Trondheim) * Peter Vasik (Brno) * Yu Zhaoyuan (Nanjing) (♯ = local workshop organizers) -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Werner Benger Visualization Research Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University (CCT/LSU) 2019 Digital Media Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Tel.: +1 225 578 4809 Fax.: +1 225 578-5362

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[CFP] Computing Frontiers 2020 - Deadline Extended!
by Tumeo, Antonino 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 11!!!! ================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2020 (CF'20) May 11 - 13th, 2020, Catania, Sicily, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: February 11, 2020 (Extended) http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ ================================================================== The next ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers will be held May 11th - 13th in Sicily, Italy, in the town of Catania. Computing Frontiers is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers who investigate emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that transform society. CF's broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as memory hardware and systems, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, power efficiency, new application domains of machine and deep learning and big data analytics, and systems portability and wearability. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology — and are the CF community focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss, and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and datacenters. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission deadline: February 11th, 2020 Notification: March 29th, 2020 Final Papers Due: April 19th, 2020 Conference Dates: May 11-13th, 2020 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and environments. * Innovative Computing Approaches, Architectures, Accelerators, Algorithms, and Models - Approximate, analog, inexact, probabilistic computing - Quantum computing - Neuromorphic, biologically-inspired computing, and optical computing - Dataflow architectures, near-data, and in-memory processing * Technological Scaling Limits and Beyond - Limits: Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, dark silicon - Extending past Moore’s law: 3D-stacking, many-core architectures and accelerators, distributed computing on mobile devices and their challenges * Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics - Novel architecture and systems across computing systems (IoT to datacenter) - High performance data analytics - Exascale data management * Embedded, IoT, and Cyber-Physical Systems - Ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging - Physical security, attack detection and prevention - Reactive, real-time, scalable, reconfigurable, and self-aware systems - Sensor networks, IoT, and architectural innovation for wearable computing * Large-Scale System Design and Networking - Large-scale homogeneous/heterogeneous architectures and networking - System-balance and CPU-offloading - Power- and energy-management for clouds, datacenters, and exascale systems * System Software, Compiler Technologies, and Programming Languages - Technologies that push the limits of operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies - Large scale frameworks for distributed computing and communication - Resource and job management, scheduling and workflow systems for managing large-scale heterogeneous systems - Compiler technologies: hardware/software integrated solutions, high-level synthesis - Tools for analyzing and managing performance at large scale - Novel programming approaches * Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems (e.g., infrastructure, airlines) - Hardware and software approaches in adverse environments such as space * Security - Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code - Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols - Quantum and post-quantum cryptography * Computers and Society - Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics and AI environmental impact - Education, health, cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets, and interdisciplinary applications We strongly encourage submissions in emerging fields that may not fit into traditional categories -- if in doubt, contact the PC co-chairs by email. CONFERENCE WEBSITE ================== http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ SUBMISSION ========== We encourage the submission of both full and short papers containing high-quality research describing original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf2020 Short papers may be position papers or may describe preliminary or highly speculative work. Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) (excluding references) and short papers a maximum of four (4) (including references) double-column pages in ACM conference format (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html) Authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted full papers. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices, but exclude references for full papers. As the review process is double-blind, removal of all identifying information from paper submissions is required (i.e. cite own work in third person). Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits and the removal of identifying information will be automatically rejected. No-show policy: Any accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper. A no-show of papers will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2020 Chairs General Co-Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Program Co-Chairs: Cat Graves, Hewlett Packard Labs, US Eishi Arima, ITC University of Tokyo, JP Poster/Short Paper Co-Chairs: Kun-Chih Chen, National Sun Yat-set University, Taiwan Nader Bagherzadeh, University of Irvine, US Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT Carlo Sau, University of Cagliari, IT Workshops Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Registration Chair: Giuseppe Ascia, University of Catania, IT Publications Co-Chairs: Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Finance Chair: Siddhartha Jana, Intel, US Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, IT Davide Patti, University of Catania, IT Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Industry/Special Session Co-Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin, IT Industrial Sponsorship Chair Amlan Ganguly, Rochester Institute of Technology, US Publicity Chairs: Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Simone Vuotto, University of Sassari, IT Computing Frontiers Steering Committee Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US John Feo, PNNL, US Hubertus Franke, New York University / IBM Research, US Paul Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Sally A. McKee, Clemson University, US Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, DE Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, DE Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE FURTHER INFORMATION =================== For further information and updates, check the CF'20 website at http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/

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Final Reminder of Paper Deadline: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Dear All: This is a final reminder of the January 31 deadline for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20). See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/ . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (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 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 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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Call for Papers: IEEE ISORC - Int. Symp. on Real-Time Distributed Computing 2020
by Khare, Shweta Prabhat 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Dear researcher/colleague, Please consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the IEEE ISORC 2020 conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), from May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/ The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process by introducing double-blind submissions and a rebuttal phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. Best Paper and Student Paper Awards will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited to: * Software architectures for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * Algorithms for real-time analytics: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * Applications: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * System evaluation: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline: (Extended Deadline) Jan 31, 2020 (AOE) * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc.github.io/2020/ The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020 - Deadline Approaching!
by Tumeo, Antonino 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] NEWS: DEADLINE APPROACHING!!! CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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Open positions (Post-doc and MSc/PhD): Web-Based Multi-Agent Systems
by Ciortea, Andrei 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Dear all, We have two open positions on Multi-Agent Systems, Semantic Web, and Linked Data: Inria Sophia Antipolis (France): Post-Doctoral researcher on architectural styles and ontologies for Hypermedia Multi-agent Systems https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2019-02101 MINES Saint-Étienne (France): Master Internship on Semantic Multi-Agent Organisations for the Regulation of Hypermedia Communities of People and Autonomous Agents (to be converted in a Doctoral Position) https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/jobs/M2_HyperAgents_2020.html Kind regards, Andrei Ciortea -- Andrei Ciortea Postdoctoral Researcher Interaction- and Communication-based Systems University of St. Gallen http://interactions.ics.unisg.ch/

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CFP - Quantum Computing Thematic Track at International Conference on Computational Science 2020
by Peter Mueller 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Quantum Computing Thematic Track -------------------------------- in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science June 3 - 5, 2020 , Amsterdam, The Netherlands Extended paper due date: February 7th, 2020 (firm) https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2020/ http://www.qcw2020.agh.edu.pl/ Introduction Quantum computing is a new paradigm that exploits fundamental principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems in various fields of science that are beyond possibilities of classical computing infrastructures. Despite increasing activity in both theoretical research and hardware implementations, reaching the state of useful quantum supremacy is still an open question. This workshop aims to provide a forum for computational scientists, software developers, computer scientists, physicists and quantum hardware providers to understand and discuss research on current problems in quantum informatics. Topics Specific topics include (but are not limited to): - New quantum computing algorithms; - New hybrid quantum-classical solutions; - Application of quantum computing to current problems in computational science; - Quantum algorithms in machine learning and big data; - Integration of quantum computation with supercomputing infrastructure; - Quantum computing hardware; - Quantum error correction; - Advanced methods for quantum software engineering; - Novel numerical methods supporting quantum information theory; - Environments and frameworks for quantum computing; - Quantum simulators; - Cloud-based support for quantum computing; - Dedicated services required for quantum computing; - Novel approaches to quantum games; - Quantum networks / quantum Internet; - Quantum programming languages; - Creative tools for quantum computation education: video games, interactive art; - Challenging applications in industry and academia; Papers We cordially invite you to submit a paper presenting the results of original research in the area of quantum computing. Papers of up to 14 pages, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS templates, should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. You also have the option of submitting a short paper of up to 7 pages. Both Full and Short Papers use the same templates and are published in LNCS. Templates are available for download in EasyChair’s “Templates” menu.All papers will be peer reviewed. After the conference, the best papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (Impact Factor: 1.925). Important Dates Full paper submission: February, 7, 2020 (firm) Notification of acceptance: February 14, 2020 Camera-ready papers: March 6, 2020 Program Committee Nicholas Chancellor, EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellow, Durham University, UK Piotr Frąckiewicz, Pomeranian University, PL Piotr Gawron, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences Sophia Grundner-Culemann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Tobias Guggemos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Maximilian Höb, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Informatik, DE Krzysztof Kurowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL Jarosław Miszczak,Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL Peter Müller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, CH Frank Phillipson, TNO, The Hague, NL Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology, IBM Research, Zurich, CH Haozhen Situ, College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, CN Bogdan Staszewski, University College London, UK Tomasz Stopa, IBM Software Laboratory, Kraków, PL Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL Workshop Chairs Katarzyna Rycerz, Department of Computer Science, AGH, Krakow, Poland Marian Bubak, Department of Computer Science AGH and Sano Center, Krakow, Poland E-mail: qcw2020 [at] agh.edu.pl

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WHPC@ISC'20 Call for posters
by Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 12th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 12th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 25th 2020 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop ================================================================= The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies - Putting in place a framework to help women take grow their careers - Explore pathways to leadership positions - Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC - Short talks on topics including: dealing with sponsorship versus mentorship, the case for reverse mentorship to achieve diversity, addressing toxic behaviour at work, career advancement strategies, and 3 minute networking solution. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: March 2nd 2020 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. Exclusive to WHPC at ISC20: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their posters in the main ISC20 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop *Workshop Organising Committee* - Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA, UK) - Co-chair: Fouzhan Hosseini (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK) - Vice-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Submissions Co-Chair: Vitalina Morais (Mozambique Research and Education Network, Africa) - Mentoring Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) - Invited Talks Chair: Rosa Filgueira (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Publicity Chair: Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight, UK) - Website Chair: Caitlin Ross (Kitware, USA) -- Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA) Visiting Researcher @ The University of Sheffield Software Sustainability Institute Fellow +447776633818 | mkchimeh.com

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Springer LNCS : CFP - AI in Cyber Forensics@ICCSA 2020, Univ of Cagliari, Italy
by A.Chamundeswari 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Dear Sir/Madam, The 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy in collaboration with the University of Cagliari, Italy. Follow this link to explore about the ICCSA 2020 conference, http://www.iccsa.org/ This a call for papers on *Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Forensics (AICF 2020) workshop, *which is to be held at ICCSA 2020 conference. About the workshop : Machine learning can be used in forensics investigation, to setup an environment to train artificial neural networks and as well as analyse data. Machine Learning algorithms such as Classification, Prediction enables to allow machines to interact with the evidence data. Deep Learning techniques can help in the analysis of huge amount of data during a forensic investigation process. Deep Learning algorithms can also handle evidence acquisition, evidence preservation, evidence analysis, evidence interpretation, etc. Invited research papers related to this workshop, but limited to: - Analysis of Forensic Knowledge - Evidence Collection, Extraction and Reporting - Storage and Transmit Information - Volume of Digital Forensic Data - Forensic Tools - Impediments in Mobile Device Forensic - Deep Learning-based Forensics and Anti-Forensics - Applications of Machine Learning in Cyber Forensics The reviewed and accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS series. Follow this link to explore about the workshop : http://www.iccsa.org/workshops Submit your papers by following the link : https://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py *Important dates:* Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2020 Notification Due Apr 25, 2020 Final Version Due May 8, 2020 All submitted papers will be reviewed. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this workshop. Kind regards, Dr. A. Chamundeswari, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Salai(OMR), Kalavakkam, TamilNadu, Pin-603110. http://member.acm.org/~chamundeswaria -- ::DISCLAIMER:: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SSN Institutions (SSN) or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of SSN is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Header of this mail should have a valid DKIM signature for the domain ssn.edu.in <http://www.ssn.edu.in/>

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SEIT-2020 CfPs: The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (August 9-12, 2020, Leuven, Belgium)
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Call for Papers The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-20) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-20/ IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop Proposals Due: February 20, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: March 19, 2020 - Acceptance Notification: May 17, 2020 - Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2020 About SEIT 2020 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 façade 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 façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. SEIT 2020 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/) 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication in journals special issues. Conference Main Tracks - 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 Committees Honorary Chair Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium General Chairs Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica 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 Mustafa Gül, University of Alberta, Canada 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-20/#programCommittees ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology]<https://www.p.lodz.pl> Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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FINAL CALL - IEEE INFOCOM: International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20)
by Peter Mueller 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) Extended due date for review manuscripts: 25. January 2020 (firm) ----------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 April 27, 2020, Beijing, China https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-big-data-and-cloud-performance The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM'20 in Beijing, China on April 27, 2020. The goal of DCPerf is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimization. Submissions on any topics of datacenter, cloud and bigdata performance are welcome. Submission site will remain open until Jan. 8th, 2020. Cloud data centers are the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow's information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing needs, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. Because of the rapid growth in user-defined and user-generated applications and content, the range of services provided at data centers will expand tremendously and unpredictably. Particularly, big data applications and services, e.g., social and environmental sensing, and IoT monitoring, present a unique class of challenges in the Cloud. In addition, the high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers even more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs, are often conflicting. The increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas adds another dimension to optimizing big data and cloud applications. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems for hosting big data analytics in the cloud. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Big data applications and services - Emerging IoT applications - Data flow management - Processing platforms - Empirical studies - Cloud systems - Novel architectures - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Evaluation/modeling methodology - Big data and cloud performance - Cost/pricing design - Power/energy management - Reliability/dependability - Performance evaluation/modeling - Big data in the cloud - Intra/Inter communication - Network protocols - Security - Real-time analytics Important Dates: Full Review Paper Submission: Jan. 25th, 2020 (firm) Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 15th, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: March 6, 2020 Submission Guideline: Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11-inch format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2020 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blinded. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26866&track=99584 Committee: General Chair Wanyang Dai, Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, China TPC co-Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Rui Han, School of Computer Science&Technology, Beijing Instititute of Technology

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Call for Chapters
by Ivan Mistrik 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

*** Call for Chapters *** We invite high-quality chapters for an edited book on KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF DATA-INTENSIVE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS A book to be published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group and edited by: - Ivan Mistrik, Computer Scientist & Software Researcher, Heidelberg, Germany - Matthias Galster, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Bruce Maxim, Full Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA - Bedir Tekinerdogan, Full professor and chair of the Information Technology group at Wageningen University in The Netherlands OVERVIEW ------------------ Big data is characterized by the seven V’s: volume (large amounts of data), velocity (continuously processed data in real time), variety (unstructured, semi-structured or structured data in different formats and from multiple and diverse sources), veracity (uncertainty and trustworthiness of data), validity (relevance of data to the problem to solve), volatility (constant change of input data), and value (how data and its analysis adds value). Big data systems are software applications that process and potentially generate big data. Such applications receive and process data from various diverse (usually distributed) sources, such as sensors, devices, whole networks, social networks, mobile devices or devices in an Internet-of-Things. They process high workloads of data and handle high requests for data. The idea is to use large amounts of data strategically and efficiently to provide additional intelligence. This book will explore software engineering of big data systems, including topics related to requirements as well as architecture, detailed design, implementation, maintenance and operations. Software engineering is the application of a systematic approach to designing, operating and maintaining software systems and the study of all the activities involved in achieving the same. The software engineering discipline and research into software systems flourished with the advent of computers and the technological revolution ushered in by the World Wide Web and the Internet. Software systems have grown dramatically to the point of becoming ubiquitous. They have a significant impact on the global economy and on how we interact and communicate with each other and with computers using software in our daily lives. However, there have been major changes in the type of software systems developed over the years. In the past decade owing to breakthrough advancements in cloud and mobile computing technologies, unprecedented volumes of hitherto inaccessible data, referred to as big data, has become available to technology companies and business organizations farsighted and discerning enough to use it to create new products, and services generating astounding profits. This book will focus on several research challenges of software engineering for developing big data systems, in particular by: - surveying the existing software engineering literature on applying software engineering principles into developing and supporting big data systems - identifying the fields of application for big data software systems - investigating the software engineering knowledge areas that have seen research related to big data systems - revealing the gaps in the knowledge areas that require more focus for big data systems development - determining the open research challenges in each software engineering knowledge area that need to be met. BACKGROUND TOPICS All chapters should consider the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other data systems, as well as allow further approaches already in practice. The book intends to discuss systematic and disciplined approaches to building big data systems, dissemination of the state-of-the-art methods and techniques for representing and evaluating these systems. FORMAT ------------------ Chapters are invited that synthesize existing knowledge on relevant background topics and application areas in software engineering of big systems. Chapters should be accessible to senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a background in Computer Science, Information Science, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Software Design or related disciplines. Chapters are not expected to correspond to the description of a single research project or technique. Each chapter should clearly highlight three to five take-away messages or key lessons at the beginning of the chapter. PROCEDURE ------------------ Please submit your chapter in PDF format to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kmddis2019 Chapters will be peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers. The authors participating in this publishing project will also be asked to review chapters by other contributors. We recommend using Word from very beginning, since the sources for the final manuscript are required to be in Word. Please refer to Publisher’s Guideline for Authors at https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Ins… You are expected to collaborate on final editing of your chapter by Publisher’s editorial project manager. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Letter of Intent to editors (a tentative title, authors, a short abstract): December 2019: (as early as convenient) Chapters due: 30 January 2020 (extended until 28 February 2020) First round of reviews: 1 February 2020 – 30 April 2020 Revisions: 1 May 2020 -30July 2020 Second round of reviews: 1 August 2020 -30 August 2020 Final version due: 30 November 2020 Complete manuscript due: 30 February 2021 Expected publication: Spring 2021 For further details please contact editors at kmddis2019(a)easychair.org

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[Meetings] MESS 2020 ~ Learning & Optimization from Big Data ~ Catania, 27-31 July 2020
by Mario Pavone 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2020 - Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data - 27-31 July 2020, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2020/application/ MESS 2020 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is ?Learning and Optimization from Big Data?, therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data. All participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. ** LIST OF LECTURERS + Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata + Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy & University of Portsmouth, UK + Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK + Mauricio Resende, AMAZON, USA + Roman Slowinski, Pozna? University of Technology, Poland + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy More Lecturers will be announced soon. ** SCHOOL DIRECTORS + Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy + Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Students whose algorithm will rank in the first five top of the competition ranking, will be invited to submit a report/manuscript of their work to be published in the special MESS 2020 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS + Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy + Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy ** SHORT TALK & POSTER PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Mini-Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*. ** WORKSHOP CHAIRS + Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy + Paola Festa, University of Naples ?Federico II?, Italy + Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham, UK *See Previous Edition - MESS 2018* https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2018/ ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ -- mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school

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Paper Deadline Approaching: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Dear All: The deadline is approaching for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20). See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/ . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (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 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 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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Call for Posters and Demos - ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020
by flin＠zju.edu.cn 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

======================================================================== Call for Posters and Demos ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020 https://conferences.computer.org/iotDI/2020/ Sydney, Australia April 21-24, 2020 ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Jan 24th 2020 (AoE) * Notification: Feb 7th 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 16th 2020 (AoE) SCOPE The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2020 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. MADNESS SESSION IoTDI’20 and IPSN’20 will co-host a 1-minute madness session, during which the author of each accepted poster or demo has EXACTLY one minute to introduce their work at the main conference venue. Based on the feedback from past years' attendees, the 1-minute madness session is perceived as lively and interesting, and is typically very well attended. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2020, we will use IEEE templates as linked above using the 10-point type. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Abstract submission site: https://iotdi2020pd.hotcrp.com/ ORGANIZERS General Chairs * Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) * Prashant Shenoy (UMASS, Amherst, USA) Poster & Demo Chairs * Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University, USA) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publicity Chairs * Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA) * Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) * Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, China) Post & Demo Program Committee Members * Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University * Jayson Boubin, The Ohio State University * Yiran Shen, CSIRO * Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology Sydney * Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult * Yunfei Hou, California State University at San Bernardino * Zhenyu Yan, Nanyang Technological University * Dhrubojyoti Roy, The Ohio State University * Salma Elmalaki, University of California Irvine * Fatima M. Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Shuochao Yao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Best Regards, Feng Lin flin(a)zju.edu.cn

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Call for Posters: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing
by Valeria Cardellini 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

========================================================================= ICFC 2020: Call For Posters 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) April 21-24, 2020 - Sydney, Australia https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/ Co-located with CPS-IoT Week (https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/) ========================================================================= Important Dates * Poster submission deadline: February 8, 2020 (AoE) * Notification: February 17, 2020 * Conference: April 21-24, 2020 Scope --------- The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020), colocated with the CPS-IoT Week 2020 in Sydney, April 21-24, 2020, welcomes posters that articulate research challenges, work in progress, and application showcases of fog computing. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * System architecture for fog computing * Coordination between cloud, fog, and sensing/actuation endpoints * Connectivity, storage, and computation in the edge * Data processing and management for fog computing * Efficient and embedded AI in the fog * System and network manageability * Middleware and coordination platforms * Power, energy, and resource management * Device and hardware support for fog computing * Programming models, abstractions, and software engineering for fog computing * Security, privacy, and ethics issues related to fog computing * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for fog computing systems * Applications and practical experiences Poster Guidelines and Submission ---------------------------------------------- Poster papers are limited to 2 pages, and the title must start with "Poster:". Submitted poster papers must be PDF files in IEEE two column format. Please refer to IEEE proceedings templates (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for templates and complete formatting instructions. Submissions do not have to be blind, i.e., by omitting author names or affiliations. Poster papers should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfc2020. The poster paper will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted poster papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register and present the poster at the conference. Please visit ICFC website at https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/call-for-posters for more information. Organization ----------------- General Chairs: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Workshop and Poster Chair: David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publicity Chairs: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy Please contact the Poster Chair for any questions/clarifications.

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CFP: 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS'20)
by Pankaj Pandey 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS 2020) in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'20 Taipei, Taiwan -- June 1st, 2020 https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/ ================================================================================ Overview --------- 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 * Availability of 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 systems security * IoT security * Lightweight crypto * Recovery of CPS from cyber attacks * Security risk assessment for CPS * Security architectures for CPS * Security by design for CPS * Security of autonomous vehicles and vessels * Security of legacy CPS * Smart grid security * Threat modeling for CPS * Security of transportation systems * Vulnerability analysis for CPS Important Dates ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: February 10, 2020 * Notification to authors: March 5, 2020 * Camera ready due: March 15, 2020 Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers describing work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A best paper award will be presented getting opportunities for a registration fee discount. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss20 Organisation Committee ----------------------- Steering Committee: * Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) * Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) * Douglas Jones (UIUC, USA) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) – Chair Program Committee Chairs: * Sokratis Katsikas (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus; and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) * Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Program Committee: - Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (SUTD, Singapore) - Alvaro Cardenas (UC Santa Cruz, USA) - Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) - Afonso Ferreira (CNRS, France) - Yanick Fratantonio (EURECOM, France) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Vasileios Gkioulos (NTNU, Norway) - Eunsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Huy Kang Kim (Korea University, Korea) - Kandasamy Nandha Kumar (SUTD, Singapore) - Qi Li (Tsinghua University, China) - Hoon Wei Lim (SingTel, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Bo Luo (University of Kansas, USA) - Emil Lupu (Imperial College, UK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Daisuke Mashima (ADSC, Singapore) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University, Sweden) - Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) - Günther Pernul (Universität Regensburg, Germany) - Indraskhi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) - Justin Ruths (UT Dallas, USA) - Savio Sciancalepore (HBKU-CSE, Qatar) - Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) - Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) - Zheng Yang (SUTD, Singapore) - Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Publicity Chair: * Pankaj Pandey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) Publication Chair: * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Contact ------- Email: cpss20(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: https://nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/

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CFP: IEEE ISORC 2020 - Deadline extended to Friday, Jan 24th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times -- feel free to forward to potentially interested colleagues] Dear researcher/colleague, please, consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the /23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ (ISORC) conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), on May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. *IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 _/Main Track Papers Submission Deadline extended to: Friday, Jan 24th 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)/_ ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process introducing /double-blind submissions/ and a /rebuttal/ phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. /Best Paper//and //Student Paper Awards/ will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a /Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)/. IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * /Software architectures/ for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * /Distributed computing and communication infrastructures/: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * /Algorithms for real-time analytics/: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * /System software/: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * /Applications/: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * /System evaluation/: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Proceedings Chair * Yogesh Barve, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA *IMPORTANT DATES* Main Track * *Submission deadline (extended): January 24, 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)* * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers/ -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium Call for Paper
by Jialie Shen 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval July 25-30, 2020 (Xi'an, China); DC on July 26 https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are: * To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and discuss their research with experienced IR researchers: the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. * To provide students with an opportunity to establish a supportive community, including other doctoral students at a similar stage of their dissertation research. The Consortium will take place the day before the main conference (on Sunday, July 26th, 2020), with the format including: student presentations with plenary discussions, individual 1:1 meetings with experienced researchers, interactive networking sessions over lunch, and panel sessions with a special emphasis on gaining insights regarding career paths after the PhD. Prospective attendees should have written, or be close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent). It is desirable that students not be so close to completing their PhD that the event would have little impact on their work, or so early that a topic has not been chosen. Before submitting, students should discuss this criterion with their advisor or supervisor. To apply for a place at the Doctoral Consortium, candidates should submit a paper up to 5+1 pages in length, solely authored by the student - see submission guidelines below. Candidates will be selected based on the potential of their research for future impact on the field of information retrieval, as well as for the likely benefit to the student from participating in the Consortium. We note that SIGIR 2020 DC is deeply committed to improving the field of IR by making it more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We highly encourage women and students from other underrepresented groups to apply. For each selected student, a one page extended abstract will be published in the SIGIR 2020 Conference Proceedings. Extended abstracts will be invited after selection, and should not be submitted with the proposal. Doctoral students who submit to the Consortium are allowed to have previously published their research, and are encouraged to submit full, short, or demo papers of their work to the SIGIR 2020 conference and associated workshops. Priority is given to students chosen to attend the Consortium when travel grants are determined for the conference, and generally grants will be awarded to chosen students. Application details for travel grants will be available on the SIGIR 2020 website (You must apply for the grant to be considered). Submission Guidelines Papers should be submitted through easychair in the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2020 The submitted paper, solely authored by the student, will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium. To get the most out of the discussion, it should include: * Motivation for the proposed research. * Background and related work (including key references). * Description of proposed research, including main research questions. * Research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate). * Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, a one page appendix to the paper (placed after the references) must include the following: A detailed statement by the student explaining why they want to participate in the SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium at this point in their doctoral studies, and how they hope it will contribute to the development of their work and potential future career. A statement by the student’s advisor/supervisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the Consortium. Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate. Format Requirements Submissions must be written in English and submitted in the 2017 ACM Master Article Template (for LaTeX, use the “sigconf” option). The paper should be no more than 5 pages in length including all figures and references, but excluding the one page appendix. The first page must contain the title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details, an abstract of up to 250 words, ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) categories, and up to 3 keywords describing the topic areas. Information about categories and keywords can be found in ACM Web pages on the computing classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates. Doctoral Consortium papers will not be published in the SIGIR Conference Proceedings; only one-page extended abstracts, invited from accepted students will be published. Doctoral Consortium submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via Easychair SIGIR 2020 doctoral consortium site. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their submissions use no unusual format features and are printable on a standard printer. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. Important dates * Time zone : Anywhere On Earth (AOE) * Doctoral consortium papers due: March 1, 2020 * Doctoral consortium papers notification: April 22, 2020 * ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium: Sun, Jul 26, 2020 Doctoral Consortium Chairs Gabriella Kazai - Microsoft, UK Barbara Poblete - University of Chile, Chile Jerry Jialie Shen - Queen's University Belfast, UK Contact information: sigir2020dc(a)easychair.org For updates, please check: https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/

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DDSW2020 (Deadline Extended): International Workshop on Data-Driven Security
by DDSW 2020 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

*Dear Sir/Madam,* *[*** **Apologies if you received multiple emails for this call of paper * ****]* *Call for Paper* *International Workshop on Data-Driven Security (DDSW 2020)* *In conjunction with* *The 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)* *Warsaw, Poland April 6 - 9, 2020* * Deadline Extended: January 22, 2020 (Firm)* *http://www.just.edu.jo/~qmyaseen/ddsw2020/ddsw2020.html* <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> Data breaches are a daily occurrence, where adversaries attack consumers, corporations, and governments. Moreover, data breaches are growing tremendously due to the immense growth of the backbones of commerce and critical infrastructure, and interconnectivity of networks. The skills of adversaries are improving, and the number and severity of attacks are increasing, which make known security countermeasures suffer. While much research focuses on technical, business or compliance aspects, there is an increasing need for new security solutions to protect assists other than traditional approaches. This workshop focuses on new security techniques that use machine learning, data mining and statistics analytical techniques to solve nowadays security challenges. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Data Mining techniques for Security - Machine Learning for Security - Statistics for Security - Analysis of identified vulnerabilities - Analysis of successful attacks or attack attempts - Diverse aspects of security analytics - Tools for security analytics - Security analytics data *Submission of Papers* Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the DDSW workshop. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (electronically, PDF only) that are no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to the conference guidelines found at: http://csconferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/#paperSubmissions <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> . Please use the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ddsw2020 <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> to submit your paper. *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: January 22,2020 (Firm) - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo <qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo>*

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[ACM/IEEE IoTDI'20] Call for Posters and Demos - one week left before deadline
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

======================================================================== Call for Posters and Demos ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020 https://conferences.computer.org/iotDI/2020/ Sydney, Australia April 21-24, 2020 ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Jan 24th 2020 (AoE) * Notification: Feb 7th 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 16th 2020 (AoE) SCOPE The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2020 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. MADNESS SESSION IoTDI’20 and IPSN’20 will co-host a 1-minute madness session, during which the author of each accepted poster or demo has EXACTLY one minute to introduce their work at the main conference venue. Based on the feedback from past years' attendees, the 1-minute madness session is perceived as lively and interesting, and is typically very well attended. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2020, we will use IEEE templates as linked above using the 10-point type. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Abstract submission site: https://iotdi2020pd.hotcrp.com/ ORGANIZERS General Chairs * Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) * Prashant Shenoy (UMASS, Amherst, USA) Poster & Demo Chairs * Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University, USA) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publicity Chairs * Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA) * Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) * Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, China) Post & Demo Program Committee Members * Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University * Jayson Boubin, The Ohio State University * Yiran Shen, CSIRO * Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology Sydney * Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult * Yunfei Hou, California State University at San Bernardino * Zhenyu Yan, Nanyang Technological University * Dhrubojyoti Roy, The Ohio State University * Salma Elmalaki, University of California Irvine * Fatima M. Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Shuochao Yao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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ICCSA 2020: 2nd Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

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Fwd: Call for Book Chapter
by Sumit Kumar 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Dear Colleague, I hope this email finds you in the best of your health. It is indeed a matter of great pleasure to announce that I am in the process of co-editing a book with Elsevier, an international publisher of progressive academic research. I take this opportunity to invite you to submit a chapter proposal / Abstract for inclusion in this book and also forward the Call to a wider audience in your circle. There are no publication fees and the book title will be submitted to Scopus for indexing. Book Title: Web Semantics – Cutting Edge and Future Directions in Health Care Publisher: Elsevier Call for Chapter Abstract: 15th Jan 2020 Full Chapter Submission: 15th March 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ws2020 Your contribution will definitely make an excellent addition to this publication. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in <jasarika(a)gmail.com>. Hope to hear from you soon. Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India -- Sumit Dalal Scholar, NIT Kkr. Contact:- 9050894689

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CFP META'2020 @Marrakech
by El-ghazali Talbi 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, please distribute the CFP of META'2020 in your networks. Thanks for your collaboration. Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ********************************************************************** META'2020 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-31 Oct 2020 Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/ ********************************************************************** META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2020 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP) conference proceedings. At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also confirmed. META'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2020 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions. The scope of the META’2020 conference includes, but is not limited to: * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, … * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, bio-inspired algorithms, … * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, … * Quantum computing * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, … * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, … * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, … * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, … * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive) * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing Submission of papers: ____________________ - Submission of papers via the website S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages. S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages. S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work. - Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP). - Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/ - Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 30th March 2020, contact meta2020(a)sciencesconf.org Important dates _______________ - Submission deadline: April 24, 2020 - Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2020 -- *********************************************************************** META'2020 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 28-31 Oct 2020, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS

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CFP: IEEE ISORC 2020 - Papers due on Friday, Jan 17th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Dear researcher/colleague, please, consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the /23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ (ISORC) conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), on May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. *IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 _/Main Track Papers Submission Deadline: Friday, Jan 17th/_ ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process introducing /double-blind submissions/ and a /rebuttal/ phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. /Best Paper//and //Student Paper Awards/ will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a /Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)/. IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * /Software architectures/ for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * /Distributed computing and communication infrastructures/: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * /Algorithms for real-time analytics/: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * /System software/: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * /Applications/: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * /System evaluation/: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA *IMPORTANT DATES* Main Track * Submission deadline: January 17, 2020 * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers/ -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020
by Qin Liu 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

******************************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 We appreciate your great help if you forward this CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to your colleagues and friends. ******************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives Track (SPTI) of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020) ******************************************************************************************************************** Venue & Dates: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 3 - August 6, 2020 Conference Website: http://www.icccn.org/icccn20/index.html ******************************************************************************************************************** Introduction Recent advances in computer communications and networking techniques in technologies such as, Internet of Things, 5G, AI, etc., has resulted in emerging challenges in realizing security, privacy, trust and incentives. There is a need to develop protocols and systems that can preserve security and trust, without violating privacy and providing incentives to participate and collaborate. The 'Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives' (SPTI) track of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), welcomes submissions of original papers from researchers and practitioners working in the fields of security, privacy, and trusted systems as well as incentive mechanisms. The track seeks novel contributions on algorithm and system design, implementation, and evaluations. Track Topics of interest include but not limited to: -Anonymization and privacy -Blockchain based decentralized trust management -Cloud security -Computer and network forensics -Data and application security -Information hiding and watermarking -Incentives and game theory -IoT Security -Private information retrieval -Privacy-preserving trust management -Smart cards and secure hardware -Trust and reputation models -Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis Submission and Publication Information Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2020) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5×11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 9 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay extra charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 11 pages in total in IEEE format). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2020 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail addresses. Note: If a submission is not accepted as a regular paper, it may be accepted as a "short paper". All accepted papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The paper’s abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Important Dates Paper Submission Due: March 2nd, 2020 Acceptance Notification: April 27th, 2020 Camera-Ready Due: May 11th, 2020 TPC List: -Deepak Tosh, University of Texas at El Paso, USA -Uttam Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, USA -Amin Hassanzadeh, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Lei Ding, Accenture Technology Lab, USA -Kaiqi Xiong, University of South Florida, USA -Sarada Prasad, Old Dominion University, USA -Mohammad Wazid, Mainpal Institute of Technology, India -Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA -Charles Kamhoua, Army Research Lab, USA -Kimberly Gold, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA -Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University, USA -Saad Bani-Mohammad, Al al-Bayt University, Jordan -Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore -Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy -Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy -Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia -Giovanni Livraga,University of Milan, Italy -Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg,Germany -Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan,Italy -Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain -Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan -Xin Liao, Hunan University, China -Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China -Xin Yao, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020 to: Qin Liu, Hunan University, China; gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University, USA; sshetty(a)odu.edu -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, ITALY
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Apologies for multiple copies] --- IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING (SMARTCOMP 2020) Bologna, Italy 22-25 June 2020 http://www.smart-comp.org Call for workshop proposals ------------------------------- Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, SMARTCOMP 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. The Workshops Committee of SMARTCOMP 2020 invites proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to SMARTCOMP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications and Smart Grid. Papers presented in the SMARTCOMP 2020 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include the following: * the name of the workshop; * the names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers; * a brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the workshop’s focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time; * the names of potential Program Committee members; * the planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees; * if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s); * if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees; * if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees; * a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible); * a description of the plans for publicity and Workshop Web site. Submission Method ------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than 23 November 2019, in PDF format by email with the subject line "SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Proposal" to the Workshop Chairs: Dario Bruneo (dbruneo(a)unime.it) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (eirini(a)unm.edu) Important Dates ------------------------------- Proposal for workshop submission deadline: 8 December 2019 Notification of workshop acceptance: 20 December 2020 Paper submission deadline: 6 April 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: 30 April 2020 Submission of camera-ready deadline: 15 May 2020 SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Chair Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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Call for Papers: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, Italy
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Apologies if you have received multiple copies [SMARTCOMP 2020]: Call for papers -------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020 Call for Papers 22-25 June 2020, Bologna, Italy http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier IEEE conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge cloud computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of edge cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2020 is the 6th edition of the conference and will be held in the historical city of Bologna, Italy, hosted by the University of Bologna, the holdest University of the western world. SMARTCOMP 2020 will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, edge cloud computing, sensor networks, IoT, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living. Submission Guidelines -------------------- Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that), through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26894) Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected high quality papers accepted in IEEE SmartComp 2020 will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2020 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest: SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND ALGORITHMS: ----------------------------------------------- Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Edge computing algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES: ------------------------ Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments Cloud/Edge/Fog computing technologies for Smart Systems Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT technologies for Smart Systems Smart Networking Technologies Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Smart Precision Agriculture Smart Transportation Smart FinTech Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis Smart Health Smart Communities Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities Smart Energy Management and Analytics Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy) Publicity Co-Chairs: Shameek Bhattacharjee (Western Michigan University, USA) Sanjay Purushotham (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China) Riccardo Venanzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Web Co-Chairs: Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy) Francesco Di Rienzo (University of Pisa, Italy) Workshop Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC (In Progress) --- Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Ana Aguiar (University of Porto, Portugal) Christine Bassem (Wellesley College, USA) Shuvra Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland, USA) Dario Bruneo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Alessandra De Paola (University of Palermo, Italy) Pranita Dewan (IBM, USA) Sujit Dey (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ashutosh Dhekne (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jonathan Fink (Portland State University, USA) Angelo Furno (IFSTTAR, ENTPE, Université de Lyon, France) Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA) Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA) Hassan Ghasemzadeh (Washington State University, USA) Jason Hallstrom (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Salil Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Fanxin Kong (Syracuse University, USA) Ulf Kulau (DSI Aerospace Technology, Germany) Francesco Longo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Sudip Mittal (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Marco Morana (University of Palermo, Italy) Abhishek Mukherji (Cisco Systems Inc., USA) Paolo Nesi (DSI, University of Florence, Italy) Biplab Pal (MachineSense, USA) Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Kyung-Joon Park (DGIST, Korea) Lucas Pereira (M-ITI / LARSyS, Portugal) Dirk Pesch (University College Cork, Ireland) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Carlo Puliafito (University of Florence, Italy) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Maryam Rahnemoonfar (University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Reinhardt (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Nirupam Roy (UMD College Park, USA) Vijay Shah (Virginia Tech, USA) Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA) Neeraj Suri (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA) Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy) Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Desheng Zhang (Rutgers University, USA) Eugenio Zimeo (University of Sannio, Italy) Nilavra Pathak (Expedia Group, Seattle, USA) Amrita Anam (Amazon, USA) Jorge Ortiz (The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA) Archan Misra (Singapore Management University) Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island, USA) Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA) Jiaqi Gong (UMBC, USA) Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, Ohio, USA) H M Sajjad Hossain (Microsoft AI, Cambridge MA, USA) Daniele Riboni (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudio Cicconetti (CNT-IIT, Pisa) Important Dates --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: 17 January 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: 24 January 2020 Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2020 Camera Ready Deadline: 30 April 2020 Venue ----- The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2020) will be held in Bologna, Italy. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy or Carlo Vallati. Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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CFP The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020)
by Henry Q 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020) June 6-8, Zhengzhou, China http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartblock/2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: *January 15th, 2020* Author notification: April 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: April 15th, 2020 Registration: April 15th, 2020 Conference date: June 6th-8th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*Recent rapid development of blockchain has attracted a giant attention by both academia and the industry. Migrating a centralized computing to decentralized computing seems to be a main stream to establish a trust and secure storage and trading environment. However, it is actually too early to make a solid statement about the adoption of blockchain technology, since there are many unsolved problems in the field. The success of blockchain technique in Bitcoin does not mean the technique can be successfully deployed in all domains. This international conference aims to gather most updated papers in the field of blockchain and provides a platform for both scholars and practitioners. The scope of SmartBlock conference involves a broad range related to blockchain realms, from privacy-preserving solutions to designing advanced blockchain mechanism, from empirical studies to practical manuuals. All high quality updated work is highly welcomed. smartblock 2020 will be held in Zhengzhou, Henan, China and its conference proceedings publisher is Springer. - - Blockchain theory - Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain - Blockchain application in social networking - Smart contract and distributed ledger - P2P network analysis for blockchain - Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing - Blockchain-enabled services - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Permissioned and permissionless blockchains - Privacy and anonymity-enhancing techniques in blockchain - Security, privacy and trust of blockchain - Blockchain performance optimization - Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impacts in blockchain - Lightweight protocols and algorithms of blockchain - Forensics and monitoring in blockchain - Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data - Blockchain based IoT security and privacy - Blockchain in cyber physical systems - Attacks on blockchain based systems - Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing - Fraud detection and financial crime prevention in blockchain - Trust management in blockchain - Smart Blockchain and token economy - Smart Blockchain and applications - Smart Blockchain and digital economy

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Springer(LNCS)-11th Int.Symposium on Software Quality@University of Cagliari, Italy.
by Sanjay Misra 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

ISSQ 2020 : 11th International Symposium on Software Quality[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sq.covenantuniversity.edu.ng When Jul 1, 2020 - Jul 4, 2020 Where Cagliari Submission Deadline Feb 29, 2020 Notification Due Apr 15, 2020 Final Version Due May 8, 2020 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software quality assurance <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20assurance> quality standards <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20standards> quality models <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20models> quality practics <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20practics> Call For Papers ISSQ 2020: Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality(Springer-LNCS) in conjunction with ICCSA 2020 (The accepted papers of ISSQ 2020 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and extended version of all papers will be invited to publish in several International Journals- All Web of Science/SCOPUS Indexed Journals,A special issue of a SCIE Journal(Information Technology and Control-Impact Factor-0.800) is also confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2020). Following the grand success of SQ 2019 (in Saint Petersburg, Italy), SQ 2018 (in Melbourne, Australia), SQ 2017 (in Trieste, Italy), SQ 2016 (in Beijing, China), SQ 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SQ 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SQ 2013 (in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), SQ 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SQ 2011 in conjunction with ICCSA 2011 (in Santander, Spain), and SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 (in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus), the Eleventh International Workshop on "Software Quality SQ" (SQ 2020) will be held in conjunction with the 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020) on July 1-4, 2020, in collaboration with University of Cagliari, Italy. Submission deadline: February 29, 2020 About the Workshop and Topics This symposium extends the discussion of software quality issues in modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of the process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving quality objectives. It includes a quality management process, the role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, the role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations. Topics include (related to quality issues in software, software applications in any related area-cloud, agile, IoT, Big data, smart applications) but not limited to: 1. Software development fundamentals, 2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum, 3. Software requirements techniques, 4. Software testing & QA fundamentals, 5. Software testing models and approaches, 6. Software testing tools and frameworks, 7. Software test design, 8. Types of software maintenance, 9. Software maintenance process models, 10. Software maintenance standards, 11. Software maintenance tools 12. Software Reviews (SR) 13. Software Metrics (SM) 14. Software Process Assessment (SPA) 15. Software Process Improvement (SPI) 16. Software Standardization and Certification ISSQ: 2020 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to ISSQ 2020 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings (after registration) and presented orally at the conference. Publication All contributions will be peer-reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2020 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all SCIE/Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal*. *A special issue of an SCIE Journal- Information Technology And Control(IF 0.800) is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2020). Submission Please submit your paper through the ICCSA 2020 conference website. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please check the track of your submission "12th International Symposium on Software Quality (ISSQ 2020)" Important Dates Feb 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2020:SEPA 2020@ ICCSA 2020 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering, Covenant University Contact: ssopam(a)gmail.com Programme Committee Chair Dr. Luis Fernandez Department of Computer Science University De Alcala, Spain International Programme Committee Members Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Spain Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Robertas Damasevicius Kaunas University of Technology Antonio de Amescua Seco, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey P. Debba, CSIR, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia, UNICEN University, Argentina Osman Abul, PhD, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) - Brazil -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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IHPCES 2020 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to February 7)
by Dominik Bartuschat 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** Tenth International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2020) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2020/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2020, the 10th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2020 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from June 3-5, 2020. 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 do not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2020, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: February 7, 2020 Paper Submission Due (final extension) March 12, 2020 Author Notification April 2, 2020 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2020 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: Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, 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 2020. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2020 co-chairs

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020)
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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ICCSA 2020: COA Workshop
by Ana Rocha 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2020) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. 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 ================ February 15, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 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. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt) Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Centro ALGORITMI (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt) Economics Faculty (University of Coimbra), 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 2020 organizers)

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CFP: The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020
by Amro NAJJAR 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020 --------------- http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=97474&copyownerid=… The Humanities and the Rise of AI Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science (University of Luxembourg) We invite paper presentations of 20 minutes in one of our 4 sections (see below): Submission deadline for abstracts (up to 2 pages) January 31, 2020 - please send to: cfp(a)endsofthehumanities.com<mailto:cfp@endsofthehumanities.com> Travel grants for early career researchers are available. For further information, please visit http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/travel-grants/ Digitization and the rise of artificial intelligence forecast radical change on all aspects of human practice, especially given the ever-improving abilities of algorithms in tasks like pattern recognition and their practical application. Powerful technology arises from AI research, opening the gate for various forms of cultural and societal engineering, i.e., a reshaping of culture and society by dint of algorithmic models and ‘intelligent’ applications. Although the development of artificial intelligence is still in its beginnings, it has already triggered an enormous rush of utopian and dystopian thinking. While some dream of immortality and the vanquishing of poverty, disease, and warfare, others foresee a grim future for those parts of humanity that will find themselves outpaced by technology. Potential consequences of the changes imposed by technological advancement on human practice reach from the level of the individual, through cultural techniques, to the organization of society as a whole, raising fundamental questions which we will address in the four sections of the conference resp. special events. Special events are planned by the AI-team around the topics "Social robotics" and "A technological roadmap for AI after 2050". We consider a special issue of a high-ranked journal for extended versions of high-quality computer-science-oriented contributions. More information will be provided in the coming months. Invited speakers include, among others: -------------------------------------- - Armin Grunwald (Head of Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, KIT, Karlsruhe ) - Koen V. Hindriks (Prof. Artificial intelligence, VU Amsterdam, focusing on Social Robotics, Co-Founder "Interactive Robotics") - Lyse Langlois (Scientific director of the International Observatory of the Societal Impact of AI and Digitization, Université Laval) Luís Moniz Pereira (Prof. emeritus of Computer Science at the New university of Lisbon, author of several books on Machine Ethics) - Giuseppe Longo (Prof. emeritus, Centre Cavaillès, CNRS, Collège de France & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) - Jan Broersen (Professor of logical methods in AI, University of Utrecht, ERC on Responsible Intelligent Systems 2013-18) - Raja Chatila (Sorbonne, Paris, Professor and director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics) - Marija Slavkovik (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway, Advisory group on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues of CLAIRE) Conference sections: -------------------- • Section I – Mind and Consciousness: How does artificial intelligence impact our understanding of the human mind, especially in relation to the role of its computational equivalents that reach more and more aspects of everyday life (e.g., chatbots, driverless mobility, risk assessment software in the banking and insurance sector)? • Section II – Learning and Inventing What are the consequences of digitization and machine learning algorithms for education and our understanding of learning and creativity (e.g., in schooling through adaptive tutors, but also against the background of our current notion of creativity as a unique human ability)? • Section III – Reading and Data Modeling How will the increasing use of computational methodology change the ways we relate to the past and envision the future (e.g., by reading), both in academia and in society? How can the enrichment of algorithmic models with methods and results from the humanities shape and improve computational assessment of human practice (e.g., data mining of big text corpora, automated translation, racial bias in neural networks)? • Section IV – Complexity and Control: How does the use of artificial intelligence in all domains of human practice influence how we deal with complexity (e.g., of society) and human control thereof? Can computational methods help to reduce, organize, and analyze cultural complexity, or do they pose a threat to human control over different aspects of the lifeworld (e.g., security and network technology, automation of industrial production, autonomous weaponry)? Against the background of such questions, the conference aims to foster an open and critical reflection on the consequences of cultural and societal engineering. The conference investigates not only opportunities and shortcomings of AI research, but also implications and potential structural effects of technological innovation for the organization of societal practice (e.g., work) and techniques of cultural self-reflection (e.g., history). It will not only ask what technologies can do (or will be able to do in the future), but also how these capabilities can be compared and related to their human equivalents, e.g., perception, cognition, and communication. The original general CfP can be found at http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CfP-Humanities… Dr. Amro Najjar AI RoboLab FSTC / CSC UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG CAMPUS BELVAL 6, avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette T (+352) 46 66 44 5473 amro.najjar(a)uni.lu<mailto:amro.najjar@uni.lu> / www.uni.lu<http://www.uni.lu>

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CFP - IEEE INFOCOM: The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20)
by Peter Mueller 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) ----------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 April 27, 2020, Beijing, China https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-big-data-and-cloud-performance The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM'20 in Beijing, China on April 27, 2020. The goal of DCPerf is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. Submissions on any topics of datacenter, cloud and bigdata performance are welcome. Submission site will remain open until Jan. 8th, 2020. Cloud data centers are the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow's information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing needs, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. Because of the rapid growth in user-defined and user-generated applications and content, the range of services provided at data centers will expand tremendously and unpredictably. Particularly, big data applications and services, e.g., social and environmental sensing, and IoT monitoring, present a unique class of challenges in the Cloud. In addition, the high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers even more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs, are often conflicting. The increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas adds another dimension to optimizing big data and cloud applications. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems for hosting big data analytics in the cloud. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Big data applications and services - Emerging IoT applications - Data flow management - Processing platforms - Empirical studies - Cloud systems - Novel architectures - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Evaluation/modeling methodology - Big data and cloud performance - Cost/pricing design - Power/energy management - Reliability/dependability - Performance evaluation/modeling - Big data in the cloud - Intra/Inter communication - Network protocols - Security - Real-time analytics Important Dates: Full Paper Submission: Jan. 20th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 15th, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: March 6, 2020 Submission Guideline: Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11-inch format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2020 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blinded. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26866&track=99584 Committee: General Chair Wanyang Dai, Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, China TPC co-Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Rui Han, School of Computer Science&Technology, Beijing Instititute of Technology

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Advanced Transport Tools and Methods at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 1st call
by Massimiliano Petri 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2020) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of A2TM workshop is to bring together scientists working on mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Sustainable Mobility, Innovation in Mobility, MaaS-Mobility as a Service, Transport Modelling Methods and Techniques, BigData in Transport, Logistic and Freight Transport, Transport Planning IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the A2TM Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the A2TM 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. ORGANIZERS =========== * Massimiliano Petri (m.petri(a)ing.unipi.it) * Antonio Pratelli (a.pratelli(a)ing.unipi.it) Dep. of Industrial and Civil Engineering (University of Pisa), Italy. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact organizers. Best regards, Massimiliano Petri and Antonio Pratelli (A2TM 2020 organizers)

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 1st call
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

********************************************* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************* Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2020) https://cas2020.webnode.com/ Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. 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 ================ February 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 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 the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2020 organizer)

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FINAL CfC Ada-Europe 2020 Conference - Tue 14 Jan deadline!
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 *** DEADLINE Tuesday 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020 aka Ada-Europe 2020) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program and vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. The 2020 edition of the conference continues the major revamp in the registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors. Journal-Track Papers: submit via https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/advances-in-reliable-software-technologies Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, jorge.garrido at upm.es Later deadline of 31 March 2020 for Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020 For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2020 Publicity Chair *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 8-12, 2020 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2020

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[simu-conf] EXTENDED DEADLINE APPROACHING + JOURNAL OPPORTUNITY. Theory and Foundations of Modeling & Simulation (TMS)
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Theory and Foundations of Modelling and Simulation Track Spring Simulation Conference – Washington DC George Mason University – May 2020 Submission deadline approaching: January 6, 2020. http://www.tmsdevs.org Top articles will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue for the SIMULATION journal https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sim (Special Issue information: http://bit.ly/TMSSPECIALISSUE ) TMS aims to provide a forum to present the most recent advances in the Theory and Foundations of Modeling and Simulation. The focus is on the M&S concepts, methods, methodology, practice, and toolkits, as well as related lessons learned and challenges. This track welcomes unpublished papers, and not under consideration in other venues, on the topics below as well as others that can help deepen and expand M&S Theory and Foundations for better understanding and development of computing, physical, and human systems. * Modeling & Simulation Formalisms (Agents, DEVS, Petri nets, Statecharts, etc.) * Multi-Paradigm/Multi-Domain Modeling, Multi-Resolution/Multi-Scale Modeling * Model Composition, Hybrid Modeling Languages, Multi-Modal Modeling * Model Checking, Formalism-Based Model Debugging, Model Transformation * Modular Hybrid, Spatially Distributed, and Ultra Large Scale Systems * Embedded, IoT, and Fog Computing Systems * Parallel, Distributed, Real-Time, Cloud-Based, and Interactive Simulation * Co-simulation, Interoperability, Simulation Languages, Numerical Solvers * Simulation and Model Development Visualization Tools * Model Libraries, Repositories, and Data Formats Organization Committee: General Chairs: Joachim Denil, University of Antwerp, Belgium Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs: Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Cristina Ruiz-Martin, Carleton University, Canada Further information: http://www.tmsdevs.org [apologies for cross postings – problems/issues/comments: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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Job Opening: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on tenure-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (PR0311/18-19) * The appointees will perform high-impact research; to teach and manage programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as to contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. They will be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues within the Department to contribute to two special thematic applications including (a) health informatics and (b) secure and privacy-aware computing, and/or outside the Department to contribute to interdisciplinary research projects under our University’s Research Cluster on Data Analytics and A.I. in X. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department’s key research areas: (i) computational intelligence, (ii) databases and information management, (iii) networking and systems, and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. Applicants should also show strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and be able to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Special consideration will be given to candidates with research background related to financial technologies, and secure and privacy-aware computing. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr. William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Those who have responded to the advertisement posted in March 2019 need not re-apply. *Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure*: Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer. Closing Date: *25 January 2020 (or until the positions are filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=503

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WHPC Summit - Paper submission deadline extended to 10 January
by Jana Makar 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

WHPC Summit Update: The paper submission deadline has been extended to 10 January 2020, so there’s still time to send in your abstracts before (or during!) the holiday break! Please share this across your networks! -------------------------------- Call for Submissions Women in HPC (WHPC) Summit Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada 29 April - 01 May, 2020 * Paper submission deadline extended! * Submission Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: extended to 10 January, 2020 Poster Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2020 Submission Topics The WHPC Summit is seeking submissions of papers and posters on a diverse range of technical topics, including but not limited to: Programming models and applications for HPC, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Architectures and accelerators on high performance platforms Computational Models and Algorithms for HPC, Big Data and AI Addressing cyber security issues in HPC, Big Data and AI Large-scale data analytics and machine learning trends Using machine learning to analyze large-scale system Performance modeling, analysis and benchmarking of HPC, AI and Big Data applications/architectures Intersection of cloud and HPC System software to accelerate the performance of data-intensive applications In addition to technical topics, WHPC is also soliciting submissions on topics related to diversity, inclusion and leadership, including but not limited to: Methods and techniques to create a diverse workforce Inclusive leadership and retention strategies Building diversity advocates and allies Dealing with unconscious bias and sexism in the workplace Achieving the right work/life balance Fostering creativity through diversity Statistics about women's representation in HPC community More information on paper and poster submissions is available here. If you have any questions or would like more information about the Summit or submissions, please email: info(a)womeninhpc.org. -- Jana Makar Communications Manager New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) www.nesi.org.nz @NeSI_NZ Level 10 – 70 Symonds Street, Auckland 1010 My office hours are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

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Ada-Europe 2020 Conference - EXTENDED 14 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

The Ada-Europe 2020 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most submissions is extended to Tuesday 14 January 2020. 3+ weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020) 8-12 June 2020, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2020 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE *** #AdaEurope #AEiC2020 #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2020 aka Ada-Europe 2020) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 8-12 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program and vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. The 2020 edition of the conference continues the major revamp in the 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 2020: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals (EXTENDED) 20 March 2020: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2020: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers 30 April 2020: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers *** 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. 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 with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2020 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/advances-in-reliable-software-technologies 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 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, 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 2020, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2020, 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. *** 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. 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. *** 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 Chair Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam 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 *** Program Committee Mario Aldea Rivas, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Iain Bate, University of York. UK Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR Daniela Cancila, CEA LIST, FR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Marisol García Valls, Univ. Pol. de València, ES J. Javier Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, CMU/SEI (USA) Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Patricia López Martínez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, NO Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Eugenio Villar Bonet, Univ. de Cantabria, ES *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Javier Coronel, FentISS, ES Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT), AT Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence and Space, ES Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, IT Laurent Rioux, Thales R&T, FR Marian Roselló, Terma, NL Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, FR Emilio Salazar, GMV, ES *** 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(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2020 Publicity Chair *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 8-12, 2020 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2020

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CfP VHPC20: HPC Containers-Kubernetes
by Michael Alexander 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Abstract registration Deadline: Jan 31st, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr 05th, 2020 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 widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services can be 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 Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - 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 - Declerative 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 paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end 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 - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - 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 Jan 31st, 2020 - Abstract Apr 5th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, 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 Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei, 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 Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany 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=26973 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) 2019, June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020)
by Tumeo, Antonino 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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CFP: PDSEC-20 workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Peter Strazdins 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

(apologies for cross-postings) The 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20 will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (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 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 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Submission Deadline Extended [IWSMAI'20] CFP : International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
by IWSMAI Workshop 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

*International Workshop on **Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence* *(IWSMAI 2020)* *Submission Deadline Extended* *April 6 - 9, 2020, Warsaw, Poland.* https://sites.google.com/view/iwsmai/home The aim of IWSMAI is to bring together researchers, professors and students from around the world to present their latest ideas and research results within the scope of IWSMAI 2020. This workshop will also provide an ideal environment to develop new collaborations and meet experts on the fundamentals, applications, and products of Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence fields. The workshop will include presentations of contributed papers, poster sessions, and state of the art lectures by invited keynote speakers. *Topics:* · Artificial Intelligence · Statistical methods · Data Analysis and Data mining · Computational Statistic · Supervised and unsupervised learning · Statistical methodology · Bioinformatics · Medical statistics · Deep Learning · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Data Collection and Applications · Data Science and Blockchain Technology · Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Big Data · Mathematical Statistics · Economic intelligence · Statistical Software (R, SAS, Python) All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line (indexed by *Scopus)* *Important Dates:* · Paper submission deadline: *December 22, 2019 * · Notification of acceptance: *January 13, 2020* · Camera-ready submission: *February 10 **, 2020* · Workshop Date : *April 6-9, 2019* *Contact :* Email: abdallah.abarda(a)uhp.ac.ma

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