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CFP: IEEE ISORC - Int. Symp. on Real-Time Distributed Computing - Submissions Due on Feb, 1st
by Tommaso Cucinotta 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times] *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 *** *** Submission deadline (firm): February 1, 2019 The IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC) has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, for the first time, ISORC 2019 will organize a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. Best papers from ISORC 2019 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. More information including submission guidelines can be found at: https://isorc2019.github.io/. IEEE ISORC 2019 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware, model maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches; stream correlation and sampling approaches. * System software: real-time kernel/OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics). * Time-sensitive social dispersed computing. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Arvind Easwaran, NTU, Singapore * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs * Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Mathias Pacher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, NTU, Singapore Organization Chair * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Poster/Demo Chairs * Di Liu, Yunnan University, China * Luis Lino Ferreira CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Web and Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy * Zhenkai Zhang, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Further extended submission deadline (firm): February 1, 2019 * Acceptance notification: March 1, 2019 * Camera-ready papers: March 8, 2019 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 7, 2019 * Acceptance notification: March 21, 2019 * Camera-ready papers: March 28, 2019 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc2019.github.io/ The IEEE ISORC 2019 Organizers -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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CFP_14th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS)
by SAOUSSEN CHEIKHROUHOU 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Call for papers The 14th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS) 29-31 October 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia http://crisis2019.redcad.org The International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems 2019 will be the 14th in a series dedicated to security issues in Internet-related applications, networks and systems. Internet has become essential for the exchange of information between user groups and organizations from different backgrounds and with different needs and objectives. These users are exposed to increasing risks regarding security and privacy, due to the development of more and more sophisticated online attacks, the growth of Cyber Crime, etc. Attackers nowadays do not lack motivation and they are more and more experienced. To make matters worse, for performing attacks have become easily accessible. Moreover, the increasing complexity as well as the immaturity of new technologies such as pervasive, mobile and wireless devices and networks, raise new security challenges. In this context, new security mechanisms and techniques should be deployed to achieve an assurance level acceptable for critical domains such as energy, transportation, health, defence, banking, critical infrastructures, embedded systems and networks, avionics systems, etc. The CRiSIS conference offers a remarkable forum for computer and network security actors from industry, academia and government to meet, exchange ideas and present recent advances on Internet-related security threats and vulnerabilities, and on the solutions that are needed to counter them. === TOPICS === The topics addressed by CRiSIS range from the analysis of risks, attacks to networks and system survivability, to security models, security mechanisms and privacy enhancing technologies. The authors are invited to submit research results as well as practical experiment or deployment reports. Industrial papers about applications or case studies are also welcomed in different domains (e.g., telemedicine, banking, e-government, e-learning, e-commerce, critical infrastructures, mobile networks, embedded applications, etc.). The list of topics includes but is not limited to: - Analysis and management of risk - Attacks and defenses - Attack data acquisition and network monitoring - Cryptography, biometrics, watermarking - Dependability and fault tolerance of Internet applications - Distributed systems security and safety - Embedded system security and safety - Empirical methods for security and risk evaluation - Hardware-based security and physical security - Intrusion detection and prevention systems - Organizational, ethical and legal issues - Privacy protection and anonymization - Risk-aware access and usage control - Security and risk assessment - Security and risks metrics - Security and dependability of operating systems - Security and safety of critical infrastructures - Security and privacy of peer-to-peer system - Security and privacy of wireless networks - Security models and security policies - Security of new generation networks, security of VoIP and multimedia - Security of e-commerce, electronic voting and database systems - Security of social networks - Security of industrial control systems - Smartphone security and privacy - Traceability, metrology and forensics - Trust management - Use of smart cards and personal devices for Internet applications - Web and cloud security === 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 written in English and must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The papers that will be selected for presentation at the conference will be included in post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (prior to publication the papers should be revised according to the review comments). Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. Maximum paper length will be 16 printed pages for full papers or 6 pages for short papers, in LNCS style ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All paper submissions will be handled through the Easy Chair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crisis2019 === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: June 09, 2019 - Notification to authors: July 20, 2019 - Camera-ready versions: September 22, 2019 - Conference dates: October 29-31, 2019 === GENERAL CHAIRS === Nora Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Ahmed Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PC CHAIRS === Frédéric Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PUBLICATION CHAIRS === Nora Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Mohamed Mosbah, Bordeaux INP, France === PUBLICITY CHAIRS === Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Reda Yaich, IRT SystemX, France === LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE=== Nesrine Khabou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Fairouz Fakhfekh, University of Sfax, Tunisia Riadh Ben Halima, University of Sfax, Tunisia Ismail Bouassida, University of Sfax, Tunisia Hatem Hadj Kacem, University of Sfax, Tunisia === PROGRAM COMMITTEE(to be completed) === Esma Aimer, University of Montreal Luca Allodi ,University of Torento Jocelyn Aubert, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Fabrizio Biondi, IRISA/INRIA Rennes Anis Bkakria, IMT Atlantique Yu Chen, State University of New York Binghamton Nora Cuppens-Boulahia,IMT Atlantique, France Frédéric Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Imen Jemili, Faculté des Sciences, Bizerte, Tunisia Jose M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Manoj Singh Gaur, IIT Jammu, India Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara Ruan He, Orange Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean Sokratis Katsikas, Center for Cyber and Information Security, NTNU Nizar Kheir, Thales Group Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRA) Marc Lacoste, Orange Kostas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus Jean-Louis Lanet, LHS Rennes, France Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France Raja Natarajan, TIFR, India Stephen Neville, University of Victoria Roberto Di Pietro, Bell Labs Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt Michael Rusinowitch, LORIA INRIA Nancy Ketil Stoelen, SINTEF Nadia Tawbi, Université de Laval Akka Zemmari, LaBRI - Université de Bordeaux Lingyu Wang, Concordia University

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Call for Papers: DADA 2019: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Deep Analysis of Data-Driven Applications (In Conjunction with COMPSAC 2019)
by Namin, Akbar 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

DADA 2019: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Deep Analysis of Data-Driven Applications, in conjunction with the EEE Signature Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC 2019), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 15 - 19. https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2019/dada/ Call for Papers: The DADA workshop aims to foster deep learning approaches to data-driven applications. DADA creates a venue for researchers from academia and industry to share their intellectual ideas with respect to challenges, novel problems, innovative applications, and creative solutions regarding the application of deep learning to scientific and industrial problems. Theme and Scope of the Workshop: AI-based application systems are becoming the mainstream for the software industry. The recent advancement in big data generation and management has created an avenue for decision makers to utilize these huge data for different purposes. Application developers have utilized traditional machine learning techniques for a long time. However, with the advancement of deep learning algorithms, developers and decision makers are able to explore and learn more about data and their hidden features. The new trends of practices in developing data-driven application systems and decision making algorithms seek adaptation of deep learning algorithms and techniques in many application domains including software systems. An interesting aspect of deep learning algorithms to such problems is that new challenging problems and how deep learning algorithms can be refined to address the discovered problems are explored using deep learning algorithms. Researchers and practitioners from all over the world, from both academia and industry, working in the area of data-driven application domains using deep learning approaches are invited to discuss the state of the art solutions, novel issues, recent developments, applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the development and use of deep learning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Intelligent software development * Smart business and intelligent financial systems and applications * Time series modeling using LSTM * Generative adversarial modeling * Natural language processing * Security and privacy Submission Deadline: April 15, 2019: Workshop papers due May 1, 2019: Workshop papers notifications May 17, 2019 – Camera ready submissions and For more information regarding this workshop and submission guideline, please visit the following Weblink: https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2019/dada/ Chair of the Workshop: Akbar Namin - Texas Tech University Akbar Siami Namin, Ph.D. AdVanced Empirical Software Testing and Analysis (AVESTA) Research Group Department of Computer Science Texas Tech University TX - USA Email: akbar.namin(a)ttu.edu Web page:http://www.myweb.ttu.edu/asiamina/ Web page:http://www.depts.ttu.edu/cs/research/avesta/

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IDC 2019 - The Announcement and Call for Papers
by Igor Kotenko 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers The 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2019) Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 7-9, 2019 https://idc2019.ru First CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium description The 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2019) will be held October 7-9, 2019 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The main goal of the symposium is to gather researchers and practitioners to foster and ease rich discussions around the latest findings, research achievements and ideas in the area of Intelligent Distributed Computing. The IDC provides an open forum for enhancing the collaboration between researchers, lecturers, and students from Intelligent Computing and Distributing Computing communities. Intelligent Computing covers a hybrid palette of methods, techniques and their applications ranging from classical artificial intelligence, information and data sciences, multi-agent technologies or computational intelligence to more recent trends such as swarm intelligence, bio-inspired computation, cloud computing, machine learning or social-cyber-physical security. Recent trends on this field present ephemeral computing, federated learning, swarm Intelligence, fog computing, semantic data science and others. Thus, the field of Intelligent Distributed Computing seeks for the design and implementation of new generation of intelligent distributed systems, adapting or hybridizing researches in both Intelligent Computing and Distributed Computing. IDC 2019 welcomes research works centered on all aspects of intelligent distributed computing, with an intention to balance between theoretical research ideas and their application to great variety of industrial cases. To this end, scholars and practitioners from academia and industrial fields are invited to submit high-quality original contributions to IDC 2019. The structure of the symposium consists of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of special sessions and workshops targeted on multi-disciplinary and cutting-edge topics. IDC 2019 has a special interest in novel and creative approaches, architectures, systems and methods that facilitate distributed / parallel / multi-agent / bio-inspired computing for solving complex computational and communicational problems as well as real-life challenges. The scope of this edition spans further to embrace recent paradigms in Distributed Computation. Location The IDC 2019 Symposium organized by Laboratory of Computer Security Problems of St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and ITMO University will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Saint-Petersburg founded by Peter the Great in 1703, can rightly be called one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, united in its appearance European and Russian, architectural tradition. It was the imperial capital for two centuries and remains Russia's cultural center, with venues like the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the State Russian Museum showcasing Russian art, from Orthodox icon paintings to Kandinsky works, and the Mariinsky Theatre hosting opera and ballet. The historic centre of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is often called the "Venice of the North" because it is built on 44 islands, separated by 86 rivers and canals. Saint Petersburg is famous for its "white nights" when the end of May to mid-July instead of darkness envelops the city soft twilight, creating a unique romantic atmosphere, which is complemented by the classic St. Petersburg overlooking divorced bridges. St. Petersburg is not less beautiful, and in the winter, with encased in ice Neva and brilliant snow on the domes of St.Petersburg cathedral. Important dates Proposals for Tutorials/ Workshops/ Special sessions: February 15th, 2019 Notification of acceptance for Tutorials/ Workshops/ Special sessions: March 4th, 2019 Paper submission: April 9th, 2019 Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2019 Final paper submission: June 4th, 2019 Symposium dates: October 7th-9th, 2019 Submission of Papers All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in Computational Intelligence. Papers must be at most 10 pages long and must be formatted according to Springer format. Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by EasyChair. Please submit your paper at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2019. Symposium Contacts General Chairs: Prof. Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) and ITMO University Prof. Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Address: Russia, 199178, St. Petersburg, 14-th Liniya, No. 39 Phone / Fax: +7-812-328-71-81 / +7-812-328-44-50 E-mail: idc2019(a)comsec.spb.ru Website: https://idc2019.ru Symposium Main Topics Intelligent Distributed and High-Performance Architectures * Hybrid distributed systems involving software agents and human actors * Intelligent grid and cloud infrastructures * Agent-based wireless sensor networks * Distributed frameworks and middleware for the IoT * Intelligent high-performance architectures * Context-aware intelligent computing * Virtualization for intelligent computing * Bio-inspired and nature-inspired distributed computing Computation Organization and Management * Autonomic and adaptive distributed computing * Multi-agent systems * Intelligent service composition and orchestration * Self-organizing and adaptive distributed systems * Emerging behaviors in complex systems * Intelligent integration of heterogeneous data and processes * Methodologies for development of intelligent distributed systems and applications Parallel metaheuristics for optimization * Evolutionary simulated annealing, Distributed Tabu Search * Parallel Variable Neighborhood Search * Swarm intelligence methods based on distributed knowledge sharing * Hybridization of Swarm Intelligence techniques, Memetic Computing, Adaptive Swarm Intelligence * Distributed Evolutionary Techniques, Cellular Evolutionary Algorithm, Hyper Heuristics Ephemeral and Unreliable computing * Theory and applications of complex ephemeral or unreliable environments * Design of ephemeral computing systems * Application of Soft Computing methods on computational environments featuring ephemeral behavior * Meta-heuristics for modeling and analyzing systems with ephemeral properties, such as social network dynamics, ephemeral clustering and pattern mining, ephemeral computational creativity or content generation Intelligent Distributed Knowledge Representation and Processing * Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments * Knowledge integration and fusion from distributed sources * Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments * Semantic and knowledge grids * Fuzzy methods * Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and services * Distributed fusion of sensor data streams Networked Intelligence * E-service and web intelligence * Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing * Intelligence in peer-to-peer systems * Intelligence in distributed and networked multimedia systems * Security, privacy, trust and reputation Parallel Computing * Parallel and Distributed Computational Models * Embedded Parallel Distributed Systems * Multi- and Many-core Systems * GPU and FPGA based Parallel Systems * Parallel Input/Output * Memory Organization * Parallel Cloud Computing * Parallel and Distributed Optimizations * Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning Data Science * Big Data technologies * Machine Learning * Large Scale data processing * Distributed databases and archives * Data Management * Semantic Data Science and Applications * Soft Social Computing and Network Science * Interdisciplinary Approaches in Data Science * Data Intensive Applications * Intelligent Analysis of Large Spatial Data * Ontological based Approaches to Data Storage and Processing * Data Sciences use-cases, including Social Network analysis Networked Intelligence * E-service and web intelligence * Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing * Intelligence in peer-to-peer systems * Intelligence in distributed and networked multimedia systems * Security, privacy, trust and reputation Nature inspired methods for data science and machine learning * Recent advances on nature inspired methods for data science * Novel applications of bio-inspired methods to data mining, with priority on real-world scenarios * Nature-inspired methods for supervised and unsupervised data mining * Hybridizing bio-inspired methods with machine learning and data mining techniques * Nature-inspired methods for feature selection and/or instance generation/selection * Implementation of bio-inspired methods using Big Data technologies * Federated learning: theory and applications Intelligent Distributed Applications * Security of Intelligent Distributed Systems * Attack Modeling, intrusion detection and protection in Intelligent Distributed Systems * Intelligent methods in Cyber-Physical Systems * Distributed problem solving and decision making * Semantic Applications * Intelligent applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis management, smart grid * Modeling, simulation and development of intelligent distributed systems * Crisis management * Simulation of groups and crowds * Intelligent data processing * Intelligent robots

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Extended Deadline - [SMARTCOMP 2019]: Call for papers
by Francesca Righetti 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2019 Call for Papers 12-15 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2019 is the 5th edition of the conference and will held in Washington, USA and will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, sensor networks, internet of things, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living. Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that). Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2019 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest: SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS AND ALGORITHMS: ----------------------------------------------- Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Edge computing platforms and algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS: ------------------------ Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- Smart Precision Agriculture Smart Transportation Smart FinTech Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis Smart Health Smart Communities Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities Smart Energy Management and Analytics Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Julie McCann (Imperial College London, UK) Workshops Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina, Italy) Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Keynote Co-Chairs: Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T J Watson Research Center) WIP and Demo Chair: Shiqiang Wang (IBM T J Watson Research Center) PhD Forum Chair: Nirupam Roy (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Publication Chair: TBC Registration and Finance Chair: Carmen Au (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Maciej Zawodniok (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Hesheng Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Local Arrangement Chair: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Web Chair: Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Anamika Paul Rupa (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC --- Christian Becker, University of Mannheim Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Dario Bruneo, University of Messina Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo Wan Du, University of California at Merced, USA Angelo Furno, IFSTTAR-France Mohammad Hajiesmaili, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Fanxin Kong, University of Pennsylvania Ulf Kulau, TU Braunschweig Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST Lucas Pereira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) Dirk Pesch, Nimbus Centre For Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County Nishanth Sastry, KCL Vijay Srinivasan, Samsung R&D Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Hwee-Pink Tan, Singapore Management University Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Carlo Vallati, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa Desheng Zhang, Rutgers Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio Important Dates --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: 28 January 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: 11 February 2019 Acceptance Notification: 29 March 2019 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 April 2019 Venue ----- The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019) will be held at Washington DC, USA. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti or Julie McCann.

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KKIO 21st Software Engineering Conference, September 11-13, 2019, Bialystok, Poland
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

================================== Call for Papers ============================== KKIO 21 st Software Engineering Conference September 11-13, 2019, Bialystok, Poland Motto : Integrating Research and Practice in Software Engineering KKIO’19 web site: [ http://kkio.pti.org.pl/2019/ | http://kkio.pti.org.pl/2019/ ] KKIO is a prime software engineering conference organized annually by Polish Information Processing Society. The language of the conference is English. The aim of KKIO 2018 is to stimulate research, promote cooperation between science and industry, and facilitate a dialogue with governmental bodies. In particular, KKIO'19 will provide a forum for the presentation of research results, scientific challenges faced by the industry, scientific achievements that could address these problems. It will be also a platform to make contacts, initiate cooperation between researchers and engineers. This year KKIO coincides with 30 th anniversary of the Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology who also hosts KKIO. Bialystok is a quickly growing IT hub, surrounded by unspoiled nature, rivers, forests, with biggest population of European bisons living at large in wilderness. We invite papers covering a wide range of software engineering topics including software methods & tools, innovative applications in emerging domains, technology transfer success stories and failures, education, and other topics listed on the conference web site. Submission deadline : Abstract by 24 March 2019; Papers by 31 March 2019 Submission site : EasyChair [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kkio2019 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kkio2019 ] You will find all the submission details on the KKIO’19 web site (For Authors -> Submissions) We invite researchers, PhD students, engineers and business representatives to submit papers concerning research, research & development, case-studies, education in software engineering, and application of software systems in industry. In addition, we invite proposals for special sessions, workshops, discussion panels and tutorials. Papers and proposals should be written in English. Accepted papers will be published in a dedicated monograph of the prestigious series Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer): Integrating Research and Practice in Software Engineering The books of this series are submitted by Springer to WoS, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their submissions to high profile journals. The authors of all high-quality papers that will not be accepted for dedicated volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence will be invited to prepare the extended version of the papers that will be published in Special Issue of Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies (LNDECT), Springer (https://www.springer.com/series/15362) The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, MetaPress, Springerlink and DBLP. Proceedings for the KKIO’16 and KKIO’17 are now indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. Call for Special Sessions The organizers of the conference are seeking Special Sessions / Workshop Proposals on topics complementary to those of the main conference and Panel, Training / Business Workshops, and Tutorial Proposals. The responsibility of the Special Session / Workshop Chair(s) would be to prepare a specific Call for Papers, organize the sessions program committee (reviewers) and advertise the event. The special session should include at least three papers (if more papers are submitted it could have a form of an independent workshop). The papers are accepted based on two reviews provided by the Special Session PC members and one by a member of the KKIO Program Committee. Please, submit a proposal using the web form: [ https://tinyurl.com/kkio-sessions-tutorials | https://tinyurl.com/kkio-sessions-tutorials ] , preferably before 15.02.2019 for special sessions and 15.05.2019 for tutorials. Important dates: Papers: Abstract submission (strongly recommended): 24.03.2019 Paper submission: 31.03.2019 Notification of acceptance: 10.05.2019 Camera-ready papers submission: 26.05.2019 Special Sessions/Workshops Proposal submission: 15.02.2019 Notification of acceptance: 20.02.2019 Panels, Training Workshops, Tutorial Proposals Submission: 15.05.2019 Notification of acceptance: 30.05.2019 Registration & payment Early registration: 25.06.2019 Late registration: 20.08.2019 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Stanislaw Jarzabek, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Special Sessions, Panels, Training Workshops, Tutorials Chair : Miroslaw Ochodek, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Contacts: Conference program: [ mailto:kkio2019@easychair.org | kkio2019(a)easychair.org ] Special Sessions, Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: Miroslaw Ochodek, miroslaw.ochodek(a)cs.put.poznan.pl Conference organization: [ mailto:wi.kkio2019@pb.edu.pl | wi.kkio2019(a)pb.edu.pl ] --- Politechnika Łódzka Lodz University of Technology Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. 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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: extended to January 30, 2019 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final submission Deadline: February 17, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. International Program Committee: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, The University of Electro-Communications , Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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[Call for Workshop Proposals]: 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ESORICS 2019 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 Website: https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: February 8, 2019 * Notification of decision: March 15, 2019 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org <mailto:jgalfaro@ieee.org>) The following application form should be used. (also available in Word format at http://j.mp/ESORICS19wsh) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2019 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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ICCSA 2019 | Computational Optimization and Applications
by Ana Rocha 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2019) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, <http://www.iccsa.org/> http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2019 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs> http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: <http://ess.iccsa.org/> http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site ( <http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors> http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha ( <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt> arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt) <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt <mailto:hrocha@mat.uc.pt> ), Inesc Coimbra <http://www.inescc.pt/> (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems do not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2019 organizers)

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WHPC@ISC'19 Call for participation and posters
by Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 10th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 10th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 20th 2019 — Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc19/workshop/ ================================================================= The tenth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: - Becoming an advocate and ally of under-represented women - Putting in place a framework to help women take leadership positions - Building mentoring programmes that work effectively for women. - Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC - Short talks on: dealing with poor behaviour at work and how to help avoid it getting you down, how to deal with negative feedback, how to build writing into your daily routine and why it matters, etc. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: March 4th 2019 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. Exclusive to WHPC at ISC19: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their poster in the main ISC19 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc19/workshop/submit/ Regards, Mozhgan -- Dr Mozhgan Kabiri *Chimeh* *R*esearch *A*ssociate / *RSE* Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield 0114 222 1896 | mkchimeh.com gpucomputing.shef.ac.uk , rse.shef.ac.uk

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PUBLICATION IN NAAS RATING, MCI APPROVED SSR-IIJLS JOURNAL
by IJLSSR JOURNAL 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

*Official Publication Under ‘‘Society for Scientific Research’’* *NAAS Score (2019): 3.36| DOI (CrossRef) 10.21276/SSR-IIJLS| ICI (2016): 81.97* *Impact factor (SJIF)= 7.088* *CALLING FOR PAPERS VOLUME- 5 | ISSUE- 2 | MARCH 2019* *Last date for Article submission: 10 February 2019* Website: *https://ijlssr.com <https://ijlssr.com/>, *Email: *editor.ssr.iijls(a)gmail.com <editor.ssr.iijls(a)gmail.com>* *Qualities of SSR-IIJLS journal* • *Open access* and Rigorous *peer-review*, and *society journal* • Indexed by many National & International Organizations • SSR-IIJLS Journal fulfilled *MCI Criteria* • Provide unique *QR Bar-code & DOI number (Crossref)* to each article • Provide *certificate* to each author after Publication • Provide *Best Article Certificate Award* (Gold/Silver/Bronze) • Strong National and International Network & *Collaboration* • SSR-IIJLS Journal is *Society journal* • *Eminent editorials* board from throughout the world *Publication Fees- 2000 INR for Indian Author & 70 USD for Others* *Dear Authors (Researcher/Reader),* *SSR Institute of International Journal of Life Sciences *is an open access, indexed, peer-review Life sciences & Medical Sciences journal that provide rapid publication. *SSR-IIJLS journal is indexed by Google scholar, NAAS Rating, Index Copernicus International (ICV), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (WHO), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), Open J-Gate, WorldCat (OCLC), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Genamics JournalSeek, Crossref, USA (DOI), WAME’s (World Association of Medical Editors), Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF), Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN), ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources), USA, Academic Resource Index (Research Bible, Japan),* also as well as under evaluation by Pubmed central, Pubmed, Scopus (Elsevier), EMBASE, EBSCO, Medline, Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Science Impact Factor (SIF), Thomson Reuters (ESCI, SCI) & Many International agencies, and it is approved by National Science Library (NSL), National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. *Style: * Research articles should be submitted via Online or Email process. The article must be written in M. S. Office (2003/2007/above) format or you may concern at: *https://ijlssr.com/author_guidline.aspx <https://ijlssr.com/author_guidline.aspx>*

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[SmartSys 2019]: Call for papers
by Antonio Arena 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2019 Fourth IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019) Washington D.C., June 12th/15th, 2019 http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/2019/ <http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/2019/> Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems and future of work.. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human services and systems, including: • Innovative technologies, tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing complex smart systems • Big data analytics approaches for innovative smart services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration and test of autonomous systems and innovative applications Important Dates Paper submission: March 10, 2019 Notification: April 10, 2019 Camera Ready: April 28, 2019 Workshop Date: June 12th or June 15th, 2019 Organizing Committees Workshop Co-Organizers Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology Technical Program Co-Chairs: Kunal Mankodiya, University of Rhode Island, USA Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity Co-chairs Antonio Arena, University of Pisa, Italy Mohammadreza Abtahi, University of Rhode Island, USA Technical Program Committee TBD -- Antonio Arena PhD Student Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Università di Pisa http://dii.unipi.it <http://dii.unipi.it/> Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122 - Pisa Stanza 113 Tel: 050 2217465

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CFP CGI 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada June 17-20, 2019
by Marina Gavrilova 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CGI 2019 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 17-20 June, 2019 CGI 2019 website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi19 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, and explore new ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it was held in different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI 2019, the 36th annual conference will take place on June 17th - June 20th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the foothills of majestic Canadian Rockies. CGI 2019 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS. IMPORTANT DATES Conference, Tutorials and Workshops June 17 - 20, 2019 Visual Computer papers submission Submission deadline: February 12, 2019 Paper notification: March 24, 2019 Camera-ready April 7, 2019 CGI proceedings submission Submission deadline: March 25, 2019 Paper notification April 21, 2019 Camera-ready May 03, 2019 The scientific program of the conference will include full papers and short papers. 35 accepted full papers will be included in the Visual Computer journal published by Springer. Other accepted papers (short and full papers) will be included in the conference proceedings published by LNCS, Springer. KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: Rendering Techniques, Volume Rendering Geometric Computing Virtual and Augmented Reality Shape and Surface Modelling Physically Based Modelling Computer Vision for Computer Graphics Scientific Visualization Data Compression for Graphics Biometric Image and Signal Processing Medical Imaging Computation Geometry Image Based Rendering Computational Photography Computer Animation Visual Analytics Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Geometric Modelling Computational Fabrication Image Processing 3D Reconstruction & 3D Printing Solid Modelling Global Illumination Graphical Human-Computer Interaction Human Modelling Image Analysis Saliency Methods Shape Matching Sketch-based Modelling Robotics and Vision Stylized Rendering Textures Pattern Recognition Machine Learning for Graphics Conference Co-Chairs Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Hiroshi Ishikawa, Waseda University, Japan Program Co-Chairs Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and NTU, Singapore Jian Chang, Bournemouth University, UK Local Organizing Chair Marina L. Gavrilova University of Calgary, Canada Local Organizing Committee Usman Alim, University of Calgary Ehud Sharlin, University of Calgary Tony Tang, University of Calgary

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ACNS'19 submission deadline extended to 29 Jan
by Jianying Zhou 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

ACNS'19 -- 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security Bogotá, Colombia, 5-7 June 2019 http://www.acns19.com/ ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers. General co-chairs: Valérie Gauthier (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Program co-chairs: Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA) Important dates: Submission: 29 January 2019 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 22 March 2019 Final Version: 5 April 2019 Best student paper award: Euro 1000 ACNS Home: http://jianying.space/acns/

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ACNS'19 submission deadline extended to 29 Jan
by Zhou Jianying 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

ACNS'19 -- 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security Bogotá, Colombia, 5-7 June 2019 http://www.acns19.com/ ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers. General co-chairs: Valérie Gauthier (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Program co-chairs: Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA) Important dates: Submission: 29 January 2019 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 22 March 2019 Final Version: 5 April 2019 Best student paper award: Euro 1000 ACNS Home: http://jianying.space/acns/ This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You

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Wi-DroIT 2019 – 1st International Workshop on Wireless Drones over Internet of Things
by grigoni＠math.unipd.it 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

*We apologize if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Wi-DroIT 2019 – 1st International Workshop on Wireless Drones over Internet of Things Santorini Island, Greece May 29 - 31, 2019 Link: https://widroit2019.loria.fr in conjunction with the: 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems ( DCOSS 2019 ) Workshop papers will get 8 pages in the IEEE proceedings, in the same volume with the DCOSS papers. Few selected papers will be invited to the special issue " UAV-Based Applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) " of Sensors – Open Access Journal (Impact factor: 2.475) *Important Dates Abstract Submission: 1st March Paper Submission: 8th March Acceptance Notification: 1st April Camera Ready: 15th April Early Registration: 10th April *Scope For this workshop, we search for papers that combine design of algorithms, optimization, and test-bed to develop the theoretical foundations for the drone systems operating in symbiosis with WSN in IoT applications. The numerous emergent applications nurtured by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach, involving techniques from algorithm foundations as well as different areas, like robotics, artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling. Applications in complex domains lead to situations where multiple optimization objectives should be accounted in the proposed solutions. Decentralized and distributed, robust and secure algorithms are searched for drones systems that operate in rapidly-changing, uncertain, and potentially adversarial environments. *Topics (Not limited to) Autonomous WSN via Drones Topology monitoring of WSN with Drones Build Remote Sensing Networks in emergency context via Drones Communication architectures and protocols of Drones over IoT Modeling and analysis of Drone systems over IoT Theoretical foundations for communication routing beyond line-of-sight of Drones Communication and networking aspects of cyber-physical systems Theoretical foundations for parcel delivery using Drones Drones/UAVS for monitoring network properties (coverage, connectivity) in emergency Drones for detecting or discovering events Facility location problem and Resource Management for Drone systems 4G-5G networks and UAVs UAV assisted networks Drones for environment (crop/forest) monitoring Constraints and multi-objective optimization problems in UAVsLocalization, navigation, and dynamic path planning of UAVs over IoT Ground Localization with Drones Cooperative control of multiple UAVs UAV secure communication techniques Optimal UAV deployment strategies High-accuracy navigation techniques Real-time surveillance techniques Performance, scalability, energy, and reliability in Drones' systems Anomaly detection, network monitoring and forecasting Trust, security, and privacy Experimental results, simulators and test beds for drone networks Cooperative Rendezvous for secure drone to drone communications Secure communication between the drone and the ground networks *Program Chairs Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/LORIA, France; enrico.natalizio(a)loria.fr Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy; cristina.pinotti(a)unipg.it *Submission instructions Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts reporting applied or technical research. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the same volume with the DCOSS 2019 conference proceedings. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and selected papers will be organized for presentation at the workshop. All submissions will be exclusively electronic with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including title, authors, abstract, figures, diagrams, references and attachments. Articles must be prepared in English following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (available here ) and submitted in PDF format only. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widroit2019 -------------------------------- Publicity Chair Francesco Betti Sorbelli, University of Perugia, Italy; francesco.bettisorbelli(a)unipg.it Tathagata Mukherjee, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA; tathagata.mukherjee(a)uah.edu

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CFP: 18th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2019)
by Konstantinos Parsopoulos 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

--- CALL FOR PAPERS (apologies for multiple postings) *18th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2019) * June 24-29, 2019, Kalamata, Greece *http://www.caopt.com/SEA2019/ <http://www.caopt.com/SEA2019/>* SEA (Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously known as WEA (Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. The preceding symposia were held in Riga, Monte Verità, Rio de Janeiro, Santorini, Menorca Island, Rome, Cape Cod, Dortmund, Ischia Island, Crete, Bordeaux, Rome, Copenhagen, Paris, St. Petersburg, London, and L'Aquila. SEA aims to attract papers from both the Computer Science and the Operations Research/Mathematical Programming communities. The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms, data structures, and computational optimization methods. SEA hosts original research works specializing in various aspects of algorithm engineering and computational optimization. Submissions should present significant contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of (meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity of a problem. *TRACK ON ALGORITHM ENGINEERING AND DESIGN* Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: Algorithm Engineering Algorithmic Libraries Algorithmic Mechanism Design Analysis of Algorithms Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies Algorithms for the World-Wide-Web Approximation and Randomization Techniques Branch-and-Bound Algorithms Combinatorial Structures and Graphs Complex Networks Computational Geometry Cryptography and Security Data Streams Data Structures Distributed and Parallel Algorithms Computer Systems Graph Drawing Information Retrieval Network Analysis Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms Telecommunications and Networking *TRACK ON COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH* Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: Approximation Techniques Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Combinatorial Optimization Computational Learning Theory Computational Optimization Evaluation of Optimization Algorithms for Realistic Environments Experimental Techniques and Statistics Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning Integer Programming Logistics and Operations Management Machine Learning and Data Mining Mathematical Programming Metaheuristic Methodologies Multiple Criteria Decision Making Online Problems Optimization Methods in Big Data Problems Parallel Algorithms and Computing Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods Randomized Techniques Robotics Semidefinite Programming Simulation *PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION* All accepted papers of each track will be published in the proceedings as follows: Track on Algorithm Engineering and Design All accepted papers will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) open-access series. LaTeX template: *https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/>* Manuscript preparation: the manuscript should not exceed 12 pages using at least 10-point font, including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a short abstract. References will not be counted in the page limit. Track on Computational Optimization and Operations Research All accepted papers will be published in a post-conference volume of the series on Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer. LaTeX template: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Manuscript preparation: the manuscript should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a short abstract. In both cases, a clearly marked Appendix, which will not count toward the page submission limit, can be included and will be read at the referees’ discretion. Final proceedings papers must be camera-ready in the corresponding format. All papers must be submitted in PDF using EasyChair through the SEA 2019 Submission System (*https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=sea2019 <https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=sea2019>*). The corresponding track can be selected during the submission procedure. A special issue of selected papers will be published in the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. *IMPORTANT DATES* Abstract submission: **** February 8, 2019 **** Full paper submission: **** February 15, 2019 **** Acceptance notification: **** March 29, 2019 **** Camera-ready version: **** April 12, 2019 **** Conference dates:* *** June 24-29, 2019 **** *PLENARY SPEAKER* *Dimitrios M. Thilikos* LIRMM (Université de Montpellier) and CNRS (France) Department of Mathematics, NKUA (Greece) *VENUE* Elite City Resort, Kalamata, Greece, *http://elite.com.gr <http://elite.com.gr/>* *SEA 2019 CHAIRS* General Chairs: Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), ikotsire(a)wlu.ca Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida (USA), pardalos(a)ufl.edu Program Committee Chair: Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina (Greece), kostasp(a)cse.uoi.gr ---

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TrustData 2019 CFP: Atlanta, USA, July 14-17, 2019
by Qin Liu 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2019 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2019 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 10th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2019) Venue & Dates: Atlanta, USA, July 14-17, 2019 Conference Website: http://www.spaccs.org/trustdata2019/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData2019 is a part of SpaCCS 2019 (http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/) 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI indexed). 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, must not exceed 10 pages (or 14 pages with the over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format (http://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trustdata2019. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: April 15, 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 15, 2019 Conference Dates: July 14-17, 2019 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark, University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Panlin Hou, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2019 to: Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com LQ's new homepage: Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/ -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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CFP: IEEE ISORC - Int. Symp. on Real-Time Distributed Computing - Submissions Due on Jan, 25th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times] *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 *** *** Submission deadline (extended): January 25, 2019 The IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC) has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, for the first time, ISORC 2019 will organize a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. Best papers from ISORC 2019 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. More information including submission guidelines can be found at: https://isorc2019.github.io/. IEEE ISORC 2019 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware, model maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches; stream correlation and sampling approaches. * System software: real-time kernel/OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics). * Time-sensitive social dispersed computing. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Arvind Easwaran, NTU, Singapore * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs * Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Mathias Pacher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, NTU, Singapore Organization Chair * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Poster/Demo Chairs * Di Liu, Yunnan University, China * Luis Lino Ferreira CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Web and Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy * Zhenkai Zhang, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline (extended): January 25, 2019 * Acceptance notification: March 1, 2019 * Camera-ready papers: March 8, 2019 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 7, 2019 * Acceptance notification: March 21, 2019 * Camera-ready papers: March 28, 2019 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc2019.github.io/ The IEEE ISORC 2019 Organizers -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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FINAL CfP Ada-Europe 2019 Conference - Mon 28 Jan deadline!
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Papers Ada-Europe 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) 10-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 *** DEADLINE Monday 28 JANUARY 2019 AoE *** Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) Ada-Europe's 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) will take place in Warsaw, Poland, in the week of 10-14 June. The conference schedule at its fullest includes a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition of the conference inaugurates a major revamp in the registration fees, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors. Regular Papers + Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown <dene.brown at sysada.co.uk> For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 2019 Publicity Chair *** Ada-Europe 24th Intl. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 10-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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[CFP] Deadline Approaching - GrAPL 2019 - co-located with IPDPS 2019
by Tumeo, Antonino 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] — DEADLINE APPROACHING — GrAPL 2019: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning http://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl Co-Located with IPDPS 2019 May 20, 2019 Hilton Rio De Janeiro Brazil ----------------------------- GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ----------------------------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Much of the recent focus in Data Analytics has emphasized machine learning. This is understandable given the success of deep learning over the last decade. However, many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in Graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad which is a natural outgrowth of the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. The objectives of this workshop are as follows: * Understand data analytics workflows and the mix of graph and machine learning algorithms they require * Understand the synergies between evolving device technology and graph analytics applications to drive: 1) the direction of emerging hardware and software architecture, 2) new graph analytics algorithms that better exploit the emerging hardware; and 3) application workflows that mix the large graph synthesis and analytics and machine learning. * Explore different frameworks, languages and libraries to support programming graph analytics and machine learning algorithms * Evaluate the performance and scalability of integrated platforms for large graph synthesis and analysis, and machine learning While each of these topics on their own are well addressed in other workshops, we are particularly interested in the cross-cutting synergies. For example, hardware and software architectures specialized for machine learning (and in particular deep learning) may be poorly suited for graph algorithms. Can we understand these conflicting needs and perhaps find an architecture jointly optimized for both? This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. We are particularly interested in papers that: * Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; * Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; * Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; * Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; * Provide tractability performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows. Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. ----------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------- Position or full paper submission: February 1, 2019 Notification: February 28, 2019 Camera-ready: March 15, 2019 Workshop: May 20, 2019 ----------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grapl2019 Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) pages, single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. ----------------------------- Organization ----------------------------- General co-Chairs Tim Mattson (Intel), timothy.g.mattson(a)intel.com Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov Program co-Chairs Ananth Kalyanaraman (WSU), ananth(a)wsu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Steering Committe David A. Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Technical Program Committee Aydin Buluç, LBNL, US Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, US Jana Doppa, Washington State University, US John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Oded Green, Georgia Institute of Technology & NVIDIA, US Jeremy Kepner, MIT, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Hao Lu, ORNL, US Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, US Rupesh Nasre, IIT Madras, IN John Owens, University of California, Davis, US Arnau Prat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, US P. Sadayappan, The Ohio State University, US A. Erdem Sarıyüce, University at Buffalo, US Arun Sathanur, PNNL, US Brian Van Essen, LLNL, US Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Yangzihao Wang, Tencent, CN Marinka Zitnik, Stanford University, US Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, US

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CfP for VHPC ‘19: HPC Virtualization Paper Registration due January 25, 2019 - 14th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop@ISC
by Michael Alexander 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2019 Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates January 25, 2019 - Abstract Registration deadline Apr 19th, 2019 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Bob Killen, University of Michigan, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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IHPCES 2019 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to February 5)
by Dominik Bartuschat 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2019) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2019/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2019, the 9th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2019 Conference in Faro, Algarve, Portugal, from June 12-14, 2019. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2019, published by Springer in its LNCS series. We have received funding from the German Priority Programme SPPEXA (http://www.sppexa.de) that allows us to cover the conference fees for speakers of accepted papers!! Important dates: February 5, 2019 Paper Submission (up to 14 pages) - extended!! March 15, 2019 Author Notification April 5, 2019 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2019 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee (tentative): Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, USA Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2019. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2019 co-chairs

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ACNS'19 CFP - submission due 22 Jan
by Jianying Zhou 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

ACNS'19 -- 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security Bogotá, Colombia, 5-7 June 2019 http://www.acns19.com/ ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers. General co-chairs: Valérie Gauthier (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Program co-chairs: Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA) Important dates: Submission: 22 January 2019 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 22 March 2019 Final Version: 5 April 2019 Best student paper award: Euro 1000 ACNS Home: http://jianying.space/acns/

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ACNS'19 paper submission due 22 Jan
by Zhou Jianying 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

ACNS'19 -- 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security Bogotá, Colombia, 5-7 June 2019 http://www.acns19.com/ ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers. General co-chairs: Valérie Gauthier (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Program co-chairs: Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA) Important dates: Submission: 22 January 2019 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 22 March 2019 Final Version: 5 April 2019 Best student paper award: Euro 1000 ACNS Home: http://jianying.space/acns/ This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You

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ACNS'19 paper submission due 22 Jan
by Jianying Zhou 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

ACNS'19 -- 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security Bogotá, Colombia, 5-7 June 2019 http://www.acns19.com/ ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography and its application to systems and network security. The goal is to represent both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers. General co-chairs: Valérie Gauthier (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) Program co-chairs: Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA) Important dates: Submission: 22 January 2019 23:59 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 22 March 2019 Final Version: 5 April 2019 Best student paper award: Euro 1000 ACNS Home: http://jianying.space/acns/

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University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Information Systems Chair's Position
by Nirmalya Roy 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

Chair *Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland* The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks a collaborative and entrepreneurial leader to serve as Chair for the Department of Information Systems. Leading one of the University’s longest-standing and largest departments, the next Chair will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Department. UMBC is an emerging, dynamic, and diverse public research honors university in Baltimore, Maryland, known for its innovation and undergraduate teaching. With about 14,000 total students, UMBC is a mid-size university with a welcoming, close-knit community. With this reputation and location, the Department of Information Systems is well poised to continue building relationships across campus and externally with nearby funding agencies and major corporate collaborators, such as the National Science Foundation and the Northrop Grumman Corporation. The successful candidate shall have a track record of leading collaborative efforts on research and teaching and is expected to lead growth and capitalize on the opportunity to shape the department, set the vision for its future, and establish its identity. The new Chair will also sustain and broaden relationships with University and external partners to increase opportunities for interdisciplinary research, funding, cooperative education, and employment. In addition, the next Chair will lead a strategy in building faculty capacity and reputation while focusing on retention and strengthening research and graduate programs. UMBC has engaged Isaacson Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist with this important search. Inquiries, nominations, and applications should be directed in confidence as indicated at the end of this document. THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS MISSION A member of the University System of Maryland, UMBC is a dynamic public research university integrating teaching, research, and service to benefit the citizens of Maryland. As an Honors University, the campus offers academically talented students a strong undergraduate liberal arts foundation that prepares them for graduate and professional study, entry into the workforce, and community service and leadership. UMBC emphasizes science, engineering, information technology, human services, and public policy at the graduate level. UMBC contributes to the economic development of the state and the region through entrepreneurial initiatives, workforce training, K-16 partnerships, and technology commercialization in collaboration with public agencies and the corporate community. UMBC is dedicated to cultural and ethnic diversity, social responsibility, and lifelong learning and redefines excellence in higher education through an inclusive culture that connects innovative teaching and learning, research across disciplines, and civic engagement. For the past four years, U.S. News ranked UMBC in the top ten on a list of the nation’s “most innovative” national universities. For the past ten years, U.S. News also consistently ranked UMBC among the nation’s leading institutions for “Best Undergraduate Teaching.” To learn more about UMBC’s strategic planning to fulfill its mission, please visit *https://planning.umbc.edu/strategic-plan/. <https://planning.umbc.edu/strategic-plan/>* UMBC is committed to advancing knowledge, economic prosperity, and social justice by welcoming and inspiring inquisitive minds from all backgrounds. Of UMBC’s 11,250 undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students, nearly half are students of color. The faculty is made up of 546 full-time and 292 part-time members. The University is led by Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, who has served as President since May 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the 2011 report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. He was named in 2012 by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. President Hrabowski has received numerous accolades, including being named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 and one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2012 by TIME Magazine. THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINNG AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) distinguishes itself by a continued commitment to cross-disciplinary research and education and by providing outstanding education opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to the professional workforce in engineering, computing, and information systems. COEIT is home to about 4,000 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students across more than 20 programs. Last year, COEIT awarded 726 bachelors degrees, and 90% of undergraduate degree recipients reported employment, further studies in a graduate/professional school, or both at the time of graduation. On the graduate side, 319 masters degrees and 31 doctoral degrees were awarded last year with a placement rate of 94%. For 2017, the research expenditure of the college exceeded $14M, of which approximately $12M is federally funded. Through innovation and collaboration, the College of Engineering and Information Technology will capitalize on our geographic location and unique blend of engineering and information technology to transform lives and meet societal challenges. COEIT’s strategic plan, adopted in Fall 2015 (*https://coeit.umbc.edu/coeit-strategic-plan/ <https://coeit.umbc.edu/coeit-strategic-plan/>*), identifies concrete strategic directions, goals, and metrics to meet this vision. THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Founded in the early 1980s, the Department of Information Systems focuses on the entire system of information, knowledge, delivery, and use, taking an external, human-based perspective on technology and how it can be implemented to serve the informational needs of people and organizations. The department is an iCaucus member institution and is an early member of the iSchool movement (*https://ischool.org <https://ischool.org/>*). An integral part of COEIT, the Department currently offers a variety of degrees and certificates for undergraduate and graduate students, including a B.A. in business technology administration, B.S. in information systems, accelerated B.S./M.S., M.S. in information systems, which is also offered online, M.S. in human-centered computing, Ph.D. in information systems, and Ph.D. in human-centered computing. Through these offerings, students study the design, implementation, and evaluation of information technologies and leave UMBC with a strong business and management background paired with excellent human communication skills that can be used to interact with a variety of audiences with various backgrounds. The department currently has 30 full-time faculty members, many of whom get recognition for contributions in their respective research areas. Faculty members are engaged in state-of-the-art research that has resulted in numerous new external grants in areas such as Health IT, Cybersecurity, Big Data/Data Science, Human Centered Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. To learn more about faculty research, visit *https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/faculty- <https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/faculty-and-staff/>* *and-staff/. <https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/faculty-and-staff/>* With over 1,800 students across the eight academic programs, the Department graduated 305 undergraduate students, 159 Masters students, and 9 Ph.D. students last year, many of whom are pursuing careers in the industry, government, and academia, while others are pursuing graduate studies at the master’s and Ph.D. levels. The Department has over 10,000 alumni, accounting for a considerable portion of UMBC’s total alumni base of 75,000. THE ROLE OF THE CHAIR The Chair serves as the principal academic and administrative officer for the Department, setting priorities and leading the unit’s faculty, staff, and students. Mentoring, recruiting, and promoting faculty and ensuring up-to-date curricula and successful accreditation of programs are crucial responsibilities of the Chair in continuing to strengthen and promote Information Systems at UMBC. The Chair manages a budget of $8M and oversee 27 full-time faculty and 4 staff. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES UMBC seeks a chair who will articulate the Department’s vision, inspire its constituencies, and align department plans and priorities with COEIT’s and UMBC’s strategic priorities. UMBC believes that the next Chair will need to engage successfully with the following specific challenges: *Lead the Department in Solidifying its Identity and Creating a Vision for the Future* The Chair will inspire the next phase of Information Systems by leading the Department in an inclusive strategic planning process that fully engages stakeholders across the Department, College, and UMBC. The aim is to build upon the Department’s successes and strengths, reinforce its identity as a center for multi-disciplinary study, and continue to move the Department to become one of the preeminent Information Systems program in the country. The Department has played an important role at UMBC and in the region’s community, industry, and economy, and as such, the Chair will also be responsible for articulating the identity, vision, and strengths across UMBC and externally. *Engage Stakeholders* The Chair will be a key leader in helping shape the potential of the College and will represent the Department externally to current and prospective partners, especially the business community and recruiters. UMBC has the largest cooperative education program in Maryland, and Information Systems students participate in this program in greater numbers than any other major on campus. With the Baltimore/Washington corridor becoming one of the largest centers for technology employment, the IS department is poised to continue its growth as a research center and connect well-trained students to thousands of new jobs. By one estimate, there are as many as 50,000 technology job openings in the region, a unique opportunity to deepen the Department’s regional impact. *Expand the Department’s Collaborative work Across Disciplines* The next Chair will work collaboratively across the College and UMBC to maintain and enhance the broad range of current collaborations, as well as to identify and forge new opportunities, especially in growing the Department’s research footprint. UMBC’s size and affinity for interdisciplinary efforts empower the Chair to be innovative and proactive in such endeavors. There are several active examples of the type of collaboration that UMBC would like to replicate, including research relationships with the Erickson School (*https://erickson.umbc.edu <https://erickson.umbc.edu/>*), Imaging Research Center (*https://www.irc.umbc.edu <https://www.irc.umbc.edu/>*), the Hilltop Institute (*https://www.hilltopinstitute.org <https://www.hilltopinstitute.org/>*), the professional schools of the University of Maryland Baltimore (*https://www.umaryland.edu <https://www.umaryland.edu/>*), the National Federation of the Blind (*https://nfb.org <https://nfb.org/>*), and the Digital Harbor Foundation (*https://www.digitalharbor.org <https://www.digitalharbor.org/>*). *Grow the Faculty through Hiring and Retention Efforts* To support continuously growing enrollments, the Chair will lead efforts to recruit, retain, and develop outstanding faculty. With the increasing number of students entering both undergraduate and graduate programs, it is important that the next chair create a strategy to increase faculty capacity for teaching. Additionally, the next Chair has the opportunity to increase the reputation of the department by bringing in well-respected faculty to lead cutting-edge research funded by a wide range of institutions and government entities. It is expected that the Chair will oversee the hiring of faculty members on an annual basis to meet the growing demand from students and employers for the foreseeable future, in addition to creating conditions for retaining outstanding faculty. *Leverage Diversity and the Power of Students* The Department of Information Systems is home to one of the most diverse student populations on campus, and its students are true problem solvers and ideal employees for public and private sector organizations. It is imperative that the Chair not only celebrate the diversity and strength of Information Systems students but also advocate on their behalf to create opportunities for them, the Department, and UMBC. The department has had a long history of success in their students earning employment after graduation. Most recently, 89% of undergraduate and 93% of graduate students are employed at the time of graduation. The new Chair is charged to continue that post-graduation employment success while broadening relationships with local and national partners. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE Candidates should have significant understanding of the academic fields of study commonly included in schools or departments of information systems. In addition, the successful candidate will bring the following professional qualifications, skills, experiences, and personal qualities: · An entrepreneurial spirit and a demonstrated ability to work across disciplines; · A demonstration of leadership quality; · A strong record of externally funded research; · A deep commitment to and history of celebrating diversity, championing equity, and growing a culture of inclusion; · An effective communicator who works well with others and is comfortable taking both a leadership role and a supporting role; · A background in Information Systems and an understanding of how systems work and interact with human beings is required; · A PhD or terminal degree in a related field and credibility to be a full professor under UMBC’s criteria (*https://provost.umbc.edu/files/2015/05/section6.pdf <https://provost.umbc.edu/files/2015/05/section6.pdf>*); · An understanding of the iSchool movement and ability to define future directions for UMBC’s Information Systems Department. TO APPLY Nominations, applications, and inquiries are being accepted for the position. Consideration of candidates will continue until the position is filled. Candidates must submit a curriculum vitae and cover letter. All inquiries, nominations, referrals, and resumes with cover letters will be held in strict confidence and should be directed to: *http://www.imsearch.com/6835 <http://www.imsearch.com/6835>* Andrew Lee, Partner Martens Roc, Senior Associate Kaden Stearns, Associate Isaacson, Miller *UMBC values safety, cultural and ethnic diversity, social responsibility, lifelong learning, equity, and civic engagement. Consistent with these principles, the University does not discriminate in offering equal access to its educational programs and activities or with respect to employment terms and conditions on the basis of a UMBC community member’s race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, ancestry, age, gender identity or expression, national origin, veterans status, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or genetic information.* -------------------------------------------- Associate Professor Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://userpages.umbc.edu/~nroy --------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: 4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2019)
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2019) in conjunction with 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2019) May 17, 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus Web: http://www.units.it/cuzzocrea/confs/DBDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS *Aim and Scope Big Data Management is of relevant interest at now, and it can be considered as one of the most emerging research topics we deal with. In particular, the management of Big Data in distributed settings (like Clouds) is demanding for innovative models, techniques and algorithms capable of dealing with the well-known Vs of such kind of data. Indeed, traditional approaches are not suitable to manage Big Data in distributed environments, due to the Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data. Starting from this evidence, recently we experienced novel proposals that are trying to creating applications and systems that, running on top of distributed settings like Clouds, effectively and efficiently manage Big Data as to support a wide range of contexts, among which analytics, knowledge discovery and cybersecurity methods are just some relevant examples. Despite these initiatives, lot of work still needs to be done in such research area, as it encompasses a large collection of topics ranging from data management algorithms to high-performance techniques. Topics are both of theoretical nature (e.g., managing uncertain and imprecise distributed Big Data) and practical nature (e.g., Big Data dissemination in distributed environments). The aim of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2019), which follows the successful events: 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2018), 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2017) and 1st International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2016), is to capture the new research trends and results in terms of models, techniques, algorithms, architecture and applications for the management of Big Data in distributed environments. This workshop will also identify potential research directions and technologies that will drive innovations within this domain. We anticipate this workshop to establish a pathway for the development of future-generation large-scale Big Data management systems. The DBDM 2019 workshop focuses on all the research aspects of distributed management of Big Data. Among these, an unrestricted list is the following one: -Distributed Big Data: Fundamentals -Distributed Big Data: Modelling -Distributed Big Data: Statistical Approaches -Distributed Big Data: Novel Paradigms -Distributed Big Data: Innovative Protocols -Distributed Big Data: Algorithms -Distributed Big Data: Query Optimization -Distributed Big Data: Non-Conventional Environments (e.g., Spatio-Temporal Data, Streaming Data, Cloud Data, Probabilistic Data, Uncertain Data) -Distributed Big Data: Systems -Distributed Big Data: Architectures -Distributed Big Data: Advanced Topics (e.g., NoSQL Databases) -Distributed Big Data: Case Studies and Applications -Innovative Models for Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Innovative Techniques for Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Innovative Algorithms for Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Innovative Architectures for Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Query Processing Approach for Big Data in Distributed Settings -Approximate Query Processing of Big Data in Distributed Settings -Uncertain and Imprecise Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Privacy Preserving Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Secure Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Scalable Big Data Analytics in Distributed Settings -Data Warehousing over Big Data in Distributed Settings -OLAP over Big Data in Distributed Settings -Big Graph Data Management in Distributed Settings -Big RDF Data Management in Distributed Settings -Streaming Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Virtual Big Data Management in Distributed Settings -Indexing Approaches for Big Data in Distributed Settings -Theoretical Models for Big Data Representation in Distributed Settings -Big Data Exchange Models and Algorithms in Distributed Settings -Big Data Fusion Models and Algorithms in Distributed Settings -Big Data Integration Models and Algorithms in Distributed Settings -Big Data Availability Models and Algorithms in Distributed Settings -Big Data Reliability Models and Algorithms in Distributed Settings The 4th International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management (DBDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with the 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2019), in Larnaca, Cyprus, during May 17, 2019, and it focuses on these aspects, by posing the emphasis on a theoretical as well as a practical point of view, and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed big data management to meet and exchange preliminary ideas and mature results. *Workshop Location Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus *Submission Guidelines and Instructions Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated session topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Submitted papers should strictly follow the IEEE official template. Maximum paper length allowed is: -Full Papers: 8 pages; -Short Papers: 4 pages. Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by members of the Workshop Program Committee for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register. Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbdm2019. *Paper Publication Accepted papers will appear in the proper CCGRID 2019 proceedings, published by IEEE. Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of a high-quality international journal. *Important Dates Paper submission: January 30, 2019 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2019 Camera-ready paper due: March 10, 2019 Workshop: May 17, 2019 *Program Committee Chairs Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy *Program Committee Please, access: http://www.units.it/cuzzocrea/confs/DBDM2019/

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2019 (2nd Call)
by Ana Cristina Silva Braga 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2019<https://cas2019.webnode.com/>) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. TOPICS ====== The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc * Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the CAS Workshop March 31, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the CAS 2019 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs<http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs> ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to CAS session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session (Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2019)) from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt<mailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt>), Dep. of Production and Systems<http://www.dps.uminho.pt/Default.aspx?lang=en-US> (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre<http://www.algoritmi.uminho.pt/> (University of Minho), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2019 organizer)

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Special Issue "Parallel String Matching Algorithms and Applications"
by Panagiotis Michailidis 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Special Issue "Parallel String Matching Algorithms and Applications" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/parallel_string_matc… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, We are glad to announce the upcoming Special Issue dedicated to parallel string-matching algorithms and applications. With the recent advances in big text data processing and applications, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive view of the efficient design and implementation of string-matching algorithms for parallel and distributed computing environments (such as multicores, manycores, clusters, CPU/GPUs, grids, p2p, and clouds). We invite researchers and professionals to submit theoretical or practical contributions that aim to present ideas, techniques, and results of parallel computing in all aspects of string matching and related applications (exact/approximate string matching, single/multiple string matching, 2D string matching, and compressed string processing). Manuscripts that focus on research of sequential string-matching algorithms are welcome. Both original research and comprehensive review/survey papers are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: - String matching algorithms (exact/approximate, single/mutiple, two-dimensional, text compression, etc.); - Parallel string-matching algorithms using OpenMP and/or MPI; - Parallel string-matching algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators; - Parallel string-matching applications exploiting FPGA; - Distributed string matching algorithms; - Performance study and analysis of large-scale string-matching applications; - Libraries for string matching on parallel platforms; - Applications of string matching in natural language processing, computational linguistics, information retrieval, text/opinion mining, text plagiarism, sentiment analysis, bioinformatics, computational biology, intrusion detection, security, etc. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering <https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/> and logging in to this website <https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/>. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form <https://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=algorithms>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions> page. *Algorithms* <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/> is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions> page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) <https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/> for publication in this open access <https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/> journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service <https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english> prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Panagiotis D. Michailidis Prof. Dr. Konstantinos G. Margaritis University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece

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IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES 2019
by Paolo Ceravolo 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

*** Apologies for duplicate postings *** *****CALL FOR Papers***** IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES 2019 http://conferences.computer.org/services/2019/ <http://conferences.computer.org/services/2019/> BigData Congress/CLOUD/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT/ICWS/SCC July 8 - 13, 2019, Milan, Italy *****IMPORTANT DATES***** Regular Papers: Paper submission due: February 4, 2019 Final notification to authors: March 15, 2019 Camera ready manuscripts due: April 1, 2019 Congress dates: July 8-13, 2019 The IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2019) will be held on July 8-13, 2019 at the Universita' degli Studi di Milano in Milan, Italy. The Congress will cover all aspects of services computing and applications, current or emerging. It covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, big data and blockchain applications, while addressing critical requirements such as high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, re-usability, interoperability, and cost-effectiveness. The Congress will be organized with seven affiliated, co-located conferences/congresses solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). Original manuscripts are invited to submit to these conferences/congresses considered with most suitable from the technical point of view. *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON BIG DATA (BIGDATA CONGRESS 2019)***** Honorary General Chair: Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy General Chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University General Chair: Meichun Hsu, Oracle Program Chair: Beth Plale, Indiana University Program Chair: Sean Wang, Fudan University Please submit your IEEE BigDataCongress 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeebigdatacongress2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeebigdatacongress2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING (CLOUD 2019)***** General Chair: Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University General Chair: Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart Program Chair: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Program Chair: Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas Please submit your IEEE CLOUD 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDGE COMPUTING (EDGE 2019)***** General Chair: John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley General Chair: Nimish Radia, Ericsson Program Chair: Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University Program Chair: James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh Please submit your IEEE EDGE 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeedge2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeedge2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE COMPUTING (ICCC 2019)***** General Chair: Jacky Akoka, CNAM General Chair: Rong Chang, IBM Program Chair: Gabriella Pasi, University of ilano-Bicocca Program Chair: Dinesh Verma, IBM TJ Watson Please submit your IEEE ICCC 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccc2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccc2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INTERNET OF THINGS (ICIOT 2019)***** General Chair: Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology General Chair: Manish Parashar, National Science Foundation Program Chair: Surya Nepal, CSIRO Program Chair: DongSeong Kim, University of Cateerbury Please submit your IEEE ICIOT 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiciot2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiciot2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS 2019)***** General Chair: Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research General Chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas Program Chair: Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria Program Chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Please submit your IEEE ICWS 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeicws2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeicws2019> *****IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICES COMPUTING (SCC 2019***** General Chair: Michael Goul, Arizona State University General Chair: Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology Program Chair: Yan Wang, Macquarie University Program Chair: Luciano Baresi, Politecnico of Milan Please submit your IEEE SCC 2019 paper at EasyChair.org <http://easychair.org/>: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeescc2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeescc2019> *****PAPER REQUIREMENTS***** Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Special note in regard to early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early submissions and only full/regular papers will be accepted. An early submitted paper which is accepted will be included in the proceedings. An early submitted paper which is rejected can be still revised and submitted to the normal submission deadline (whereas the normal papers cannot be resubmitted). If the authors of an early submitted paper which is rejected decide to resubmit their paper to the normal deadline, they will have to include an appendix (2 pages) describing how they have addressed the comments received by the reviewers on the early submission. *****IMPORTANT DATES***** Regular Papers: Early paper submissions due: December 1, 2018 Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 15, 2019 Normal paper submission due: February 4, 2019 Final notification to authors: March 15, 2019 Camera ready manuscripts due: April 1, 2019 Congress dates: July 8-13, 2019 *****IEEE POLICY***** Review Policy: IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice. Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript. *****ABOUT IEEE***** IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted “voice” for engineering, computing and technology information around the globe. *****ABOUT IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY***** With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology. *****ABOUT THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON SERVICES COMPUTING***** Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas. IEEE TCSVC membership details are available at http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/ <http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/> *****CONTACT US***** Send inquiries to ieeecs DOT services AT gmail DOT com

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CFP: The 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-fourth European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019) Luxembourg -- September 23-27, 2019 WWW: https://esorics2019.uni.lu ================================================================================ Overview --------- ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the 2019 Symposium, to be held in Luxembourg. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ---------------- * Title and Abstract deadline: April 22, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time, UTC-11) * Paper submission deadline: April 29, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time, UTC-11) * Notification to authors: June 21, 2019 * Camera ready due: July 9, 2019 Topics of Interest ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * blockchain and finance security * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * deep learning for attack and defense * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics19 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow the LNCS template ( available form http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Organisation Committee ----------------------- General Chair: * Peter Y A Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Organization Chair: * Peter B Roenne, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Workshop Chair: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,Telecom SudParis, France Program Committee Chairs: * Kazue Sako, NEC Japan * Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Program Committee: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland Frederik Armknecht, University of Mannheim, Germany Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Christian Cachin, University of Bern, Switzerland Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK Yan Chen, Northwestern University, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Stéphanie Delaune, IRISA, France Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China Francois Dupressoir, University of Surrey, UK Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Jose-Luis Ferrer-Gomila, UIB, Spain Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Ghassan Karame, NEC Labs Europe, Germany Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway Stefan Katzenbeisser TU Darmstadt, Germany Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Konstantinos Markantonakis, RHUL, UK Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK John C. Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University, Japan Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France Satoshi Obana, Hosei University, Japan Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Olivier Pereira, UCL, Belgium Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Christina Popper, New York University, US Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Luca Viganò, King’s College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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ACM WiSec 2019 Call for Papers -- Deadline Approaching (less than 2 weeks)
by Mathieu Cunche 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, Apologies for multiple postings. ******************************************************************************** 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks May 15 2019, Miami beach, Florida USA. https://wisec19.fiu.edu/ ******************************************************************************** Important Dates =============== Abstract submission: January 18th (open until paper submission deadline) Paper submission: January 25th Author notification: March 1st Camera ready: April 8th WiSec conference: May 15th-17th Conference Scope ================ ACM WiSec is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications such as Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems, as well as the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, and cryptography. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security protocols for wireless networking * Security & privacy for smart devices (e.g., smartphones) * Security of mobile applications for smartphones and wearables * Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity * Secure localization and location privacy * Cellular network fraud and security * Jamming attacks and defenses * Key management (agreement or distribution) for wireless or mobile systems * Theoretical and formal approaches for wireless and mobile security * Physical layer and Information-theoretic security schemes for wireless systems * Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security * NFC and smart payment applications * Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems * Wireless or mobile security for Cyber-Physical Systems (e.g, healthcare, smart grid, or IoT applications) * Vehicular networks security (e.g., drones, automotive, avionics, autonomous driving) * Physical tracking security and privacy * Usable mobile security and privacy * Economics of mobile security and privacy * Mobile malware and platform security * Security for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access systems The proceedings of ACM WiSec, sponsored by SIGSAC, will be published by the ACM. Full and short papers ===================== Full paper submissions to ACM WiSec 2019 can be up to 10 pages in the ACM conference style excluding the bibliography and well marked appendices, and up to 12 pages in total. ACM WiSec also encourages the submission of short papers with a length of up to 6 pages, which describe mature work of a more succinct nature. All papers must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website. Opinion papers ============== ACM WiSec 2019 invites papers (ACM conference style, up to 3 pages excluding references) that present personal perspectives on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks. Opinion papers could also criticize previous research or research directions, as well as highlight possible promising research directions. The opinions expressed in these papers are expected to be anyway corroborated by theoretical foundations, experiments, or experiences. Like the regular papers, the opinion papers will be reviewed by the WiSec Technical Program Committee. The selected opinion papers will be a part of the WiSec technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Opinion papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must have the prefix "Opinion:". Replicability label =================== The goal of the replicability label is to support replicability in mobile and wireless security experimental research process and to increase the impact of mobile and wireless research, enable dissemination of research results, sharing of code and experiments setups, and to enable the research community to build on prior experimental results. WiSec will follow the ACM policy on artifact review and badging. Towards this goal, the WiSec replicability label recognizes papers whose results were replicated by an independent group of researchers. Authors of accepted papers can participate in this voluntary process by submitting their experiments according to the replicability evaluation instructions. Authors are encouraged to plan ahead when running their experiments to minimize the overhead of applying for this label. Posters and Demos ================= WiSec also solicits submission of posters and demos. The instructions to submit posters/demos will be made available later on WiSec 2019 website. Double submissions ================== It is a policy of the ACM to disallow double submissions, where the same (or substantially similar) paper is concurrently submitted to multiple conferences/journals. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. Organisation Committee ====================== General Chair: * Selcuk Uluagac, Florida International University PC co-Chairs: * Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Rutgers University * Aurélien Francillon, EURECOM Program Committee ================== David Barrera, Polytechnique Montreal, CA Ravi Borgaonkar, SINTEF Digital, Norway Kevin Butler, University of Florida, USA Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University , USA Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Mathieu Cunche, INSA Lyon, France Sophia D'antoine, Trails of bits, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, USA Adam Doupe , Arizona State University, USA Karim Eldefrawy, SRI International, USA William Enck, NC State University, USA Yanick Fratantonio, EURECOM, France Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology, USA Jun Han, National University of Singapore, Singapore Matthias Hollick, Technical University Darmstadt , Germany Yier Jin, University of Florida, USA Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Nicola Laurenti, University of Padua, Italy Loukas Lazos, University of Arizona, USA Vincent Lenders, armasuisse, Switzerland Ming (Fred) Li, University of Arizona, USA Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA Di Ma, University of Michigan, USA Michail Maniatakos, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK Collin Mulliner , Cruise Automation, USA Divya Muthukumaran, Imperial College London, UK Adwait Nadkarni, William & Mary, USA Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Christina Poepper, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University, USA Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, University of Oxford, UK Bradley Reaves, NC State University, USA Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Merve Sahin, SAP Labs, France Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Jens Schmitt, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Matthias Schunter, Intel Lab , Germany Claudio Soriente, NEC Labs, Spain Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Cispa / CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany Patrick Traynor, University of Florida, USA Mathy Vanhoef, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Jie Yang, Florida State University, USA Daphne Yao, Virginia Tech, USA Yves Younan, Cisco Talos, Canada Fengwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA Zhenghao Zhang, Florida State University, USA Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

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JPDC Special Issue CFP: Security & Privacy in Social Big Data-Extended Deadline Jan. 20, 2019
by Qin Liu 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

[Apologies for multiple postings] https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu… ******************************************************************************************************************** Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Security & Privacy in Social Big Data ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE of the SI The rapid development of social networks dramatically changes the way people think, work, and interact. As more and more individual users proactively generate, share, and exchange digital contents through social media, social networks have become a key source of big data. However, with such vast interconnectivity, convergence of relationships, and shared user information comes increased security and privacy concerns in social big data. On one hand, users carelessly posting their personal information on social media which can easily have their privacy breached. On the other hand, malicious attackers may manipulate such information to make a profit. There are two important security and privacy issues in social networks. The first is how to effectively utilize social data while protecting user privacy. The second is how to guarantee the authenticity of social data for an in-depth data analysis. Traditional security mechanisms and models tailored to small-scale or isomorphic data are inadequate to securing social big data which exhibit enormous volume and diverse formats. Therefore, how to develop scalable cryptographic algorithms/protocols and lightweight data mining/organization/optimization models to solve the security and privacy challenges becomes crucial for the successful application of social big data. About the Topics of Interest Any topic related to security and privacy aspects, e.g., access control, authorization, authorization, and anonymization, for big data and social networks, will be considered. All aspects of design, theory and realization are of interest. The scope and interests for the special issue include but are not limited to the following list: (i) Fundamentals and Technologies in Social Networks and Big Data Social network models and platforms Social network architectures and data models Searching and discovery Architectures for big data Machine learning and deep learning Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms Content analysis and data mining Novel and incentive applications of social big data in various fields Big data transformation, and presentation Big data acquisition, integration, cleaning, and best practices Large-scale data collection and filtering problem Sparse data modeling, compressing, and sensing (ii) Security and Privacy in Social Networks Accountability and audit in social networks Authentication and authorization in cloud services; Secure access to social networks; Big data privacy model in social networks New trust mechanism in social networks Privacy and security preserving protocol for social networks Applications of cryptography in social networks Secure data management in social networks; Privacy modeling in social networks Privacy-preserving social data publishing Private information retrieval in social networks Measurement studies of security & privacy issues in social networks Combating cyber-crime: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud techniques (iii) Security and Privacy in Big Data Access control models and anonymization algorithms in big data Cryptography in big data and cloud computing Data protection and integrity in big data Secure searching in big data Secure outsourcing computing in big data System designs for secure data storage in big data Security model and architecture for big data; Software and system security for big data; Scalability and auditing for big data; Security and privacy in big data sharing and visualization; Security and privacy in big data mining and analytics; Data-centric security and data classification; Privacy in big data applications and services; Privacy in big data integration and transformation; Privacy in big data storage management; Threat detection using big data analytics; Big data privacy policies and standards (iv) System, Information and Network Security High performance security systems Secure system implementation Database and system security Secure operating systems Cryptographic primitives and security protocols Disaster recovery Provable security Key distribution and management Intrusion detection and prevention Privacy, anonymity and traceability Identity management Access controls and security mechanisms Web & applications security Secure routing and network management Security in content delivery networks Security in high speed network Security in optical systems and networks Network monitoring Network security policies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Submission deadline: January 20, 2019 First-roundpass notification (for a rejected paper): February 20, 2019 Acceptance/rejection notification: September 1, 2019 Publication materials due: December 31, 201 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Format and Guideline All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 35 pages (one-column, at least 10pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu… All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “VSI: SP in Social Big Data” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://evise.com/evise/jrnl/jpd All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guest Editors Dr. Qin Liu– Corresponding Guest Editor College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China Email: gracelq628@.hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Dr. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, USA Email: mbhuiyan3(a)fordham.edu; zakirulalam(a)gmail.com Dr. Jiankun Hu School of Engineering and IT, University of New South Wales, Australia Email: J.Hu(a)adfa.edu.au Dr. Jie Wu Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, USA Email: jiewu(a)temple.edu -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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DASC 2019: Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals
by Qin Liu 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CALL We appreciate your help if you forward this CALL to your colleague and email lists. ===========Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals============ The 17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2019), August 5-8 2019, Fukuoka, Japan http://cyber-science.org/2019/dasc/ ============================================== DASC 2019 invites Workshops and Special Sessions (SS) to enrich and broaden the research focus of the main conference. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive forum on topics that will not be fully explored during the main event as well as to encourage in-depth discussion of technical and application issues related to dependability, security, and automaticity. This is a unique opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to shape the future research directions and share their original research results and practical development experiences on specific topics related to dependability, security, and automaticity. The workshop proposal, in PDF or MS Word, should provide the following information, in the following format: -The title of the Workshop/SS, including both full name and abbreviation. -The objectives, scope and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page). -The short bios of the key organizers and their experience in conference/workshop organization. -Brief plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise the Workshop/SS or possible submissions to special issues of journals), procedures for selecting papers (including the expected number of accepted papers), and the expected number of participants. -A tentative list of program committee members. -A tentative website/URL of the proposed Workshop/SS. -If the proposed Workshop/SS has been previously organized, please also briefly describe its history (e.g., number of submissions and accepted papers, attendance, etc.) Please email your intellectually stimulating proposals in PDF format as early as possible and not later than Jan 30, 2019 to the Workshop Chairs at Hiroshi Nakamura <nakamurahal.ipc.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Qin Liu <gracelq628(a)126.COM>, and/or Alam Bhuiyan <zakirulalam(a)gmail.com>. Please use "DASC 2019 Workshop/SS Proposal" as the email subject. Once we receive a proposal, a decision will be made in a week. Accepted proposals should follow strictly the important dates, particularly paper notification and camera-ready dates listed below. Important Dates for DASC 2019 Workshops/SS can be as follows. Paper Submission Due: May 20, 2019 Author Notification Due: Jun 05, 2019 Camera-ready Papers Due: June 20, 2019 For accepted proposals, organizers are responsible for composing the corresponding Workshop/SS program committees, advertising call for papers, reviewing submissions and planning the final program. DASC 2019 Workshop/SS Chairs will assist the organization and ensure their quality and success. The Congress will provide facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, proceedings, etc. A Workshop/SS paper should be 5-6 pages, following the same Paper Submission Guidelines as the main conference papers. Each paper should be reviewed at least by two reviewers in the corresponding areas. All accepted Workshop/SS papers will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE-CS Conference Publishing Services in IEEE-DL and EI index. The accepted papers in a cancelled Workshop/SS may be moved to another Workshop/SS, or to the main conference track if they fit in with the quality requirement. The registration requirement and procedure for Workshop/SS papers will be determined by DASC 2019 Organizing Committee, and the registration fee will be paid directly to DASC 2019. The registration fee can be waived for a Workshop/SS抯 main organizer if there are more than 10 accepted papers. We are looking forward to your exciting proposals. -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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TrustData 2019 CFP: Atlanta, USA, July 14-17, 2019
by Qin Liu 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2019 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2019 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 10th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2019) Venue & Dates: Atlanta, USA, July 14-17, 2019 Conference Website: http://www.spaccs.org/trustdata2019/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData2019 is a part of SpaCCS 2019 (http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/) 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI indexed). 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, must not exceed 10 pages (or 14 pages with the over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format (http://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trustdata2019. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Author Notification: April 15, 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 15, 2019 Conference Dates: July 14-17, 2019 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark, University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Panlin Hou, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2019 to: Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com LQ's new homepage: Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/ -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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[CFP] IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Special Issue on Edge computing for Internet of Things
by Francesca Righetti 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

[CALL FOR PAPERS] IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue on Edge computing for Internet of Things GUEST EDITORS: Qiang Ye (Lead), Dalhousie University, Canada. Email: qye(a)cs.dal.ca <mailto:qye@cs.dal.ca> M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada. Email: jamal(a)mcmaster.ca <mailto:jamal@mcmaster.ca> Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy. Email: apuliafito(a)unime.it <mailto:apuliafito@unime.it> Lin Zhang, Beihang University, China. Email: zhanglin(a)buaa.edu.cn <mailto:zhanglin@buaa.edu.cn> TOPIC SUMMARY: The Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to improve the quality of human lives through billions of Internet-based devices. To satisfy the computation and storage requirements of IoT, cloud computing has served as the most important computing infrastructure. However, with the explosion of the number of devices in IoT (expected to reach 50 billion by 2020), a large volume of raw data will be continuously generated by IoT devices, consequently making cloud computing inadequate to efficiently and securely handle the data. In particular, cloud computing will be highly limited in terms of network bandwidth and privacy protection in IoT. To solve this problem, many researchers have attempted to move data computation and service provisioning from the cloud to the edge, which results in the area of edge computing and the related fog computing. Early-stage research has indicated that edge computing could potentially enable IoT applications to meet their latency/delay requirements, improve the scalability and energy efficiency of IoT systems, and facilitate contextual information processing. Nevertheless, a series of challenging problems need to be addressed in order to fully utilize edge computing for IoT. For instance, most of the computation resources in edge computing are heterogeneous mobile devices that are highly energy-hungry, which means that edge computing tends to be unreliable. Moreover, how to efficiently distribute computation/data storage and how to combine edge computing with cloud computing in order to provide scalable services need to be further studied. In addition, how to support services without compromising privacy and security is a challenging problem in edge computing. This special issue aims to provide a prime venue for researchers from both academia and industry to discuss the key problems and present the innovative solutions in the area of edge computing for IoT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Edge/Fog computing architecture for IoT · Modeling and performance analysis of edge computing for IoT · Communication and networking technologies in edge computing for IoT · Mobile computing resource management in edge computing for IoT · Machine learning and deep learning in edge computing for IoT · QoS and QoE provisioning in edge computing for IoT · Trust, security and privacy in edge computing for IoT · Energy management in edge computing for IoT · Collaboration of edge computing and cloud computing for IoT · Experiences in delivering edge/fog-based services · Open issues and challenges in edge computing for IoT IMPORTANT DATES: · Manuscripts due: Apr/01/2019 · Peer reviews to authors: July/01/2019 · Revised manuscripts due: Aug/01/2019 · Second-round reviews to authors: Oct/01/2019 · Final accepted manuscript due: Oct/31/2019 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the “open for submissions” date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/TNSE/author <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/TNSE/author>). Please submit your papers through the online system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/TNSE-cs <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/TNSE-cs>) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly.

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[SMARTCOMP 2019]: Call for papers
by Francesca Righetti 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2019 Call for Papers 12-15 June 2019, Washington DC, USA http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2019 is the 5th edition of the conference and will held in Washington, USA and will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, sensor networks, internet of things, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living. Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that). Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2019 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest: SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS AND ALGORITHMS: ----------------------------------------------- Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Edge computing platforms and algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS: ------------------------ Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- Smart Precision Agriculture Smart Transportation Smart FinTech Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis Smart Health Smart Communities Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities Smart Energy Management and Analytics Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Julie McCann (Imperial College London, UK) Workshops Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina, Italy) Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Keynote Co-Chairs: Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T J Watson Research Center) WIP and Demo Chair: Shiqiang Wang (IBM T J Watson Research Center) PhD Forum Chair: Nirupam Roy (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA) Publication Chair: TBC Registration and Finance Chair: Carmen Au (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Maciej Zawodniok (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Hesheng Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Local Arrangement Chair: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Web Chair: Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Anamika Paul Rupa (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC --- Christian Becker, University of Mannheim Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Dario Bruneo, University of Messina Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo Wan Du, University of California at Merced, USA Angelo Furno, IFSTTAR-France Mohammad Hajiesmaili, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Fanxin Kong, University of Pennsylvania Ulf Kulau, TU Braunschweig Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST Lucas Pereira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) Dirk Pesch, Nimbus Centre For Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County Nishanth Sastry, KCL Vijay Srinivasan, Samsung R&D Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Hwee-Pink Tan, Singapore Management University Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Carlo Vallati, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa Desheng Zhang, Rutgers Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio Important Dates --------------- Workshop Proposal Submission: 23 November 2018 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: 15 December 2018 Paper Registration Deadline: 14 January 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: 28 January 2019 Acceptance Notification: 29 March 2019 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 April 2019 Venue ----- The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019) will be held at Washington DC, USA. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti or Julie McCann.

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HPCC 2019 CFP: Zhangjiajie, China, Aug. 10-12 2019 (with co-locatd SmartCity 2019 & DSS 2019
by Qin Liu 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *******************IEEE (HPCC-2019, SmartCity-2019, DSS-2019 International Conferences ********************* To be held in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, 10-12 August 2019. The 21th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/hpcc2019/ The 17th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/smartcity2019/ The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/dss2019/ Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) IMPORTANT DATES ============================================================ Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: 10 January 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: 10 February 2019 Authors Notification: 22 April 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 25 May 2019 Early Registration Due: 25 May 2019 Conference Date: 10-12 August 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ============================================================ All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. 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). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). The authors of selected papers will be invited to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals. -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019)
by Naercio Magaia 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

======================CALL FOR PAPERS============================== The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019) http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ Fukuoka, Japan, August 5-8, 2019 =================================================================== INTRODUCTION ============= The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing is a premier forum for researchers, practitioners and developers who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, the conference covers also innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be the fifth edition of the conference after the success of CBDCom 2015 in Beijing, CBDCom 2016 in Toulouse, CBDCom 2017 in San Francisco, and CBDCom 2018 in Guangzhou. It will continuously offer a platform for researchers to exchange novel studies, discuss important issues and explore key challenges in innovative cloud and big data for smarter world. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be held on August 5-8, 2019, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2019, IEEE DASC 2019 and IEEE PICom 2019, in Fukuoka, Japan. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Workshop/SS Proposal Due: January 20th, 2019 Regular Paper Submission Due: March 20th, 2019 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: April 20th, 2019 Authors Notification: May 25th, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: June 20th, 2019 Conference: August 5th-8th, 2019 ================ RESEARCH TRACKS ================ The 2019 edition of IEEE CBDCom will be organized in research tracks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Track 1 - Data Science & Analytics* - Big Data Fundamentals & Novel Paradigms - Big Data Algorithms, Applications & Services - Big Data Mining & Analytics - Big data Processing & Querying - Big Data Visualization - Big Data Computing & Recommendations *Track 2 - Big Data Infrastructure & Management* - Big Data Cloud, Grid, Stream Computing - High Performance Platforms for Big Data - NoSQL Data Stores & DB scalability - Energy-Efficient Computing for Big Data - Recommendation & Social Media Systems - Big Data Availability & Reliability *Track 3 - Big Data Tools & Applications* - Complex Big Data Processing - BD in Networks & Communications - Big Data as a Service - Data Warehousing over Big Data - BD Machine & Deep Learning - Innovative Applications & Experiences *Track 4 - Cloud Management & Virtualization* - Virtualization Technologies - Cloud Computing Platforms - Public, Private & Hybrid Clouds - Green & Energy Management - Cloudlet and Serverless Computing - Resource Management, Storage & QoS *Track 5 - Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy & Trust* - Security, Privacy & Reliability in Cloud & BD - Dependable/Trustworthy Big Data Processing - Security/Privacy/Trust as a Service - Blockchain in Cloud and Big Data Application - Cloud Attacks Detection and Prevention - Ethic Issues in Cloud & Big Data *Track 6 - Cloud/Big Data for IoT & Smart City* - Smart Data & Smart Environments - CBD for IoT & Cyber-Physical Systems - RFID & Related Technologies for IoT - M2M Communications and IoT - IoT and Smart City Infrastructures - Green Computing for Big Data & Smart City ============ SUBMISSION ============ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (6-8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (4-6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (2-4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to CBDCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. All accepted papers in the main tracks and workshops will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). ======================== PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ======================== All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- Honorary Chairs Hamido Fujita, University, Japan Frank Hsu, Fordam University, USA General Chairs Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan General Executive Chairs Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada Program Chairs Shu Tao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Xiaoyan Wang, Ibaraki University, Japan Track 1. Big Data Science and Analytics Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada Track 2. Big Data Infrastructure and Management Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Track 3. Big Data Tools and Applications Dionisis Margaris, University of Athens, Greece Track 4. Cloud Management, Virtualization and Service Tsozen Yeh, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Track 5. Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA Track 6. Cloud/Big Data for IoT and Smart City Zhi Liu, Shizuoka University, Japan Workshop Chairs Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Shengli Pan, China University of Geoscience, China International Liaison & Publicity Chairs Naercio Magaia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Samia Bouzefrance, CNAM, France Michał Boroń, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Advisory Committee Georges Da Costa, lRIT, France Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA Andrzej Gościński, Deakin University, Australia Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jie Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Weishan Zhang, China Univ. of Petroleum, China Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, SFX University, Canada Huansheng Ning, Univ. Sci and Tech Beijing, China Julien Bourgeois, UBFC, France Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Please visit the IEEE CDBCom 2019 website http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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CFP for 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2019): Mining, Modeling and Learning in Social Media (Deadline: January 10, 2019)
by Alvin Chin 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2019) Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media to be held on May 14-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA co-located with TheWebConf 2019 https://msmworkshop.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 10, 2019 ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 14, 2019 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Mar 3, 2019 ** Workshop date: May 13-14, 2019 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Program Committee: ================== Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Michelangelo Ceci, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Bin Guo, Institut Telecom Sud Paris, France Eelco Herder, Radboud University, Netherlands Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA Dominik Kowald, Know-Center, Austria Florian Lemmerich, RWTH Aachen, Germany Nico Piatkowski, AI Group, TU Dortmund, Germany Haggai Roitman, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino, Italy Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group, USA Longqi Yang, Cornell University, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, The University of Warwick, UK We aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on data mining, modeling and using machine learning and AI for social media, big and small data, sensor data and the web. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse, streaming bit 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. Following the discussion at our workshop at TheWebConf 2018, we aim to focus on how to apply data mining, recommendation, machine learning and AI models, algorithms and systems for analytic and predictive modeling on social media, big data, small data, web and sensor data. Contrary to last year’s workshop, we would like to particularly invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and try to discover the intelligent information hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. Overall, we are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * predictive analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * AI, machine learning, deep learning and NLP models, algorithms and systems for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * deep learning approaches and models for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * data mining techniques and algorithms for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * evaluation of machine learning and AI frameworks and metrics * explainability and transparency of the machine learning/deep learning/AI methods * applications of machine learning, deep learning and AI * applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to use data mining, machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms on social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-8 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair tohttps://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=msm2019 Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of TheWebConf 2019 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 TheWebConf submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW or TheWebConf workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at TheWebConf 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2019 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; 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 of the International Workshop on Wireless Technology in Smart Grid 2019
by Conference assistant 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

Dear researchers, We are pleased to recommend the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Technology Innovations in Smart Grid (WTISG) to you! WTISG-2019 is part of the 9th International conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology. The CFP information is provided below and relevant files are attached herewith. Welcome to submmit your manuscript to our conference. Thanks for your attention and support! Best regards, Conference assistant 2019-01-11 CALL FOR PAPER OF THE WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN SMART GRID (Part of the SEIT-2019) The 5th International Workshop on Wireless Technology Innovations in Smart Grid (WTISG) aims to foster innovative research and discussion about smart grid wireless technology challenges, issues, approaches, and solutions. WTISG-2019 is a part of Sustainable Energy Information Technology 2019 (SEIT-2019) conference. It will take place on August 19-21, 2019 in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. WTISG-2019 seeks paper submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of wireless technology in smart grid, including design, analysis, test, experimentation, and fielded test systems. The scope of the workshop encompasses all aspects of the wireless technology applications in smart grid, including generation, transmission, distribution, metering, e-mobility, and integration of distributed energy resources. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: l Wireless communication technology in smart grid; l Wireless sensor network (WSN) in smart grid application; l Wireless application in smart city (such as smart home, electric vehicle, etc); l Wireless application in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); l Wireless application in power grid emergency management; l Information and communication technology (ICT) application in smart grid; l Risk and reliability analysis of wireless technology in smart grid ; l Cyber security and privacy of wireless technology in smart grid; l Cyber physical system (CPS) related issue; l Testbeds and field trials; l Standard wireless protocols for application in smart grid; l Wireless technology standards, testing, and certification in smart grid; l Usability and legal issues on wireless grid security; l Cloud computing and smart grids; l Other smart grid related issue discussion. All SEIT-2019 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier in the pen-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (EI). This includes EI Compendex. Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP. 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. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 8 pages. The submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=seit2019. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier. The template can be found on the conference website. More information can be found on the workshop website: http://wirelesssmartgrid2019.sxl.cn Workshop Chairs: Dr. Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China. Email: husthou(a)126.com Tel: +86-15342223360 Dr. Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA. Email: Malikh(a)marshall.edu

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ESORICS 2019 - Call for Workshop Proposals [24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Luxembourg, 2019]
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ESORICS 2019 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 Website: https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: February 8, 2019 * Notification of decision: March 15, 2019 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org) The following application form should be used. (also available in Word format at http://j.mp/ESORICS19wsh) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2019 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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ESORICS 2019 - Call for Workshop Proposals [24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Luxembourg, 2019]
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

[apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: ESORICS 2019 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 Website: https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Proposals are solicited for Workshops to be held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. A Workshop should aim at providing a forum on emerging topics of high interest to the security and privacy community. In the Workshop selection, particular consideration will be paid to: * Its potential interest for the security and privacy community * Its novelty with respect to other forums, especially with respect to other ESORICS workshops. * Its likely impact on the target community, including likely high participation. A workshop can be either one day or two days in length. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Workshop proposals due: February 8, 2019 * Notification of decision: March 15, 2019 Submitting a Workshop Proposal ------------------------------------ To submit a proposal send an email to the Workshop Chair with with the information requested in the application form: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (jgalfaro(a)ieee.org) The following application form should be used. (also available in Word format at http://j.mp/ESORICS19wsh) ====================================================================== ESORICS 2019 - WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM: - Title of the Workshop: - Duration (maximum 2 days): - Draft "Call for Papers", articulating the workshop's scope and topics: - Brief summary and justification for the workshop, including anticipated benefits to the ESORICS community: - Planned activities: - Expected number of participants: - Workshop organizers: * PC Chair(s): * General Chair(s): - Workshop deadlines: * Submission deadline: * Notification to authors: * Camera-ready versions: - Planned publication of Workshop proceedings: - Data of last three years for the workshop (if applicable): * Number of submissions: * Number of accepted papers: * Number of participants: * Publication of proceedings: * Venue (co-location): ======================================================================

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CPF International Workshop on Wireless Technology in Smart Grid 2019
by 于士文 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

Dear researchers, We are pleased to recommend the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Technology Innovations in Smart Grid (WTISG) to you! The CFP information is provided below and relevant files are attached herewith. Welcome to submmit your manuscript to our conference. Thanks for your attention and support! Best regards, Conference assistant 2019-01-11 CALL FOR PAPER OF THE WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN SMART GRID (Part of the SEIT-2019) The 5th International Workshop on Wireless Technology Innovations in Smart Grid (WTISG) aims to foster innovative research and discussion about smart grid wireless technology challenges, issues, approaches, and solutions. WTISG-2019 is a part of Sustainable Energy Information Technology 2019 (SEIT-2019) conference. It will take place on August 19-21, 2019 in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. WTISG-2019 seeks paper submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of wireless technology in smart grid, including design, analysis, test, experimentation, and fielded test systems. The scope of the workshop encompasses all aspects of the wireless technology applications in smart grid, including generation, transmission, distribution, metering, e-mobility, and integration of distributed energy resources. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: l Wireless communication technology in smart grid; l Wireless sensor network (WSN) in smart grid application; l Wireless application in smart city (such as smart home, electric vehicle, etc); l Wireless application in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); l Wireless application in power grid emergency management; l Information and communication technology (ICT) application in smart grid; l Risk and reliability analysis of wireless technology in smart grid ; l Cyber security and privacy of wireless technology in smart grid; l Cyber physical system (CPS) related issue; l Testbeds and field trials; l Standard wireless protocols for application in smart grid; l Wireless technology standards, testing, and certification in smart grid; l Usability and legal issues on wireless grid security; l Cloud computing and smart grids; l Other smart grid related issue discussion. All SEIT-2019 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier in the pen-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (EI). This includes EI Compendex. Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP. 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. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 8 pages. The submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=seit2019. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier. The template can be found on the conference website. More information can be found on the workshop website: http://wirelesssmartgrid2019.sxl.cn Workshop Chairs: Dr. Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China. Email: husthou(a)126.com Tel: +86-15342223360 Dr. Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA. Email: Malikh(a)marshall.edu 2019-01-11 于士文

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019)
by Naercio Magaia 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

======================CALL FOR PAPERS============================== The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019) http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ Fukuoka, Japan, August 5-8, 2019 =================================================================== INTRODUCTION ============= The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing is a premier forum for researchers, practitioners and developers who are interested in cloud computing and big data to explore new ideas, techniques and tools, as well as to exchange experience. Besides the latest research achievements, the conference covers also innovative commercial data management systems, innovative commercial applications of cloud computing and big data technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to real-world problems. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be the fifth edition of the conference after the success of CBDCom 2015 in Beijing, CBDCom 2016 in Toulouse, CBDCom 2017 in San Francisco, and CBDCom 2018 in Guangzhou. It will continuously offer a platform for researchers to exchange novel studies, discuss important issues and explore key challenges in innovative cloud and big data for smarter world. IEEE CBDCom 2019 will be held on August 5-8, 2019, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2019, IEEE DASC 2019 and IEEE PICom 2019, in Fukuoka, Japan. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ Workshop/SS Proposal Due: January 20th, 2019 Regular Paper Submission Due: March 20th, 2019 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: April 20th, 2019 Authors Notification: May 25th, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: June 20th, 2019 Conference: August 5th-8th, 2019 ================ RESEARCH TRACKS ================ The 2019 edition of IEEE CBDCom will be organized in research tracks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Track 1 - Data Science & Analytics* - Big Data Fundamentals & Novel Paradigms - Big Data Algorithms, Applications & Services - Big Data Mining & Analytics - Big data Processing & Querying - Big Data Visualization - Big Data Computing & Recommendations *Track 2 - Big Data Infrastructure & Management* - Big Data Cloud, Grid, Stream Computing - High Performance Platforms for Big Data - NoSQL Data Stores & DB scalability - Energy-Efficient Computing for Big Data - Recommendation & Social Media Systems - Big Data Availability & Reliability *Track 3 - Big Data Tools & Applications* - Complex Big Data Processing - BD in Networks & Communications - Big Data as a Service - Data Warehousing over Big Data - BD Machine & Deep Learning - Innovative Applications & Experiences *Track 4 - Cloud Management & Virtualization* - Virtualization Technologies - Cloud Computing Platforms - Public, Private & Hybrid Clouds - Green & Energy Management - Cloudlet and Serverless Computing - Resource Management, Storage & QoS *Track 5 - Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy & Trust* - Security, Privacy & Reliability in Cloud & BD - Dependable/Trustworthy Big Data Processing - Security/Privacy/Trust as a Service - Blockchain in Cloud and Big Data Application - Cloud Attacks Detection and Prevention - Ethic Issues in Cloud & Big Data *Track 6 - Cloud/Big Data for IoT & Smart City* - Smart Data & Smart Environments - CBD for IoT & Cyber-Physical Systems - RFID & Related Technologies for IoT - M2M Communications and IoT - IoT and Smart City Infrastructures - Green Computing for Big Data & Smart City ============ SUBMISSION ============ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (6-8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (4-6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (2-4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to CBDCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. All accepted papers in the main tracks and workshops will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). ======================== PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ======================== All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- Honorary Chairs Hamido Fujita, University, Japan Frank Hsu, Fordam University, USA General Chairs Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan General Executive Chairs Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rachid Benlamri, Lakehead University, Canada Program Chairs Shu Tao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Xiaoyan Wang, Ibaraki University, Japan Track 1. Big Data Science and Analytics Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada Track 2. Big Data Infrastructure and Management Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Track 3. Big Data Tools and Applications Dionisis Margaris, University of Athens, Greece Track 4. Cloud Management, Virtualization and Service Tsozen Yeh, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Track 5. Cloud/Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Haiying (Helen) Shen, University of Virginia, USA Track 6. Cloud/Big Data for IoT and Smart City Zhi Liu, Shizuoka University, Japan Workshop Chairs Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Shengli Pan, China University of Geoscience, China International Liaison & Publicity Chairs Naercio Magaia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Samia Bouzefrance, CNAM, France Michał Boroń, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Kai Cheng, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Advisory Committee Georges Da Costa, lRIT, France Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA Andrzej Gościński, Deakin University, Australia Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jie Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Fuhua Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Weishan Zhang, China Univ. of Petroleum, China Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, SFX University, Canada Huansheng Ning, Univ. Sci and Tech Beijing, China Julien Bourgeois, UBFC, France Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Please visit the IEEE CDBCom 2019 website http://cyber-science.org/2019/cbdcom/ for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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CFP: IEEE ISORC - Int. Symp. on Real-Time Distributed Computing - Deadline Extension
by Tommaso Cucinotta 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times] *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 *** *** Submission deadline extended to: January 25, 2019 The IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC) has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, for the first time, ISORC 2019 will organize a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. Best papers from ISORC 2019 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. More information including submission guidelines can be found at: https://isorc2019.github.io/. IEEE ISORC 2019 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware, model maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches; stream correlation and sampling approaches. * System software: real-time kernel/OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics). * Time-sensitive social dispersed computing. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Arvind Easwaran, NTU, Singapore * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs * Aniruddha Gokhale Vanderbilt Univ., USA * Mathias Pacher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, NTU, Singapore Organization Chair * Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Poster/Demo Chairs * Di Liu, Yunnan University, China * Luis Lino Ferreira CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Web and Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy * Zhenkai Zhang, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA IMPORTANT DATES Main Track * Submission deadline extended to January 25, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 1, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 8, 2019 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline March 7, 2019 * Acceptance notification March 21, 2019 * Camera-ready papers March 28, 2019 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: https://isorc2019.github.io/ The IEEE ISORC 2019 Organizers -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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FOSDEM 2019 - Ada Developer Room - Sat 2 Feb 2019 - Brussels
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce the program for its 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 (Ada at the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) on Saturday 2 February 2019 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.125 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/ada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. The 2019 edition takes place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February. It is free to attend and no registration is necessary. In this edition, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a series of presentations related to the Ada Programming Language and Free or Open Software in a s.c. Developer Room. The "Ada DevRoom" at FOSDEM 2019 is held on the first day of the event, Saturday 2 February 2019. This year FOSDEM has a total of 15 Ada-related presentations by 12 authors from 7 countries! A mini-poster about the Ada DevRoom [1], as well as a one-page Call for Participation for the Ada DevRoom [2] is available; they can be used to help announce the event, and to give an idea about its scope. [1] www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem-cfpart-poster.… [2] www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem-cfpart-a4.pdf *** Ada Programming Language and Technology Ada is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for safety- and mission-critical software engineering. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services, medical devices, etc. It is also perfectly suited for open source development. Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2020. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. The Ada DevRoom aims to present the facilities offered by the Ada language (such as for object-oriented, multicore, or embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting tools and projects using Ada. FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. *** Ada Developer Room Presentations (room: AW1.125, 76 seats) The presentations in the Ada DevRoom start after the opening FOSDEM keynote. The program runs from 10:30 to 19:00. 10:00-10:30 - Arrival & Informal Discussions Feel free to arrive early, to start the day with some informal discussions while the set-up of the DevRoom is finished. 10:30-10:35 - Welcome to the Ada DevRoom by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium Welcome to the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019, which is organized by Ada-Belgium in cooperation with Ada-Europe. Ada-Belgium and Ada-Europe are non-profit organizations set up to promote the use of the Ada programming language and related technology, and to disseminate knowledge and experience into academia, research and industry in Belgium and Europe, resp. Ada-Europe has member-organizations, such as Ada-Belgium, in various countries, and direct members in many other countries. 10:35-11:20 - An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers - by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog An overview of the main features of the Ada language, with special emphasis on those features that make it especially attractive for free software development. Ada is a feature-rich language, but what really makes Ada stand-out is that the features are nicely integrated towards serving the goals of software engineering. If you prefer to spend your time on designing elegant solutions rather than on low-level debugging, if you think that software should not fail, if you like to build programs from readily available components that you can trust, you should really consider Ada! 11:30-11:50 - Sequential Programming in Ada: Lessons Learned by Joakim Strandberg - Mequinox What's hot right now in the proposal for Ada 2020 is increased support of safe parallelism. However, the support for sequential programming in Ada 2012 is absolutely great and probably underestimated. This presentation will demonstrate lessons learned from making an Ada binding to the Wayland Client API: how to leverage nested subprograms, pragma Unmodified, subpools, Gnatcheck and GPS to provide a flexible/enjoyable way of working and at the same time maximize compile-time error checking when developing sequential algorithms. 12:00-12:50 - Autonomous Train Control Systems: a First Approach by Julia Teissl - FH Campus Wien Numerous small villages in Austria have lost their connections to the railway network because it was no longer cost-effective to operate under a regular schedule. To re-establish these connections, FH Campus Wien started the project "autonome, schienengebundene, on-Demand, open-Track Systeme" AuSoDoTS (Autonomous rail bound on-Demand Open Track systems). The project's objective is to develop a concept for how to safely operate small autonomous trains, without a fixed schedule. Trains are only approaching to stations when a passenger explicitly requests them by pressing a button at the station or using a mobile app. A short track from Liesing at the edge of Vienna to Kaltenleutgeben, a small town in Lower Austria, could be one of the first test locations. As a first approach a small model railway has been built. The model has two purposes. One is to find the optimal placement for passing loops where trains can pass each other, since the connection is mostly single track. The other is to test different scheduling algorithms for on-Demand service. To fulfill the strict safety aspects of a passenger transportation system, the programming language Ada is used and in following versions SPARK will be used as it can be formally verified to be correct then. 13:00-13:20 - Controlling the Execution of Parallel Algorithms in Ada by Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago Tasking in Ada provides an effective tool for shared memory parallelism. An "any time" algorithm is an algorithm that, given some more resources, will improve the accuracy of an estimate. For example, consider the estimation of Pi by a Monte Carlo method. With multitasking, the status of the running of an "any time" algorithm can be monitored without interrupts. The programming concepts will be illustrated with examples of algorithms in polyhedral geometry. The demonstrated code belongs to the free and open source PHCpack. 13:30-13:50 - Persistence with Ada Database Objects by Stephane Carrez - Twinlife The presentation describes how Ada Database Objects helps in connecting to an SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL database from Ada. It explains how by mapping SQL tables in Ada records, it simplifies saving and updating database records and makes the application more safe and reliable. The presentation will briefly describe the Ada code generator (Dynamo) that is behind this. 14:00-14:50 - Shrink your Data to (almost) Nothing with Trained Compression - by Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland We will show a new Trained Compression generic plug-in, which can leverage prior information about the data to be transmitted for reducing further raw compressed streams. We will also present a pick-and-choose technique feature called "Preselection" for improving the Zip archiving process. The Zip-Ada library has met over the years the needs of several professional users who need the file archiving features, or the data compression features to reduce storage and shorten transmission times. We will show the evolution of this full-Ada portable library and the advantages of using it. 15:00-15:20 - GSH: an Ada POSIX Shell to Speed Up GNU Builds on Windows by Nicolas Roche - AdaCore GSH is an implementation of a POSIX shell developed for the Windows platform. The aim of the project is to speed up builds of GNU projects on Windows in a large automated build infrastructures. GSH can be used to compile projects depending on autotools, UNIX make, ... It is up to 2-3 times faster than Cygwin shells for GCC builds. In this talk I will present: - what makes GSH faster than other Windows shells for building GNU projects; - how GSH was developed; - how you can use it to speed up your builds; - the limitations; - what features of Ada we benefit from in this project. 15:30-15:50 - What is Safety-Critical Software, and How Can Ada and SPARK Help? - by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog We are (too much) used to software having bugs as an unavoidable fate. But for safety-critical software, like the code that's driving planes or trains, "Failure is Not an Option". This presentation exposes the constraints of such software, and how they require a special state of mind, special methods, and special tools - like Ada and SPARK. And these can be useful for more casual programming - zero bug software is nice, even when not safety-critical! 16:00-16:50 - Secure Web Applications with AWA by Stephane Carrez - Twinlife Web application security is often underestimated, and using a secure framework can help reduce application vulnerabilities. Ada Web Application (AWA) is a web framework that leverages Ada's safety features to provide a secure environment on top of which safe applications are built. AWA is based on several Java-like technologies such as Java Beans, Java Servlet, Java Server Faces, other standards such as OAuth2, REST and OpenAPI, all implemented in Ada. This presentation briefly describes the AWA architecture and how applications are built with it. The presentation highlights some of the Ada functionalities that contribute to the safety and make applications secure and reliable. 17:00-17:20 - Distributed Computing with Ada and CORBA using PolyORB by Frédéric Praca - Ada-France Imagine you have a fantastic Ada program or library but you want more! You want it to be scalable and used by other developers with other languages. The goal of this presentation is to show you the way to achieve it without bending to fashion. :) As of today, we see distributed computing as Web services, mainly RESTful stuff. Some technologies exist since years and are working successfully in many systems. One of these is CORBA which allows Object-Oriented communication between applications in languages such as Ada or C++. In this presentation, the chosen middleware providing CORBA infrastructure is PolyORB. We will use it to make a distributed version of an existing piece of software, the Corporate Bullshit Generator (CBSG), and create client applications in C++ and Ada. This will allow us to put the power of Ada and PolyORB into a distributed system. 17:30-17:50 - Cappulada: Smooth Ada Bindings for C++ by Johannes Kliemann - Componolit Writing Ada bindings for C and especially for C++ is a tedious but not necessarily sophisticated task. There are several approaches to both C and C++ but many of them lack desired language features, generate non-compilable code or are project specific. With Cappulada (a coinage of coupling, CPP and Ada made pronounceable) we try a more general approach that aims to support complex language features such as templates or inheritance while providing a semantically appropriate mapping of object structures and types. The talk will also cover which features can be mapped and what is not feasible or possible. 18:00-18:20 - The AZip Archive Manager: a full-Ada Open-Source Portable Application - by Gautier de Montmollin - Ada-Switzerland If you open the AZip application with a can opener, it will look like an Ada programmer's paradise: you'll find Ada on all levels: - the AZip user interface (UI framework specific); - the AZip abstract application layer (platform-independent); - the archive and data compression library (Zip-Ada); - the user interface framework (GWindows); - the run-time library (GNAT's). We will quantify this. Portability is matched on three different definitions of the word: - platform-independence for the abstracted part and the Zip-Ada library - no porting effort at all there; - you can easily port the user interface layer since most of the job is done in the abstracted part; - no installation needed: the version built on GWindows is contained in a single executable file and can be run from a USB stick; it can be even run in a stealth mode, without writing settings to the registry of the host system. 18:30-18:50 - Proof of Pointer Programs with Ownership in SPARK by Yannick Moy - AdaCore Pointers are a notorious "defect attractor", in particular when dynamic memory management is involved. Ada mitigates these issues by having much less need for pointers overall (thanks to first-class arrays, parameter modes, generics) and stricter rules for pointer manipulations that limit access to dangling memory. Still, dynamic memory management in Ada may lead to use-after-free, double-free and memory leaks, and dangling memory issues may lead to runtime exceptions. The SPARK subset of Ada is focused on making it possible to guarantee properties of the program statically, in particular the absence of programming language errors, with a mostly automatic analysis. For that reason, and because static analysis of pointers is notoriously hard to automate, pointers have been forbidden in SPARK until now. We are working at AdaCore since 2017 on including pointer support in SPARK by restricting the use of pointers in programs so that they respect "ownership" constraints, like what is found in Rust. In this talk, I will present the current state of the ownership rules for pointer support in SPARK, and the current state of the implementation in the GNAT compiler and GNATprove prover, as well as our roadmap for the future. 18:50-19:00 - Informal Discussions & Closing Informal discussion on ideas and proposals for future events. *** RISC-V Developer Room Presentation (room: AW1.126, 82 seats) In addition to the above presentations in the Ada DevRoom, there's also an Ada-related presentation scheduled in the RISC-V Developer Room. 13:30-14:45 - Alternative Languages for Safe and Secure RISC-V Programming - by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore In this talk I want to open a window into the wonderful world of "alternative" programming languages for RISC-V. What can you get by looking beyond C/C++. So I will start with a quick introduction to the Ada and SPARK languages, the benefits, the hurdles. I will also present an overview of the applications and domains where they shine, when failure is not an option. I will then do a short getting started session and provide all the details for you to start RISC-V programming with Ada/SPARK on different platforms (QEMU, HiFive1, FPGAs with PicoRV32). At the end of the talk, I will give my view of the RISC-V architecture and community from the perspective of an alternative languages developer. I will cover the good points, the risks, and provide some ideas on how the RISC-V can keep the door open. *** More information on Ada Developer Room Speakers bios, pointers to relevant information, links to corresponding FOSDEM pages, etc., are available on the Ada-Belgium site at www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html We invite you to attend some or all of the presentations: they will be given in English. Everybody interested can attend FOSDEM 2019; no registration is necessary. We hope to see many of you there! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Ada DevRoom coordinator Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9)

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CFP: 2019 European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Edge Computing (EuroSPEC'19)
by roman 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

============================================================================== EuroSPEC'19: 2019 European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Edge Computing ----------------------------------------------- Held in conjunction with EuroS&P 2019 Stockholm, Sweden -- June, 2019 ----------------------------------------------- https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/eurospec19/ Important Dates Submission due: March 1, 2019 Notification: April 1, 2019 Camera-ready due: April 22, 2019 ============================================================================== Workshop introduction and topics --------------------------------- The main goal of Fog Computing and other related Edge paradigms, such as Multi-Access Edge Computing, is to decentralize the Cloud and bring some of its services closer to the edge of the network, where data are generated and decisions are made. Cloud-enabled edge platforms will be able to cooperate not only with each other but with the cloud, effectively creating a collaborative and federated environment. This paradigm shift will fulfill the needs of novel services, such as augmented reality, that have particularly stringent requirements like extremely low latency. It will also help improve the vision of the Internet of Things by improving its scalability and overall functionality, among other benefits. To enable this vision, a number of platforms and technologies need to securely coexist, including sensors and actuators, edge-deployed systems, software-defined networks, hardware virtualization, data mining mechanisms, etc. However, this paradigm shift calls for new security challenges and opportunities to leverage services for new scenarios and applications. The field of edge computing security is still largely unexplored, and demands further attention from the research community and industry in order to unleash the full potential of this paradigm. Topics of Interest ------------------- This workshop expects original research papers on, but not limited to, the topics described below: * Edge devices security * Attacks and Countermeasures to Edge computing platforms * Authentication and Access control in Edge computing * Accountability and Accounting in Edge computing * Identity management systems in Edge computing * Secure federation of Edge computing devices * Secure Orchestration and Management of Edge devices * Secure Software-Defined Networking for Edge computing * Secure Virtualization in Edge Computing * Secure Migration of resources in Edge Computing * Data and Computation integrity in Edge Computing * Trust and Reputation Management in Edge computing * Privacy in Edge Computing * Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems for Edge computing * Digital Forensics in Edge Computing * Risk Analysis in Edge Computing * Incident Management in Edge Computing Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurospec2019 Submissions must comply with the paper format requirements found in https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2019/cfp.php. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for rejection. It is planned that the proceedings of the workshop will be published through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2019 proceedings. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11). Contact -------- Email: eurospec19(a)nics.uma.es EuroSPEC Home: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/eurospec19/ Organisation Committee ----------------------- General Chair: - Ruben RIOS (University of Malaga, Spain) Program Chairs: - Rodrigo ROMAN (University of Malaga, Spain) - Roberto DI PIETRO (HBKU, College of Science and Engineering, Doha-Qatar) Program Committee: - Ketan BHARDWAJ, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Mauro CONTI, Universitá Degli Studi di Padova, Italy - Aurélien FRANCILLON, Eurecom, France - Jose M. DE FUENTES, UC3M, Spain - Lorena GONZALEZ MANZANO, UC3M, Spain - Martin G. JAATUN, SINTEF Digital, Norway - Donghyun KIM, Kennesaw State University, USA - Flavio LOMBARDI, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy - Javier LOPEZ, University of Malaga, Spain - Haralambos MOURATIDIS, University of Brighton, UK - Jose A. ONIEVA, University of Malaga, Spain - Fernando M.V. RAMOS, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Pierangela SAMARATI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Savio SCIANCALEPORE, HBKU (College of Science and Engineering), Qatar - Juan E. TAPIADOR, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

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