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Updated information on SEIT 2017
by Seonghoon Kim 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, Hope all is well with you and thank you again for your interest in submission of your paper to a prestigious annual conference held in Europe annually. The deadline of the paper submission has been extended until *23th Jan 2017*. This is final due date will not be extended so please consider the opportunity of presenting your research related to any sustainability and energy related research. *See attached *for more detailed information regarding the conference this year. Rcently, I have accepted to serve as the publicity co-chairs for the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2017), http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/) that will be held in May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal. Also, I am serving as a workshop chair for this conference. I am wondering if you can disseminate the CfPs to your colleagues and friends. Both the flyer and the CfPs can be downloaded from the following link: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/#callforPapers hope you are interested in submitting the paper in the conference no later than 12/22/16. Thank you so much for your support anytime in advance. Yours sincerely, Seonghoon Kim Seonghoon Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management Engineering Building, Rm. 1121 201 COBA Drive, BLDG 232 Statesboro, GA 30458

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CfP: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017 https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/ ************************************************************************* Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017) ------------------- Aims and Scope ------------------- The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the foundations of engineered systems that self-adapt and self-organize. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment. This has led the software engineering, distributed systems, and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. They form the basis for many other so-called self-* properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, or self-optimization. SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary meeting, where contributions from participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering of a cross-pollination of ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications can emerge. The eleventh edition of the SASO conference embraces this inter-disciplinary nature, and welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and application-focused dimensions of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Systems theory: nature-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks and models; control theory; - System properties: robustness; resilience; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness; - Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; architectures; methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems; - Theory and practice of organization: self-governance, change management, electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons, knowledge management, and the general use of rules, policies, etc. in self-* systems - Theory and practice of adaptation: mechanisms for adaptation, including evolution, logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility - Socio-technical systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; humans-in-the-loop; ethics and humanities in self-* systems; - Data-driven approaches: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage behavior of complex systems; - Self-adaptive and self-organizing hardware: self-* materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware; - Education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self-* systems education; Applications and experiences with self-* systems in any of the following domains are of particular interest: + Smart systems: smart grids, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, etc. + Industrial automation: embedded self-* systems, adaptive industrial plants, Industry 4.0, cyber physical systems + Transportation: autonomous vehicles, traffic optimization + Autonomous systems: aerial vehicles, undersea vehicles, autonomous robotics + Internet of Things: self-* for network management, self-* applied to cyber security We are looking for contributions that present new fundamental understanding of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems and how they can be engineered and used, including: novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks, tools, and practical experiences in building or deploying systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Likewise, papers describing substantial innovation or insights in the use and communication of self-* systems in the classroom are welcome. Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract submission: May 1, 2017 Paper submission: May 10, 2017 Notification: June 30, 2017 Camera ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ---------------------------- Submission Instructions ---------------------------- Submissions can be up to 10 pages, formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide, and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please submit your papers using the SASO 2017 conference management system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2017. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Note that a separate Call for Poster and Demo Submissions will also be issued. As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they must not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and must not currently be under review for another archival conference. We also highlight the IEEE policies regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism (http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/ID_Plagiaris…). --------------------- Review Criteria --------------------- Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies, etc. Appropriate references must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, we encourage papers to be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers should provide an indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality. ------------------------------- Conference General Chair ------------------------------- Ada Diaconescu Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris, FR -------------------- Program Chairs -------------------- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine, USA Hella Seebach, Augsburg University, Augsburg, DE

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Student Travel Grants
by Announce Announcements 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

*** Student Travel Grants *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Applications Due: January 22, 2017 (FIRM DEADLINE) *** *** Notification: January 31, 2017 (late applications will not be considered) *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. The objective of IUI's student support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Intelligent User Interfaces to become active members of the IUI community. To apply, the student should be actively enrolled as a student in an academic institution. Priority will be given to students who are first authors of accepted papers and to participants in the doctoral consortium, to minorities and women. Recipients of the stipend are also expected to help the conference organization as student volunteers. The level of support will be determined by the availability of funds and the number of eligible applications. The student volunteer chairs are here to help, please contact us at sv2017(a)iui.acm.org if you have any questions that are not covered by the documents and links found below. Currently, there are four grant schemes available which are detailed below: - The SIGAI Student Travel Grant. - The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI. - The German AI Society Travel Grant - for German students. - The National Science Foundation Travelling Grant - for US students. The IUI Chairs will decide about the allocation of the sources of support to students that will be eligible for travelling grants (there are some differences between the sources and what is required from the students - see below). The application should include: 1. Full name. 2. Email address. 3. The school you are attending, your major, and the country in which the school resides. 4. If you will present at the conference, please provide the title of the submission and its type (e.g. research paper, student consortium, demo). Please note if you have submitted but have not found out if your submission has been accepted. 5. A short statement describing your research interests and how you wish to benefit from attending IUI 2017. 6. The location you are flying from and the cost for your airfare, as determined by the availability of low-cost economy fares for travel to the conference. Please describe any other expenses you expect to accrue, but do not include registration and housing costs, as they are similar for all students. 7. Students may specify if they are female, ethnic minority, or students with disabilities, as we will consider these aspects when discussing the applications. A letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor (or supervising faculty member) sent separately by email to the Student Volunteer Co-Chairs at sv2017(a)iui.acm.org. If you are also applying to the Student Consortium, one appropriately worded recommendation letter can be used for both applications, or you may submit a slightly different letter for each application. Please submit your single, combined PDF (except letter of recommendation) to: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… by January 22nd 2017. Types/sources of support The SIGAI Student Travel Grant Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGAI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGAI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. You must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms ($11 dues). The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGAI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The IUI Travelling Grant supported by SIGCHI Following the tradition of previous years, we will offer student participation support provided by SIGCHI to attend the IUI Conference. This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from SIGCHI must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed. The stipend recipient must be a member of SIGCHI before submitting the reimbursement forms. The German AI Society Travel Grant The German AI society (AI chapter of the Gesellschaft für Informatik) is kindly offering support for German students or students working in Germany to attend the IUI Conference. This support is provided in the form of three small stipends (500 EUR each) to partially cover the registration fee and the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. After the conference, students write a short report (1 page) for the national AI magazine. Students must be member of the German AI society before submitting the reimbursement forms. The NSF Travelling Grant (Only for US students) We are happy to announce that student participation support provided by NSF to attend the IUI Conference will be provided (limited to US students). This support is in the form of a small stipend to cover the registration fee and partially cover the costs of travel and living expenses while attending the conference. The students will be reimbursed for their expenses after the conference. All students who get travel grants from the NSF funding must send us a paragraph about their experience and a headshot before they will be reimbursed.

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CfP: Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2017), September 7-9, 2017, Cagliari, Italy
by Massimo Bartoletti 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

CIBB 2017 Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 14th International Conference September 7-9, 2017, Cagliari, Italy <http://cibb2017.unica.it>http://cibb2017.unica.it === Important Dates === March 25, 2017.........................Tutorial and Special Session proposal May 29, 2017............................Paper submission deadline June 22, 2017……....................Acceptance notification July 17, 2017............................Early author registration July 22, 2017............................Camera-ready due September 7-9, 2017................CIBB in Cagliari === Scope === The main goal of the CIBB international conference is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum open to researchers interested in the application of computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology and medical informatics. Cutting edge methodologies capable of accelerating life science discoveries will be discussed. Following its tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together researchers from the international scientific community interested in advancements and future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Also, looking at current trends and future opportunities at the edge of computer and life sciences, the application of computational intelligence to system and synthetic biology, and the consequent impact on innovative medicine will be of great interest for the conference. Theoretical and experimental biologists are also invited to participate in order to present novel challenges and foster multidisciplinary collaboration. The scientific program of CIBB 2017 will include Keynote Speakers, tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Next generation sequencing bioalgorithms - Multi-omics data analysis - High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data - Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data - Software tools for bioinformatics - Methods for comparative genomics - Methods for functional classification of genes - Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data - Health-Informatics and Medical Informatics - Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data - Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics - Algorithms for pharmacogenomics - Biomedical text mining and imaging - Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine - Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data - Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures - Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Bio-molecular databases and data mining - Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and synthetic systems - Computational simulation of biological systems - Methods and advances in systems biology - Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems - Network systems biology - Models for cell populations and tissues - Methods for the engineering of synthetic components - Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems - Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology === Publication === Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). === Submission guidelines === Authors should submit papers prepared according to the following instructions: - Papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format) - Papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages - We warmly recommend the use of the provided latex template and instructions <http://cibb2017.unica.it/cibb2017-sample-v.1.3.zip>. Should this not be possible, authors should reproduce the format and style of the sample paper available with the latex style. - Papers should be submitted in PDF format on the Easy Chair conference system at this link <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibb2017>. === Tutorials and Special Sessions === CIBB 2017 will run a number of Tutorials and Special Sessions. Any topic of interest for the conference is eligible for a tutorial. Tutorials typically last from one to three hours. Special sessions focus on a specific, possibly cutting-edge, topic of interest for CIBB 2017. Special session organisers will be responsible for call dissemination, the reviewing process and organizing oral presentations. Typically, a special session will have at least 4 accepted papers and may have an invited speaker (to be negotiated). Tutorial proposals, including title, a one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters, are due by March 25th, 2017. Please send proposals to cibb2017(a)gmail.com. Special Session proposals, including the session's title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at least 4, possibly more, potential authors are due by March 25th 2017. Proposals of special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they are submitted. A special session is expected to have at least 4 accepted papers. Please send proposals to <cibb2017(a)gmail.com>cibb2017(a)gmail.com === Invited speakers === Alessandra Carbone (Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative, UMR 7238 CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France) Valentina Boeva (Institut Curie Research Center Paris, France and INSERM U900, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Computational Systems Biology of Cancer, and Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France). Manja Marz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, RNA Bioinformatics and High Throughput Analysis, Germany) === Organization === General Chairs Massimo Bartoletti <http://tcs.unica.it/members/bart>, University of Cagliari, Italy Gunnar Klau <http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Eklau/>, CWI, Netherlands Leif Peterson <http://www.houstonmethodist.org/faculty/leif-peterson>, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA Biostatistics Technical Chair Antonio Eleuteri <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Eleuteri>, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University, UK Bioinformatics Technical Chair Alberto Policriti <http://users.dimi.uniud.it/%7Ealberto.policriti>, University of Udine, Italy Organisation committee Andrea Bracciali <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/%7Eabb/>, University of Stirling, UK Tiziana Cimoli <http://tcs.unica.it/members/tiziana-cimoli>, University of Cagliari, Italy Alessandro Sebastian Podda <http://tcs.unica.it/members/sebastian-podda>, University of Cagliari, Italy Special Session Organizer Andrea Bracciali <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/%7Eabb/>, University of Stirling, UK === Steering committee === Pierre Baldi <http://www.igb.uci.edu/%7Epfbaldi/>, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Elia Biganzoli <http://www.medicina.unimi.it/Facolta/Personale/DocentiRicercatori/BIGANZOLI…>, University of Milan, ITA Clelia Di Serio <http://www.unisr.it/persona.asp?id=299>, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, ITA Alexandru Floares <http://www.saia.ro/16-ismds.html>, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jon Garibaldi <http://ima.ac.uk/home/garibaldi/>, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Nikola Kasabov <http://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/nikola-kasabov>, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Francesco Masulli <http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/>, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University, PA, USA Leif Peterson <http://www.methodisthealth.com/tmhri.cfm?id=37614>, TMHRI, Houston, Texas, USA Roberto Tagliaferri <http://www.unisa.it/docenti/robertotagliaferri/index>, University of Salerno, ITA

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FMEC 2017 CFP: The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE FMEC 2017 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Co-loacated with (SDS 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php Call for Papers: Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2017 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Ejaz Ahmed, NIST, USA * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA. Publication Co-Chairs: * Ali Safa Sadiq, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Publicity Chair: * Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. Steering Committee: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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2nd CfP: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org <http://www.smap2017.org/> ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Special Session proposals: January 20, 2017 Special Session approval: January 27, 2017 Submission of full papers: February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks special sessions proposals addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27
by GRLMC 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: January 27, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 28 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), tba George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), tba Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), tba OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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SDS 2017 CFP: The Fourth International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017), Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE SDS 2017 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems(SDS-2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE -Spain Section) Co-loacated with (FMEC 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php Call For Papers: Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and managements (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers.One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015 and SDS'2016), The fourth International confernce on Software Defined Systems 2017 (SDS'2017) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2017 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 31 Jan. 2017 Notification to Authors: 3 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SDS Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds2017 Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html<http://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2017/index.html> The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCS MS2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/<http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN-NFV2017/> Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yojiro UO, IIJ Innovation Institute Inc., Japan. Publication Co-Chairs: * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. * Angelo Furfaro, University of Calabria, Italy Publicity Chair: * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Steering Committee: * Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA (Chair) * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Andy Rindos, IBM research, USA. * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on SDS 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo<mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk<mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Jordan University of Science and Technology accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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PDSEC/IPDPS-17 workshop: extended deadline Jan 27
by Peter Strazdins 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

(apologies for cross-postings) DEADLINE: PDSEC-17: extended deadline: Jan 27 (final) The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-17) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec17 will be held on Jun 02, 2017, Florida USA in conjunction with IPDPS 2017. Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, systemwide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. The focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due (FINAL EXTENSION) . . . . . January 27, 2017 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 24, 2017 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2017 (TBC) Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 02, 2017 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GHCE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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EXTENDED! Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline has been extended until January 15, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time), extended until Jan 15, 2017 ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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call for papers CMMSE 2017
by Prof. Jesús Vigo-Aguiar 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

CMMSE 2017 17th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (including the celebration of the 70th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Sproessig ) Barceló Costa Ballena Golf & SPA July 4-8, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain. http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2017/ Call for Presentations CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: The 2017 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE-2017), is the fourteen of this conference series. CMMSE2015 aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields and participate in special sessions different from but still close to their own interests. Standard presentation: 20+5 minutes in length. Special Sessions: Minimum of 8 presentations. Symposiums more than 10 presentations. Symposiums chairs can act as plenary speakers. FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS contact: <mailto:cmmse@usal.es> cmmse(a)usal.es IMPORTANT DATES: May 17, 2017 -- Deadline for submission of Abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (12 pages). May 26, 2017 -- Notification of Acceptance June 12, 2017 – Registration (with podium) June 20, 2017 -- Registration (without podium) August 10, 2017 -- Deadline for submission (SPECIAL ISSUES). Sept. 10, 2017-- Special issue final selection. JOURNALS INVOLVED: (all indexed by SCI-ISI) Computational Chemistry & Mathematical Chemistry · Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer) · Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures (Taylor & Francis). Computational Mathematics · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier) (solicited) · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). · International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Computer Science · Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). · International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (solicited, Word Scientific)

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including PhD consortia and workshops. WORKSHOPS Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to data storage and processing. This year we would encourage also workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entitites. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) gamper(a)inf.unibz.it · Robert Wrembel (Poznan Univ. of Technology) robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl The proposal should include: · a workshop title · estimated length (1 day or 1/2 day) · names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · short bio of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · a (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · a workshop main goals · the list of a workshop topics · preliminary CFP · how information about a workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to: · organize the workshop's program committee · disseminate the workshop call for papers · solicit submissions · conduct the reviewing process · prepare the final workshop program The official language of workshops is English. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2017 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. PUBLICATION Workshops papers will be published by Springer in 'Communications in Computer and Information Science'. We plan to invite selected workshop papers for publication in a journal. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2017 · Workshop acceptance/rejection Notification: January 21, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission of Papers: June 25, 2017 · Workshops held: September 24, 2017 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the ADBIS 2017 workshop chairs. COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Scietech 2017 - Bali Indonesia : Call for Keynote Speakers
by Rudy Lolo 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Dear Professors and Researchers, The 5th International Conference on Science & Engineering in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics 2017 (ScieTech 2017) will be held at the The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, during 21 - 22 January 2017. The detail of ScieTech 2017 is in http://scietech.org/ We would like to announce with 3 (three) Keynote speakers positions with qualifications at least PhD in one of the areas of Physics, Mathematics and or Chemistry with depth publications in Journals and have solid research on those areas. The ScieTech 2017 will cover the accomodation in The Ramada Bintang Hotel, Kuta, Bali for two nights as well as support of the travel from origin country to Bali round trip. Kindly please send your CV and abstract for review whether aligned with ScieTech 2017 via email to scietechconf(a)gmail.com on the latest 11 January 2017. Sincerely yours, ScieTech 2017 Committee

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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WTA 2017: programação disponível
by Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa (LTA/PCS/USP) 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

============================================================ WTA 2017 - Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa ============================================================ 26 e 27 de Janeiro de 2017, EPUSP, Brasil Página oficial: http://usp.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=c… Caro amigo, Motivado pela realização de tantos trabalhos, envolvendo uma grande quantidade de pessoas que desenvolvem pesquisas relacionadas à área de Tecnologia Adaptativa, o LTA -- Laboratório de Linguagens e Técnicas Adaptativas realizará, nos próximos dias 26 e 27 de Janeiro de 2017, nas dependências da EPUSP -- Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, nosso tradicional WTA 2017 -- Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa, tendo como objetivos: - servir como fórum de discussão sobre assuntos relacionados à área de Tecnologia Adaptativa - promover um encontro anual de pesquisadores e interessados nos assuntos da área, sua integração e sua interação com a comunidade - disseminar e fomentar o desenvolvimento e a utilização da Tecnologia Adaptativa - fomentar a produção e promover a divulgação de material técnico sobre Tecnologia Adaptativa - materializar o primeiro do que deverá em breve representar uma série de eventos, possivelmente de âmbito nacional e internacional, focalizados em Tecnologia Adaptativa Como responsável pelo LTA desde sua criação, e como coordenador deste evento, tenho o prazer de convidar V.S. para abrilhantar com sua participação esse evento, tão importante para a Tecnologia Adaptativa. Para que se viabilize a realização desse encontro, com o tradicional padrão de qualidade que temos anualmente obtido, espero contar com a valiosíssima participação presencial de V.S. a esse XI WTA, assistindo às sessões técnicas do evento e participando dos debates e trabalhos técnicos a serem desenvolvidos na ocasião. Como resultado material do evento, serão produzidos textos inéditos, que integrarão as memórias do mesmo, e servirão como importantes fontes de referência para trabalhos posteriores. Importante: a décima primeira edição do Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa será realizada no Auditório do Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e de Materiais. A entrada é pela Travessa 3, na Avenida Professor Mello Moraes, 2463, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP. O local está indicado no seguinte link do Google Maps: http://usp.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… Solicitamos que V.S. confirme com a possível urgência sua participação, para que possamos oficializá-la. A inscrição é gratuita e poderá ser realizada através do formulário eletrônico disponível no website do evento: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… A programação já está disponibilizada no website do evento: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… Agradecemos a sua atenção e esperamos reencontrá-lo(a) na ocasião do evento. Atenciosamente, Prof. Dr. João José Neto Coordenador geral do WTA 2017 -- Décimo Primeiro Workshop de Tecnologia Adaptativa ---------------------- Para remover o e-mail computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org desta lista de notificação, por favor clique no link a seguir: http://usp.us2.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=…

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CfP extended due Jan. 20, 2017: AW4city 2017 3rd ACM International Smart City Workshop in Perth, Australia - Web Applications and Smart Cities: Enhancing Livability with Web Applications for smart cities
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AW4city 2017, 3rd International ACM Smart City Workshop: Enhancing Livability with Web Applications for smart cities In conjunction with WWW'17: 26th World Wide Web International Conference Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017 http://aw4city2017.wordpress.com Workshop Objective ---------------------------- Following up the success of past events at WWW2015 and WWW2016, AW4City 2017 aims to keep on attracting a significant international attention with regard to web applications for smart cities. The aim of this workshop is to address web-based application and Apps' design and development in the smart city and urban context. More specifically, it focuses on innovative applications smart city component and more specifically on the design and implementation of web-based applications and Apps. This component is crucial, since it addresses all the smart city dimensions: . Economy, since new types of entrepreneurship and innovative business models appear in data, creative and climate economies, and develop web applications and Apps. . Mobility, with regard to urban transportation (intelligent transportation), distance working, job offering demonstration etc. . Environment, since applications enhance resource management, transportation improvement, environmental monitoring etc. . Living, since applications enhance local life (i.e., e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, e-tourism etc.). . People, since they concern applications' end users and . Governance, where open data and e-government applications play crucial roles in smart city operation. This year, the workshop will emphasize on the contribution of web applications and Apps to city livability. Livability stands for local quality of life and citizen satisfaction in terms of education, environment, stability, healthcare, and infrastructure. Livable Melbourne for instance, is the outcome of a development, policy and planning path, while today is the showpiece, the workplace, and the venue for the young and restless to play. In this respect, this workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications and Apps can enhance city's quality of life and citizen satisfaction (i.e., from smart service delivery; from transactions with the local government and utilities; from the existence of local online gaming, training, entertainment, business etc.). Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of smart cities and web application development to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of smart city trends with regard web application development that interconnect citizens, businesses and government in a smart city. AW4City 2017 is timely, since an increasing criticism is being generated that smart city represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): . Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; . Smart City management systems; . Practices of Web applications and Apps in smart cities; . Creative partnerships and creative industries in Smart City (Internet Economics and Monetization); . Pervasive Web and Mobility for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) . The role of government for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); . Web Infrastructure standardization; . The role of standards on smart city web mining; . Smart city e-services for evaluation and benchmarking; . Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; . Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities: the role of web applications. Submission ------------------------------------- We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 6 pages long (max 5000 words), including the abstract and appendices. Discussion papers may be short (up to 4 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------- The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of WWW2017's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: - written in English; - contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; - be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; - be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop's chairs. - occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system. Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2017 conference can be found on http://www.www2017.com.au Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) or some other relative journals (i.e., Journal of Knowledge Economy (JKEC) and Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JoI) published by Springer). Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2016 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> with the subject: "AW4city 2017 proposal" Details of the programme will be made available online. Important Dates ------------------------- Extended Submissions due: Jan. 20th, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 9, 2017. Workshop authors' registration and camera-ready papers: Feb. 17, 2017 Workshop day: April 3, 2017 For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ------------------------------ Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Associate Professor, University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen(a)tudelft.nl <mailto:M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl> Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, Brunel Business School, Brunel University London Uxbridge, United Kingdom, vishanth.weerakkody(a)brunel.ac.uk <mailto:vishanth.weerakkody@brunel.ac.uk> Program Committee Members (tentative) ------------------------------ . Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan . Sofia Toufic Shwayri, University of California at Berkeley . Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe . Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform . Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. . Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) . Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. . Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia . Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia . Mag. Michael Sachs, Zentrum fur E-Governance, Donau-Universitat Krems. . Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA . Nikolaos Mavridis, NCFSR Demokritos, Greece . Alois Paulin, TUWien, Vienna, Austria.

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

*** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Ada-Europe 2017 EXTENDED 22 January submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

The Ada-Europe 2017 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to finalize their contributions, and hence extended the deadline for all submissions to Sunday 22 January 2017. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 22 JANUARY 2017 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 22nd 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), and Pisa, Italy ('16). General Information ------------------- The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 will take place in Vienna, Austria. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. Schedule -------- 22 January 2017: Submission of papers, industrial presentation, tutorial and workshop proposals 26 February 2017: Notification of acceptance to all authors 19 March 2017: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2017: Industrial presentations, tutorial, and workshop material required Topics ------ The conference has over the years become 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 representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. This edition of Ada-Europe features a focused Special Session on Reliable and Safe Robotics. Following the increasing trend of robotic systems in industrial and public environments it is more and more important to address software systems to control autonomous vehicles. This special topic discusses issues regarding challenging problems in the field of autonomous navigation and sensor fusion. Topics include (but are not limited to): frameworks for robotics, planning and system modelling, as well as multi-agent and logistics applications. For the general track of the conference, topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance. - 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: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture- Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development. - Methods and Techniques for 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. - Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. - Mainstream and Emerging Applications: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc. - 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 new 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 Regular and Special Session Papers ------------------------------------------- Authors of papers which are to undergo peer review for acceptance are invited to submit original contributions by 15 January 2017. Paper submissions shall not exceed 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors for both the general track and the special session shall submit their work via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017. The format for submission is solely PDF. The International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies is ranked class A in the CORE ranking and Microsoft Academic Search has it in the top third for conferences on programming languages. The conference is listed in DBLP, SCOPUS and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index, among others. Proceedings ----------- Conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the conference. Camera-ready accepted papers are due strictly by 19 March 2017 (format guidelines available at the conference site). Failure to comply and to register for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. Call for Industrial Presentations --------------------------------- The conference seeks industrial presentations which deliver value and insight but may not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors are invited to submit a presentation outline of exactly 1 page in length by 15 January 2017. Submissions shall be made via EasyChair following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2017. The format for submission is solely PDF. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract and submit it by 30 April 2017, aiming at a 20-minute talk. The authors of accepted presentations will be invited to submit corresponding articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/), which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information please contact the Industrial Chair directly. Awards ------ Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Call for Tutorials ------------------ Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of the conference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day events. Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposed topic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day), the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and a statement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as well as a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) 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 week. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). Call for Exhibitors ------------------- The commercial exhibition will span the three 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. Grants for Reduced Student Fees ------------------------------- A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected to be available for students who would like to attend the conference or tutorials. Contact the Conference Chair for details. Venue ----- The conference will take place at Palais Eschenbach, in the heart of Vienna, Austria. Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Chair Wolfgang Kastner, TU Vienna, Austria k(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at Program Co-Chairs Johann Blieberger, TU Vienna, Austria blieb(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at Tullio Vardanega, Università di Padova, Italy tullio.vardanega(a)math.unipd.it Special Session Chair Markus Bader, TU Vienna, Austria markus.bader(a)tuwien.ac.at Tutorial and Workshop Chair Ben Brosgol, AdaCore, USA brosgol(a)adacore.com Industrial Chair Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & innovation, Denmark jacob(a)jacob-sparre.dk Exhibition Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland ahlan(a)Ada-Switzerland.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Markus Bader, TU Vienna, Austria markus.bader(a)tuwien.ac.at Program Committee ----------------- Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Ted Baker, NSF, USA Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., Korea Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Lukas Esterle, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, France Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Wilfried Kubinger, FH Technikum Wien, Austria Albert Llemosí, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kristina Lundkvist, Mälardalen University, Sweden Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Justus Piater, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Jorge Real, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Sergio Sáez, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Theodor Tempelmeier, University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, Germany Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi, Finland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Tullio Vardanega, Univ. di Padova, Italy Armin Wasice, University of California at Berkeley, USA Michael Zillich, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Industrial Committee -------------------- Ian Broster, Rapita Systems Ltd, UK Jørgen Bundgaard, Ramboll, Denmark Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT), Austria Egil Harald Høvik, Kongsberg, Norway Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence & Space, Spain Björn Lundin, Consafe Logistics, Sweden Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland Paolo Panaroni, Intecs, Italy Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Andreas Richtsfeld, DS Automotion GmbH, Austria Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Emilio Salazar, GMV, Spain Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & Innovation, DK Jean-Loup Terraillon, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Sergey Tverdyshev, SysGO, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair *** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017 *** June 12-16, 2017 *** Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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Deadline in a few days - 32nd IFIP TC-11 SEC 2017 International Information Security and Privacy Conference
by IFIP SEC 2017 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline in a few days! (January 09, 2017 - 11:59pm American Samoa Time) *** 32nd IFIP TC-11 SEC 2017 International Information Security and Privacy Conference Rome, Italy, May 29 - 31, 2017 http://ifipsec.org/2017/ The IFIP SEC conference is the flagship event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC-11, www.ifiptc11.org). Previous SEC conferences were held in Ghent (Belgium) 2016, Hamburg (Germany) 2015, Marrakech (Morroco) 2014, Auckland (New Zealand) 2013, Heraklion (Greece) 2012, Lucerne (Switzerland) 2011, and Brisbane (Australia) 2010. We seek submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control and authentication - Applied cryptography - Audit and risk analysis - Biometrics - Big data security and privacy - Cloud security and privacy - Critical infrastructure protection - Cyber-physical systems security - Data protection - Data and applications security - Digital forensics - Human aspects of security and privacy - Identity management - Information security education - Information security management - Information technology mis-use and the law - Managing information security functions - Mobile security - Multilateral security - Network & distributed systems security - Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design - Privacy enhancing technologies - Security and privacy in crowdsourcing - Security and privacy in pervasive systems - Security and privacy in the Internet of Things - Security and privacy policies - Surveillance and counter-surveillance - Trust management - Usable security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer Science and Business Media. All papers must be written in English. Submissions should be at most 14 pages long in total including references and appendices. Submissions should not be anonymized. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. Each paper will receive at least three reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the journal Computers & Security. Those papers will undergo at least one other review round. IMPORTANT DATES Submission due: January 09, 2017 (11:59pm American Samoa Time) [extended] Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2017 Deadline for final version: March 07, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Luigi V. Mancini, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy PROGRAM CHAIRS Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIR Theo Dimitrakos, Huawei and University of Kent, UK PUBLICITY CHAIR Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA - Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis, USA - Rainer Boehme, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Joppe Bos, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium - Yazan Boshmaf, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar - Dagmar Brechlerova', Czech republic - William Caelli, IISEC Pty Ltd, Australia - Jan Camenisch, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland - Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar - Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK - Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France - Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France - Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Bart De Decker, KU Leuven, Belgium - Gurpreet Dhillon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA - Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France - Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden - Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Lynn Futcher, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa - Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg - Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA - Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand - Martin Johns, SAP Research, Germany - Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Audun Josang, University of Oslo, Norway - Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Kwangjo Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea - Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany - Dogan Kesdoganto, Universitat Regensburg, Germany - Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia - Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Peter Lambert, DST, Australia - Gert L. Mikkelsen, The Alexandra Institute, Denmark - Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain - Stephen Marsh, UOIT, Canada - Refik Molva, EURECOM, France - Paolo Mori, CNR, Italy - Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan - Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Daniel Olejar, Comenius University, Slovakia - Panos Papadimitratos, KTH, Sweden - Andras Pataricza, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Philippos Peleties, CCS, Cyprus - Guenther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany - Giuseppe Persiano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy - Gilbert Peterson, AFIT, USA - Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany - Alexander Pretschner, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Sihan Qing, Peking University, China - Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Carlos Rieder, ISec AG, Switzerland - Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Damien Sauveron, University of Limoges, France - Abbas Shahim, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Ingrid Schaumuller-Bichl, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria - Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway - Adesina Sodiya, Federal University of Agric, Nigeria - Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Paulo Verissimo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Rossouw Von Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa - Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, USA - Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria - Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenija - Steffen Wendzel, Steffen Wendzel, Germany - Andre' Zuquete, Instituto de Engenharia Electronica e Telematica de Aveiro, Portugal For more information, contact the organizing chairs at sec2017(a)unimi.it or visit http://ifipsec.org/2017/

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BigDat 2017: early registration January 13
by GRLMC 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

BigDat 2017: early registration January 13*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 3rdINTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2017 Bari, Italy February 13-17, 2017 Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ******************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 13, 2017 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Analytics and Optimization for Industrial Applications: Introduction, Algorithms, and Examples Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Data Analytics Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by February 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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CFP: 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2017)
by Xianzhi Wang 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* The 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2017) To be held in conjunction with Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Conference (ANT'17), May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal website: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2017/ ******************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Paper Submission: Jan 22, 2017 (extend deadline) Author Notification: Feb 13, 2017 Final Manuscript: Mar 13, 2017 The new developments in this area raise many research questions including interaction, security, collaboration, context, discovery, and privacy of physical things in the virtual world. Despite the tremendous progress in Internet technologies the research community continues to wrestle with some of these questions. This Symposium focuses on disseminating novel ideas and research directions in this fast emerging area of the Internet of Things. This Symposium also aims to bring together academics and practitioners in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and opportunities to explore new research directions and develop new ideas for the Internet of Things. The Symposium will be platform to provide opportunities for researchers from academia and industry to join hands, exchange ideas and focus on solutions that will enhance the life of the growing population on the Internet. It will lead to identifying new directions and setting the scope for developments in this area. The participants will be enlightened with intellectual discussions, highlighting the advances in technology that bridges the physical world and the digital world.This Symposium aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things.The 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things will take place in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2017), Madeira, Portugal in May 16-19, 2017.Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Big Data and the Internet of Things - Urban Computing and Smart Cities - Data Management Approaches for the Internet of Things - Searching and Information Retrieval for the Internet of Things- Communication systems and architectures for the Internet of Things- Robustness of environmental management with the Internet of Things- Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds- Business models and processes for the Internet of Things- Impacts on the security, privacy and risks on the physical world- Applications and interaction for social networking- Location and discovery of things on the Internet- Web of Things - Internet of Everything - Industrial Internet- Smart Objects- Case studies in areas of Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics and Transport- Green Internet of Things- Mobile Internet of Things- Internet of Services- Sensor Webs - Social Internet of Things - Graph Databases- Semantic Web of Things - Large scale IoT Data - IoT Monetisation PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science. The templates are available for - MS Word: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/templates/ANT15_PROCS_Template.docm - Latex: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-15/templates/ecrc-procs.rarAuthors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iupt2017) Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the Symposium Program Committee. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in a journal special issue. ORGANIZATION ------------ General Chairs: Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Program Chairs: Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Michele Ruta, Technical University of Bari, Italy Publicity Chairs: Xianzhi Wang, UNSW, Australia Program Committee: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iupt2017/#/OrganizingCommittee 上一封下一封 « 返回

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[Deadline Approaching] CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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[SEIT17] CFP 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

-------------- Call for Papers ---------------------- The 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-17) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/ **************************************************************************** Important Dates =========== - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2017 (Final) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 The goal of the SEIT-17 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. SEIT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/). Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Committees ======== General Chair Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, The Flemish Institute of Technological Research, Belgium Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs çlvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Jess Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Advisory Committee Bilal A. Akash, Dhofar University, Oman Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chairs Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria Seonghoon Kim, Georgia Southern University, USA Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/#programCommittees

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[ANT17] CFP 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies
by stephane.galland＠utbm.fr 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/ *Important Dates =========== - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2017 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 ANT 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) - Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) ANT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/). Conference Tracks ============== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - Internet of Things - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences - Multimedia and Social Computing - Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management - Smart Environments and Applications - Systems Security and Privacy - Systems Software Engineering - Vehicular Networks and Applications - General Track COMMITTEES ========= General Chairs Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program Vice Chairs Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Mtiers, France Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Publicity Chairs Rui Dins, Instituto de Telecomunicaes, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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Call for Papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
by Miao, Wang 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

Call for Papers The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/ IEEE CIT 2017 will be held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. IMPORTANT NEWS! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Mr. Tatu Ylönen, SSH Communications Security, USA (CEO) JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Special Issue on Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.331) 3. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 4. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 5. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 6. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopus indexed) 7. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks IEEE CIT 2017 is the 17th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services. IEEE CIT 2017 will be held on August 21-23, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of IEEE CIT 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. The IEEE CIT 2017 topics include but are not limited to the following, and the detailed information can be found in CIT 2017 website (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/) - Information Technology - Computer Science - Signal Processing - Networking and Internet of Things - Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust - Applications, Business and Social Issues - Database and Data Management - Microwave and radar - System Software and Software Engineering - Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence - Information Technology for Biomedicine - Wireless Communications - Mobile Multimedia Communications - Wireless and Mobile Computing - Future Internet / Next-Generation Internet / Tactile Internet - Cellular Network and 5G - Social Computing and Social Network - Internet of Things (IoT) - Big Data / Smart Data - Software-defined Anything (SDx) - Autonomous Vehicles - Quantum Computing - Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality - Crowdsourcing/crowdsensing - Cyber-physical systems - Indoor localization and navigation - Visable light communication - Cloud computing - Datacenter networking - RFID and NFC IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The IEEE CIT 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (Contact: liukeen(a)xjtu.edu.cn; raimo.kantola(a)aalto.fi; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi). PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English. Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE CIT 2017 submission site: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/submit.html. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended for possible publications in the special issues of SCI/EI indexed high-quality journals. https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/si.html 1. Special Issue on IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 2. Special Issue on IEEE Internet of Things (SCI indexed) ... More journal special issues will be announced soon. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Honorary chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China General Chairs: Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Moncef Gabbouj, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kai Zeng, George Mason University, USA Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Demo/Exhibition Chairs TBD Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Technical Program Committee See IEEE CIT 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/CIT2017/

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27
by GRLMC 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration January 27*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs from around the world will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), tba Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), tba George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), tba Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), tba Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), tba Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), tba Li Erran Li (Columbia University), tba Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), tba Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), Deep Learning for Games - But not for Playing them OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance including the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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FNC 2017: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Zahoor Khan 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Call for Workshops Proposals The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications Leuven, Belgium July 24-26, 2017 http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ Important Dates: * Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 FNC-2017 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of FNC-2017 and its related areas. Proposal Format * Title of the workshop * Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) * Draft Call for paper of the workshop * Tentative list of TPC members Workshops' Chair Zahoor Khan, PhD Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE (zahoor.khan(a)hct.ac.ae<mailto:zahoor.khan@hct.ac.ae>) (Adjunct Faculty) Dalhousie University, Canada (zahoor.khan(a)dal.ca<mailto:zahoor.khan@dal.ca>)

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Fwd: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017)
by Alvin Chin 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM Subject: Call for papers for 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media (MSM 2017) To: Alvin Chin <alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca> Dear colleagues, Do you have any work in machine learning and AI that is applicable to social media? If so, please consider submitting to the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) co-located with the ACM WWW 2017 conference in the land down under, Perth, Australia. The call for papers is attached and also inserted here inline. The deadline is January 7, 2017 23:59 PM Australian Western Standard Time. Please forward to others who may be interested. Wish you all best wishes for the end of 2016 and a Happy New Year 2017! Thanks. Alvin -- Alvin Chin Senior Researcher, Machine Learning, BMW Technology Corporation, BMW Group Co-chair, Modeling Social Media 2017 workshop http://www.alvinychin.com ---- ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with ACM WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop

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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2017/ Conference Outline Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates - Submission due: Jan 12, 2017 - Notification: Feb 15, 2017 - Camera-ready due: Feb 25, 2017 Steering Committee - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar - Iyer (UIUC, USA) - Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs - Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) -Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair - Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee - Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) - Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) - Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) - Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) - Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) - Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) - Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) - Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) - Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) - Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) - Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) - Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) - Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) - Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) - Jin Han (Twitter, USA) - Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) - Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) - Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) - Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) - Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) - Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) - Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) - Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) - Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) - Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) - Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) - Susan Pancho-Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) - Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) - Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) - Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) - William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) - Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) - Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) - Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) - Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) - Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) - Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) - David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) - Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) - Ye Zhang (Google, USA) - Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/

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Invitation to visit Tehran for 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry
by Mohades 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry March 1-6, 2017 Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran URL: <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry (WSCG) will be held on March 1-6, 2017 in Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. This is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers in computational geometry and related fields as well as interested researchers and students, from all over the world. The school covers advanced topics in computational geometry and related fields presented by the invited speakers as well as the primary concepts of these fields presented in a 3 day seminar held before this event. This workshop provides a friendly atmosphere to work on computational geometry problems, present and discuss the results, and establish scientific collaborations. An international certificate will be presented by the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry to the participants. The 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry will cover concepts in Computational Geometry and Architectural Geometry. General Information: IMPORTANT DATES * Early registration deadline: Feb 4, 2017 * Seminar on primary concepts of Computational Geometry: Feb 26, 2017 * Winter School on Computational Geometry: Mar 1-6, 2017 INVITED SPEAKERS * Maike Buchin, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois, U.S * Matias Korman, Tohoku University, Japan More information on the coming 9th WSCG is available on <https://webmail.aut.ac.ir/redir.hsp?url=http://www.wscg.ir/> http://www.wscg.ir. If you have any question regarding this event please do not hesitate to contact us via <mailto:algocg@aut.ac.ir> algocg(a)aut.ac.ir.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We look forward to seeing you in the school. Ali Mohades, Chair of the 9th Winter School on Computational Geometry, Laboratory of Algorithms and Computational Geometry, Amirkabir University of Technology

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