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Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 - deadline Mon 25 Nov 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Monday 25 November 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 1 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Monday 25 November 2019. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together by the end of November. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 25, 2019, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to your proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site (see URL above). [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html> #AdaFOSDEM #AdaProgramming #AdaBelgium #AdaEurope #FOSDEM2020

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CFP: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020)
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Dear colleague, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ that will be held in Beijing, China, on July 7-11, 2020. We apology if you got multiple copies of it. Best regards, Shangguang Wang and Claudio Ardagna on behalf of CLOUD 2020 Organizing Committee ================================================== 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) July 7-11, 2020 - Beijing, China Website: https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 ================================================== Important Dates * Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019 * Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020 * Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC) * Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020 * Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020S Context and Scope IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including Network, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function. IEEE CLOUD 2020 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service * IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS * Function as a Service * Network as a Service * Storage as a Service * Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing System & Architectures * Edge Computing System & Architectures * Cloud-centric Network Architectures * Storage & Data Architectures * Hybrid-clouds & Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications * 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications * Social & Mobile Cloud Applications * Innovative Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations * Distributed & Parallel Query Processing * Resource, Energy & Data Management * Cloud Metering & Monitoring * Containers & Serverless Computing * SDN, NFV, & Data Center Network * Cloud Service Adaptation & Automation * Cloud Federation & Service Composition Cloud Trustworthiness * Access Control, Authorization, & Authentication * Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance * Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Reliability * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols * Cloud Security and Privacy * Trusted Cloud Environments Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Please submit your paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 Please visit website at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/cfp/ for more information. Organization General Chairs: Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Huang, Peking University Program Chairs: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications Technical Program Committee https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/committee/ =============================================

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[News] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki MULTIDRONE video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage
by Ioannis Mademlis 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

== Public video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage == The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is making publicly available a video dataset for boat detection/tracking from UAV video footage (Annotations_eights_DW_raw), under the auspices of the MULTIDRONE research and development project (https://multidrone.eu/). It consists of 3 HD videos (720p - 1280 x 720) subsamplbed at 25 frames per second. An annotation file is included along with each video file. Directions for accessing and using the dataset can be found at www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/LAB_PROJECTS/MULTIDRONE/AUTH_MULTIDRONE_Dataset.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Ioannis Mademlis, Ph.D. Research Assistant Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab (AIIA) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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[Call for Participation] SC19 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum
by Tumeo, Antonino 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] SC19 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms https://hpc.pnl.gov/BOF/ November 20, 2019 5:15 - 6:45 PM Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO Room 605 -------------------- Program -------------------- Government agencies, industry, and academia are demanding a new generation of tools to efficiently solve large scale analytics problems in a variety of business, scientific and national security applications. This BoF aims at gathering the community of people interested in frameworks and workflows for large scale graph analytics, surveying the current approaches, identifying new challenges and opportunities, and laying a path toward future interoperable infrastructures. As in previous editions, we will invite the GraphBLAS community to participate in a discussion of the current state and evolution of GraphBLAS, with the goal of developing requirements and recommendations for future tools. Organizers: Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Jose Moreira (IBM), Aydin Buluc (LBNL), Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), Tim Mattson (Intel), John Feo (PNNL) -------------------- Program -------------------- 5:15 - 5:20 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Jose Moreira (IBM) 5:20 - 5:30 GraphBLAS updates Scott McMillan (CMU-SEI) 5:30 - 5:40 Towards a C++ Graph Standard Library Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) 5:40 - 5:50 The Challenges in Benchmarking Graph Algorithms John Feo (PNNL) 5:50 - 6.45 Panel: "We need good benchmarks for graph algorithms" Moderator: Bruce Hendrickson (LLNL) Panelists: Joe Eaton (NVIDIA), John Feo (PNNL), Alice Koniges (Hawaii University), Tim Mattson (Intel)

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[Call for Participation] IA^3 2019 - Program announced
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 Nov '19

10 Nov '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO Room 505 In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Program -------------------- 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, John Feo, Vito Giovanni Castellana 9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Khronos SYCL: Heterogeneous Programming with Modern C++ and Machine Learning Micheal Wong (Codeplay) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 1: Distributed Systems and Irregular Applications - Chair: Ryan Friese (PNNL) Conveyors for Streaming Many-To-Many Communication Maley, DeVinney Extending a Work-Stealing Framework with Priorities and Weights Nakashima, Yoritaka, Yasugi, Hiraishi, Umatani RDMA vs. RPC for Implementing Distributed Data Structures (short) Brock, Chen, Yan, Owens, Buluç, Yelick 11:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Mixed Precision and new memory hierarchies for Irregular Applications - Chair: Sayan Ghosh (PNNL) A Mixed Precision Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grids on GPUs Walden, Nielsen, Diskin, Zubair Mixed-Precision Tomographic Reconstructor Computations on Hardware Accelerators Doucet, Ltaief, Gratadour, Keyes Metall: A Persistent Memory Allocator Enabling Graph Processing (short) Iwabuchi, Lebanoff, Gokhale, Pearce 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break (on your own) 14:00 - 14:50 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Sparse Linear Algebra in Facebook's Deep Learning Models Jongsoo Park (Facebook) 14:50 - 15:00 Session 3: Dealing with Irregular Algorithms - Chair: Vinay Amatya (PNNL) iPregel: Strategies to Deal with an Extreme Form of Irregularity in Vertex-Centric Graph Processing (short) Capelli, Brown, Bull 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 15:55 Session 3 (continued): Dealing with Irregular Algorithms - Chair: Vinay Amatya (PNNL) Stretching Jacobi: A Two-Stage Pivoting Approach for Block-Based Factorization Thuerck 15:55 - 16:40 Session 4: Hardware evaluation and mechansims for Irregular Applications - Chair: Tania Lorido Botran (PNNL) A Hardware Prefetching Mechanism for Vector Gather Instructions Takayashiki, Sato, Komatsu, Kobayashi Performance Impact of Memory Channels on Sparse and Irregular Algorithms (short) Green, Fox, Young, Shirako, Bader Cascaded DMA Controller for Speedup of Indirect Memory Access in Irregular Applications (short) Kashimata, Kitamura, Kimura, Kasahara 16:40 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: Flavio Vella (Free University of Bozen) Proposition: "Programming abstractions can greatly simplify the expression of complex workflows of data analytic applications, but make it difficult to customize source code for heterogeneous computer systems. Unfortunately, it is an either or situation --- easy expression or fast performance" Panelists: Nesreen Ahmed (Intel), Jonathan Beard (ARM), Tyler Sorensen (Princeton University), Ana Lucia Verbanescu (University of Amsterdam) -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Flavio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moreto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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Call for Submissions - WHPC Summit: 29 Apr-02 May 2020
by Jana Makar 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Hello -- I’m emailing on behalf of the Women in HPC (WHPC) 2020 Summit, currently seeking submissions of papers, posters and tutorials. Participation from the members of this mailing list is encouraged, and please feel free to circulate the invite to colleagues beyond this list. Details are posted below. Questions can be directed to info(a)womeninhpc.org. Thank you! Jana Makar Communications Manager New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) www.nesi.org.nz @NeSI_NZ ------------------------------------ Call for Submissions Women in HPC (WHPC) Summit Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada 29 April - 2 May, 2020 WHPC is an international organisation that actively addresses gender inclusion in the HPC/AI/Big Data workforce worldwide. The first WHPC Summit is designed to celebrate the contributions, careers and leadership of women in High Performance Computing (HPC). Submission Topics The WHPC Summit is seeking submissions of paper, tutorials 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, poster and tutorial submissions are available here. Important Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2019 Tutorial Submission Deadline: December 2nd, 2019 Poster Submission Deadline: January 31st, 2020 If you have any questions or would like more information about the Summit or submissions, please email: info(a)womeninhpc.org.

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CFP: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020)
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Dear colleague, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ that will be held in Beijing, China, on July 7-11, 2020. We apology if you got multiple copies of it. Best regards, Shangguang Wang and Claudio Ardagna on behalf of CLOUD 2020 Organizing Committee ================================================== 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) July 7-11, 2020 - Beijing, China Website: https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 ================================================== Important Dates * Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019 * Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020 * Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC) * Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020 * Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020S Context and Scope IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including Network, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function. IEEE CLOUD 2020 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service * IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS * Function as a Service * Network as a Service * Storage as a Service * Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing System & Architectures * Edge Computing System & Architectures * Cloud-centric Network Architectures * Storage & Data Architectures * Hybrid-clouds & Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications * 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications * Social & Mobile Cloud Applications * Innovative Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations * Distributed & Parallel Query Processing * Resource, Energy & Data Management * Cloud Metering & Monitoring * Containers & Serverless Computing * SDN, NFV, & Data Center Network * Cloud Service Adaptation & Automation * Cloud Federation & Service Composition Cloud Trustworthiness * Access Control, Authorization, & Authentication * Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance * Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Reliability * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols * Cloud Security and Privacy * Trusted Cloud Environments Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Please submit your paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 Please visit website at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/cfp/ for more information. Organization General Chairs: Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Huang, Peking University Program Chairs: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications Technical Program Committee https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/committee/ =============================================

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Quantum Computing Workshop: Call for Papers
by qcw2020＠agh.edu.pl 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Dear colleague, We hereby cordially invite you to submit a paper to the Quantum Computing Thematic Track which will take place on 3-5 June 2020 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands as part of the International Conference on Computational Science. Please also consider forwarding this invitation to potentially interested colleagues. 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. The deadline for submitting your paper is December 13th 2019. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The best papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (Impact Factor: 2.502) For more information and details on the call, please refer to: http://www.qcw2020.agh.edu.pl/ You can also contact the organizers directly by sending an email to qcw2020(a)agh.edu.pl With best regards, The QCW Track Organizers Katarzyna Rycerz, Department of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland Marian Bubak, Department of Computer Science AGH and Sano Center, Krakow, Poland

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HiPC 2019 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HiPC 2019 is the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It serves as a forum to present current work by top researchers in the field and to highlight the activities in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. ADVANCE PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE Full schedule of Technical Sessions, Keynote Sessions, Industry Research & User Symposium, and other meetings available at https://hipc.org/advance/

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Call for Participation: Women-in-HPC workshop at SC'19
by Misbah Mubarak 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

**** Women in HPC at SC19: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies **** Sunday, 17th November, 9AM – 5:30PM Room 601, Colorodo Convention Center, Denver, Colorodo, USA https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop/ The eleventh international Women in HPC workshop will take place at Supercomputing conference, Denver, USA. Once again Women in HPC, our advocates, allies, supporters, and anyone interested in improving diversity across the HPC community is welcome to join us to discuss the challenges the community faces, and how to improve the opportunities provided to women. Previous Women in HPC workshops at SC have been great successes, with over 100 attendees in the past two workshops, and over 25 submissions from early/mid-career women at SC18. This year, our keynote talk will be about butterfly effect of inclusive leadership by Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo. Additionally, we will focus on the following topics: Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace Mentoring: why we need it, best practices and business case for good mentoring programs. Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career Managing and resolving imposter syndrome Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt The workshop agenda is as follows: 09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: The Butterfly Effect of Inclusive Leadership. Bev Crair, Vice President of Development and Quality at Lenovo 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:30 Short Talks Session - Surviving difficult events & minimizing the impact on your career -- Hai Ah Nam, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome -- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Coping strategies for unconscious bias -- Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC - Being a parent, guardian & caregiver: dealing with guilt -- Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Dealing with sexism in the workplace -- AJ Lauer, NCAR 11:30 – 12:30 Panel Discussion: Engaging Male Allies Panel Moderator Misbah Mubarak, Amazon Web Services Panelist 1 Cory Snavely, NERSC Panelist 2 Ian Foster, U-Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Panelist 4 Patty Lopez, Intel corporation Panelist 5 Brendan Bouffler, Amazon Web Services 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 – 3:00 Early Career Lightning Talks Session 3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 – 5:00 Panel Discussion: Mentoring, why we need it, best practices and business case for great mentoring programs Panel Moderator Toni Collis, Women in HPC Panelist 1 Mariam Umar, Intel corporation Panelist 2 Zhe Bai (WHPC fellow), Raksha Roy (WHPC fellow), Priyanka Ghosh (WHPC fellow) Panelist 3 Sarvani Chadalapaka, Univ. of California, Merced Panelist 4 Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 05:00 – 05:15 Workshop closing and outcomes

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[Program available!] - CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********************* WORKS 2019 Workshop********************** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Denver, CO Room 708 Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ ************************************************************************** Call For Participation The program of the 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop is now available (http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/program.php). Program 9:00—9:10 Welcome. Sandra Gesing, Rafael Ferreira da Silva 9:10—10:00 Keynote: Priority Research Directions for In Situ Data Management: Enabling Scientific Discovery from Diverse Data Sources. Tom Peterka 10:00—10:30Coffee Break Session: “Provenance” 10:30—11:00Provenance Data in the Machine Learning Lifecycle in Computational Science and Engineering. Renan Souza, Leonardo Azevedo, Vítor Lourenço, Elton Soares, Raphael Thiago, Rafael Brandão, Daniel Civitarese, Emilio Brazil, Marcio Moreno, Patrick Valduriez, Marta Mattoso, Renato Cerqueira and Marco Netto Session:“Performance Analysis” 11:00–11:30 A Codesign Framework for Online Data Analysis and Reduction. Kshitij Mehta, Bryce Allen, Matthew Wolf, Jeremy Logan, Eric Suchyta, Jong Choi, Keichi Takahashi, Igor Yakushin, Todd Munson, Ian Foster and Scott Klasky 11:30—12:00 Top-Down Performance Analysis Methodology for Workflows: Tracking Performance Issues from Overview to Individual Operations. Ronny Tschueter, Christian Herold, William Williams, Maximilian Knespel and Matthias Weber 12:00—12:15 Data-Aware and Simulation-Driven Planning of Scientific Workflows on IaaS Clouds. Tchimou N'Takpé, Jean Edgar Gnimassoun, Souleymane Oumtanaga and Frederic Suter 12:15—12:30Exploration of Workflow Management Systems Emerging Features from Users Perspectives. Ryan Mitchell, Loïc Pottier, Steve Jacobs, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi and Ewa Deelman 12:30—14:00 Lunch (On your own) 14:00—14:30Incorporating Scientific Workflows in Computing Research Processes. Shantenu Jha, Scott Lathrop, Jarek Nabrzyski, Lavanya Ramakrishnan Session: “Workflow Applications I” 14:30—15:00 Comparing GPU Power and Frequency Capping: A Case Study with the MuMMI Workflow. Tapasya Patki, Zachary Frye, Harsh Bhatia, Francesco Di Natale, James Glosli, Helgi Ingolfsson and Barry Rountree 15:00—15:30 Coffee Break Session: “Workflow Applications II” 15:30—15:45 Inter-Job Scheduling for High-Throughput Material Screening Applications. Zhihui Du, Xinning Hui, Yurui Wang, Jun Jiang, Jason Liu, Baokun Lu and Chongyu Wang 15:45—16:00 Empowering Agroecosystem Modeling with HTC Scientific Workflows: The Cycles Model Use Case. Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Rajiv Mayani, Yuning Shi, Armen R. Kemanian, Mats Rynge and Ewa Deelman Session: “Heterogeneous Architectures” 16:00—16:30 A performance comparison of Dask and Apache Spark for data-intensive neuroimaging pipelines. Mathieu Dugré, Valérie Hayot-Sasson and Tristan Glatard 16:30—17:00On a Parallel Spark Workflow for Frequent Itemset Mining Based on Array Prefix-Tree. Xinzheng Niu, Mideng Qian, Chase Wu and Aiqin Hou 17:00—17:30 Panel: TBA

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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WSCG 2020 - CALL for PAPERS - 28 .Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision
by Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc. 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

TO: computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org From Skala - Call for Papers CfP - 28. WSCG 2020 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision >> Apologies for duplicates if any >> To be REMOVED from the list REPLY to: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE >> Sent via: WSCGconf(a)gmail.com Call for Papers --------------- WSCG 2020 - 28. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2020 Pilsen close to Prague, Czech Republic http://www.wscg.eu http://www.wscg.cz Conference rate: CORE B, Qualis B1, ERA B ------------------ WSCG 2020 (held annually at Pilsen [Plzen]-the CITY of BEER-since 1992) --------------- 28. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2020 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2020 page When: May 18 – 22, 2020 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen [Plzen] (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates & Submission: ----------------------------- December 10, 2019 - Workshops/Special sessions proposals (via e-mail) January 10, 2020 - Abstract (recommended) (via submission server only) January 31, 2020 - Full, Short, Poster papers (via submission server only) May 18 – 22, 2020 - venue Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). >> "Pay to publish" strategy submission is NOT acceptable. << >> At least one author has to present the paper at the conference. << >> Proceedings will be made after the conference << Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Accepted workshops/sessions: - Meshless methods in Computer Graphics and Visualization - Other agreements pending - still possibile a proposal submission Conference organizer & Chair --------------------------- Prof. Vaclav Skala Contact: http://www.VaclavSkala.eu, skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2020 c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen, Czech Republic ---------------- To be REMOVED from the list: mailto:skala@kiv.zcu.cz?subject=WSCG%20REMOVE or REPLY to this mail with this email address in the text to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz with the subject to WSCG REMOVE (DO NOT REMOVE the @mail address in the mail we sent to you). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala WSCG Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision http://www.WSCG.eu http://www.VaclavSkala.eu c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic tel. (420) 37-763-2473 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Head of Computer Graphics and Visualization Center Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic ResearcherID:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-9141-2011 Scopus Author ID:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004643209 Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vaclav_Skala/publications

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CFP : International Workshop on Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence
by abdallah abarda 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

*International Workshop on **Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence* *(IWSMAI 2020)* *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)* [image: image.png][image: image.png] Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: -International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer: https://www.springer.com/journal/12652 - International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.69): https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and… - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504): http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index *Important Dates:* · Paper submission deadline: *December 15, 2019* · Notification of acceptance: *January 13, 2020* · Camera-ready submission: *February 10 **, 2020* · Final Manuscript Due : *April 6-9, 2019* *Contact :* Email: abdallah.abarda(a)uhp.ac.ma -- *Abdallah ABARDA*

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 10th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020 Saturday 1 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2020 at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Our 10th Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General Information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is ever increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2021. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps further increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized successful Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012-2016 [6-10], and in 2018-2019 [12]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8.5 schedulable hours between 10:30 and 19:00 in one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [13], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [14] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 15 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [14], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by end of November. So, please act ASAP, the sooner the better, but definitely by November 25, 2019 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html [14] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfC 25th Ada-Europe Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe #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 7 January 2020: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 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 7 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 *** 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 7 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 *** 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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Job Opening: Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University is presently offering BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, and invites outstanding applicants for the following position. *Research Assistant Professor (PR0166/19-20) * The position is created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointee will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty members in the Department. They are expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and have 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. These key research areas have a special thematic focus on (a) health informatics, and (b) secure and privacy-awareness computing related applications. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract up to 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 on its website at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. *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. Those 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 post advertised, and appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 25 November 2019 (or until the position is filled)* URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=540

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The SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Padova is hiring!
by Eleonora Losiouk 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Hi! The SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group <https://spritz.math.unipd.it/> at the University of Padova <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHz98-ERwTs> is hiring! We are a group of researchers very passionate in investigating security and privacy issues related to current and future technologies. Our group was founded in 2011 and is led by Prof. Mauro Conti <http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/>. Thanks to several ongoing and forthcoming projects, we are looking for smart and passionate people willing to join us. In our group we cover several research areas in CyberSecurity (e.g., Mobile Security, Adversarial Machine Learning, Authentication, Remote Attestation, Security for IoT, Cyber Physical System Security, Blockchain), but we are always open to start working in new areas! If you are interested, just fill in this form <https://forms.gle/E1yLudCjJnZkMnUY7>. Cheers, Eleonora Losiouk

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[Meetings] MESS 2020 :: Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data
by Mario Pavone 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

1st 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** 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. The courses will be held by world renowned experts in the field, and will be inspected practical aspects on complex combinatorial optimization problems, as well as examples of their successful real-world applications. The 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. MESS 2020 will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, therefore in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. Further, during the summer school the students will tackle homework, or project development. MESS 2020 will take place at the ?Palazzo delle Scienze?, today place of the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Catania. ** MESS 2020 Workshop 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. 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*. ** MESS 2020 Metaheuristics Competition All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them, individually or divided in working groups, they will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Further, the students, whose algorithms will rank in the 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. ** School Directors + 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 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 -- Mario F. Pavone, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy --------------------------------------------- tel: +39 095 7383034 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/mfpavone Skype: mpavone =============================================

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CfP for Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)"
by Igor Kotenko 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNBC 2020)" on 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2020) Vasteras, Sweden 11-13 March 2020. http://www.pdp2020.com Paper submission deadline: 28th October 2020 Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: October 28, 2019 - Acceptance notification: November 30, 2019 - Camera ready paper due: December 12, 2019 - Registration: *** to be updated - Conference: March 11 - 13, 2020 Program Committee (TBD) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Session Chair of PDP 2020 Igor Kotenko Head of Laboratory of Computer Security Problems St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences ivkote1[AT]mail[DOT]ru ivkote[AT]comsec[DOT]spb[DOT]ru http://comsec.spb.ru/kotenko/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, applied mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Evaluating or developing new and promising networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due December 6, 2019. Letters of Reference are due December 9, 2019. Details of the application process can be found at https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/2020-luis-j-alvarez-and-admiral-grace-m-hopper-po….

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A tenure-track faculty position in IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR
by Jie Shen 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Michigan - Dearborn invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Applicants in the area of software engineering will be considered for the first position, while applicants in all areas of computer science, with preference given to areas related to emerging systems (including IoT, edge/cloud computing, visualization, VR/AR, etc.), will be considered for the second position. The expected starting date is September 1, 2020. Although candidates at the Assistant Professor rank are preferred, exceptional candidates may be considered for the rank of Associate Professor depending upon experience and qualifications. We offer competitive salaries and start-up packages. The CIS Department offers several B.S. and M.S. degrees, and a Ph.D. degree. The current research areas in the department include artificial intelligence, computational game theory, computer graphics, cybersecurity, data privacy, data science/management, energy-efficient systems, game design, graphical models, machine learning, multimedia, natural language processing, networking, service and cloud computing, software engineering, and health informatics. These areas of research are supported by several established labs and many of these areas are currently funded by federal agencies and industries. Qualifications: Qualified candidates must have earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science or a closely related discipline by September 1, 2020. Candidates will be expected to do scholarly and sponsored research, as well as teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applications: Applicants should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of teaching and research interests, evidence of teaching performance (if any), and a list of three references through Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/68333 for the position in software engineering; http://apply.interfolio.com/68336 for the position in emerging systems or any other area of computer science. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until suitable candidates are appointed. The University of Michigan-Dearborn, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Jie Shen, Ph.D.

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Call for BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination (Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14 at Denver, Colorado, USA, prior to SC 19)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination ========================================================== The 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award Recognize a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.Awards: 3,000 US dollar. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- The BenchCouncil achievement award recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. Any member of this community is welcome to nominate an individual who is eligible for this award. Self-nomination is also encouraged. The recommender should write a short summary highlighting the nominee’s contribution. This year, the achievement award will be awarded on BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19, Nov 14-16, 2019 @ Denver, Colorado, USA). The award winner needs to give a 45-minute keynote speech on Bench 19. International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) is a non-profit research institute, which aims to promote the standardization, benchmarking, evaluation, incubation, and promotion of open-source chip, AI, and Big Data techniques. http://www.benchcouncil.org Nomination Submission ------------------------ Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth Nominees need to send an email to the following address for confirmation: zhanjianfeng(a)ict.ac.cn Bench 19 conference --------------------- The Bench 19 conference will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA.The conference provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. The main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 has three special events: BenchCouncil achievement award, which recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing ($3000), the AI benchmarking reports, and AI system and algorithm challenges. Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics. Website: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html Registration: https://eur.cvent.me/0QG1 Bench 19 Hotel Reservation ----------------- The Conference hotel is Courtyard by Marriott Denver Airport. We have negotiated a competitive group rate and we strongly encourage attendees to stay there, when possible. Notice that the banquet will also take place at the hotel. The reservation link: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1568131806319&key=GRP Start Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 End Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019 Last Day to Book: Friday, October 25, 2019 Room rate: $179/night + abound 15.75% taxes (Standard Room)

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[CALL FOR PAPERS] Uncertain Reasoning @ Flairs 33
by Alessandro Antonucci 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at Flairs 33 - Call for Papers *** Apologies for multiple postings *** [UR @ FLAIRS 33] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at the 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) May 17-20, 2020 - North Miami Beach, Florida (US) Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2019 Conference website: http://www.flairs-33.info Track website: http://idsia.ch/~alessandro/flairs ::: Call for Papers ::: Many problems in AI (in reasoning, planning, learning, perception and robotics) require the agent to operate with incomplete or uncertain information. The objective of this track is to present and discuss a broad and diverse range of current work on uncertain reasoning, including theoretical and applied research based on different paradigms. We hope that the variety and richness of this track will help to promote cross fertilisation among the different approaches for uncertain reasoning, and in turn foster the development of new ideas and paradigms. The Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning (UR) is the oldest track in FLAIRS conferences, running annually since 1996. The UR'20 Special Track at the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-33) is the 25th in the series. As in the past years, UR'20 track seeks to bring together researchers working on broad issues related to reasoning under uncertainty. Papers on all aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Uncertain reasoning formalisms, calculi and methodologies - Reasoning with probability, possibility, fuzzy logic, belief functions, vagueness, granularity, rough sets, and probability logics - Modelling and reasoning using imprecise and indeterminate information, such as: Choquet capacities, comparative orderings, convex sets of measures, and interval-valued probabilities - Exact, approximate and qualitative uncertain reasoning - Inference and learning with graphical models of uncertainty (e.g., Bayesian networks) - Multi-agent uncertain reasoning and decision making - Decision-theoretic planning and Markov decision processes - Temporal reasoning and uncertainty, non-monotonic reasoning, similarity-based reasoning - Conditional logics, description logic, logic programming - Argumentation - Belief change and merging - Construction of models from elicitation, data mining and knowledge discovery - Uncertain reasoning in information retrieval, filtering, fusion, diagnosis, prediction, situation assessment - Uncertain reasoning in data management - Practical applications of uncertain reasoning (e.g., machine learning, computer vision and animation) ::: Program Committee ::: : Track Chairs : - Alessandro Antonucci (IDSIA, Switzerland) - Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France) - Kamal Premaratne (University of Miami, US) : PC Members : - Mohand Said Allili (Universit√© du Qu√©bec en Outaouais, Canada) - Ofer Arieli (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel) - Nizar Bouguila (Concordia University, Canada) - Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada) - Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Sebastien Destercke (University of Technology of Compiegne, France) - Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Christophe Gonzalez (University of Paris 6, France) - Ilyes Jenhani (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) - Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) - Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US) - Philippe Leray (University of Nantes, France) - Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, US) - Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) - Lalintha G. Polpitiya (MathWorks, US) - Dilip Sarkar (University of Miami, US) - Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) - Karima Sedki (University of Paris 13, France) - Gunasekaran Seetharaman (Navy Research Laboratory, US) - Kari Sentz (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) - Karim Tabia (Artois University, France) - Choh Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, US) - Barbara Vantaggi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) - Thanuka Wickramarathne (University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US) ::: Other Information ::: FLAIRS 33 will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida. Additional information on the conference location and travel planning can be found at http://www.flairs-33.info. Feel free to contact the organizers (alessandro(a)idsia.ch, kamal(a)miami.edu, benferhat(a)cril.fr) for any further information about the UR’20 special track. ::: Submission ::: Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (in that they should not have been submitted and in review or in the process of being submitted for another conference/journal). FLAIRS-33 accepts two types of submissions: full paper (up to 6 pages) to be presented by the author in a 20 minute oral presentation; and short paper (up to 4 pages) to be presented in a poster session. The submission deadline for both types of submissions is November 18, 2019. The 2020 FLAIRS-33 will employ a double-blind review process. Therefore, the author names and affiliations, and other identifying information, must be omitted when submitting papers for review. The papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the FLAIRS-33 main conference web site. Authors should indicate the special track "Uncertain Reasoning" for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS-33 will be published by AAAI Press. A special issue of an international journal will be devoted to extended versions of the top papers presented within the track. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS-33.

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek S. Abdelrahman 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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Call For Papers: The 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2019 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data 2019 conference in Los Angeles, CA, USA on December 9-12, 2019. Workshop webpage: https://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2019/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 15 (extended from Sep 20), 2019: Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 5 (extended from Oct 15), 2019: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15 (extended from Nov 10), 2019: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 9-12, 2019: Workshops and conference *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 2. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 3. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware / software architectures for large-scale data 4. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Asif Iqbal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Igor Kotsiuba (Pukhov Institute for modeling in Energy Engineering) Inna Skarga-Bandurova (East Ukrainian National University) Junaid Arshad (University of West London) Mamoun Alazab (Charles Darwin University) Neminath Hubballi (Indian Institute of Technology Indore) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Microsoft) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** The authors are invited to submit: full-length papers (up to 10 pages IEEE 2-column format), short papers (4-6 pages IEEE 2-column format) or abstract papers (up to 4 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system. Page count includes references, figures and tables. Online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/bigdata19/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines: http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2019/files/Conference-LaTeX-template_7… ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Advanced Big Data Analytics for Cyber and Cyber-Physical Crime Investigations", international scientific journal of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), published online by MDPI, which Indexed in Ei Compendex, Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science). Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. More about the Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Advanced_Big_Dat… Moreover, The Best Paper Award is given to the best paper at the workshop. All participants who submitted a paper automatically qualify to enter, and the winner will receive 500 CHF. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no). Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Jan William Johnsen, Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar and Asif Iqbal Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

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ICCSA 2020 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Osvaldo Gervasi 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

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ISC 2020 Call for Papers
by Carsten Trinitis 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ ISC 2020 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: Submission ends October 21, 2019 The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning. Submitted research paper proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2020 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, with Brad Chamberlain, CRAY, USA, as Deputy Chair as well as Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf as Proceedings Chair and with Hatem Ltaief , KAUST, as Proceedings Deputy Chair., as Proceedings Deputy Chair. The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the *Hans Meuer Award* and the *GCS Award*. Each accepted paper will be considered for the awards. The Hans Meuer Award winner will receive a *cash prize of 5,000 Euros*. *Free conference day pass for presenter* OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION All accepted research papers will be published in the Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS] series in Gold Open Access. Gold OA makes the final version of a research paper freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Paper submissions are required to be within 18 pages in LNCS style. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. Volumes published as part of the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH.] AREAS OF INTEREST The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into eight tracks this year. Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure - Future design concepts of HPC systems - Multi-core & many-core systems - Heterogeneous systems - Other paradigms (including data flow computing, FPGAs, etc.) - Network technology - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies - Trends in the HPC chip market - Exascale computing Data Storage & Visualization - From big data to smart data - Memory systems for HPC & big data - File systems & tape libraries - Data-intensive applications - Databases - Visual analytics - In-situ analytics HPC Applications - Highly scalable applications - Convergence of simulations & big data - Scalability on future architectures - Workflow management - Coupled simulations - Industrial simulations - Implementations on GPUs & other accelerators HPC Algorithms - Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous - Algorithmic-based fault tolerance - Communication-reducing & synchronization-reducing algorithms - Time-space trade-offs in algorithms - Energy-efficient algorithms Programming Models & Systems Software - Parallel programming paradigms - Tools and libraries for performance & productivity - Job management - Monitoring & administration tools - Productivity improvement - Power & energy management & scheduling - Resilience Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Neural networks & HPC - Machine learning & HPC - AI & machine learning-oriented hardware? - Devising benchmarks for machine learning - Use cases Performance Modeling & Measurement - Performance models - Performance prediction & engineering - Performance measurement - Power consumption - Energy measurement & modelling Emerging Technologies - Quantum computing architecture - Software for quantum computing - Quantum algorithms - Quantum annealing NOTE: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the eight above for your submission. Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/ research-papers-2020.html for full submission guidelines. Furthermore all terms & conditions stated on the website apply to submissions. AWARDS The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award. IMPORTANT DATES Full Submission Deadline: October 21, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE Author Rebuttals: January 13 - January 18, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2020 Research Paper Sessions: June 22 - June 24, 2020 TRACK CHAIRS Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure | Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, United States of America Data, Storage & Visualization | Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America HPC Applications | Dirk Pleiter, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany HPC Algorithms | Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France Programming Models & Systems Software | Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology CAS, China Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling & Measurement | Felix Wolf, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Emerging Technologies | Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America OTHER SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES Calls are also open for: - Research Posters - PhD Forum - Project Posters - Tutorials - Workshops - Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/overview.html for details. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: Saday Sadayappan, ISC 2020 Research Papers Chair, and Brad Chamberlain, ISC 2020 Research Papers Deputy Chair research-papers-2020(a)isc-events.com

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Women In Computing
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 Women In Computing Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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Final Call - HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Final Call. Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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INSIGHT 2020 - Call for Submission
by Brandstoetter, Mathias 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce this year's call for submission of the INSIGHT 2020 Exhibition. The next INSIGHT Exhibition will take place in April 2020 in Vienna (Austria). Please find the call and more information at www.insight2020.at<http://www.insight2020.at>. The application process is really simple. The main idea is still that scientific data is being visualized and presented in pictures that are a) aesthetic and b) insightful (i.e. help the understanding of the underlying problem / data) Here a few example pictures from previous exhibitions: [cid:image001.jpg@01D574B4.39CE62E0] Kind regards, Mathias Brandstötter --- Dr. Mathias Brandstötter Deputy Director _________________________________________________________________ JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH ROBOTICS - Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics Lakeside B08a, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria phone: +43 316 876-2005 mobil: +43 664 602 876-2005 fax: +43 316 8769-2005 e-mail: mathias.brandstoetter(a)joanneum.at<mailto:mathias.brandstoetter@joanneum.at> web: www.joanneum.at/robotics<http://www.joanneum.at/robotics> _________________________________________________________________ This message and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any publication, transmission or other use of the information by a person or entity other than the intended addressee(s) is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions as a result of the transmission. Please consider the environment before printing this page.

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek Abdelrahman 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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SDM 2020 Call for Papers
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining May 7 - May 9, 2020, Cincinnati, OH, USA ======================================== SDM 2020 - http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm20 Call for Papers Scope ===== Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data - the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form and are also made available on the SIAM web site. Topics of Interest ================== *Methods and Algorithms -Anomaly & Outlier Detection -Big Data & Large-Scale Systems -Classification & Semi-Supervised Learning -Clustering & Unsupervised Learning -Data Cleaning & Integration -Deep Learning & Representation Learning -Frequent Pattern Mining -Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimensionality Reduction -Mining Data Streams -Mining Graphs & Complex Data -Mining on Emerging Architectures & Data Clouds -Mining Semi Structured Data -Mining Spatial & Temporal Data -Mining Text, Web & Social Media -Online Algorithms -Optimization Methods -Parallel and Distributed Methods -Probabilistic & Statistical Methods -Scalable & High-Performance Mining -Other Novel Methods *Applications -Astronomy & Astrophysics -Automation & Process Control -Climate / Ecological / Environmental Science -Customer Relationship Management -Data Science -Drug Discovery -Finance -Genomics & Bioinformatics -Healthcare Management -High Energy Physics -Intelligence Analysis -Internet of Things -Intrusion & Fraud detection -Logistics Management -Recommendation -Risk Management -Social Network Analysis -Supply Chain Management -Other Emerging Applications *Human Factors and Social Issues -Ethics of Data Mining -Intellectual Ownership -Interestingness & Relevance -Privacy and Fairness Models -Privacy Preserving Data Mining -Risk Analysis and Risk Management -Transparency and Algorithmic Bias -User Interfaces and Visual Analytics -Other Human and Social Issues Submission URL ============== https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SDM2020 Workshop and Tutorials ====================== The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2020 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2019 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm19/ Organization ============ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason Univeristy, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, USA Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia TUTORIALS CHAIR Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIRS Matteo Riondato, Amherst College, USA Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College, USA PANELS CHAIR Zhenhui Jessie Li, Penn State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS Xiang Ren, University of Southern California, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT, Kharagpur, India AWARDS CHAIR TBA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ping Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Important Dates (tentative) =========================== Abstract Submission: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Paper Submission: October 11, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Workshop Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Tutorial Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time)

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CFP - Extended Deadline - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in M&S (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 12th, 2019 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops at PDP (since 2014), we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Paper submission: 12 October 2019 Acceptance notification: 30 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2020 and select the "High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation" track. Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Program Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D'Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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[Call for AI Challenges] 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges (Award Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR CHALLENGES ========================================================== 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html Awards: 500,000 CNY (about 70,000 US dollar) ========================================================== Introduction ------------------------ BenchCouncil 2019 International AI system and algorithm challenges are organized by International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil), and the main purpose is to advance the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice algorithms on different systems or architectures, i.e., RISC-V, Cambrian chip, and X86_64, and solicit new approaches to advance the state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice algorithms. The challenge tracks use AIBench as baseline, which is publicly available from http://www.benchcouncil.org/AIBench/index.html . BenchCouncil provides the tesbed for reproducing performance numbers. The competition team can apply for nodes through http://www.benchcouncil.org/testbed/index.php . 2019 AI challenges have four tracks: • International AI System Challenge based on RISC-V • International AI System Challenge based on Cambrian Chip • International AI System Challenge based on X86 Platform • International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Challenge Challenges manuals ------------------------ http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/handbook-en.pdf Communication Tool ------------------------ The discussion groups are hosted on Xinxiu---a dedicated communication tool for science and education. Discussion group site: https://app.ic3i.com/org/benchcouncil/en/ Important Dates ------------------------ Now the AI challenge is beginning! Registration deadline: Sep. 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Performance numbers finalized: October 1, 2019, anywhere on earth The code should be submitted to BenchHub for reproducing performance numbers and code review. Submission site: http://125.39.136.212:8090 Preliminary paper version submitted: October 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Paper submission： https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Camera-ready version submitted: November 10, 2019 Awards ------------------------ Special Award (Only one): 100,000 CNY The First Prize: • 30,000 CNY (one for every track) The Second Prize: • 20,000 CNY (two for every track) The Third Prize: • 10,000 CNY (three for every track) Awards Presentation ------------------------ The award presentation is on Bench 19 conference ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ), which will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA. Every team should submit their paper to BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19). The award-winners must submit a paper to Bench 19 conference and give a presentation. Bench19 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) • XIaoyi Lu (OSU) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) AI Challenge Tracks ------------------------ (1) International AI System Competition based on RISC-V Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on RISC-V, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Targets • Implement the forward calculation stage • Minimize external dependences (e.g., OpenMP, Boost) • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metrics • Maximize the execution performance (number of instructions) • Minimize the binary file, e.g., compiled executable file (2) International AI System Competition based on Cambrian Chip Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on Cambrian, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Target • Implement the forward calculation stage • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metric • Maximize the execution performance---the shorter the prediction time on test data, the better the performance (3) International AI System Competition based on X86 Platform Goal • The implementation and optimization of matrix decomposition based collaborative filtering task on X86 platform, using MovieLens dataset and ALS-WR algorithm Target • Implement ALS-WR training algorithm • Can use external libraries supported by the platform Metric • Maximize the execution performance-reduce training time (30 rounds) (4) International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Competition Goal • Innovative algorithm for 3D Face Recognition Targets • The competitors need to submit the model file and test file • Description file, source code • External data for training is allowed, but need description Metrics • ROC and AUC value

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DEADLINE 9/17: Diversity Focused Opportunity for Faculty to Explore Research Collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Don't miss this opportunity to visit Berkeley Lab to explore potential research collaboration for the summer of 2020 for faculty and students from underrepresented backgrounds APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, SEPT 17, 2019! What: Sustainable Research Pathways Matching Workshop Description: Matching workshop for faculty working with undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to explore research collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff. Matched and funded faculty and/or their students conduct research at Berkeley Lab during the summer of 2020. Workshop applicants must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited U.S. degree-granting institution of higher education. We are especially interested in working with minority serving institutions, community, women’s, and liberal arts colleges, as well as high research institutions. Many teams have presented their research at major computational science and engineering conferences, won awards, and continued their collaborations in subsequent years. For more information, visit: http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/

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HiPC 2019 Women In Computing - Call for Papers
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WOMEN IN COMPUTING https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/ 18 December 2019 – Hyderabad, India Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever-increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. CALL FOR PAPERS Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. We invite submissions of papers on original work in interdisciplinary domains with methodologies spanning across data science and high-performance computing. Topics of interest related to methodologies include, but are not limited to the following: * IoT-based, and/or data-driven analysis, * Real-time decision making for edge computing, * Visual analytics for large-scale and/or high-dimensional data, * Machine learning or deep learning algorithms or systems, * Artificial intelligence and/or robotics, * Distributed and cloud-based systems. These methodologies must be used in solutions stemming from unique ideas to solve pertinent socially relevant problem scenarios. Scenarios in interdisciplinary domains of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Traffic planning and control, * Monitoring infant health in primary health centers, * Large-scale medical diagnosis for reducing the requirement of skilled doctors, * Low-cost ways of determining air/water quality and improving the quality, * Food processing methods that reduce wastage of produce, * Methods to reduce pesticide usage, * Solid waste collection, and management, * Women safety, * Accessibility and differently-abled inclusivity. MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, the relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the event is a requirement of publication. Papers will be selected for full-paper and short-paper types. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in the proceedings of HiPC Workshops. We require that the submission include at least one female author. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 After entering the above-mentioned Easychair page, use the hyperlink on “enter as an author”, which will redirect to a list of tracks in HiPC. Choose “Women in Computing” to make your submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Nitya Hariharan, Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Chitra P, Thiagarajar College of Engineering Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Please contact wichipc2019(a)gmail.com for any queries.

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Student Research Symposium (SRS) HiPC 2019 - Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

*********************************************************************************************** STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (SRS) HIPC 2019 DEADLINE APPROACHING *********************************************************************************************** *** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): • New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; • Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); • Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and • Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); • Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); • Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); • Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; • Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); • Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); • Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); • Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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Data Science for Future Energy Systems (HiPCW 2019) Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in 10 Days - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshop Submission Deadlines Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. Paper Submission: September 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ Abstract Submission: September 22, 2019 Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2018 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2020 (Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020), 14th International Scientific Conference, March 31 – April 2, 2020, Perm, Russia http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng https://link.springer.com/conference/pct Conference founders: Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.ras.ru) HPC Consortium of Russian Universities (http://hpc-russia.ru) Sponsored by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (http://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng) WELCOME Russian Academy of Sciences, High-Performance Computing Consortium of Russian Universities, Moscow State University, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 14th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020) to be held in Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020. The main purpose of the PCT’2020 conference is to provide an opportunity to discuss the future of parallel computing as well as to report the results achieved by leading research groups in solving science and equipment issues using supercomputer technologies. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of high performance computing in science and technology such as applications, hardware and software, programming languages, etc. The 32th edition of Top50 of the CIS's most powerful computers will be announced on the first day of the conference. On working days of the conference, a supercomputer exhibition will be organized, where leading manufacturers of hardware and software present their latest products in the field of high performance computing. LANGUAGE The official languages of the Conference are Russian and English. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following topics: * Parallel and distributed computing technologies * Cloud computing * Prospective multiprocessor architectures * Parallel and distributed database systems * High performance data mining * Artificial neural networks and deep learning * Management, administration, monitoring and testing of multiprocessor systems * Computational Mathematics * Computational Physics * Computational Chemistry * Gas hydrodynamics and heat transfer * High nonlinear and rapid processes in mechanics * Bioinformatics and medicine * Nanotechnology * Geoinformatics * Cryptography * Image processing and visualization * Computer algebra * Supercomputer education. CALL FOR PAPERS PCT’2020 admits papers presenting original contribution that have not been previously published and are not being submitted to another conference or journal. There are three categories of submissions: * Full paper describes the results of completed scientific research (12 to 15 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Short paper reports preliminary results of uncompleted scientific research (up to 12 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Abstract of the poster contains information about plans and initial results of recently started scientific research (one standard A4 page). Papers may be prepared in LaTeX or MS Word according to the LNCS one-column page format (cf. guidelines at the conference website http://agora.guru.ru/pavt2020/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020 by December 1, 2019. Each paper will be reviewed by three Program Committee members and/or invited experts to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. At least one author of the accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. PROCEEDINGS All accepted full papers will be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series (https://link.springer.com/conference/pct, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus), final approval pending. All accepted short papers and posters will be published electronically and indexed in Russian Science Index. The best short papers in English will be recommended for publication in Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations (http://superfri.org, indexed in Scopus, Q2). The best short papers in Russian will be published (after further revision) in Computational Mathematics and Software Engineering series of the Bulletin of the South Ural State University (http://vestnikvmi.susu.ru/). IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: November 1, 2019 * Submission of the papers: December 2, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2020 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2020 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2020 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2020 * Conference: March 30: arrival date March 31 – April 2, 2020: conference work dates April 3: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020. Leonid Sokolinsky, DSc., Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Co-chair of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: Leonid.Sokolinsky(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 272 35 00 Mikhail Zymbler, CSc., Assoc. Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Academic secretary of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: mzym(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 267 90 06, ext. 112 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman of the Program Committee: Viktor Sadovnichiy, academician of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Co-chairs of the Program Committee: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (USA) Leonid Sokolinsky, South Ural State University (Russia) Vladimir Voevodin, corresponding member of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Academic secretary of the Program Committee: Mikhail Zymbler, South Ural State University (Russia) Members of the Program Committee: S.V. Ablameyko, Belarusian State University (Republic of Belarus) A.P. Afanasiev, Institute for Systems Analysis RAS (Russia) E.N. Akimova, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS (Russia) A. Andrzejak, Heidelberg University (Germany) P. Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory (USA) Y.Ya. Boldyrev, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) J. Carretero, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) R.K. Gazizov, Ufa State Aviation Technical University (Russia) V.P. Gergel, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) B.M. Glinsky, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.D. Goryachev, Tver State Technical University (Russia) V.P. Il'in, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) H. Kobayashi, Tohoku University (Japan) J. Kunkel, University of Hamburg (Germany) J. Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) A. Lastovetsky, University College Dublin (Ireland) T. Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center (Germany) V.N. Lykosov, Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS (Russia) D. Mallmann, Julich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) M. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre (Singapore) V.E. Malyshkin, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.Ya. Modorsky, Perm Polytechnic University (Russia) A.V. Shamakina, High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (Germany) P. Shumyatsky, University of Brasilia (Brazil) H. Sithole, Centre for High Performance Computing (Republic of South Africa) A.V. Starchenko, Tomsk State University (Russia) T. Sterling, Indiana University (USA) M. Taufer, University of Delaware (USA) V.E. Turlapov, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) R. Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) M.V. Yakobovsky, Institute for Mathematical Modelling RAS (Russia) Y. Yamazaki, Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil)

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CFP for book "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution"
by José Santos Reyes 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

The submission of one or more original research or review chapter(s) for the upcoming hardcover edited collection entitled "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution" is open. The book is edited by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (novapublishers.com). Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • New DE schemes. • Automatic control of diversity and fast convergence with DE. • New approaches for self-adaptation of DE parameters. • Hybrid approaches between DE and other metaheuristics. • Niching techniques integrated with DE for multimodal optimization. • Dynamic optimization problems with DE. • DE in combinatorial optimization, in discrete and binary optimization problems. • DE for constrained optimization problems. • DE approaches for multi-objective optimization. • Parallel approaches of DE. • Optimization of real-world applications with DE. The deadline for the abstract is September 10, 2019 and for the completed chapter December 10, 2019. Please send the abstract and the chapter to Stella Rosa at nova.main(a)novapublishers.com (with copy to jose.santos(a)udc.es). Inclusion in Nova's edited collections is without charge to authors. The only exceptions are color figures if required and an English editing fee if it is determined to be necessary. Regards, José Santos University of A Coruña

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N2Women Fellowship Available for DySpan 2019
by 俞嘉地 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Dear Chairs, I am reaching out to you on behalf of the N2Women Fellowship Board. The N2Women community has been holding meeting events at Networking conferences that are organized by N2Women fellows and we are excited that this year we will be to fund a fellow to organize an event at DySpan 2019. The N2Women fellowship provides $1000 to a young female researcher, who is in turn responsible for organizing the event. If possible we would like the following call[1] to: 1. be forwarded to the authors of accepted papers and posters. 2. be forwarded to all travel grant applicants (since this can be an alternate/complimentary source of funding) 3. be publicized on the conference web site. The submission deadline is on Oct 7th 2019, and we would appreciate if you could help us to spread the word. We thank you in advance for your help. Please let us know if you require any further information. Best regards, Mariam Kiran, Niky Riga, Chelsea Dobbins, and Yanjiao Chen N2Women Fellowship Co-chairs http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > [1] Fellowship call: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher’s travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held. In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task. Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE CS TCCC, Microsoft Research, HP Labs, Google Research and Facebook. To apply for a fellowship or for more information, please see: http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > and click the Fellowships link. *The deadline for applications for DySpan is* **** Oct 7th 2019 **** ---------------

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The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020)
by Peter Mueller 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2020) Brno, Czech Republic, March 30-April 3, 2020 http://www.di.ubi.pt/sac2020/ ********************************************************* For the past thirty four years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/ TRACK ON NETWORKING ******************* A special track on Networking will be held at SAC 2020. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in all aspects of computer communications, networks and services. Original and unpublished papers and tutorials (half or full day) are invited in all areas of networking. The Track will emphasize on the design, implementation, management and applications of computer communications, networks and services. Topics of theoretical nature are also welcome, provided there is a clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - 5G networks and beyond - Big data for networking - Cloud computing/Mobile cloud computing - Cognitive radio networks - Content-based network services - Cross-layer optimization and control - Cyber-physical systems - Datacenter networking - Edge and fog computing/networking - Energy efficient network infrastructures - Network fault tolerance, reliability and survivability - Green communications - High-speed networks - Internet of Things - Internet services and Applications - Machine learning for networks - Middleware support for networking - Mobility management - Multimedia communications - Network architectures - Network control and management - Network measurements and analysis - Network modeling and simulations - Network performance - Network protocols - Network security and privacy - Network virtualization and softwarization - Optical networks - Protocols, architectures and applications for the Internet of Vehicles - Quality of service and quality of experience - Resource allocation and management - Routing and switching - Security and privacy issues in Internet of Vehicles - Self-organizing networks - Social computing and networks - Software defined networking - Technologies for V2X communications (DSRC/WAVE, 5G, LTE, Wifi, others) - Traffic engineering and characterization - Transport protocols - Ubiquitous networks - Vehicular ad-hoc networks - Virtual and overlay networks - Wireless sensor networks GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Original and unpublished papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. The file format should be PDF. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-references should be written in the third person tense, in order to allow double blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Papers must be formatted according to the template which is available at the SAC 2020 website. Paper size is limited to eight pages (covered by the registration fee) plus two additional pages (at extra charge), resulting in the total of ten pages maximum according to the above mentioned template. For papers accepted as posters, the length is three pages (covered by the registration fee) plus one additional page (at extra charge), resulting in the total of four pages maximum. A few key words should be provided. A paper cannot be sent to more than one track. Original manuscripts should be submitted in an electronic format through the conference web site: Online Submission Procedure for Regular Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac2020 Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. For any other question regarding this Track, please contact the Chairs at sac2020(a)di.ubi.pt IMPORTANT DATES: September 15, 2019: Paper Submission Deadline November 10, 2019: Author Notification November 25, 2019: Camera-Ready Paper Due STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (SRC) PROGRAM The SAC 2020 SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2020 Tracks. This program is open for graduate students currently enrolled in University or College and having active ACM and SIGAPP student membership. Abstracts must be authored by students only. Faculty advisor(s) cannot be listed as authors on the submission or on the final poster presentation. No group projects are allowed. The work must not be submitted to any another SRC program, journal or conference while it is under consideration for SAC 2020 SRC Program. Students are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format) of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in the above areas covered by the Track on Networking. Accepted abstracts are limited to 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format, no additional pages. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. The abstracts are reviewed by reviewers who review paper submissions to that track. The Track Chairs (TCs) manage the review process. Upon the review results, The SRC Chair and Program Committee select the best abstracts and invite their authors to participate in SAC 2020. For more details, please visit SAC 2020 website (Student Research Competition). Student research abstracts can be submitted through the SAC 2020 webpage: Online Submission Procedure for SRC Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac-src2020 Important Dates for SRC Program: September 15, 2019: SRC Abstract Submission November 10, 2019: SRC Author Notification November 25, 2019: SRC Camera-Ready Paper Due TRACK CHAIRS: Mário M. Freire Instituto de Telecomunicações e Departamento de Informática, University of Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal mario(a)di.ubi.pt http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario Marília Curado Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal marilia(a)dei.uc.pt https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/people/show/2122 Ivan Ganchev University of Limerick, Ireland / University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria Ivan.Ganchev(a)ul.ie https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Ganchev Mohamed Mosbah LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France mohamed.mosbah(a)u-bordeaux.fr https://www.labri.fr/perso/mosbah/index-english.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal André Aquino, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Eva Hladká, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Fernando Ramos, University of Lisboa, Portugal Giacomo Tanganelli, University of Pisa, Italy Giovanni Giambene, Universita' degli Studi di Siena, Italy Imen Jemili, University of Carthage, Tunisia Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal José Luís Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil Leandro Villas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Marco Roccetti, Università di Bologna, Italy Máirtín O’Droma, University of Limerick, Ireland Marie-José Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France Nicolas Hautière, IFSTTAR, France Pedro Inácio, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qin Xin, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Roger Immich, University of Campinas, Brazil Rossitza Goleva, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Rui Valadas, IST, University of Lisboa, Portugal Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Vinicius Borges, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Xavi Masip, Technical University of Cataluña, Spain Zoubir Mammeri, Université Paul Sabatier, France

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PACT 2019 - FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : PACT 2019 http://www.pactconf.org The organizing committee of PACT'19 invites you to join us in Seattle from September 23-25, 2019 for the 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2019). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENSION The early registration deadline has been extended to September 3, 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM PACT is a long-running conference at the intersection of classical parallel architectures and compilers that brings together researchers from architecture, compilers, programming languages, and applications to present and discuss their latest research results. This year's program reflects many of the exciting advances being made in our field, particularly around topics related to heterogeneity: The continuing evolution of general-purpose accelerators and the rise (the return?) of domain-specific/ special-purpose hardware. The program also features a machine learning as a driving application class for architectural innovation. See the full program at https://pactconf.org/conf-program/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kathryn McKinley, Google, Resource Efficiency and Performance in the Cloud Luis Ceze, University of Washington and OctoML Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Models and “the Metal” with Apache TVM & VTA Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame The 3rd Wall and the need for Innovation in Architectures ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS In addition to the main conference program, tutorials on selected topics will be offered Sep 21-22, including o) Programming with Lightweight Threads: Argobots o) Bambu: Productive FPGA Programming for Complex Parallel Applications o) GPU Programming with OpenMP o) Introduction to the Kokkos C++ Parallel Programming Framework o) The Structural Simulation Toolkit Further information can be found https://pactconf.org/wt-program/ (and be sure to check back at this site for any additional tutorials). ---------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS Through the generosity of Pacific Northwest National Lab and Sandia National Lab, funds are available to help defray the costs for students attending PACT'19. Information about the application process can be found on the conference website at https://pactconf.org/travel-grants/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine, PNNL and the University of Washington Program Chair: Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP IEEE Computer Society (in cooperation with ACM). -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!NEWS!!!! - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 AoE IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: September 9, 2019 (EXTENDED!) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 9, 2019 (EXTENDED) Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moreto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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