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[simu-conf] EXTENDED DEADLINE + JOURNAL OPPORTUNITY. Theory and Foundations of Modeling & Simulation (TMS) - George Mason University, VA, USA – May 2020
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

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 This track welcomes unpublished papers, and not under consideration in other venues, on the topics below as well as others that can help deepen and expand M&S Theory and Foundations for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

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Final CFP: CCGrid 2020, Melbourne, Australia (Extended Deadline December 17th, 2019)
by Bahman Javadi 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '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/ Deadline Note: We will let authors to submit/update their papers in EasyChair up to December 17th, 2019 (any timezone in the world). So, please create account and submit/update your paper's current version to take advantage of this. ===================================================================== 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: 17 December 2019 ***see note below** Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 Note: Deadline Note: We will let authors to submit/update their papers in EasyChair up to December 17th, 2019 (any timezone in the world). So, please create account and submit/update your paper's current version to take advantage of this. =====================================================================

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Last call for join to CVML live Web lecture series: Web lecture 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision', 14th December 2019, 11:00 EET
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear Computer vision/machine learning, students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, AUTH is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Top scientists internationally will deliver these lectures, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge on various CVML topics. The 1-hour lectures will take place on Saturdays, to avoid conflicts with other intended registrant schedules/duties: a) Saturdays 11:00 EET (17:00 Beijing time) and b) Saturdays 20:00 EET (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Each lecture will be announced at least 1 week in advance in various relevant email lists and in the www page: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required. The first web lecture on 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision' by Professor Ioannis Pitas (see attached abstract and CV), will take place on 14th December 2019, 13:00 EET only. Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Fast convolution algorithms for computer vision and machine learning 2D convolutions play an extremely important role in machine learning, as they form the first layers of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). They are also very important for computer vision (template matching through correlation, correlation trackers) and in image processing (image filtering/denoising/restoration). 3D convolutions are very important for machine learning (video analysis through CNNs) and for video filtering/denoising/restoration. 1D convolutions are extensively used in digital signal processing (filtering/denoising) and analysis (also through CNNs) Therefore, 1D/2D/3D convolution algorithms are very important both for machine learning and for signal/image/video processing and analysis. As their computational complexity is of the order O(N^2), O(N^4) and O(N^6) respectively their fast execution is a must. This lecture will overview linear and cyclic convolution. Then it will present their fast execution through FFTs, resulting in algorithms having computational complexity of the order O(Nlog2N), O(N^2log2N) for 1D and 2D convolutions respectively. Finally, optimal Winograd 1D and 2D convolution algorithms will be presented having theoretically minimal number of computations. Emphasis will be on 1D convolution algorithms, as there will be another lecture on 2D convolution algorithms soon. Prof. I. Pitas was lucky to have done his PhD degree on fast convolution algorithms more than 30 years ago. Now this topic re-emerged as key technology for deep learning and computer vision, primarily to address fast CNN training and inference, thanks to advances primarily in GPU programming, but also in multicore CPU programming. Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 1138 papers, contributed in 50 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 70 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 42 such projects. He has 30000+ citations to his work and h-index 81+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas leads the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> &hl=el AIIA Lab www.aiia.csd.auth.gr <http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr>

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Post-doctoral Position in Cyber Security - H2020 FORESIGHT
by Xavier Bellekens 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear All, ** Sorry for cross posting ** We have a position for a post-doctoral Research Associate opened at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Communications. The position is part of the Horizon 2020 FORESIGHT project addressing the creation of a federated cyber-range platform for simulation and training of critical infrastructure operators (Naval, Avionics, Power) against complex cyber-attacks. We invite highly skilled, enthusiastic and ambitious researchers with a background in cyber-security, machine learning to apply ! The closing date for applications is the 13th of January 2020. https://academicpositions.co.uk/ad/university-of-strathclyde/2019/research-… Feel free to share with anyone that might be interested or to contact me at xavier.bellekens [at] strath.ac.uk<http://strath.ac.uk> for further information on the role. Kind Regards, Xavier — Dr Xavier Bellekens Lecturer - Chancellor’s Fellow Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University Of Strathclyde, Royal College Building 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW Scotland Mobile: +44 (0) 7548 71 7049 email : xavier.bellekens(a)strath.ac.uk Special Issue : MDPI Information Special Issue on Machine Learning for Cyber Security http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/ML_Cybersecurity

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Jan 2020 Issue of IJHCITP(Web of Science & SCOPUS Indexed)
by Sanjay Misra 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP) Editor-in-Chief: Sanjay Misra <https://www.igi-global.com/affiliate/sanjay-misra/346944/> (Covenant University, Nigeria) Indexed In: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, INSPEC and 9 more indices <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> Published: Quarterly |Established: 2010 ISSN: 1947-3478|EISSN: 1947-3486|DOI: 10.4018/IJHCITP Description The *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* focuses on the IT field from the outlook of industry professionals and covers multidisciplinary themes such as human resource management, sociology, psychology, and management along with technology itself. Representing IT professionalism from the human capital point of view, the journal publishes original research papers, research notes, reviews, and cases on all aspects of IT professionalism, technology-related careers, personnel empowerment, organizational management and cutting edge technologies affecting IT practitioners. This journal emphasizes articles linking theory with application or critically analyzing cases with the objective of identifying good practice in the management of IT human capital. Topics Covered - Competence management within the IT profession - Ethics, as well as professional and social responsibilities of IT professionals - Human capital within the IT industry - Human resource management in the IT sector - IT careers - IT personnel in new production environments (software factories, offshoring, and nearshoring) - IT profession - IT professional associations - IT professionalism - IT professionals assessment methods - IT professionals roles - IT professionals under the scope of IT governance - Licensing and certifying of IT professionals - Mentoring, coaching, and counseling of IT professionals - Personnel issues in IT standards, models, and frameworks - Recruiting, staffing, retaining, and rewarding IT professionals Mission and ScopeThe mission of the *International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP)* is to offer an outlook on the state of the IT profession from the perspective of economic value based on labor performance. Providing a forum for the exchange of research ideas and practices, this journal is a reference convergence point for professionals, managers, and researchers in the IT field. Table of Contents and List of Contributors Search this Journal: Reset Open Access Articles Volume 11: 4 Issues (2020): 1 Released, 3 Forthcoming Volume 11, Issue 1 Article 1 Employer Branding Practices Amongst the Most Attractive Employers of IT and Engineering Sector <https://www.igi-global.com/article/employer-branding-practices-amongst-the-…> (pages 1-16) Lea Gregorka, Susana Silva, Cândida Silva Employer branding is a marketing strategy that helps employers stay competitive in their markets. Although it is a concept used for over 20 years, its process and co...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239591&ptid=227328&t=Emp…> $37.50 This item has been added to your shopping cart. Check out <https://www.igi-global.com/shopping-cart/> | Continue Shopping Article 2 Fuzzy Driven Decision Support System for Enhanced Employee Performance Appraisal <https://www.igi-global.com/article/fuzzy-driven-decision-support-system-for…> (pages 17-30) Oluwasefunmi 'Tale Arogundade, Bolanle Ojokoh, Mojisola Grace Asogbon, Oluwarotimi Williams Samuel, Babatope Sunday Adeniyi Employee performance appraisal is often considered a core management task in most standard organizations because it could potentially inspire an employee towards the...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239592&ptid=227328&t=Fuz…> $37.50 Article 3 Information Technology Governance in a Higher Education Institution: An IT Professionals' Perception Analysis <https://www.igi-global.com/article/information-technology-governance-in-a-h…> (pages 31-46) Rodrigo Franklin Frogeri, Daniel Jardim Pardini, Gustavo Rodrigues Cunha This study characterizes and analyzes information technology governance in a Brazilian institution of higher education. The methodological aspects included the quant...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239593&ptid=227328&t=Inf…> $37.50 Article 4 Investigating the Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing on Employee Engagement: Evidence from a Developing Nation <https://www.igi-global.com/article/investigating-the-mediating-role-of-know…> (pages 47-63) Ibrahim M. Al-Jabri This article proposes a research model that explores the social factors affecting knowledge sharing and employee engagement and examines the mediating role of knowle...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239594&ptid=227328&t=Inv…> $37.50 Article 5 IT-Governance Framework Considering Service Quality and Information Security in Banks in India <https://www.igi-global.com/article/it-governance-framework-considering-serv…> (pages 64-91) Ranjit Singh, Bhartrihari Pandiya, Chandra Kant Upadhyay, Manas K Singh This study proposes an IT-Governance framework for the Indian Banking Industry. This research explores the factors predicting customer loyalty in retail banking. The...Sample PDF <https://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=239595&ptid=227328&t=IT-…> $37.50

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[Journals] Call For Papers- Journal of Real Time Image Processing
by Pourya Shamsolmoali 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Special Issue on Advances in Deep Learning for Real-Time Image and Video Reconstruction and Processing (ADLIR) Journal of Real-Time Image Processing This Special Issue opens to innovative ideas, the latest research and development of deep learning for real-time image and video processing. Papers on the design of new computational tools and methods for real-time image and video reconstruction and processing are welcome. Hence, the target of this special issue is to provide a forum for researchers to focus on computational methods for real-time image reconstruction and processing. To do this, we invite papers (including survey papers) in modeling, algorithm, software optimization, and application of deep learning-based real-time image processing to establish the latest efforts of relevant researchers. [ https://www.springer.com/journal/11554/updates/17230436 | https://www.springer.com/journal/11554/updates/17230436 ] The list of possible topics, but are not limited to: * Real-time image and video reconstruction algorithms * Real-time face reconstruction from depth images * New deep learning models for real-time image reconstruction and processing * New objective functions of deep learning for real-time image reconstruction * Real-time MRI and X-ray image processing * Real-time 3D image reconstruction, processing or segmentation * Deep learning and hybrid models for real-time computational methods * Optimization algorithms for real-time image and video reconstruction and processing * Survey /review of deep learning in real-time image reconstruction and processing Submission Guideline: Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, the significance of contribution, technical quality, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers (the papers will be reviewed following standard peer-review procedures of the Journal). Manuscripts are requested according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP) at [ https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx | https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx ] . We invite prospective authors to submit their manuscript, via the online submission system on the main journal page. Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue (ADLIR). Important Dates: * Paper submission due: March 31, 2020 * First notification: May 31, 2020 * Revision submission due: July 15, 2020 * Final decision: September 30, 2020 * Publication date: October 2020 (Tentative) Note: accepted papers are made available online soon after acceptance.

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CFP for SPTI Track of ICCCN 2020
by Qin Liu 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

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

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Final CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '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/ Deadline Note: We will let authors to update their papers in EasyChair up to one week after the submission deadline, i.e., up to December 17th, 2019. So, please create account and submit your current version to take advantage of this. ===================================================================== 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 ***see note below** Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 Note: We will let authors to update their papers in EasyChair up to one week after the submission deadline, i.e., up to December 17th, 2019. (Time zone: anywhere in the world)! =====================================================================

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Data-Driven Security Workshop (DDSW 2020)
by DDSW 2020 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

*Dear Sir/Madam,* *[*** **Apologies if you received multiple emails for this call of paper * ****]* *Call for Paper* *International Workshop on Data-Driven Security (DDSW 2020)* *In conjunction with* *The 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)* *Warsaw, Poland April 6 - 9, 2020* *http://www.just.edu.jo/~qmyaseen/ddsw2020/ddsw2020.html* <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> Data breaches are a daily occurrence, where adversaries attack consumers, corporations, and governments. Moreover, data breaches are growing tremendously due to the immense growth of the backbones of commerce and critical infrastructure, and interconnectivity of networks. The skills of adversaries are improving, and the number and severity of attacks are increasing, which make known security countermeasures suffer. While much research focuses on technical, business or compliance aspects, there is an increasing need for new security solutions to protect assists other than traditional approaches. This workshop focuses on new security techniques that use machine learning, data mining and statistics analytical techniques to solve nowadays security challenges. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Data Mining techniques for Security - Machine Learning for Security - Statistics for Security - Analysis of identified vulnerabilities - Analysis of successful attacks or attack attempts - Diverse aspects of security analytics - Tools for security analytics - Security analytics data *Submission of Papers* Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the DDSW workshop. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (electronically, PDF only) that are no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to the conference guidelines found at: http://csconferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/#paperSubmissions <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> . Please use the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ddsw2020 <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> to submit your paper. *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: January 15,2020 - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: DDSW2020(a)gmail.com <DDSW2020(a)gmail.com>*

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HPCES 2020 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to January 6)
by Dominik Bartuschat 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** Tenth International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2020) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2020/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2020, the 10th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2020 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from June 3-5, 2020. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing We welcome full (up to 14 pages) and short (up to 7 pages) papers in Springer LNCS format (we do not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2020, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: January 6, 2020 Paper Submission Due February 14, 2020 Author Notification March 6, 2020 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2020 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee (tentative): Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2020. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2020 co-chairs

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CFP: The 2nd Int. Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain
by Deep-BDB 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------- The 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DEEP-BDB 2020) 24-26 August 2020, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/deep-bdb/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deep and machine learning are the state-of-the-art at providing models, methods, tools and techniques for developing autonomous and intelligent systems which can revolutionize industrial and commercial applications in various fields such as online commerce, intelligent transportation, healthcare and medicine, security, manufacturing, education, games, and various other industrial applications. All such fields produce and consume massive amount of big data, which include, for example, online commerce data (marketing data, customer reviews, customer relationship), transportation data (road sensors, cameras, GPS), and data about healthcare, social media, and various other applications. Deep learning techniques and big data techniques yield useful outputs in predicting, discovering and acquiring insights and deeper knowledge about events for better and efficient decision making. The groundbreaking technology of blockchain technology also enable decentralization, immutability, and transparency of data and applications. It has been exploited in modern research and industrial domains in order to achieve high level of trust, security and reliable execution of applications and data which are shared across a network of computers. The International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockcain (DEEP-BDB) aims to enable synergy between these areas and to provide a leading forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, and professional from public sectors and industries in order to meet and share latest solutions and ideas in solving cutting edge problems in modern information society and economy. The conference focuses on specific challenges in deep (and machine) learning, big data and blockchain. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Deep/Machine learning based models - Statistical models and learning - Data analysis, insights and hidden pattern - Data analysis and decision making - Data wrangling, munching and cleaning - Data integration and fusion - Data visualization - Data and information quality - Security threat detection - Visualizing security threats - Enhancing privacy and trust - Data mining; Information extraction; - Sentiment analysis - Data classification and clustering - Knowledge acquisition and learning - Clustering, classification and regression - Supervised and unsupervised learning - Blockain security and trust - Blockchain data management - Data & application reliability - Blockchain and data distribution - Blockain and finacial transactions - Blockchain and Bitcoin applications - Blockain and NoSQL databases - Protocols for blockchain - Cryptography, Cryptocurrency - Fraud detection and prevention - Blockchain and Internet of Things - Scalability of blockchains Application areas: - Finance, business and retail - Intelligent transportation - Healthcare and clinical decision support - Bioinformatics and biomedical informatics - Computer vision - Human activity recognition - Cybersecurity - Natural language processing - Recommender systems - Social media and networks Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 12 March 2020 Authors Notification: 20 May 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2020 Paper Submission: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 4-6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by Conference Publishing Service (CPS). Submition of papers are done through the EasyChair submission system. See conference website for further details.

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CFP: The 8th Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2020)
by FiCloud Conference 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

----------------------Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------ The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2020) 24-26 August 2020, Rome, Itlay http://www.ficloud.org/2020/ Technical co-sponsorship: IEEE-CS TCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cloud is a modern computing platform for delivering on-demand computing services to service consumers over the Internet. Computing services include, for example, storage, memory, compute power, databases, and networking among others. Cloud services are generally provided using SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Unlike conventional distributed computing, cloud offers flexibility, scalability, efficiency and elasticity in service provisioning. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: 1. Cloud Services Models 2. Security, Privacy and Trust 3. Software Systems, Models and Architectures 4. Blockchain in Cloud and IoT 5. Data and Knowledge Management 6. Context-aware Systems 7. Software-defined Networking 8. Performance Evaluation and Modelling 9. Networking and Communication Protocols 10. IoT Services and Applications 11. Smart Environment 12. Machine learning in Cloud and IoT 13. Energy Efficiency 14. Federation and Virtualization 15. Fog and Edge Computing 16. Industry Track 17. General Track – Future IoT and Cloud Computing Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 12 March 2020 Authors Notification: 20 May 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 15 June 2020 Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2020/) All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see conference website).

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Open positions (PostDoc and MSc/PhD) on Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Web in France
by Ciortea, Andrei 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Dear all, We have two open positions on Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Web, and Linked Data: Post-Doctoral researcher on architectural styles and ontologies for Hypermedia Multi-agent Systems: https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2019-02101 Internship proposal for master students at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (can be converted in a Doctoral Position): https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/jobs/M2_HyperAgents_2020.html Kind regards, Andrei Ciortea

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CVML live Web lecture series: Web lecture 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision', 14th December 2019, 11:00 EET
by ioannakoroni＠csd.auth.gr 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dear Computer vision/machine learning, students, engineers, scientists and enthusiasts, Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis (AIIA) Lab, AUTH is proud to launch the live CVML Web lecture series that will cover very important topics Computer vision/machine learning. Top scientists internationally will deliver these lectures, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge on various CVML topics. The 1-hour lectures will take place on Saturdays, to avoid conflicts with other intended registrant schedules/duties: a) Saturdays 11:00 EET (17:00 Beijing time) and b) Saturdays 20:00 EET (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST for NY/LA, respectively) for audience in the Americas. Each lecture will be announced at least 1 week in advance in various relevant email lists and in the www page: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Lectures will consist primarily of live lecture streaming and PPT slides. Attendees (registrants) need no special computer equipment for attending the lecture. They will receive the lecture PDF before each lecture and will have the ability to ask questions real-time. Audience should have basic University-level undergraduate knowledge of any science or engineering department (calculus, probabilities, programming, that are typical e.g., in any ECE, CS, EE undergraduate program). More advanced knowledge (signals and systems, optimization theory, machine learning) is very helpful but nor required. The first web lecture on 'Fast Convolution Algorithms for deep learning and computer vision' by Professor Ioannis Pitas (see attached abstract and CV), will take place on 14th December 2019, 13:00 EET only. Registration can be done using the link: http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/cvml-web-lecture-series/ Fast convolution algorithms for computer vision and machine learning 2D convolutions play an extremely important role in machine learning, as they form the first layers of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). They are also very important for computer vision (template matching through correlation, correlation trackers) and in image processing (image filtering/denoising/restoration). 3D convolutions are very important for machine learning (video analysis through CNNs) and for video filtering/denoising/restoration. 1D convolutions are extensively used in digital signal processing (filtering/denoising) and analysis (also through CNNs) Therefore, 1D/2D/3D convolution algorithms are very important both for machine learning and for signal/image/video processing and analysis. As their computational complexity is of the order O(N^2), O(N^4) and O(N^6) respectively their fast execution is a must. This lecture will overview linear and cyclic convolution. Then it will present their fast execution through FFTs, resulting in algorithms having computational complexity of the order O(Nlog2N), O(N^2log2N) for 1D and 2D convolutions respectively. Finally, optimal Winograd 1D and 2D convolution algorithms will be presented having theoretically minimal number of computations. Emphasis will be on 1D convolution algorithms, as there will be another lecture on 2D convolution algorithms soon. Prof. I. Pitas was lucky to have done his PhD degree on fast convolution algorithms more than 30 years ago. Now this topic re-emerged as key technology for deep learning and computer vision, primarily to address fast CNN training and inference, thanks to advances primarily in GPU programming, but also in multicore CPU programming. Prof. Ioannis Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow) received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of image/video processing, machine learning, computer vision, intelligent digital media, human centered interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 1138 papers, contributed in 50 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 11 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 70 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 42 such projects. He has 30000+ citations to his work and h-index 81+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas leads the big European H2020 R&D project MULTIDRONE: https://multidrone.eu/. He is chair of the Autonomous Systems initiative https://ieeeasi.signalprocessingsociety.org/. Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ <https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el> &hl=el AIIA Lab www.aiia.csd.auth.gr <http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr>

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[Extended Deadline] Call for Papers Special issue on Granular Computing [Algorithms, MDPI]
by Alessio Martino 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dearest Colleagues, I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Editor for a Special Issue titled: "Granular Computing: From Foundations to Applications" to appear in “Algorithms” MDPI journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing> With this call for papers, I invite you and/or your co-authors to submit an original research paper, or a focused review, for our special issue. Deadline for manuscript submissions has been extended: 31 March 2020. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, the paper will be published in open access form soon after professional editing. Thank you in advance for your consideration and I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to contribute to this Special Issue. If you believe that you will be able to submit a manuscript, I would also greatly appreciate if you could respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience. “Algorithms” (ISSN 1999-4893) is an EI, Scopus and ESCI indexed, Open Access journal of computer science, theory, methods and interdisciplinary applications, data and information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, automation and control systems, and is published online monthly by MDPI. Best Regards --- <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C17PBN> Alessio Martino / PhD Research Fellow alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) - University of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C4HZQK> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C6NBHT> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, Italy, 2020
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

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

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Call for five assistans professors in mathematics for AI
by Natalie Pintar 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hello, We would like to give a tip about the following call for five assistant professors in mathematics for AI, tenure track: https://wasp-sweden.org/positions/assistant-professors-in-mathematics-for-a… Med vänlig hälsning Natalie Pintar Kommunikatör [Linköpings universitet] Universitetsförvaltningen 581 83 Linköping Telefon: 013-28 24 81 Mobil: 0700-89 64 97 Besöksadress: VALLA, Key, Ingång Key, Rum 3225 Besök oss gärna på: www.liu.se<http://www.liu.se>

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '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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CfP Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [IEEE WCCI 2020]
by Alessio Martino 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Fellow Colleagues, following the experience of the previous edition, we propose our Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology also at IEEE WCCI 2020 (Glasgow, UK). Bioinformatics and Computational Biology deal with a wide range of problems and applications which, in recent years, have been successfully solved by means of Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques. Moreover, due to technological progress, huge amounts of data concerning biological organisms are gathered and collected (e.g. genes transcript, protein structures and the like), thereby demanding the use of parallel and distributed computing for facing Big Datasets and/or high-throughput application requirements. Further, in such fields, data usually encodes complex information, which is natively represented by structured records, such as sequences, graphs and images, most of which lie in so-called “non-metric spaces”, i.e. input spaces for which a meaningful (dis)similarity measure might not be metric, making the problem more challenging since ad-hoc (dis)similarity measures or embedding functions need to be defined. This Special Session aims at collecting the latest research in Computational Intelligence applications for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with emphasis on parallel/distributed computing and non-metric spaces analysis, by means of different (or hybridization of) Computational Intelligence techniques, from evolutionary meta-heuristics to neural computation, from pattern recognition to fuzzy systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Network and Systems Biology • Gene expression, gene regulatory networks • Sequence analysis, alignment and comparison • Biological complex systems modelling • Predictive medicine and medical image analysis • Network medicine • Large-scale data mining and pattern recognition • Distributed and parallel computing systems for machine learning and data mining • Network generative models • Graph kernels and string kernels in biology • Exact/inexact motifs and pattern matching • Granular computing approaches for non-metric space analysis • Protein folding/function prediction • Analysis of metabolic pathways • RNA/protein structure prediction More info here: https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home <https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/wcci2020-ci4bcb/home> Needless to say, you are all invited to join. King regards --- <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C17PBN> Alessio Martino / PhD Research Fellow alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) - University of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Eudossiana 18 00184 Rome, Italy https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C4HZQK> <https://htmlsig.com/t/000001C6NBHT> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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CFP - The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) at IEEE Infocom'20
by Peter Mueller 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

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

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Research fellow/Assistant professor in Optimization for Machine Learning at Linkoping university
by Oleg Burdakov 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi, I would be grateful if you could post the appended advert to Computational Science Mailing List. Many thanks and best regards, Oleg Burdakov, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization Methods & Software (OMS) http://www.tandfonline.com/goms Division of Optimization, | Phone: +46 13 281473 Department of Mathematics, | Mobile: +46 (0)70 0895219 Linkoping University, | E-mail: Oleg.Burdakov(a)liu.se SE - 58183 Linkoping, Sweden | http://users.mai.liu.se/olebu87/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY (LiU) hereby advertises a position as Research fellow/Assistant professor in Optimization for Machine Learning at the Division of Optimization of the Department of Mathematics. The application deadline is December 9, 2019. Starting date: by agreement. The major task for this position is fundamental research in the area of mathematical optimization theory and novel techniques for machine learning. Examples of research topics are: sparse optimization, saddle point search, multi-objective learning, and stochastic quasi-Newton methods. Although the expertise should primarily be in optimization, the applicant should ideally also have experience in machine learning. Duties include research, teaching, supervision and some administrative duties. The position is for 5 years, of which 80% is for research and 20% for pedagogical qualification/teaching. The financing of the position, established through WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, https://wasp-sweden.org) includes support for not only the position holder’s own salary, but also a research group with two postdocs (2 years each) and one PhD student (4 years). Being a researcher at LiU will allow you to choose living on the countryside while commuting to work in only 15 min. Furthermore, working at LiU, you will own your entire research results and Intellectual Property Rights yourself, enabling own startups and other commercial activities that are even supported by the university. For further details, including how to apply, see: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=d7a66… We look forward to receiving your application!

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Deadline Extended (29th November): The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Sydney, Australia
by Bahman Javadi 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

===================================================================== The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) April 21-24, 2020, Sydney, Australia Website: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) is targeted to be a premier conference on cloud computing, which represents a paradigm shift for the use and delivery of information technology (IT) and has been revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale, and dynamic sourcing options. IC2E provides a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. The conference brings together experts who work on different levels of the cloud stack—systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications. IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. IC2E-2020 invites submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully-developed results, and ongoing foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret “cloud engineering” very broadly—everything from engineering principles to practical experiences, at and across different levels of the cloud stack, from both academia and industry. --------------TOPICS-------------- We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics: * Cloud Infrastructure - Processors, accelerators for Cloud processing: interactive, batch, and streaming - Cloud storage and databases - Programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Mobile cloud computing - Multimedia cloud computing - Cloud Networking, 5G - Runtimes, virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless - Platforms and services for data and analytics - Operational analytics and DevOps solutions - Economics of cloud * Cloud services - X as a Service: Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, - Platform, Security, Software, Storage, etc. - Microservices in the cloud - Support for mobility - Accelerators at the edge and core - Edge to core/data center - AI at the core and edge - Edge and fog computing - (Near) Real-time applications and services - Blockchain in support of Cloud Services * Cloud management - Big data management, platforms, analytics - Energy management in cloud centers - Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust - SGX, Trust zone, hardware security support - Hybrid cloud integration - Metering, pricing, and software licensing - Resource management and optimization - Service lifecycle management, automation - Performance, dependability, SLAs - Workload deployment and migration - Resource management and accounting - Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration * Practice and Experience - Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms - Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings - Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns - Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques - Experience with management systems, tools, and integration --------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------- Abstract submission deadline : Extended to November 22nd 2019, 23:59 GMT Full paper submission deadline : Extended to November 29th 2019, 23:59 GMT Author notification:January 31st 2020 Camera-ready deadline:March 20th 2020 --------------SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS-------------- Please submit full (and short) papers by the full paper submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form. All papers should be double blind. Full research/industry track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, and tables. References can be additional pages. We do not distinguish research and industry, there is a unified track. Short papers are limited to 6 pages, not including references. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title. The manuscripts may not exceed 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style). --------------REVIEW PROCESS & PUBLICATION-------------- All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal. After review, some full paper submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed).

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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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