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Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation at NUMTA 2019 - Crotone, Calabria, Italy
by William Spataro 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: NUMTA Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (NUMTA2019-HPCMS) TH Le Castella Village Le Castella – Isola Capo Rizzuto Crotone, Italy DEADLINE for One-page Abstract submission: March 18, 2019 ************************************************************************** Model development for the simulation of the evolution of artificial and natural systems is essential for the advancement of Science. The increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. An important mission of the HPCMS Special Session within the NUMTA 2019 3rd International Conference and Summer School is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. The session intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, hydrology, medicine, ecology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, earth science and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation Submission One-page abstract should be submitted before March 18, 2019 EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=numta2019 (please follow the EasyChair hints to correctly prepare and submit your abstract). After acceptance, the authors can submit their full papers (end of May) as reported on the NUMTA main web page (http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php) More information about the HPCMS Workshop and the general NUMTA 2019 conference can be found at: http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php Organizers William Spataro – University of Calabria (Italy) Donato D’Ambrosio – University of Calabria (Italy) Rocco Rongo – University of Calabria (Italy) Andrea Giordano – ICAR-CNR (Italy) Scientific Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D’Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D’Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 10 Jan '19

10 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 International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ 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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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 10 Jan '19

10 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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CGI'19 3rd CFP - June 17-20 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
by Marina Gavrilova 10 Jan '19

10 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 (full and short papers) will be included in the conference proceedings. 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 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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ACDL 2019, Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning - Early Registration March 31
by Ludovico Montalcini 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

ACDL 2019, Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & AI without Borders ACDL 2019 – A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & AI with the World’s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 15-19, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz acdl(a)icas.xyz ACDL 2018 Sold-out! Probably also ACDL 2019: Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three lessons on a specific topic. The Lecturers below are confirmed. Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Topic: Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning Phillip Isola, MIT, USA Topic: Generative Adversarial Networks Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Topic: Big Data Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University & AI Research at Apple, USA Topic: Deep Learning Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA Topics: Computational Cognitive Science, probabilistic generative models, and probabilistic programming Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel Topic: Theory of Deep Learning – Information Bottleneck Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Topic: Automatic machine learning Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK Topic: Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2018 will be The Certosa di Pontignano — Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Località Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) – Tuscany – Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info(a)lacertosadipontignano.com http://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/ A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/accommodation/ Past Edition - ACDL 2018: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz ACDL 2019 Poster: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/11/poster-ACDL-20… REGISTRATION: https://acdl2019.icas.xyz/registration/ We remind you that ACDL 2018 sold out a long time before the registration deadline! Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2019 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2019 Organizing Committee. acdl(a)icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz

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2nd CFP: SDM 2019 FEND Workshop, May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada
by Kai Shu 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for Papers Workshop on Data Mining for Fake News in Social Media: Propagation, Detection, and Mitigation (FEND'19), in conjunction with SDM'19 http://pike.psu.edu/fend19/ May 2-4, 2019, Alberta, Canada Social media has become a popular means to consume news. However, the quality of news on social media is lower than traditional news organizations. Because it is cheap to provide news online and much faster and easier to disseminate through social media, large volumes of fake news, i.e., those news articles with intentionally false information, are produced online for a variety of purposes, such as financial and political gain. The extensive spread of fake news can have severe negative impacts on individuals and society. First, fake news can break the authenticity balance of the news ecosystem. For example, it is evident that the most popular fake news was even more widely spread on Facebook than the most popular authentic mainstream news during the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Second, fake news intentionally persuades consumers to accept biased or false beliefs for political or financial gain. For example, in 2013, $130 billion in stock value was wiped out in a matter of minutes following an Associated Press (AP) tweet about an explosion that injured Barack Obama. AP said its Twitter account was hacked. Third, fake news changes the way people interpret and respond to real news, impeding their abilities to differentiate what is true from what is not. Therefore, it's critical to understand how fake news propagate, developing data mining techniques for efficient and accurate fake news detection and intervene in the propagation of fake news to mitigate the negative effects. The objectives of this workshop are: - Bring together researchers from both academia and industry as well as practitioners to present their latest problems and ideas; - Attract social media providers who have access to interesting sources of fake news datasets and problems but lack the expertise in data mining to use data effectively; - Enhance interactions between data mining, text mining, social media mining, and sociology and psychology communities working on problems of fake news propagation, detection, and mitigation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and social media providers for understanding fake news propagation, improving fake news detection in social media and mitigation. Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - User behavior analysis and characterization for fake news detection - Text mining - mining news contents and user comments - Early fake news detection - Unsupervised fake news detection - Fact-checking - Tracing and characterizing the propagation of fake news and true news - Malicious account and bot detection, user credibility assessment - Visual analysis and exploration with images on the news - News event aggregation and detection - Building benchmark datasets for fake news detection in social media Paper Submission: Papers should be submitted as PDF, using the SIAM conference proceedings style, available at https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/Proceedings/soda2e_061418.zip?v…. Submissions should be limited to nine pages and submitted via CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FEND2019. Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 1, 2019 Notification: March 15, 2019 SDM pre-registration deadline: April 2, 2019 Camera ready: April 15, 2019 Conference dates: May 2-4, 2019 Shall you have any questions, please email to szw494(a)psu.edu or kai.shu(a)asu.edu. Workshop Organizers: Suhang Wang Penn State University, USA Dongwon Lee Penn State University, USA Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA Workshop Publicity Chair: Kai Shu Arizona State University, USA

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CfP, 6th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2019, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Tuscany, Italy July 22-26
by Ludovico Montalcini 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

6th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2019 July 22-26, 2019 - Certosa di Pontignano - Siena - Tuscany - Italy https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz ssbss(a)icas.xyz * Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please help us distributing in your circles (emails, blogs, and social networks) the call for participation and call for oral talks/posters for SSBSS 2019. Together we will make SSBSS 2019 a great event! * The Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) is a full-immersion five-day residential summer school at the Robinson College - University of Cambridge - UK on cutting-edge advances in systems and synthetic biology with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The school provides a stimulating environment for students (from Master students to PhD students), Post-Docs, early career researches, academics and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results (with Oral Talks and Posters), and to interact with their peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. DEADLINES: Application: March 31, 2019 Oral Presentation/Poster Submission: March 31, 2019 Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: April 28, 2019 https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ SPEAKERS & TOPICS: * ADAM ARKIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA Topics: Systems & Synthetic Biology & Microbiology/Virology * ANDREA CALIFANO, Columbia University, USA Topics: Systems Biology, Cell Regulatory Networks, Cancer tumorigenesis & Drug Resistance * JASON CHIN, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Topics: Genetic Code Reprogramming * VIRGINIA CORNISH, Columbia University, USA Topics: Synthetic Biology, Chemical Complementation & Ribosome Chemistry * JOHN GLASS, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA Topics: Minimal Cell, Building and engineering of genomes and chromosomes * KAREN POLIZZI, Imperial College London, UK Topics: Synthetic Biology & In Vivo Biosensors * WILLIAM SHIH, Harvard Medical School, USA Topics: Design principles for self-assembling molecular machines * JOERG STELLING, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Topics: Computational Systems Biology * SARAH TEICHMANN, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL-EBI, UK Topics: Human Cell Atlas * DANIELLE TULLMAN-ERCEK, Northwestern University, USA Topics: Protein Engineering & Synthetic Biology SPEAKERS: * Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Imperial College London, UK More Speakers TBA CALL FOR POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019 See you in Tuscany in July! The SSBSS 2019 Organizing Committee. ssbss(a)icas.xyz https://ssbss2019.icas.xyz https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ Computational Synthetic Biology Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/ * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested *

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CfP: SafeComp 2019 (Int. Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security)
by Alexander Romanovsky 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security Turku, Finland September 10-13, 2019 https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/safecomp2019/ SPECIAL THEME: Safety and security of autonomous systems CALL FOR PAPERS SAFECOMP was established in 1979 by the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, Technical Committee 7 on Reliability, Safety and Security (EWICS TC7). Since then, it has contributed to the progress of the state-of -the-art in dependable application of computers in safety-related and safety- critical systems. SAFECOMP is an annual event covering the state-of-the-art, experience and new trends in the areas of safety, security and reliability of critical computer applications. SAFECOMP provides plenty of opportunities to exchange insights and experience on emerging methods, approaches and practical solutions. It is a single-track conference supporting great networking opportunities. The conference covers all aspects related to the development, assessment, operation and maintenance of safety-related and safety-critical computer systems. Topics include, but are not limited to * Development, verification and assessment of highly automated and autonomous dependable systems * Formal modelling, verification and validation of critical systems, software and hardware * Model-driven engineering and assessment of safety and security-critical systems and software * Resilient and fault-tolerant hardware and software architectures * Fault detection and recovery mechanisms * Distributed and real-time monitoring and control * Security and privacy protection mechanisms for safety-related and safety-critical systems * Safety/security co-engineering and risk assessment * Probabilistic verification and validation * Testing, verification and validation methods and tools for safety and security * Methods and tools for qualification, assurance and certification * Data-driven techniques for engineering dependable systems, software and hardware * Cyber-physical threats and vulnerability analysis * Safety and security guidelines, standards and certification of critical systems * Safety and security assurance cases * Safety and security issues of applied AI and machine learning in critical systems * Devops and agile development methods Domains of application include: * Railways, automotive, space, avionics, nuclear and process industries * Highly automated and autonomous systems, advanced robotics, construction engines and off-road vehicles * Telecommunications and networks * Safety-related applications of smart systems and IoT (Internet of Things, Smart Anything Everywhere) * Critical infrastructures, smart grids, SCADA * Medical devices and healthcare * Surveillance, defense, emergency & rescue * Logistics, industrial automation, off-shore technology * Education & training PAPER SUBMISSION The regular research papers (up to 14 pages) as well as practical and industrial experience reports and tool papers (up to 8 pages) should be electronically submitted via the EasyChair submission systems. Additional details are provided at the conference website: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/safecomp2019/ Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according the LNCS templates provided by Springer Verlag - https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission February 14, 2019 Paper submission February 17, 2019 Notification April 30, 2019 Camera ready June 5, 2019 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series by Springer Verlag. EWICS TC7 CHAIR Francesca Saglietti (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE) GENERAL CHAIR AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alexander Romanovsky (Newcastle Univ., UK) Elena Troubitsyna (KTH, SE and Åbo Akademi, FI) PUBLICATION CHAIR Friedemann Bitsch (Thales, DE) WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ilir Gashi (City Univ., UK) Erwin Schoitsch (AIT, AT) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Elena Troubitsyna Minna Carla Christel Engblom Inna Vistbackka INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Bishop (UK) Friedemann Bitsch (DE) Jean-Paul Blanquart (FR) Sandro Bologna (IT) Andrea Bondavalli (IT) Jens Braband (DE) Simon Burton (DE) António Casimiro (PT) Mads Dam (SE) Peter Daniel (UK) Ewen Denney (US) Felicita Di Giandomenico (IT) Wolfgang Ehrenberger (DE) John Favaro (IT) Francesco Flammini (SE) Simon Fuerst (DE) Barbara Gallina (SE) Ilir Gashi (UK) Anatoliy Gorbenko (UK) Janusz Gorski (PL) Jérémie Guiochet (FR) Hans Hansson (SE) Mats Heimdahl (US) Maritta Heisel (DE) Constance Heitmeyer (US) Alexei Iliasov (UK) Chris Johnson (UK) Rajeev Joshi (US) Karama Kanoun (FR) Joost-Pieter Katoen (DE) Philip Koopman (US) Peter Ladkin (DE) Timo Latvala (FI) Silvia Mazzini (IT) Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (SE) Mattias Nyberg (SE) Frank Ortmeier (DE) Philippe Palanque (FR) Michael Paulitsch (AT) Holger Pfeifer (DE) Peter Popov (UK) Laurent Rioux (FR) Matteo Rossi (IT) Francesca Saglietti (DE) Christoph Schmitz (CH) Erwin Schoitsch (AT) Christel Seguin (FR) Håkan Sivencrona (SE) Oleg Sokolsky (US) Stefano Tonetta (IT) Kenji Taguchi (JP) Martin Törngren (E) Mario Trapp (DE) Tullio Vardanega (IT) Marcel Verhoef (NL) Helene Waeselynck (FR) Jonny Vinter (SE)

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Ada-Europe 2019 Conference - EXTENDED 28 January deadline
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

The Ada-Europe 2019 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for all submissions is extended to Monday 28 January 2019. 3 weeks remain! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE Ada-Europe 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2019) 10-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 28 JANUARY 2019 AoE *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 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, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 28 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 28 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, of at least 1 page in length, by 28 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 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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ESORICS 2019 - Call for Workshop Proposals [24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Luxembourg, 2019]
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 07 Jan '19

07 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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Call For Papers, Tutorial and Special Sessions - CIBB 2019
by Cibb2019 Cibb2019 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Call for Papers, Tutorials and Special Sessions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIBB 2019 - 16th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Bergamo, Italy, 4-6 September 2019 www.cibb2019.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The main goal of the 16th edition of the CIBB international conference is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum open to researchers interested in the application of computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems biology, synthetic biology, and medical informatics. Cutting edge methodologies capable of accelerating life science discoveries will be discussed. Following its tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together researchers from the international scientific community interested in advancements and future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. In addition, looking at current trends and future opportunities at the edge of computer and life sciences, the application of computational intelligence to systems and synthetic biology, and the consequent impact on innovative medicine, will be of great interest for the conference. Theoretical and experimental biologists are also invited to participate and present novel challenges to foster multidisciplinary collaborations. The scientific program of CIBB 2019 will include Keynote Speakers, tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions. TOPICS ----------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Next generation sequencing algorithms - Multi-omics data analysis - High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data - Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data - Software tools for bioinformatics - Methods for comparative genomics - Methods for functional classification of genes - Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of structures discovered in bio-molecular data - Health-informatics and medical informatics - Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data - Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics - Algorithms for pharmacogenomics - Biomedical text mining and imaging - Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine - Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data - Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures - Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics - Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis - Bio-molecular databases and data mining - Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and synthetic systems - Computational simulation of biological systems - Methods and advances in systems biology - Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems - Network systems biology - Models for cell populations and tissues - Methods for the engineering of synthetic components - Modeling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems - Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology GENERAL CHAIRS ----------------------------- Paolo Cazzaniga, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy Ivan Merelli, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Italy Daniela Besozzi, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy TECHNICAL CHAIR ----------------------------- Angela Serra, University of Tampere, Finland LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------- Riccardo Dondi, Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo, IT Stefano Beretta, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT Marco S. Nobile, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT Simone Spolaor, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, IT IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Tutorials and Special Session proposals: 15 February 2019 Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2019 Acceptance notification: 1 June 2019 Camera ready due: 1 July 2019 Author registration due: 31 July 2019 Conference: 4-6 September 2019 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ----------------------------- Prospective authors should submit papers prepared according to the following instructions: - Papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format) - Papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages - We warmly recommend the use of the provided latex template and instructions <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/cibb2019/cibb2019-sample.zip>. Should this not be possible, authors should reproduce the format and style of the sample paper available in the latex template folder. - Papers should adhere, as much as appropriate, to the following structure and sections: 1. Scientific background 2. Materials and methods 3. Results 4. Conclusions 5. References The submission website is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cibb2019 PUBLICATION ----------------------------- PDF versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. IMPORTANT: An accepted paper will be published in the proceedings only if the final camera-ready version is accompanied by the payment of at least one registration for one of the authors. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we also plan to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ------------------------------ CIBB 2019 will run a number of Tutorials and Special Sessions. Any topic of interest for the conference is eligible for a tutorial. Tutorials typically last from one to three hours. Special sessions focus on a specific, possibly cutting-edge, topic of interest for CIBB 2019. Special session organisers will be responsible for call dissemination, the reviewing process, and organizing oral presentations. Typically, a special session will have at least 4 accepted papers and may have an invited speaker (to be negotiated). Tutorial proposals ----------------------------- - including tutorial’s title, a one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters - due by 15 February 2019 - send proposals to cibb2019(a)easychair.org Special Session proposals ----------------------------- - including the session’s title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at least 4 (possibly more) potential authors - due by 15 February 2019 - a special session is expected to have at least 4 accepted papers - send proposals to cibb2019(a)easychair.org

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worksop ICCSA2019 --Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA)
by Noelia faginas Lago 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Dear Colleague, this is an invitation to submit a contribution to the “Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA)” of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/ <http://www.iccsa.org/>) to be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg (Russia). 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. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission will be extended to Feb 17, 2019. The themes of the Workshop include (but are not limited to): • Molecular Dynamics simulations of complex systems; strategies for optimisation of the computing resources (parallel and distributed computing) • Basis sets for the quantum treatment of molecular dynamics and intermolecular interactions in gas phase and gas-surface systems • Simulations of energy transfer processes relevant for atmospheric chemistry, astrochemistry, gaseous flows and plasmas • Stereodynamics and chirality of molecular collisions • Dynamics and kinetics simulations reusing the computed electronic structure information generated by ab initio calculations from specific databases • Design and implementation of accurate and fast algorithms for parallel and distributed platforms (such as Grids and Clouds) to maximize performances extending the available information on molecular interactions • Quantum chemical calculations for molecular structure and dynamics (DFT, TDDFT, Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics....) Organizers: Noelia Faginas-Lago — noelia.faginaslago(a)unipg.it (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Andrea Lombardi Università degli Studi di Perugia) andrea.lombardi(a)unipg.it International Program Committee: Antonio Laganà, master-up srl, Vincenzo Aquilanti, Università di Perugia, Marzio Rosi, Università di Perugia, Nadia Balucani, Università di Perugia,Fernando Pirani, Università di Perugia, Federico Palazzetti, Università di Perugia, Stefano Evangelisti, Université de Toulouse III, Massimiliano Bartolomei, CSIC-Spain, Antonio Aguilar, Universitat de Barcelona, Cecilia Coletti, Università Chieti-Pescara, Roger Anderson, University of California Santa Cruz, Ricardo Gargano, Universidade de Brasília, Demetrio A. da silva Filho, Universidade de Brasília, See the attached file for author’s instructions. ==================================================================== To the authors: You can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ <http://ess.iccsa.org/>. Instructions to prepare and submit papers can be found on the web site (http://www.iccsa.org/ instructions-for-authors) If you are not registered, you must register before the submission. From the personal page authors are 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 paper can be updated until the submission deadline. If you have some doubts or problems do not hesitate to contact the organizers. ICCSA CONFERENCE: The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. ICCSA 2019 will be the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously held in Melbourne, Australia (2018), Trieste, Italy (2017), Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012), Santander, Spain (2011), Fukuoka, Japan (2010), Suwon, Korea (2009), Perugia, Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007), Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005), Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco, USA (2001). The first ICCSA conference was co-organized by C.J.K. Tan (UK) and M. Gavrilova (U of Calgary, Canada) in 2003. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science. This conference is sponsored by: Monash University, Australia; The University of Perugia, Italy; Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan; The University of Basilicata, Italy; University of Minho, Portugal --------- Before printing this e-mail ask yourself if you really need a hard copy. We are all responsible for the environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Noelia Faginas Lago Dipartimento di Chimica,Biologia e Biotecnologie Università di Perugia Via Elce di Sotto, 8 06123, Perugia (Italy) tel: +390755855527 fax:+390755855606 e-mail: piovro(a)gmail.com <mailto:piovro@gmail.com> , noelia.faginaslago(a)unipg.it <mailto:noelia.faginaslago@unipg.it> Skype:noelia19750852 <skype:noelia19750852>

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[CFP] GrAPL 2019 - co-located with IPDPS 2019
by Tumeo, Antonino 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 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, University of California, Davis, US Marinka Zitnik, Stanford University, US Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, US

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Springer(LNCS)-11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications@Saint Petersburg, Russia
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

SEPA 2019: 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ When Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg, Russia Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software> software engineering <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20engineering> software processes <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20processes> software applications <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20applications> Call For Papers SEPA 2019: 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications The accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ , http://www.iccsa.org/workshops Following the grand success of SEPA 2018(In Melbourne, Australia),SEPA 2017(in Trieste, Italy), SEPA 2016 (in Beijing, China), SEPA 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SEPA 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SEPA 2013 (in Ho Chi Ming, Vietnam),SEPA 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SEPA 2011 (in Santander,Spain), SEPA 2010 (in Fukuoka, Japan), SEPA 2009 (in Sowon, Korea), ) SEPA 2019 (in conjunction with ICCSA 2019) is scheduled to be held during July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline: Feb 17, 2019 About the Workshop and Topics Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA: 2019) is aimed to provide a forum to scientists/researchers/engineers/practitioners and academicians to share their ideas, experiences and researches in the field of software engineering process and applications. SEPA 2019 covers all the frontier issues and trends in the modern software development processes. It includes process models, the development process for different software platforms (e.g. social networks, cloud), the process for adaptive, dependable, embedded, systems, agile development, software engineering practices, requirements, system and design engineering including architectural design, component level design, formal methods, software modeling, testing strategies and tactics, process and product metrics, Web Engineering, project management, risk management, and configuration management. SEPA also invite papers for the development process of the software/software systems in application areas e.g. agriculture, aviation industry, business, cyber-crime, education, government, military etc. SEPA invites you to submit theme papers that describe original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to SEPA 2019 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal and should be 12 - 16 pages (LNCS style). Papers selected after peer review will be included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science published by Springer (only after completing registration) and presented orally (except unavoidable circumstances-like financial constraints) at the conference. Publication All contributions will be reviewed by international program committee members and judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SEPA 2019 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science as a book series of Computational Science and Its Applications: ICCSA. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must be registered and supposed to present the paper in the conference (virtual presentation is allowed for authors who cannot attend the conference). The extended version of selected papers will also be invited for the publication in several journals (All Web of Science and SCOPUS indexed journals) including best papers in SCIE indexed journal*. *A special issue of SCIE Journal- Information Technology and Control is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2019). Submission Please submit your paper through ICCSA 2019 conference web site. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py while submitting to the conference site, please select the track of your submission "Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA 2019)". February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and 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 Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference International Program Committee Organizing Chair (Contact) Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering Covenant University Contact: sanjay.misra(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng Programme Committee Chair Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Computer Science Department Østfold University College, Norway rcolomo(a)gmail.com International Programme Committee Members Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Brazil Ravin Ahuja, University Of Delhi, India Rinkaj Goyal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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*Xplore(IEEE)-11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

TTSDP 2019 : 11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://ttsdp.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ When Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg, Russia Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> tools & techniques <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=tools%20&%20techniques> software practitioners <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20practitioners> software industry <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20industry> industrial app & academia <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=industrial%20app%20&%20academia> Call For Papers TTSDP 2019 : 11th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process in conjunction with The 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019) ttsdp.covenantuniversity.edu.ng Accepted papers will be submitted and published by IEEE Xplore The extended version of all presented papers will also be invited for the publication in International Scientific Journals(All indexed in SCOPUS/Web of Science/ECIE). 10th International Workshop on "Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019)" will be held in conjunction with the 2019 International Conference on Computational Sciences and Applications (ICCSA 2019). It is going to be held on during July 1- 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline Feb 17, 2019. About the Workshop and Topics The Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019) provides a forum for researchers, and practitioners to share their new achievements, tools and techniques in the field of the software development process. TTSDP especially invites the experience papers from industry and academia, short papers, reports, surveys, working papers/work in progress and industrial reports. Review/Comment papers are also welcome with the limitation that the paper should be on general problem/topic in the field (no comments are allowed on a particular paper). TTSDP covers all the aspects of the development process: process models, agile development, software engineering practices, requirements, system and design engineering including architectural design, software modeling, testing strategies and tactics, process and product metrics for each phase of software development, component-based software engineering, software quality, verification and validation techniques and software project management. TTSDP 2019 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all area of the software development process. The paper submitted to TTSDP 2019 must not submit elsewhere either in conference or journal and should be in IEEE style. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference. TTSDP 2019 invites you to submit three different types of session papers (5 to 11 pages long) on all above-mentioned topics: Research papers: Papers that describe original and significant contribution in all area of the software development process. Experience paper: papers from the field describing real-world experience related to the software development process. Short paper and reports: Papers that allows the explanation of ideas that are not yet fully validated. Review articles (not on a particular paper), comparative study and survey reports are also welcome. The paper submitted to TTSDP 2019 must not have been submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal and must be in IEEE style. Papers selected after review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference. Publication All accepted workshop (TTSDP) papers will be included in the proceeding of ICCSA 2019, published by IEEE Xplore. One of the authors of the accepted paper is required to register and expected to present the paper at the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please select the track of your submission "Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019)". Please follow the IEEE proceedings guidelines for preparing your paper. IEEE Proceedings Format: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer… Special ISSUES: In several countries, conference papers are not considered in the evaluation of academic performances. In this point of view, we have decided to publish the extended version of all presented papers in TTSDP in special issues of several international journals. The papers will also be selected for International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI: Published by IGI global), International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) (IGI Global, USA), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION (IJI-ESCI Indexed) and International Journal of Human Capital Information(IGI Global) with the condition that the papers should fall under the aim and scope of the said journals. Remaining papers will be accommodated in an international journal: CJICT (an Official Journal of Covenant University) and in several other journals from renowned publishers such as - Inderscience, IGI etc. We are highly thankful to the Management/Editor/Editorial committee of all these journals for accepting the special issues/papers from our workshops. A special issue of SCIE Journal is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2019. Important Dates February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and 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 Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering Covenant University sanjay.misra(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng Phone: +234 7030851086 Program Chair Prof. Robertas damasevicius Prof of Software engineering Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania robertas.damasevicius(a)ktu.lt International Programme Committee Members Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Spain Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey Matthew O. Adigun, University of Zululand, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) – Brazil Ravin Ahuja, University Of Delhi, India Rinkaj Goyal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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Springer(LNCS):Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality@Saint Petersburg, Russia
by Sanjay Misra 29 Dec '18

29 Dec '18

ISSQ 2019 : Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sq.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ When Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 4, 2019 Where Saint Petersburg Submission Deadline Feb 17, 2019 Notification Due Mar 31, 2019 Final Version Due May 8, 2019 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software quality assurance <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20assurance> various quality standards <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=various%20quality%20standards> software quality practices <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20practices> software quality models <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20models> Call For Papers ISSQ 2019 : Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality(Springer-LNCS) in conjunction with ICCSA 2019 (The accepted papers of ISSQ 2019 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and extended version of all papers will be invited to publish in several International Journals- All Web of Science/SCOPUS Indexed Journals,A special issue of a SCIE Journal(Information Technology and Control-Impact Factor-0.800) is also confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2019). Following the grand success of ISSQ 2018(In Melbourne, Australia), ISSQ 2017(in Trieste, Italy), SQ 2016(in Beijing, China), SQ 2015(in Banff Canada), SQ 2014 (in Guimaraes,Portugal), SQ 2013 (in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), SQ 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SQ 2011 in conjunction with ICCSA 2011 (in Santander,Spain), and SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 (in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus), the Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality (ISSQ 2019) will be held in conjunction with the 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2018), is scheduled to be held during July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. Submission deadline: February 17, 2019. About the Workshop and Topics This symposium extends the discussion of software quality issues in the modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of the process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving the quality objectives. It includes a quality management process, the role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, the role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations. Topics include (related to quality issues in software, software applications in any related area-cloud, agile, IoT, Big data, smart applications) but not limited to: 1. Software development fundamentals, 2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum, 3. Software requirements techniques, 4. Software testing & QA fundamentals, 5. Software testing models and approaches, 6. Software testing tools and frameworks, 7. Software test design, 8. Types of software maintenance, 9. Software maintenance process models, 10. Software maintenance standards, 11. Software maintenance tools 12. Software Reviews (SR) 13. Software Metrics (SM) 14. Software Process Assessment (SPA) 15. Software Process Improvement (SPI) 16. Software Standardization and Certification ISSQ: 2019 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to ISSQ 2019 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings (after registration) and presented orally at the conference. Publication All contributions will be peer-reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2019 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all SCIE/Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal*. *A special issue of an SCIE Journal- Information Technology And Control(IF 0.800) is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2019). Submission Please submit your paper through the ICCSA 2019 conference website. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please check the track of your submission "Software Quality (ISSQ 2019)" Important Dates February 17, 2019: Deadline for abstract and 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 Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering, Covenant University Contact: ssopam(a)gmail.com Programme Committee Chair Dr. Luis Fernandez Department of Computer Science University De Alcala, Spain International Programme Committee Members Y. Wang, University of Calgary, Canada Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Spain Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Robertas Damasevicius Kaunas University of Technology Antonio de Amescua Seco, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey P. Debba, CSIR, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia, UNICEN University, Argentina Osman Abul, PhD, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) - Brazil -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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Computational and Applied Statistics at ICCSA 2019
by Ana Cristina Braga 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

---------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 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 ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZER =========== * Ana Cristina Braga (acb(a)dps.uminho.pt) Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer. Best regards, Ana Cristina Braga (CAS 2019 organizer)

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Reminder - CfP Ada-Europe 2019 Conference, Warsaw, Poland
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reminder - 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 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2019 *** *** Web submission site open *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 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, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, of at least 1 page in length, by 14 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 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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HPCS 2019 - The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by CisEdu.us 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

[Sorryif you get multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers and Participation The 2019 High Performance Computing& Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019) July 15 - 19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP (Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2019) (Other Conference tracks may have different submissiondeadlines - Please check the specific track of interest at links below.) You are cordially invited to participate in this internationalconference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special sessionorganization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, apanel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds moreappropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts fromacademia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentationsdescribing original work on the current state of research in high performanceand large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, languages,software and middleware in HPC systems, Cloud and Edge Computing, DataSciences, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling andsimulation, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia,workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoralcolloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. Inaddition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (may have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check thespecific track of interest (coming soon). So far we have the following tracks: Symposia: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia Workshops:http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops Special Sessions: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SPECIAL ISSUE Authorsof selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work forone or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCSProceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexingservices including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. ================================================================= ImportantDates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline———- February 21, 2019 Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ——————- —- February 28, 2019 Notification of Acceptance starts ———————-————-- —- March25, 2019 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due —————--——April 25, 2019 Conference Dates —————————————————--- —— July 15 - 19, 2019 ================================================================= Forfurther details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the conference organizers. Welook forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Dublin, Ireland in July. Thankyou very much. Happy Holidays and HappyNew Year. HPCS2019 Organizers

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ICCSA 2019 Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

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[DECON'19] Call for papers
by DECON'19 International Conference 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

[DECON\'19] Call for papers ww.decision-economics.net info(a)decision-economics.net (info@info@decision-economics.net) International Conference on Decision Economics University of Salamanca Ávila (Spain) | 26th - 22th June, 2019 SCOPE Decision Economics is a growing field of research which has been given much attention by several scholars in recent decades. The International Conference on Decision Economics (DECON 2019) is a multidisciplinary international forum dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving instruction in economics, business, computer science, psychology, quantitative methods and related disciplines. To pursue this mission, DECON 2019 will facilitate the development and dissemination of knowledge in the diverse disciplines of the decision sciences in the tradition of Herbert A. Simon’s interdisciplinary heritage. Herbert A. Simon was - and still is - one of the most influential founding father of the multidisciplinary fields of decision sciences: his contributions range across administrative behaviour and organisation theory, management science and operation research, behavioural decision theory, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Therefore, DECON 2019 focuses on theoretical, empirical and methodological investigations of socio-economic decisions made by several economic agents in a complex market economy, not entirely according to standard “rational” economic principles, but also in light of behavioural and cognitive factors, and bounded rationality. Such investigations can be methodologically focused on quantitative approaches, qualitative methods, or can take the form of insightful reviews and commentaries on best practices in social science research. DECON 2019 dedicates itself to the interdisciplinary study of decision-making in the recognition that important decision-making takes place in a range of critical subject areas and research fields, including Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Psychology, Small and International Business, Management, Operations, and Production. We are particularly interested in analytics as an emerging synthesis of sophisticated methodology and large data systems used to guide economic decision-making in an increasingly complex business environment. TOPICS The recent negative economic and financial events, which have hit the world economies in the last decade, call for new and innovative studies mainly in economics, business and finance, involving different research fields such as Economics, Psychology, or strictly related social sciences, leading source for original research on the interplay of those fields within Artificial Intelligence. The organisers and chairs of DECON strongly believe that this is a moral duty, as well as a scientific duty, for a prudent and wise economist aware of the complexity of the real world in which he/she lives and works in the Third Millennium. Indeed, the combination of economics and decision sciences is a field of studies which proves to be useful and, thus, should be fostered to academicians and practitioners interested in the application of quantitative and behavioural methods to the problems of society. The special session focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of economic analysis and policies within several major areas. Hence, papers are invited for the following areas of special interest which include but are not limited to: Experimental Research in Economics; Behavioural Game Theory; Cognitive Economics; Interrelations of Economics and Psychology with AI; Complexity of Behavioural Decision Processes; Microfoundations and Micro-Macro Relationships; Organisational Decision-Making; Computation and Computability in Economics; Decision Theory and the Economics of Uncertainty; Algorithmic Social Sciences Research; Decision Support Systems and Business Decisions; Business Intelligence Analytics and Decision-Making; Big Data, Data-Mining and Robotics; Managerial Decision-Making; Complex Business Environments; Information Technology and Operational Decision Sciences. COMMITTEE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Edgardo Bucciarelli University of Chieti-Pescara Italy Shu-Heng Chen National Chengchi University Taiwan Juan Manuel Corchado University of Salamanca Spain INVITED SPEAKERS V.S. Subrahmanian Dartmouth College (USA) Toshiharu Sugawara Waseda University (Japan) Marco Dorigo Free University of Brussels (Belgium) DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions. The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission date Notification date Camera-ready deadline Conference dates 4th February, 2019 11th March, 2019 29th March, 2019 26th-28th June, 2019 SUBMISSIONS Review process DECON welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference Submitting papers All papers must be formatted according to the AISC template, with a maximum length of 8 pages (4 pages in Doctoral Consortium), including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the DECONconference management system. Publication Accepted papers will be included in DECON Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag. SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers from DECON 2019 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in diffetent journals. JCR 2017: 6.639 JCR 2017: 3.317 JCR 2017: 2.475 JCR 2017: 2.475 JCR 2016: 2.110 SJR 2017: 0.62, Q2 ww.decision-economics.net info(a)decision-economics.net (info(a)decision-economics.net) Unsubscribe: info(a)decision-economics.net (info(a)decision-economics.net)

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[Deadline Extension] Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

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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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 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

==================================================================== 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 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 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 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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CFP: 7th Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019)
by FiCloud Conference 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

----------------------Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------ The 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019) 26-28 August 2019, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.ficloud.org/2019/ Technical co-sponsorship: IEEE-CS TCI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on. IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner. The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing. CONFERENCE TRACKS: - Cloud Models - SaaS, IaaS, PaaS - Security, Privacy and Trust - Software Systems, Models and Architectures - Mobile Cloud Services - Data and Knowledge Management - Context-awareness and Location-awareness - Software-defined Networking - Performance Evaluation and Modelling - Networking and Communication Protocols - IoT Services and Applications - Smart Environment - Enterprise and Business Models - Energy Efficiency - Federation and Virtualization - Fog and Edge Computing - Industry Track - General Track Paper submission and Publication: Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website ( http://www.ficloud.org/2019/) All papers accepted for this conference are planned to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see conference website). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 11 March 2019 Authors Notification: 20 May 2019 Final Manuscript Due: 14 June 2019 General Chairs: Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Program Chairs: Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chairs: Perin Unal, Teknopar, Turkey Sezer Gören Ugurdag, Yeditepe University, Turkey Tacha Serif, Yeditepe University, Turkey Workshop Coordinator: Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal Journal Special Issues Coordinator: Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK Publicity Chair: Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Publication Chair: Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Track Chairs: Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France Khaled Aloufe, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Madihah Mohd Saudi, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Malaysia Marcin Bajer, ABB Corporate Research Kraków, Poland Marisa Catalan Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain Marwan Hassani, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Patience Anitta Namanya, Nettitude Group, UK Rafael Angarita, INRIA and Isep, Paris, France Ron Austin, Birmingham City University, UK R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Tacha Serif, Yeditepe University, Turkey Tuna Tugcu, Bogaziçi University, Turkey Vijay S. Rao, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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CFP for PDSEC ’19 Workshop and Special Track: Performance and Software Engineering in Scientific Computing
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Dear All: The 20th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing Workshop (PDSEC ’19) (http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec19/index.php) will be held on May 24, 2019 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The Call for Papers for the workshop can be found here (http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec19/cfp.php) Please note that this year there is a PDSEC special track in Performance and Software Engineering in Scientific Computing (https://sts.mb.uni-siegen.de/workshops/pdsec_2019/?lang=de) The deadline to submit papers to the workshop and to the special track is January 27, 2019. Best regards, Suzanne Dr. Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas Publicity Chair, PDSEC ‘19

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CFP: SI with IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
by 严珂 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Dear authors/professors/scientists, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) is a well reputable journal in the fields of computational biology, healthcare engineering, bio-medical research and bioinformatics. Based on evaluation on your existing publications in the related fields, we would like to invite you to contribute one article/review to the special issue: “Machine Learning for AI-Enhanced Healthcare and Medical Services: New Development and Promising Solution” with IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, IF=2.428, deadline: 30 Dec 2018). The topics of interest include, but not limited to the following topics: - AI enhanced clinical decision making; - Biomechanics, modeling and computing; - AI based computer vision topics on medical images; - Big data research and project experience in bio-medical and healthcare services; - Knowledge-based or agent-based models for biological systems; - Distributed systems in medical and healthcare services; - Intelligent devices and instruments for medical and healthcare services; - Machine learning in medicine, human biology, and healthcare; - Intelligent and process-aware information systems in human biology, healthcare and medicine; - AI and data science for human biology, medical and healthcare services; - AI in medical and healthcare education. To submit your works, simply log into the TCBB journal online submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcbb-cs) followed by selecting the option: ‘SI-MLHealth-2018’ by 30 Dec 2018. For detailed information, please refer to the CFP flyer attached to this email. Please kindly notice that all submissions to the SI will go through a formal review process with at least three professional reviewers in the related field. We will try our best to return the review comments to you within a month after your submission. Whether your paper will be accepted by the journal will strictly depend on the reviewers’ recommendation. Best regards, Ke Yan (Ph.D.) Leading/Corresponding guest editor, Associate Professor, China Jiliang University

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 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 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

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 International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ 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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Special Issue on Finite Difference Methods: Recent Developments and Applications in Computational Science
by Bhaskar Chaudhury 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Special Issue on Finite Difference Methods: Recent Developments and Applications in Computational Science Computational Science is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field concerned with constructing mathematical models, numerical approximations of forward and inverse problems, quantitative analysis techniques, and using advanced computing capabilities to analyze, investigate and solve a wide range of complex problems in the natural and social sciences, medicine, and engineering, among others. Finite difference approximations of differential equations are one of the oldest and simplest methods which are frequently used for computing approximate solutions of the underlying equations modeling complex phenomenon. With the availability of ever more powerful computational resources, the large but finite algebraic system of equations arising from finite difference approximations can be easily solved on present day computers, and the resulting efficient algorithms provide gold standards to beat for other approximation techniques. Modeling and simulation tools based on Finite Difference techniques find increasing applications not only in fundamental research, but also in several real-world applications. However, the simplicity and efficiency of Finite Difference Methods comes at the cost of reduced accuracy and stability in the approximation of problems involving heterogenieties and nonsmooth interfaces. The objective of this special issue is to present recent important developments in the construction, analysis and simulation of approximation techniques based on the Finite Difference Method (FDM) that address these and other limitations of the FDMs and provide efficient solutions to advance research in this area. High-quality original contributions to this special issue are invited from researchers working in this area. TOPICS Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: · (High order) FDMs for Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic Problems · (High order) FDMs for Initial and Boundary Value Problems · Alternating Direction Implicit FDMs · Compact and Symplectic FDMs · Nonstandard FDMs, positivity-preserving, convexity preserving schemes · High Order Operator Splitting based FDMs; Mimetic FDMs · Adaptive Mesh Refinement in FDMs · Multiscale Methods based on FDMs · FDMs on unbounded domains and on domains with irregular geometry · Irregular Grid FDMs · Element-free and Meshless FDMs · Parallel FD methods, FDMs on GPUs · Applications of FDMs in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Finance andEngineering. IMPORTANT DATES · Sept 16, 2018: Call for papers. · April 1, 2019: Deadline for Initial Paper Submission. · June 30, 2019: Notification of First Round Decision. · July 30, 2019: Deadline for Revised Paper Submission. · August 30, 2019: Deadline 2nd review decision. · September 30, 2019: Deadline for 2nd revision. · October 30 , 2019: Deadline for final decision. · December 15, 2019: Target publication date. GUEST EDITORS Prof. Dr. Bhaskar Chaudhury ( bhaskar_chaudhury(a)daiict.ac.in ) DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Prof. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt ( ehrhardt(a)uni-wuppertal.de ) University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Prof. Dr. Vrushali Bokil ( bokilv(a)math.oregonstate.edu ) Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS Submitted papers should be original and are not be under consideration elsewhere for publication. The authors should follow the journal guidelines, regarding the manuscript content and its format when preparing their manuscripts. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers for their suitability in terms of technical novelty, scientific rigor, scope, and relevance to this special issue. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles. Please select article type name of “VSI: FDM-Computational Science ” during submission process. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computational-science/call-for…

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CompAstro Workshop within ICCSA 2019
by Marzio Rosi 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the Computational Astrochemistry (CompAstro) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2019, www.iccsa.org<http://www.iccsa.org/> ) to be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg (Russia). The format of the CompAstro Workshop is peculiar, as it does not feature a list of pre-selected invited speakers. Rather, the oral contributions will be selected only from the submitted papers. Please note that the submission of a short paper (and not of the mere abstract) is required by the deadline indicated in the ICCSA webpage (the deadline for submission might vary with respect to that originally indicated, presumably it will extend up to the end of March). All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP Since their first detection, the presence of relatively complex molecules in the interstellar medium, ISM, has posed the question of how they are formed. The harsh chemical environments of interstellar clouds (namely, very low temperature and very low number density), indeed, challenge the common notions that chemical synthesis requires energy to promote the weakening of the reactant bonds and frequent collisions to increase the number of reactive encounters. Since 1% of interstellar clouds is composed by small silicates or vitreous carbonaceous particles, interstellar grains covered by icy mantles are also invoked to play an important role in synthesizing interstellar molecules by acting as interstellar catalysts. One important drawback of astrochemical models, which include several thousands of molecular processes, is due to the uncertainty associated with the parameters which are used to quantitatively account for the importance of every step: many of those processes have never been investigated in laboratory experiments, many others have been investigated but under experimental conditions that do not reproduce the interstellar ones (either regarding the temperature or the pressure). For gas-phase reactions of the first kind, rate coefficients and their temperature dependence are mainly estimated with some chemical intuition or by drawing analogies with similar known processes. Small details in the molecular structure and in the potential energy surfaces, however, can induce a huge change in the chemical behavior and reasoning by analogy can cause severe mistakes. In the second case, the values obtained as a function of the temperature in a T range that does not encompass those of relevance in ISM are used, but this can also be very risky as a change in the reaction mechanism can alter the temperature dependence in non-Arrhenius reactions. The case of grain-chemistry simulation in laboratory experiments is even more complex, as no experiments are able to reproduce the size of interstellar particles, the exact composition of the grain icy mantle and the flux of particles and/or photons impinging on the grains. A theoretical characterization at the atomic/molecular level can help in extrapolating experimental data at the conditions of ISM or in estimating in a reliable way the kinetic parameters (e.g. cross sections, rate constants, branching ratios) associated with reactions that cannot be investigated in laboratory experiments. These theoretical characterizations, once used to interpret and understand the laboratory data, can assist in the extrapolation to the actual ISM conditions. When laboratory data are not available, instead, they can provide a reliable estimate of the relative parameters. In conclusion, a thorough theoretical characterization can be pivotal to the understanding of chemistry in space either in the presence or absence of experimental data. All these topics are covered by computational astrochemistry, which forms the subject of the present workshop. The themes of the Workshop include (but are not limited to): * Potential energy surfaces of reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Thermochemistry of reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Calculation of kinetic parameters associated with reactions relevant in astrochemistry * Modelling dust and icy grain structures and properties * Modelling processes at the grain surfaces * Theory for spectroscopy * Astrochemical models Organizers: Marzio Rosi - marzio.rosi(a)unipg.it<mailto:marzio.rosi@unipg.it> (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Dimitrios Skouteris – d.skouteris(a)master-up.it<mailto:d.skouteris@master-up.it> (Master-up, Perugia), Fanny Vazart – fanny.vazart(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr<mailto:fanny.vazart@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (Université Grenoble Alpes), Albert Rimola - Albert.Rimola(a)uab.cat<mailto:Albert.Rimola@uab.cat> (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Program Committee Members: Nadia Balucani, Università degli Studi di Perugia, nadia.balucani(a)unipg.it<mailto:nadia.balucani@unipg.it>; Cecilia Ceccarelli, Université Grenoble Alpes, cecilia.ceccarelli(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr<mailto:cecilia.ceccarelli@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>; Stefano Falcinelli, Università degli Studi di Perugia, stefano.falcinelli(a)unipg.it<mailto:stefano.falcinelli@unipg.it>; Piero Ugliengo, Università degli Studi di Torino, piero.ugliengo(a)unito.it<mailto:piero.ugliengo@unito.it>; Daniela Ascenzi, Università degli Studi di Trento, daniela.ascenzi(a)unitn.it<mailto:daniela.ascenzi@unitn.it> INFORMATION ABOUT THE ICCSA CONFERENCE The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2019) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia in collaboration with the Saint Petersburg University, Russia. ICCSA 2019 will be the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously held in Melbourne, Australia (2018), Trieste, Italy (2017), Beijing. China (2016), Banff, Canada (2015), Guimaraes, Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2013), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2012), Santander, Spain (2011), Fukuoka, Japan (2010), Suwon, Korea (2009), Perugia, Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007), Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005), Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco, USA (2001). The first ICCSA conference was co-organized by C.J.K. Tan (UK) and M. Gavrilova (U of Calgary, Canada) in 2003. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science. 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. All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0> 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. The conference is organized in cooperation with: Saint Petersburg University<http://english.spbu.ru/>, Russia The conference is proudly sponsored by: <http://www.monash.edu.au/> University of Perugia<http://www.unipg.it/>, Italy<http://www.monash.edu.au/> University of Basilicata<http://www.unibas.it/>, Italy Monash University<http://www.monash.edu.au/>, Australia Kyushu Sangyo University<http://www.kyusan-u.ac.jp/E/>, Japan University of Minho<http://www.uminho.pt/en/home_en>, Portugal

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ICCSA 2019 Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

** We apologize if you received multiple copies of the present message ** ***************************************************************************** ********************* First Call For Papers ************************ ********************** Deadline February 17, 2019 ************************* ***************************************************************************** Call for Papers, Short Papers and PHD Showcase papers The 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia ICCSA 2019 July 1-4, 2019 http://www.iccsa.org ICCSA 2019 is the next event in the series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications, previously held in Melbourne - Australia (2018), Trieste - Italy (2017), Beijing - China (2016), Banff - Canada (2015), Guimaraes - Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam (2013), Salvador da Bahia - Brazil (2012), Santander - Spain (2011), Fukuoka - Japan (2010), Suwon - Korea (2009), Perugia - Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2007), Glasgow - United Kingdom (2006), Singapore - Singapore(2005), Assisi - Italy (2004), Montreal - Canada (2003), and, as ICCS, in Amsterdam - The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco - USA (2001). Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting ICT innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to bring together scientists of different disciplines, discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced solutions breeding new trends in Computational Science. 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. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes for Computer Science and, as post-Conference proceedings, Conference Publishing System (CPS). The authors of a selected number of top quality papers will be requested to extend their papers for further review and publication as special issues in highly recognized international journals. ICCSA 2019 accepts paper submission in the following categories: main Conference theme papers and Workshop papers . The details for each paper submission category can be found at the URL http://www.iccsa.org/nstructions-for-authors and the list of Workshops at the URL: http://www.iccsa.org/workshops. Conference Themes ----------------- The ICCSA 2019 Conference themes, grouped in five tracks, are the following (but are not limited to): 1. Track: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Application Computational Biology Computational Combustion Computational Chemistry Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Physics Computational Geometry Computational Mathematics Computational Mechanics Computational Electro-magnetics Numerical Methods and Algorithms 2. Track: High Performance Computing and Networks Parallel and Distributed Computing Cluster Computing Supercomputing Cloud Computing Autonomic Computing P2P Computing Mobile Computing Grid and Semantic Grid Computing Workflow Design and Practice Computer and Network Architecture 3. Track: Geometric Modelling, Graphics and Visualization Scientific Visualization Computer Graphics Geometric Modelling Pattern Recognition Image Processing CAD/CAM Web3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality 4. Track: Advanced and Emerging Applications Biochemistry Bioinformatics Astrophysics Biometric Modelling Environmental, Climate and Weather Modelling Geology and Geophysics Nuclear Physics Financial and Economical Modelling Computational Journalism Geographical Information Systems 5. Track: Information Systems and Technologies Information Retrieval Scientific Databases Security Engineering Risk Analysis Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Data Mining Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies Web Based Computing Web 2.0 Workshops --------- For details visit http://www.iccsa.org/workshops 1) Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2019) 2) Advanced Computational Approaches in FracTals, WaveleT, EnTropy and DaTa mining applications (AAFTWTETDT 2019) 3) Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and Coding (AAILT 2019) 4) Affective Computing and Emotion Recognition (ACER-EMORE 2019) 5) Aimed Mobile Digital Forensics (AMDF 2019) 6) Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency management, risk assessment and mitigation based on the Resilience concepts (ASTER 2019) 7) Advances in Web Based Learning 2019 (AWBL 2019 8) Big and Not-So-Big Data (BANSO 2019) 9) Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Technologies and Applications (BDLTA 2019) 10) Bio and Neuro inspired Computing and Applications (BIONCA 2019) 11) Computer Aided Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (CAMSA 2019) 12) Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 2019) 13) Cloud, High-Performance, Edge, and Fog Computing (CHEF 2019) 14) Computational Movement Analysis (CMA 2019) 15) Computational Mathematics, Statistics and Information Management (CMSIM 2019) 16) Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2019) 17) Computational Astrochemistry (CompAstro 2019) 18) Cities, Technologies and Planning (CTP 2019) 19) Database and Computerized Information Retrieval Systems (DCIRS 2019) 20) Econometric an multidimensional evaluation in urban environment (EMEUE 2019) 21) Future Computing System Technologies and Applications (FiSTA 2019) 22) Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" (GEOG-AND-MOD 2019) 23) Geomatics for Resource Monitoring and Control (GRMC 2019) 24) Software Quality (ISSQ 2019) 25) Land use monitoring for sustainability (LUMS 2019) 26) Mobile Communications 2019 (MC 2019) 27) Machine Learning for Space and Earth Observation Data (ML-SEOD 2019) 28) Machine Learning for Aviation (MLA 2019) 29) Mobile-computing, Sensing, and Actuation in Cyber Physical Systems (MSA4CPS 2019) 30) Quantum Chemical Modeling of Solids with Computers: from Plane Waves to Local Structures (QuaCheSol 2019) 31) Scientific Computing Infrastructure (SCI 2019) 32) Computational Studies for Energy and Comfort in Building (SECoB 2019) 33) Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA 2019) 34) Smart Factory Convergence (SFC 2019) 35) Smart City and Water. Resource and risk (Smart_Water 2019) 36) Is a smart city really smart? (Smart_Cities 2019) 37) Sustainability Performance Assessment: models, approaches and applications toward interdisciplinary and integrated solutions. (SPA 2019) 38) Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications (TCCMA 2019) 39) Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes (TTSDP 2019) 40) Virtual Reality and Applications 2019 (VRA 2019) 41) Collective, Massive and Evolutionary Systems (WCES 2019) 42) Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) Paper Submission ---------------- To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: https://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. The submission may fall into the following five categories: Main Conference Theme Papers (LNCS), Special Session/Workshop Papers (LNCS or CPS), Short Papers (LNCS), and PHD Showcase Papers (CPS). MAIN CONFERENCE THEME PAPERS (LNCS) The submitted paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. Please consult the URL http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for formatting information and templates. WORKSHOPS PAPERS (LNCS or CPS) The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long for LNCS publication, or 7 to 11 pages for CPS publication (in such case as post-conference proceedings), and should be formatted according to the LNCS or CPS rules, respectively. Please consult the URL http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for formatting information and templates. SHORT PAPERS (LNCS) Reporting preliminary results of ongoing research. The submitted paper must be between 7 and 9 pages long formatted according to LNCS rules. The Short Papers will be presented during the conference and will be published by LNCS. PHD SHOWCASE PAPERS (CPS) Reporting ongoing research already achieving significant results and primarily carried out by Ph.D. students and junior researchers. The submitted paper must be between 6 to 8 pages long formatted according to CPS rules. The PHD Showcase Papers will be presented during the conference and will be published by CPS as post-conference proceedings. Each paper must deal with original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors). Each paper will be reviewed by at least three experts in the relevant field (acceptance rate was 28% in 2005, 26% in 2006 and 28% in 2007, 29% in 2008, 30% in 2009, 29% in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 30% in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) ensuring the publication of only top quality contributions. When a paper is accepted at least one of the authors has to register to the conference and deliver the related talk. Failure to do so shall lead to rejection of the application to attend next year conference and the exclusion of the paper for the current year proceedings. Workshops/technical Sessions ---------------------------- Refer to the web page http://www.iccsa.org/workshops for the updated list of Workshops Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to one of the above listed Workshops, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. An author is enabled to change the workshop associated to a submitted paper until the submission deadline, by resubmitting the paper into the system. Important Dates --------------- February 17, 2019: Deadline for paper submission to the General Tracks (Workshops may select a different deadline) 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 Proceedings ----------- The proceedings of the Conference will be published both by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) and, as post-conference proceedings, by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). In particular: 1. The selected top quality Theme Papers and Session Papers having adopted LNCS, will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (paper length: 10-16 pages). 2. The selected top quality Session Papers having adopted CPS, will appear in the CPS post-conference Proceedings. 3. Short papers will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science ( LNCS) series (paper length: 7-9 pages) 4. PHD Showcase Papers will be published in the CPS post-conference Proceedings. For a selected number of top quality papers, after the Conference, the authors will be requested to extend the paper in order to be published as special issues in appropriate international journals. 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. Contact Information ------------------- Elena Stankova Universitetskii prospekt 35, Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia 198504, Phone: +7 (812) 428-71-59 Email: elenastankova <at> yandex <dot> ru URL: http://www.apmath.spbu.ru/en/staff/stankova/index.html Osvaldo Gervasi Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli, 1 06123 Perugia Italy Phone: +39-075-5855048 Fax: +39-075-5855024 Email: osvaldo <dot> gervasi <at> unipg <dot> it URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it

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Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019
by José Santos Reyes 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Special Session "Bio-inspired computing approaches" at IWINAC 2019 (8th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation), Almeria (Spain), 3-7 June, 2019 http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/ Overview: Bio-inspired computing methods take inspiration from nature to develop optimization and search algorithms or metaheuristics, typically in order to tackle the search of optimal solutions of complex problems in science and engineering, which usually imply a high dimensionality of the search space. Apart from the traditional evolutionary computing methods, artificial immune systems, ant algorithms or particle swarm optimization, the session is intended to focus on new bio-inspired solutions such as swarm algorithm solutions based on bee colonies, algorithms based on firefly insect behavior, artificial algae algorithm and many more, together with their combination with local search strategies or other metaheuristics. The researchers in this field must be self-critical with the boom of such new solutions, contrasting what is new and what is included in other traditional search algorithms or what novelty is provided in a new bio-inspired metaheuristic. Besides, the proposals should be competitive with other methods in the state of the art. The aim is that the session provides a meeting point for IWINAC attendees and researchers who have a current or developing interest in bio-inspired approaches and their applications. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • Bio-inspired approaches based on animal behavior (Cuckoo search, Cat swarm, Artificial Bee Colony, Bat algorithm, Wolf search, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on plant behavior (artificial algae algorithm, flower pollination algorithm, PIBO, …). • Bio-inspired approaches based on bacteria like BFO. • New approaches in evolutionary computing methods. • Combination of bio-inspired approaches with local search: Lamarckian strategies, Baldwinian strategies, memetic algorithms. • Combination of the bio-inspired approaches with artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems. • Applications with bio-inspired approaches. Full paper submission due: 31-01-2019 Submission guidelines: http://www.iwinac.uned.es/iwinac2019/paper-submission.html As in previous editions of the conference, we will try to organize a special issue of the Journal of Natural Computing. The authors of the best papers presented in the session would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to this special issue. Organizers: José Santos (Universidade da Coruña), jose.santos(a)udc.es Ramiro Varela (Universidad de Oviedo), ramiro(a)uniovi.es

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 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 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

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 International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ 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 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing
by Tommaso Cucinotta 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Please, consider submitting a research paper to the IEEE ISORC conference, to be held on May 7-9, 2019, in Valencia, Spain. The full call for papers can be found below. Please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. Regards, Tommaso Cucinotta -- *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 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 January 15, 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 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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IEEE ISORC 2019 Call for papers
by Tommaso Cucinotta 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Please, consider submitting a research paper to the IEEE ISORC conference, to be held on May 7-9, 2019, in Valencia, Spain. The full call for papers can be found below. Please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. Regards, Tommaso Cucinotta -- *** IEEE ISORC 2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc2019.github.io/ *** The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing *** Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019 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 January 15, 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 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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S&P faculty positions at PennState
by Liu, Peng 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Security and Privacy *** *** *** The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at any level, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor in security and privacy. We seek exceptional candidates with high quality research and publications to strengthen and complement our current research programs. Security and privacy are inherently interdisciplinary; we welcome applications from scholars at all ranks and from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. We are looking for applicants with expertise spanning (a) the Computer & Information Science & Engineering aspects of security and privacy, and (b) the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences aspects of security and privacy. Successful candidates will develop an internationally competitive, externally funded research program, and contribute to graduate and undergraduate education and training through teaching. These positions will be responsible for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in residence and online, researching, and contributing to IST's service and outreach objectives. Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found here: https://ist.psu.edu/college/faculty_search

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019)
by Naercio Magaia 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

======================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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Postdoctoral researcher in computational science / computational nanoscience
by Kondov, Ivan (SCC) 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Dear colleagues, The newly founded graduate school "Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience" (www.compnano.kit.edu) starting on 1 April 2019, addresses the development and application of multiscale approaches to the scientific challenges of friction, materials aging, material design and biological function. The specific projects will focus on modelling friction between inorganic and biological materials, reactions on semiconductor surfaces, electron and exciton migration in organic electronics, and biochemical reactions in proteins undergoing large structural changes. The models involve many different length- and timescales, therefore, methods of ab initio quantum chemistry, force-field and coarse-grained approaches up to phenomenological approaches will be combined. To enable such complex and computationally demanding simulations all projects will employ workflow technologies combined with high performance computing (HPC). We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in computational science for the following tasks: * Developing new, and extend and adapt existing scientific workflow methods to enable domain-specific solutions in computational nanoscience, in particular to improve usability and scalability of scientific workflow applications on HPC systems * Disseminating knowledge about workflow methods to application scientists in form of tutorials and in several collaborative projects within the graduate school * Deploying middleware (such as UNICORE, FireWorks, MongoDB) The successful candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or computational science and experience with workflow systems, workflow languages and/or high performance computing. We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step in computational science with focus on scientific workflow methodology. Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu) With my best regards, Ivan Kondov -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Simulation Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Phone: +49 721 608 28644 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu Web: www.scc.kit.edu KIT - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association Since 2010, the KIT has been certified as a family-friendly university.

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From Skala - Call for Papers - 27. WSCG 2019 Conf. on Graphics, Visualization & Computer Vision
by Vaclav Skala 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

>> Please, resend this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------- >> Call for Papers and Conference Announcement >> WSCG 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------- WSCG 2019 (held annually since 1992) 27. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.wscg.eu – main page of WSCG http://www.wscg.cz – WSCG 2019 page When: May 27 – 31, 2019 Where: Primavera Congress Center, Pilsen (the City of Beer), close to Prague, Czech Republic approx. 70 mins. from the Prague Airport by public transport > Proposals for workshops and special session are welcome. Important dates: --------------------- >> WSCG 2019 27. Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2019 http://www.WSCG.eu Submission: Workshops/Special sessions proposals - December 15, 2018 (via e-mail) January 31, 2019 - Abstract (recommended), February 11, 2019 - Full, Short, Poster papers Proceedings will be published in Computer Science Research Notes (ISSN 2464-4617). The best selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG (ISSN 1213-6972). >> "Pay to publish" strategy submission is NOT acceptable. << >> At least one author has to present the paper at the conference. << >> Proceedings will be made after the conference. << Recent publications available via http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm - repository since 1992. Contact: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz subject: WSCG 2019 Organizer & Chair --------------------- prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univerzitni 8 CZ 30614 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu Announcement sent via: skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz Main topics (but not limited to) --------------------------- Computer graphics Scientific visualization Medical visualization Computer vision Image processing Pattern recognition GPU graphics Rendering and animation Virtual reality Haptic systems Medical imaging Graphical human computer interfaces Graphical interaction Computational photography Data compression for graphics Image based rendering Physically based modeling Mathematical methods for graphics and vision Geometric modeling Shape analysis Shape modeling Shape retrieval Surface and volume parametrization Parallel graphics CAD, CAGD and GIS systems and other related topics -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof.Vaclav Skala http://www.VaclavSkala.eu tel. 37-763-2473 c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept.of Computer Science & Engineering Univerzitni 8 CZ 306 14 Plzen Czech Republic

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LMTR suite for unconstrained optimization
by Oleg Burdakov 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

We are happy to announce the first release of the LMTR suite for unconstrained optimization. This package contains limited memory trust-region and line-search algorithms implemented in MATLAB. The algorithms are described in "On Efficiently Combining Limited Memory and Trust-Region Techniques", Mathematical Programming Computation (2017) Vol. 9, no 1, pp. 101-134, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-016-0109-7. To download the package, you may want to follow the link http://gratton.perso.enseeiht.fr/LBFGS/index.html The package contains the following algorithms: - LBFGS_TR.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS that takes a trial step along the quasi-Newton direction inside the trust region; - LBFGS_MTBT.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS based on the Moré-Thuente line search and the initial step is obtained using backtrack; - LBFGS_MT.m. Limited memory line-search algorithm L-BFGS based on the More-Thuente line search; - LMTR_BWX_MS.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm BWX-MS. It applies the Moré-Sorensen approach for solving the TR subproblem defined in the Euclidean norm. It is a modified version of the algorithm by Burke et al.; - LMTR_EIG_MS_2_2.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm EIG-MS(2,2) using the eigenvalue-based (2,2)-norm, with the Moré-Sorensen approach for solving a low-dimensional TR subproblem; - LMTR_EIG_inf_2.m. Limited memory trust-region algorithm EIG(inf,2) using the eigenvalue-based (inf,2)-norm, with the exact solution to the TR subproblem in closed form. -- .................................................................... Oleg Burdakov, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization Methods & Software (OMS) http://www.tandfonline.com/goms Division of Optimization, | Phone: +46 13 281473 Department of Mathematics, | Mobile: +46 70 0895219 Linkoping University, | E-mail: Oleg.Burdakov(a)liu.se SE - 58183 Linkoping, Sweden | http://users.mai.liu.se/olebu87/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 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 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

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 International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. - ************************************************************************************ 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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CfP Ada-Europe 24th Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED (pending), SIGPLAN (pending) and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information Ada-Europe is pleased to announce that its 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, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 14 January 2019: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 1 March 2019: Notification of acceptance to all authors 16 March 2019: Camera-ready version of papers required 30 April 2019: Industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop material required *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Regular Papers The regular papers submitted to the conference must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2019, in PDF only, and up to 16 LNCS-style pages in length, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The authors of the papers that will appear in the conference proceedings will be invited to extend their work for submission to a Special Issue of Elsevier's Journal of Systems Architecture, centered on the conference themes. *** Proceedings The conference proceedings will appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available at the conference, both online and in print. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, strictly by 16 March 2019. For format and style guidelines, the authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register at least one author for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, of at least 1 page in length, by 14 January 2019, strictly in PDF, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ae2019. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The authors of accepted contributions shall be requested to submit a 2-page abstract by 16 March 2019, for inclusion in the conference booklet, and be invited to deliver a 20-minute talk at the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information, please contact the Industrial Chair directly. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference seeks tutorials in the form of educational seminars that may include hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can address any part of the reliable software domain, and may have an academic or industrial slant from technology perspective. All software topics and their application to reliability and safety are welcome. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), and most importantly a statement expressing why it will be worthwhile to attend the tutorial. Tutorial proposals shall be submitted to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals shall be submitted to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. Interested providers of software products and services should send inquiries to the Exhibition Chair. *** Venue The conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions. *** Organizing Committee Conference & Program Chair Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Educational Tutorial & Workshop Chair Dene Brown, SysAda Ltd, UK dene.brown at sysada.co.uk Industrial Chair Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy maurizio.martignano at spazioit.com Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation - EDC Warsaw, Poland maciej.sobczak at ge.com *** Program Committee Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, AT Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., KR António Casimiro, Univ. Lisboa, PT Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen Univ., SE Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, ES J. Javi Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, ES Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, FR Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertford-shire, UK Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, IT Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, FR Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, PT Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, DE Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, ES Jorge Real, Univ. Pol. de València, ES José Ruiz, AdaCore, FR Sergio Sáez, Univ. Pol. de València, ES Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SE Frank Singhoff, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, FR Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, PT Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Uni., FI Santiago Urueña, GMV, ES Tullio Vardanega, Univ. of Padua, IT Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, LU *** Industrial Committee Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, BE Gonçalo Gouveia, Critical Techworks, PT Thomas Gruber, Austrian Institute of Technology, AT Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, NL Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Military, ES Patricia Lopez Cueva, Thales Alenia Space, FR Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, CH Maurizio Martignano, Spazio-IT, IT Silvia Mazzini, Intecs, IT Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, FR Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, AdaLog, FR José Emilio Salazar Marsà, GMV, ES Helder Silva, Edisoft, PT Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Cons., DK Pawel Zakrzewski, GE Aviation, PL *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 24th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), and Lisbon, Portugal ('18). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe 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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Last Call For Papers - IEEE SOSE 2019 - NEW Deadline for Paper submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Last Call For Papers - IEEE SOSE 2019* *Important Dates* Paper Submission: *Dec. 14, 2018* Author Notification: *Jan 5, 2019* Camera-ready Submission and Conference Registration: *Jan 31, 2019* Conference: *Apr 4 - 9, 2019* http://www.ieeesose.net/index.html The 13th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering April 4 - April 9, 2019 - DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark-Fremont - Newark, California, USA Service-Oriented Computing exploits services as the fundamental elements of computer-based systems. It has been applied to various areas and promotes fundamental changes to the way software systems are being analyzed, architected, designed, implemented, tested, evaluated, delivered, consumed, maintained and evolved. Consequently, a new paradigm of software and system engineering discipline, i.e. Service-Oriented Engineering, has emerged and advanced rapidly in the past decade. Among many remarkable milestones in the development of this new paradigm are the wide adoption of the Micro-services architectural style supported by Docker and other container-based virtualization techniques in the design of cloud native application in the industry, and the DevOps movement in the organisation of development process supported by automated tools for continuous testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Recent advances in service oriented computing, in particular Internet-of-Things, Edge and Fog computing, mobile and cloud computing combined with Big Data analytics, robotics, block-chain and decentralized ledger applications, and application of artificial intelligence techniques, etc., have provided exciting opportunities to make significant progress in understanding and solving complex real-world challenges. Such challenges typically require a system-level approach that models a complex system at different levels of abstraction, helps to develop sound architectures for addressing separate system requirements and concerns, and integrates diverse sources of knowledge on the system’s components and their interactions. Therefore, the revolution of the software and system engineering paradigm brought by service-orientation is still unfolding, with each new technology development bringing new challenges and opportunities. Starting from 2005, SOSE is a pioneering IEEE sponsored international conference devoted to the research in engineering service-oriented systems. It covers all aspects of service-oriented engineering from architectures, techniques, tools and languages to methodologies. Continuing the tradition of the last twelve editions of SOSE Symposia, the 13th SOSE intends to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange latest observations, insights, achievements and visions in Service-Oriented System Engineering. SOSE 2019 invites original submissions in all the areas of the system engineering and software engineering methods, techniques, tools, applications, and experiments for software services. *Topics Of Interests* Regular Research Papers Research papers should be written in English and be no more than 10 pages in length. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Track 1: Advanced Models for Service Engineering - *Microservices architecture, deployment and management* - *Serverless Computing* - *DevOps and service engineering* - *Model-driven development of service-oriented systems* - *End-user development and mashup of software services* - *Lifecycle models, reusability, and scalability for services* - *Coordination and cooperation of services* - *Efficient scheduling of services* - *Services infrastructure for big data* - Track 2: Computing Environments and Virtualization - *Container-based virtualization* - *Programming models, languages, tools and platforms* - *Architecture of Internet-based virtual computing environments* - *Security, dependability, and reliability* - *Trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms* - *Large scale computing and analytics* - Track 3: Methods, Languages & Tools for process-based SOC systems - *Business process integration, alignment & management in SOAs* - *Methods, languages & tools for building process-based SOC systems* - *Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE* - *Runtime verification, validation, monitoring* - *Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution* - *Service mobility, scalability, elasticity, and security* - *Operation and governance for large-scale service-oriented systems* - *Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems* - *Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems* - *Service-oriented system engineering for large-scale analytics* - *Service-oriented engineering and clouds* - Track 4: Service-based Cyber-Physical Systems - *Edge computing and fog computing* - *Software and system engineering for CPS* - *REST APIs and services for CPS* - *Mobile services for CPS* - *System modelling and simulations* - *Data management for CPS* - *Dependable network and system architectures for CPS* - Track 5: Intelligent Services for a Smart World - *Smart home, smart office, smart city, smart industry* - *Intelligent services architectures and provisioning models* - *Smart systems programming models and methodologies* - *Swarm intelligence* - *Context-aware services* - *Nature-inspired intelligent services* - *Knowledge representation and reasoning* - *Quality of data (QoD)* - Track 6: Social Networking Services - *Location-based social networks* - *Human mobility modeling and mining* - *Recommendation systems for service computing* - *Human-centric sensing* - *Intelligent socially-aware and community-aware systems* - *Security, privacy, safety and legal issues* - *Event detection and predication in social networks* *Industry Practice / Case Study Papers* SOSE 2019 encourages papers reporting on industrial practice, case studies, empirical research and practical experiences in service engineering. Industry papers and case studies should be between 6-10 pages in length. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - *Enterprise business architecture and solution frameworks* - *Platforms and tools for system and software engineering* - *Case studies, experiments and evaluation of service-oriented system* - *Innovative service applications and experiences* *Survey And Emerging Subjects Tutorial Papers* In addition to regular research paper and industry practice/case study papers, SOSE 2018 will also invite some tutorial papers, which review the state-of-the-art of the research on services engineering as well as the related emerging paradigms and technologies. These papers should summarize the recent research advance in service engineering from different perspectives, identify the open issues and future trends and challenges in the field. SOSE 2018 also encourages vision papers which discuss future and emerging issues, including emerging paradigms, technologies and applications. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length. - *Theoretical and technical foundation of service-oriented systems* - *Methodology and engineering principles of service-oriented systems* - *Testing, verification, validation and QA in the development of service-oriented systems* - *Construction, deployment, operation and maintenance of service-oriented systems* - *Measurements and metrics of QoS in SOA-based application systems* - *Governance and policies in service-oriented software development* - *Engineering techniques and tools to support the publishing, discovery and composition of services* - *Architectural and detail designs of services and code generation of service software*

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Last Call for Papers - IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019 - Extended Deadline for Papers Submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Last Call for Papers - IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019* *Important Dates* Paper Submission: Dec. 14, 2018 Author Notification: Jan 5, 2019 Camera-ready Submission and Conference Registration: Jan 31, 2019 Conference: Apr 4 - 9, 2019 The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering April 4 - April 9, 2019 - DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark-Fremont - Newark, California, USA The integration of mobile computing and cloud services and engineering enables new applications that provide resources and services on an intelligent basis, process big data collected from mobile sensors, and support Internet of things (IoT) with massive cloud-based backend, where the 5G technology is expected to be an important enabler of this integration. Such applications will have tremendous impacts on almost every aspect of our daily life, including transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, safety and location privacy, smart home and smart city, social interaction, and many more. This conference will provide a great platform to allow researchers in academia and industry to share their latest research ideas and results, development activities, and the emerging industry technologies on mobile cloud computing, services, and engineering. The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for fast-track publication in a planned Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Computing. *Topics Of Interests* Topics of interest, embedded with the special interest on the annual theme, include, but are not limited to: - Theory, Modeling and Methodologies - Mobile cloud computing models, architectures, and platforms - Engineering on-demand mobile cloud systems and services - Design of energy-saving mobile cloud protocols - Cloud-IoT integration, cloud-centric IoT and software defined IoT - Mobile crowd sensing models and associated platforms - Mobile cloud resource management, provisioning, and migration - Mobile-aware cloud data management and data retrieval - Mobile cloud data centers, storage, and networking technologies for 5G - Mobile artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning - Virtualization techniques for mobile cloud computing and services - Security, reliability and privacy for mobile cloud computing - Applications and Industry Practice - Mobile multimedia and mobile social community services - Cloud-assisted human-centered applications based on wearable devices - Mobile commerce and cloud-based marketplace - Intuitive user interfaces for cloud-based mobile applications - Mobile cloud enabled pervasive learning and education - Research case studies and experimental reports - Industry reports on experience and lessons learned - Standardization on mobile clouds

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Last Call for Papers - IEEE AI Testing 2019 - Extended Deadline for Papers Submission
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Last Call For Papers - IEEE AI Testing 2019 *Important Dates* Abstract submission: Dec. 7, 2018 Full paper submission: Dec. 21, 2018 12:00 AOE (firm) Notification: Feb. 15, 2019 (firm) Final Paper and Registration: Feb. 28, 2019 (firm) Conference: Apr 4 - 9, 2019 *http://www.ieeeaitests.com/index.html <http://www.ieeeaitests.com/index.html>* The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing (2019 IEEE AITest) Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are widely used in computer applications to perform tasks such as monitoring, forecasting, recommending, prediction, and statistical reporting. They are deployed in a variety of systems including driverless vehicles, robot controlled warehouses, financial forecasting applications, and security enforcement and are increasingly integrated with cloud/fog/edge computing, big data analytics, robotics, Internet-of-Things, mobile computing, smart cities, smart homes, intelligent healthcare, etc. However, the quality assurance of existing AI application development processes is still far from satisfactory and the demand for being able to show demonstrable levels of confidence in such systems is growing. Software testing is a fundamental, effective and recognized quality assurance method which has shown its cost-effectiveness to ensure the reliability of many complex software-systems. However，the adaptation of software testing to the peculiarities of AI applications remains largely unexplored and needs extensive research to be performed. On the other hand, the availability of AI technologies provides an exciting opportunity to improve existing software testing processes, and recent years have shown that machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, constraint optimization, planning, scheduling, multi-agent systems, etc. have real potential to positively impact on software testing. Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interests in testing AI applications as well as application of AI techniques to software testing. It is, therefore, timely to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange novel research results, to articulate the problems and challenges from practices, to deepen our understanding of the subject area with new theories, methodologies, techniques, processes models, etc., and to improve the practices with new tools and resources. This is the aim of the IEEE conference on AI Testing. *Topics Of Interest* The conference invites papers of original research on AI testing and reports of the best practices in the industry as well as the challenges in practice and research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Testing AI applications - Methodologies for testing, verification and validation of AI applications - Process models for testing AI applications and quality assurance activities and procedures - Quality models of AI applications and quality attributes of AI applications, such as correctness, reliability, safety, security, accuracy, precision, comprehensibility, explainability, etc - Whole lifecycle of AI applications, including analysis, esign, development, deployment, operation and evolution - Techniques for testing AI applications - Test case design, test data generation, test prioritization, test reduction, etc - Metrics and measurements of the adequacy of testing AI applications - Test oracle for checking the correctness of AI application on test cases - Tools and environment for automated and semi-automated software testing AI applications for various testing activities and management of testing resources - Specific concerns of software testing with various specific types of AI technologies - Statistical machine learning and data mining - Symbolic machine learning, decision trees and random forests, reinforcement learning - Evolutionary methods and Genetic algorithms - Multi-agent systems - Heuristic search algorithms - Cognitive computing - Knowledge management, expert systems - Automatic reasoning and theorem proving - Constraint Programming and Constraint Optimization - Metaprogramming, high-order functions, high-order logic - Programming by example, programming synthesis, etc - Specific concerns of software testing for various types of AI applications - Computer vision and object recognition in image, audio and video - Personalized recommendation systems, and business intelligence - Driverless vehicles and autonomous robotics - Intelligent diagnostic systems - Decision-making support systems - Prediction and forecast systems - Smart cities, smart home, healthcare, and medicine, etc - Natural language processing, and intelligent human machine interactions, etc - Applications of AI techniques to software testing - Machine learning applications to software testing, such as test case generation, test effectiveness prediction and optimization, test adequacy improvement, test cost reduction, etc - Constraint Programming for test case generation and test suite reduction - Constraint Scheduling and Optimization for test case prioritization and test execution scheduling - Multi-agent systems for testing and test services - Crowdsourcing and swarm intelligence in software testing - Genetic algorithms, search-based techniques and heuristics to optimization of testing - Knowledge-based and expert systems for software testing - Data quality checking for AI applications - Testing and quality assurance for unstructured training data - Automatic validation tool for training unstructured data and big data - Large-scale unstructured data quality certification Submission Paper Submission We primarily invite submission of research papers, that describe original and significant work, but also papers which reports on case studies and empirical research. Papers must not be accepted for publication, or be under submission to another conference or journal. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee, using a single-blind reviewing procedure. All papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference system in PDF format. Each paper is limited to 8 pages including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings (two columns, single-spaced, 10pt font). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper would have to register for the conference and confirm that she/he will present the paper in person.

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Last Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2019
by Zeyu Gao 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Last Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2019 *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: * Dec. 14, 2019 * Notification: *Jan. 10, 2019* Final Paper and Registration: *Jan. 31, 2019* Conference: * Apr. 4 - 9, 2019* http://www.big-dataservice.net/index.html The Fifth IEEE International Conference On Big Data Service And Applications April 4 – 9, 2019, San Francisco, USA Big-Data computing and services have received significant attention in recent years. The IEEE BigDataService 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, latest research results, and practice experiences and lessons learned. Its major objectives include big-data applications in various domains such as healthcare, business and financing, education and learning, social networks and media, urban and environment, sensors and Internet of things as well as technology aspects of big data computing and services such as computing services and architecture, modeling, data mining and analytics. The conference will be co-located with *IEEE SOSE 2019 <http://www.ieeesose.net/>, IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019 <http://www.mobile-cloud.net/>, IEEE DAPPCON 2019 <http://www.dappcon.net/> **and** IEEE Artificial IntelligenceTesting 2019 <http://www.ieeeaitests.com/> * IEEE BigDataService 2019 will consist of main tracks and special tracks. The conference will include 3 International Workshops of *Smart City Big Data Analysis*, *Big Data in Water Resources, Environment, and Hydraulic from Engineering*, and *Industry Big Data and Signal Processing*. Workshop proposal is due 10/15/2018. The conference seeks the submission of high-quality papers limited to 10 pages (IEEE format) in length. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for extension and published in journals (SCI-Index). *TOPICS OF INTEREST (INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO)* - Big Data Foundations - Foundational theoretical or computational models for big data - Programming models, theories, and algorithms for big data - Standards, protocols, and quality assurance for big data - Big Data Platforms and Technologies - Innovative, concurrent, and scalable big data platforms - Data indexing, cleaning, transformation, and curation technologies - Big data processing frameworks and technologies - Big data services and application development methods and tools - Big data quality evaluation and assurance technologies - Big data system reliability and availability - Open-source development and technology for big data - Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) platform and technologies - Big Data Analytics and Services - Algorithms and systems for big data search, analytics and visualization - Artificial Intelligence for big data and based on big data - Visualization analytics for big data - Knowledge extraction, discovery, analysis, presentation, and visualization - Big Data Applications and Experiences - Innovative big data applications and services in industries and domains e.g. healthcare, finance, insurance, transportation, agriculture, education, environment, multi-media, social networks, urban planning, disaster management, security - Experiences and case studies of big data applications and services - Real-world and large-scale practices of big data - Emerging Topics - Sensor networks and Internet of Things - Networking and protocols - Smart City *SPECIAL TRACKS* - Special Track on Real-time Big Data Services and Applications - Models, algorithms, and technologies for real-time big data services and applications - Experiences, practices and case studies of real-time big data services and applications - Special Track on Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust - Models, algorithms and technologies for big data security and integrity - Practical security and privacy technologies and applications for big data - Special Track on Big Data and analytics for Healthcare - Models, algorithms, and technologies of big data for healthcare - Big data services and applications for healthcare - Experiences, practices and case studies of big data technologies for healthcare *Contact Information* Feel free to contact us for any questions or suggestions. *Simon Shim:* simon.shim(a)sjsu.edu *Fanjing Meng:* mengfj(a)cn.ibm.com

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[FGCS] Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges Computations (Submission deadline extended to Jan 15, 2019)
by Claudio A. Ardagna 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

***Submission deadline extended to January 15th, 2019*** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ****************************************************** Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue on Trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) Computations ****************************************************** Current and future service-based software needs to remain focused towards the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for internet-based and intranet-based systems in organizations, as well to move to IoT integration and big data analytics. Today, service-based software covers a very wide range of application domains as well as technologies and research issues. This has recently found realization through the integration of cloud computing and IoT, forming a revolutionary paradigm, cloud-assisted Internet of things (CoT), that enables intelligent and self-con?guring (smart) IoT devices to be connected with the cloud through the Internet. However, huge volume of data generated from real-world applications leads to the operation difficulty of CoT paradigm. More specifically, while billions of connected devices will generate exabytes of data every day, moving all the data from comparably resource-constrained IoT devices to the cloud becomes a big challenge. Hence, the centralized CoT model is undergoing a paradigm shift towards a decentralized model termed as edge computing, where local and distributed edge devices such as smartphones, smart gateways, and local PC with weaker capability than the centralized cloud can offer cloud-like service for only a limited group of devices. While the centralized cloud is still inevitable for the heavyweight computation needs, in this emerging Cloud-Edges (CE) paradigm, the cloud, together with local edge devices jointly offer services and intelligence. CE paradigm complements traditional CoT paradigm in terms of high scalability, low delay, location awareness, and instant local client computing capabilities. Nonetheless, due to the multiple and even highly distributed roles in CE paradigm, vital elements in such CE paradigm are the notions of trust, security, privacy and risk management among the cloud, edge devices, and end devices. This special issue solicits submissions from both academia and industry presenting novel research in the context of trusted Cloud-Edges (CE) computations, presenting theoretical and practical approaches to cloud, big data, IoT and edge computing trust, security, privacy and risk management. This special issue will provide a special focus on the intersection between cloud paradigm, big data analytics, IoT integration and edge computing, bringing together experts from the four communities to discuss on the vital issues of trust, security, privacy and risk management in cloud computing, shedding the light on novel issues and requirements in domains of big data, IoT, and edge computing. Potential contributions could cover new approaches, methodologies, protocols, tools, or verification and validation techniques. We also welcome review papers that analyze critically the current status of trust, security, privacy and risk management in the cloud, big data, IoT, and edge computing. Papers from practitioners who encounter trust, security, privacy, and risk management problems, and seek understanding are finally welcome. Best papers from the 7th International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures - Cloud and Trusted Computing (http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/ctc-2018) will be also invited to submit to the special issue. The following themes are of particular interest: - Authentication, auditing and accountability in Cloud-Edges - Edge computing architectures and solution design patterns - Edge computing for IoT - Communication and networking protocols for Cloud-Edges - Fine-grained access control mechanism in Cloud-Edges - Privacy-preserving computation in Cloud-Edges - Trust and reputation issues in Cloud-Edges - Security architecture for Cloud-Edges - Key management in Cloud-Edges - IoT communication in Cloud-Edges - Data caching for big data in Cloud-Edges - Big data analytics in Cloud-Edges - Incentive models or techniques for data processing in Cloud-Edges - Privacy-Enhancing Cryptographic Techniques in Cloud-Edges - Secure Data Analysis and Private Learning - Outsourced or Verifiable Computation in Cloud-Edges - Secure Software-Defined Networking and Virtualization for in Cloud-Edges - Security for Crowdsourcing in Cloud-Edges IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript Due: January 15, 2019 *FIRM* - First Review Notification: April 15, 2019 - Revised Manuscript: May 31, 2019 - Second Review Notification: June 30, 2019 - Second Revised Manuscript: July 31, 2019 - Camera Ready Paper Due: August 31, 2019 - Publication Date: Third Quarter of 2019 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submission must be in the form of a PDF file and must be in English. All papers will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to the special issue. The journal editors will make final decisions about the acceptance of the papers. All submissions must be prepared according to the Guide for Authors available on FGCS homepage and submitted through the Editorial system (EVISE) located at https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/FGCS. Authors must select "VSI: Trusted Cloud-Edge Comp", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process at EVISE. GUEST EDITORS Claudio A. Ardagna University of Milan, Italy claudio.ardagna(a)unimi.it Mauro Conti University of Padova, Italy conti(a)math.unipd.it Ernesto Damiani Centre on Cyber-Physical Systems, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE ernesto.damiani(a)kustar.ac.ae Chia-Mu Yu National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan chiamuyu(a)nchu.edu.tw

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[FCDS] S.I. On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing
by Fulvio Frati 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

S.I. On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- FOUNDATIONS of COMPUTING and DECISION SCIENCES journal http://fcds.cs.put.poznan.pl/fcds2/ De Gruyter Publisher https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fcds Indexed by: Clarivate Analytics - Emerging Sources Citation Index ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- SPECIAL ISSUE: On the Importance of Semantics in Big Data Integration, Storage, and Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Guest editors: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Paolo Ceravolo Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel Poznan University of Technology, Poland Aims: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- The complexity of Big Data technologies and the variety of knowledge and skills needed to design Big Data applications have emphasized the relevance of systems for managing and documenting Big Data architectures. Documentation, reconfiguration, and verification are crucial tasks for a solid design of technological solutions, but are only partially supported in the current landscape of Big Data technologies. Rethinking data and metadata management in the context of Big Data technologies is then a primary goal for future research. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to the aformentioned issues. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles in Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and to make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. Following the manifesto paper "Big Data Semantics" (J. Data Semantics 7(2), 2018), which identified the important and yet unsolved issues of managing semantics of Big Data, we continue research on this topic. The aim of this special issue of FCDS is to promote research on Big Data semantics and to create a common place for sharing contributions to this topic. Topics of interest for submission include (but are not limited to): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Big Data Management Metadata Management Big Data Persistence and Preservation Big Data Quality and Provenance Control Big Data Storage and Retrieval Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques Data Source Discovery Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories Caching and Materializing Query Results Quality of Big Data Services Big Data Service Performance Evaluation Big Data Service Reliability and Availability Reproducibility of Big Data Services Verifiability of Big Data Services Assurance in Big Data Services Big Data Visualization Real Time Visualisation Visualization Analytics for Big Data Big Social Media Mining Big Data Security and Privacy Big Data System Security and Integrity Big Data Information Security Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data Performance of Big Data Architectures Query Optimization Optimal Selection of Analytics Physical Structures Timetable: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 20 Feb 2019 - paper submission 10 May 2019 - author notification 31 Jul 2019 - revision submission 31 Sep 2019 - final acceptance notification 10 Oct 2019 - camera-ready submission Submission information: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- * Papers must be submitted via EasyChair using the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fcdsspecialissue2019 * We encourage using Latex, the FCDS template can be downloaded from: http://fcds.cs.put.poznan.pl/FCDS/Files/fcds.zip * Max number of pages: 28 in the FCDS style

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