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TSD 2018 - First Call for Papers
by TSD 2018 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

********************************************************* TSD 2018 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications
by Massimo Cafaro 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

My apologies for multiple copies. 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance 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 algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 23, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 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 Program Committee Clemente Galdi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Francesco Versaci, CRS4, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 8, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 March 8, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 - Call for Posters and Demos
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation April 17-20, 2018 - Orlando, FL, USA http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/pad.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 12! *** The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In addition to full-length technical papers, IoTDI welcomes exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications, and hardware, as well as posters showing promising early work from both industry and academia. Selection of demonstration and posters will be based on a short two-page abstract, evaluated based on technical merit and innovation, as well as the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the regular conference proceedings. At least one author of every accepted demonstration or poster abstract is required to register and attend the conference. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. The reviews process is single blind and there is hence no need to anonymize the submissions. All submissions must use the IEEE LaTeX (preferred) or Word templates found here. Demonstrations should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission using a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include all authors, affiliation, and contact information. Poster and demo abstracts should be submitted through HotCRP (https://iotdi18posters.hotcrp.com/) by the abstract submission deadline (February 6th, 2018, AoE). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline [Extended!]: February 12th, 2018 (AoE) Acceptance notification: February 22nd, 2018; Camera-ready deadline: February 28th, 2018. ORGANIZERS Poster chair: Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University, USA); Demo chair: Carlo Alberto Boano (TU Graz, Austria). CONFIRMED TPC MEMBERS Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Università di Trieste, Italy); Amy Lynn Murphy (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy); Brad Campbell (University of Virginia, USA); Chiara Buratti (Università di Bologna, Italy); Christian Renner (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany); Dali Ismail (Wayne State University, USA); Daniele Puccinelli (SUPSI, Switzerland); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA); Giancarlo Fortino (Università della Calabria, Italy); Horst Hellbrück (University of Lübeck, Germany); Mahbubur Rahman (Wayne State University, USA); Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany); Matteo Ceriotti (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Michael Breza (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Mohammad Rahman (Tennessee Tech University, USA); Nicolas Tsiftes (RISE SICS, Sweden); Olga Saukh (TU Graz and Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria); Qing Wang (KU Leuven, Belgium); Ramona Marfievici (Nimbus Research Center, Ireland); Simon Duquennoy (RISE SICS, Sweden); Simon Mayer (Pro2Future and TU Graz); Vijao Rao (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Vijay Shah (University of Kentucky, USA). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call --------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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FOSDEM 2018 Ada Developer Room - presentations & videos online
by Dirk Craeynest 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** All presentations and videos available online *** 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.125 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html> <http://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/ada/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All presentations and video recordings from our 8th Ada Developer Room, held at FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels recently, are available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM web sites now. - "Welcome" by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium - "An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog - "Making the Ada_Drivers_Library: Embedded Programming with Ada" by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore - "Shared Memory Parallelism in Ada: Load Balancing by Work Stealing" by Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago - "Ada, or How to Enforce Safety Rules at Compile Time" by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog - "Contract-based Programming: a Route to Finding Bugs Earlier" by Jacob Sparre Andersen - JSA Research & Innovation - "SPARK Language: Historical Perspective & FOSS Development" by Yannick Moy - AdaCore - "Writing REST APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger Ada" by Stephane Carrez - Bouygues Telecom - "Browser-as-GUI and Web Applications with Gnoga" by Jeffrey R. Carter - Atos Belgium - "Easy Ada Tooling with Libadalang" by Raphaël Amiard and Pierre-Marie De Rodat - AdaCore Presentation abstracts, speaker bios, pointers to relevant information, copies of slides, and video recordings, are all available via the Ada-Belgium and FOSDEM sites at the URLs above. Shortly, some pictures will be posted as well. If you have pictures or other material you would like to share, or know someone who does, then please contact me. Finally, thanks once more to all presenters and helpers for their work and collaboration, thanks to the many participants for their interest, and thanks to everyone for another nice experience! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers SBAC-PAD 2018, International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Lyon, France, September 24-27, 2018
by Laurent Lefevre 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Lyon, France September 24-27, 2018 http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, speci alists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: May 11, 2018 - Paper deadline: May 18, 2018 - Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018 - Author notification: July 6, 2018 - Camera-ready: July 20, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs - Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil) - Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Program Co-chairs - Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) - Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Track Chairs - Computer Architecture: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Networking and Distributed Systems: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Parallel Applications and Algorithms: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain) - Performance Evaluation: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France) - System Software: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, Nantes, France)

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ICCSA 2018 2nd Call for Papers, Short Papers, PHD Showcase Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/). Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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MobiSPC-Conf: The 15th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, Gran Canaria, Spain (Submission Date: March 22, 2018)
by Davidekova Monika 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

============================================================================== The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC'18) August 13-15, 2018 Gran Canaria, Spain <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/ ============================================================================== Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2018 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2018 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ============= - Workshop Proposal Due: February 10, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: March 22, 2018 - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 Publication ============= All MobiSPC 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with The 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'18). <http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/ Venue ============= MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. Committees ============= General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chair StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale SupŽrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, UniversitŽ de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Kšrner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees Your contributions and support are appreciated. Sincerely, Monika Davidekova on behalf of MobiSPC 2018 Organizers

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1st CfP: 4th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science - LOD 2018 Call for Papers - Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2018
by Ludovico Montalcini 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] [Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested attendees] 4th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science - LOD 2018 An Interdisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science without Borders SIAF Learning Village - Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, September 13-16, 2018 https://lod2018.icas.xyz/ lod(a)icas.xyz ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2018 https://lod2018.icas.xyz/call-for-papers/ The LOD 2018 conference will consist of four days of main conference sessions. The 4th Annual Conference on machine Learning, Optimization and Data science (LOD) is a single-track machine learning, computational optimization, data science conference that includes invited talks, tutorial talks, special sessions, industrial tracks, demonstrations and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. We invite submissions of papers, abstracts and posters on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Big Data including real-world applications for the conference proceedings: https://lod2018.icas.xyz/call-for-papers/ Please prepare your paper in English using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Papers must be submitted in PDF. LOD 2018 Types of Submissions When submitting a paper to LOD 2018, authors are required to select one of the following four types of papers: + Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 12 pages in Springer LNCS format); + Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 4 pages); + Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference; + Work for poster presentation only. The poster format for the presentation is A0 (118.9 cm high and 84.1 cm wide, respectively 46.8 x 33.1 inch). For research work which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference. LOD 2018 Post-Proceedings All accepted long papers will be published in a volume of the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' from Springer after the conference. Instructions for preparing and submitting the final versions (camera-ready papers) of all accepted papers will be available later on. All the other papers (short papers, abstract of the oral presentations, poster presentations) will be published on the LOD 2018 web site. LOD 2018 Best Paper Springer sponsors the LOD 2018 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of EUR 1,000. LOD 2018 Submission System All papers must be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2018 DEADLINE: Saturday March 31, 2018 LOD 2018 Important Dates + Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2018 + Decision Notification to Authors: June 1st, 2018 + Camera Ready Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2018 + Deadline for early Registration as Presenting Author: July 1st, 2018 + Late registration: July 2 – September 16, 2018 + On-Site registration: September 13-16, 2018 + LOD 2018 conference: September 13-16, 2018 LOD 2018 Registration https://lod2018.icas.xyz/registration/ LOD 2018 Program Committee The current LOD 2018 Program Committee includes about 300 Program Committee members: https://lod2018.icas.xyz/program-committee/ Any questions regarding the submission process can be sent to conference organizers: lod(a)icas.xyz We look forward to seeing you in Tuscany! LOD 2018 Chairs & Organizing Committee. https://lod2018.icas.xyz/ lod(a)icas.xyz MOD 2017 Keynote Speakers: Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK. Founding Director of Data Science Institute Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA. Director of the Center for Applied Optimization Ruslan Salakhutdinov,Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Director of AI Research at Apple. My Thai, University of Florida, USA Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology, China Vincenzo Sciacca, Cloud and Cognitive Division – IBM Rome, Italy http://www.taosciences.it/mod/keynote-speakers/ MOD 2016 Keynote Speakers: Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2016/keynote-speakers/ MOD 2015 Keynote Speakers: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2015/MOD 2015 Best Paper Award of the Previous Editions: https://lod2018.icas.xyz/best-paper-award/

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Call for Submissions Extended to Febr 18: UK OpenMP Users' Conference 2018
by OpenMP ARB 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

*Call for Submissions Extension - Deadline February 18, 2018* ------------------------------ The inaugural UK OpenMP User's Conference <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…> is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community of developers who use OpenMP, with the aims being to: - Share OpenMP programing knowledge and best practise amongst UK users. - Network with fellow developers. Help to promote the evolution of the OpenMP standard. - Provide a feedback channel to the OpenMP Architecture Review Board, so that the OpenMP language reflects the needs of the programmers who use it. - Enable the exchange of ideas with vendors of OpenMP hardware, software and tools. The event is open to anyone who is interested in participating in, or contributing to, the UK community of OpenMP developers. Visit the Conference Website <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…>. ------------------------------ Call for Submissions Submissions, in the form of short abstract (max 500 words) are requested for consideration by the program committee. Submissions related to any aspect of using OpenMP are of interest, including (but not limited to): case-studies of OpenMP use in applications, software tools, programming methods, debugging, performance analysis, and integration. Submissions will be evaluated on their merit based on their relevance to OpenMP users. They do not have to cover new or un-published work, but should be topical and be appropriate for a technical audience. Three formats of presentation are available: - Technical Presentations and Research Papers (30 min presentations) - Tutorials & Workshops (1/4 or 1/2 Day) - Posters (Displayed during the breaks) The deadline for all submissions is: *18 February, 2018 *and should be made via *EasyChair* <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…> ------------------------------ Conference Program In addition to the technical sessions we will also be scheduling extended breaks during the event to ensure that there is plenty of time to meet and network with other member of the OpenMP community to discuss and share knowledge and experience of parallel programming with OpenMP. There will also be a panel discussion to include members of the OpenMP ARB, vendors and most importantly: OpenMP users. The following sessions have already been scheduled to provide an outline of the program. *Please don't let these limit your submissions! * Anything that is related to OpenMP will be considered as long as its of a technical nature (not marketing). *Monday Tutorials & Panel Discussion:* - A Hands-On-Introduction to OpenMP (all day): - Advanced OpenMP: Performance and 4.5 Features (half day) - Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: A Hands-On Introduction (half day) - Panel Discussion: OpenMP is Twenty. Where is it Going? Including an opportunity for users to put questions to the OpenMP ARB members present. There will be a Conference Dinner on the Monday evening followed by networking at local pub. *Tuesday* The following invited talks have currently been confirmed and additional talks will be added according to the Call for Submissions above. - Keynote: *Thread Alert: Improving Weather Warnings and Forecasts With OpenMP* by Paul Selwood, Manager of HPC Optimisation, Met Office Asbtract: - Abstract: Accurate weather forecasts are hugely important to a nation's economy. They help keep transport links open, keep electricity flowing and enable emergency response to extreme weather events. The Unified Model is a key component in the Met Office's ability to generate hundreds of forecasts every day to tight operational timescale. It is constantly being improved with more accurate and computationally expensive physics. OpenMP has been an important tool in meeting the scalability challenge this has presented. This presentation will describe the Unified Model's journey with OpenMP. This has taken it from an enabler of hyperthreads, through I/O acceleration to being a fully-fledged part of the model's parallelism strategy. The lessons learned during this process will be shared, along with some recent experiences with tasking to mitigate MPI load imbalance. - Invited Talk: *OpenMP Gotchas* by Dr Mark Bull, Architect (Research and Training), EPCC - Invited Talk: *OpenMP 4.5 Performance Portability* by Simon McIntosh-Smith, Prof. in High Performance Computing, University of Bristol Conference Dinner There will be a conference dinner on the evening of Monday 21st May. ------------------------------ Program Committee - Conference Chair: Simon McIntosh-Smith, Prof. in High Performance Computing, University of Bristol - Program Co-Chair: Dr Mark Bull, Architect (Research and Training), EPCC Program Co-Chair: - Jim Cownie, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Founder, Local Organiser & Marketing Chair: Tim Lewis, Croftedge Marketing Limited ------------------------------ Proceedings All the presentations, tutorials and posters presented at the meeting will be collated into a set of electronic proceedings and made available on-line. All presenters must register for the conference at the prevailing rate and must attend the conference to be included in the proceedings. ------------------------------ Sponsors If your company is interested in promoting its products to the UK OpenMP community please contact tim.lewis(a)croftedge.com <tim.lewis(a)croftedge.com?subject=UK%20OpenMP%20User's%20Conference> to discuss the various Sponsorship Opportunities available. Your support is greatly appreciated and will help us build the UK OpenMP community. *Read More* <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…>

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PDSEC/IPDPS-18 workshop: extended deadline Feb 09
by Peter Strazdins 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

(apologies for cross-postings) The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-18) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec18 will be held on May 25, 2018 in Vancouver in conjunction with IPDPS 2018. Deadline: PDSEC-18 extended deadline: 09 Feb 2018 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due (FINAL EXTENSION) . . . . . February 09, 2018 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 02, 2018 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2018 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2018 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 8, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 March 8, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications
by Massimo Cafaro 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

My apologies for multiple copies. 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance 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 algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 23, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 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 Program Committee Clemente Galdi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Francesco Versaci, CRS4, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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FINAL CfP Ada-Europe 2018, Mon 5 February submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Papers 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 Organized by Univ. Lisboa and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) The 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. This edition features a focused Special Session on Security in Safety-Critical Systems. *** DEADLINE Monday 5 FEBRUARY 2018 *** Regular & Special Session Papers + Industrial Presentations: submit via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2018 Tutorials & Workshops: submit to the Tutorial & Workshop Chair David Pereira <dmrpe at isep.ipp.pt> For more information please see the full Call for Contributions at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be

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CfP 13th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '18)
by VHPC 18 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '18) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 24-28, 2018, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 28, 2018 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: April 23, 2018, Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 Special Track: GPU - Accelerator Virtualization Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor 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 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; I/O Virtualization 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 and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - GPU virtualization operationalization - Approaches to GPGPU virtualization including API remoting and hypervisor abstraction - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.) - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Checkpointing facilitation utilizing containers and VMs - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and NUMA in hypervisors - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Virtualization in data intensive computing (big data) - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Latency-and jitter sensitive workloads in virtualized/containerized environments - I/O virtualization (including applications, SR-IOV, i.a.) - Hybrid local facility + cloud compute and based storage systems, cloudbursting - FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Configuration management tools for containers (including in OpenStack, Ansible, i.a.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Special Track: GPU - Accelerator Virtualization GPU virtualization technologies, performance and benchmarking, integration with workflow scheduling systems, integration to cluster managers. GPUs are taking on many HPC workload areas, especially in deep learning within machine learning. In addition, a lot of workload is being pushed to elastic environments utilizing various virtualization technologies on different levels like hypervisors (e.g. VMWare, Xen, KVM), kernel (Docker, Kubernetes) or on the resource manager level (YARN, Mesos). In this track we invite submissions addressing these problems. Suggested Themes and Topics: Technology - What technologies and best practices exist for GPU - hardware accelerator virtualization and usage of hardware accelerators in virtual environments on the hypervisor, kernel or resource manager level Developers - Real-life experience when addressing HPC/ML/DL problems with GPUs or hardware accelerators in virtual environments Performance - Performance comparisons between different technologies / solutions 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 February 23, 2018 (AoE) - Abstract Submission April 23, 2018 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 30, 2018 - Acceptance notification June 28, 2018 - Workshop Day July 12, 2018 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), OnApp, UK Romeo Kienzler (co-chair), IBM, Switzerland 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 François Diakhaté, CEA, France Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Uday Kurkure, VMware, 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, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, 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 Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratory, USA 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.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 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) 2018, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Please help disseminating Dynamic Geometry-Mathematicas Education Workshop at ACA 2018
by Prof. Tomas Recio 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Dear Colleague: Please help disseminating among the members of the Computational Science Mailing List, the announcement of a "Dynamic Geometry and Mathematicas Education" Workshop at the Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA) 2018 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 18-22, 2018). Enclosed please find the Call for Contributions to the Workshop. Thanks for your interest! Further information at the web www.dg-me.tk <http://www.dg-me.tk/> With best regards, Tomas Recio DYNAMIC GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION www.dg-me.tk <http://www.dg-me.tk/> SPECIAL SESSION AT THE 24TH CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER ALGEBRA (ACA <http://www.usc.es/regaca/aca2018/index.html> 2018), JUNE 18 - 22, 2018, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN AIM AND SCOPE Dynamic geometry environments (DGE) have emerged in the last half-century with an ever-increasing impact in mathematics education. DGE enlarges the field of geometric objects subject to formal reasoning, for instance, simultaneous operations with many geometric objects. Today DGE open the possibility of investigating visually and formulating conjectures, comparing objects, discovering or proving rigorously properties over geometric constructions, and Euclidean elementary geometry is required to reason about them. Along these decades various utilities have been added to these environments, such as the manipulation of algebraic equations of geometric objects or the automated proving and discovering, based on computer algebra algorithms, of elementary geometry statements. Moreover, some intelligent tutoring systems for Euclidean geometry based in DGE have been developed. The merging of these tools (DGE, automated proving and intelligent tutoring systems) is, thus, a very natural, challenging and promising issue, currently involving logic, symbolic computation, software development, algebraic geometry and mathematics education experts all from over the world. The Special Session intends to be a forum for: presenting the current state of the art concerning the design and implementation of automatic reasoning features on dynamic geometry systems and intelligent tutoring systems; fostering a debate concerning the role and use of such features in mathematics education, in general, and their potential impact in proof and proving conception in the classroom, in particular. ORGANIZERS Tomás Recio (tomas.recio(a)unican.es <mailto:tomas.recio@unican.es>), Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain Philippe R. Richard (philippe.r.richard(a)umontreal.ca <http://www.nebrija.es/Users/TOMAS%201/Downloads/philippe.r.richard@umontrea…>), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada M. Pilar Vélez (pvelez(a)nebrija.es <http://www.nebrija.es/Users/TOMAS%201/Downloads/pvelez@nebrija.es>), Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain SUBMISSIONS If you are interested in proposing a talk, please send an abstract to pvelez(a)nebrija.es <mailto:pvelez@nebrija.es>. Please use the attached LaTeX template <http://www.nebrija.es/~pvelez/ACA2018/Abstract_Template.tex> <http://www.nebrija.es/~pvelez/ACA2018/Abstract_Template.tex>for your abstract and send the organizers both the LaTeX source and a compiled PDF version. We suggest that abstracts be 2-3 pages. Tentative abstract submission deadline is April 2, 2018; early submissions are appreciated. ACA2017 conference web page http://www.usc.es/regaca/aca2018/index.html <http://www.usc.es/regaca/aca2018/index.html>

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MESS 2018 - from Design to Implementation - Taormina, Italy, 21-25 July 2018
by Mario Pavone 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) -- SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL LIST OF LECTURERS -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2018 - Metaheuristics Summer School - from Design to Implementation - 21-25 July 2018, Taormina, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2018/ mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15th April 2018 ** MESS 2018 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. As first edition, MESS 2018 wants to analyze all metaheuristics from its designing to its implementation. In particular, in MESS 2018 will be analyzed modern heuristic methods for search and optimization problems, as well as the classical exact optimization methods, seen also in the metaheuristics context. All participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. ** Confirmed Speakers + Christian Blum, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain + Juergen Branke, Warwick Business School, UK + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy & University of Portsmouth, UK + Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK + Gunther Raidl, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria + Helena Ramalhinho Lourenco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain + Mauricio Resende, AMAZON, USA + Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil + Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy + Fabio Schoen, Unviersity of Florence, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** Short Talk and Poster Presentation All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Mini-Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted by *April 15, 2018*. ** Metaheuristics Competition All students of the school will be invited to the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them, divided in working groups, will develop a metaheuristic solution on a given problem. ** Certificate: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. ** School Directors + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy + Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** Oral & Poster Presentation Organizers + Luca Di Gaspero, Unviersity of Udine, Italy + Paola Festa, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy ** Metaheuristics Competition Chair + Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy ** More Information: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2018/ -- mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383034 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ =========================================================== MESS 2018 - Metaheuristics Summer School 21-25 July 2018, Taormina, Italy W: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2018/ E: mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school ===========================================================

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Fwd: CFP for Virtualization in High Performance Computing (VHPC2018) Special Session at HPCS2018
by Uday Kurkure 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing (VHPC 2018) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018)http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 July 16 – 20, 2018 Orléans, France Paper Submission Deadline: March 12, 2018 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters PURPOSE and SCOPE Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. The VHPC topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Virtualization in HPC o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments: o Virtualized GPUs § Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack § Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs IO Virtualization o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines Tools o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments Algorithms o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to virtualization in high performance computing. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 7 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a completed online web based form (can also include a cover page) with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VHPC2018 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2018 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2018 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the special session organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- March 12, 2018 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 11, 2018 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- May 03, 2018 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 16 – 20, 2018 SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS Uday Kurkure VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA <https://maps.google.com/?q=3401+Hillview+Avenue+Palo+Alto,+CA+94304,+USA&en…> Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu Hari Sivaraman VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA <https://maps.google.com/?q=3401+Hillview+Avenue+Palo+Alto,+CA+94304,+USA&en…> Phone: +1 650-427-3681 <(650)%20427-3681> Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com Lan Vu VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA <https://maps.google.com/?q=3401+Hillview+Avenue+Palo+Alto,+CA+94304,+USA&en…> Phone: +1 650-427-1327 <(650)%20427-1327> Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com Teng Moh San Jose State University Department of Computer Science San Jose, CA 95192-0249, USA Phone: +1 408-924-5147 <(408)%20924-5147> Fax: +1 408-924-5062 <(408)%20924-5062> Email: teng.moh(a)sjsu.edu International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2018 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2018 Proceedings. 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FW: CFP for ASME's CIE-2 and CIE-3 symposium
by Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Two great symposia for great computational scientists: ________________________________ From: owner-cmp(a)ccslists.nrl.navy.mil [owner-cmp(a)ccslists.nrl.navy.mil] on behalf of j michopoulos [john.michopoulos(a)nrl.navy.mil] Sent: 24 January 2018 Dear Colleague, You are cordially invited to submit an abstract and a paper for Symposia: 1. "CIE-2 AMS: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering" or/and 2. "CIE-3 AMS: Computational Multiphysics Applications" that will be held at the ASME 2018 IDETC/CIE International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers & Information in Engineering Conference, on August 26-29, 2018, at Quebec City, Canada. Submission Deadline: March 12, 2018 Submission Site: http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC2018/Author/NewAbstract.cfm For more information see attached calls. Looking forward to your papers and seeing you in Quebec City. Sincerely, -john michopoulos -- ____________ | | John G. Michopoulos, Ph.D. | U.S. NAVAL | Head Code 6394, FASME |__RESEARCH__| Computational Multiphysics Systems Lab. LABORATORY Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375 T 202.767.2189 F 202.404.7546 http://cms.nrl.navy.mil ______________________________________________________________

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 8, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 March 8, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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Handbook of Vascular Biometrics: Call for Chapters
by Andreas Uhl 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

================================================================= Handbook of Vascular Biometrics (1st edition) - Call for Chapters ================================================================= Editors Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sébastien Marcel and Raymond Veldhuis Biometrics is a tremendously active research field including developments in sensing technology, signal and image processing, information security, and applied machine learning, and strong links with other research areas such as forensic science, human-computer interaction, and systems engineering. In the last decade, and especially in the last few years, vascular biometrics have become established as important biometrics modalities. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive presentation of the state-of-the-art in biometrics exploiting the outlay of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm vein recognition, retina recognition, and sclera recognition. After an introductory chapter composed by one of the editors which will summarize the state of the art and availability of commercial systems and open datasets / open source software, individual chapters will be dedicated to specific aspects of one of the considered biometric modalities including questions of usability, security, and privacy. Besides chapters of purely academic nature, the handbook will contain chapters contributed by major industrial manufacturers. This first Edition of the Handbook of Vascular Biometrics is now planned for publication in the Springer Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition series in 2019. The editorial team is soliciting chapter contributions from members of the biometrics, pattern recognition and machine learning research communities. Contributions from other communities which cover aspects strongly related to vascular biometrics are also welcome, e.g., information security, human-computer interaction, and systems engineering. Targeted contents include: • Fingervein, Handvein, Retina, and Sclera-based Recognition Systems • Less established vascular recognition schemes • Sensor-related developments in these areas • Security- and Privacy issues in these areas, e.g. template protection schemes, presentation attack detection • Release of new public datasets and corresponding results • Robustness and usability aspects Originality =========== Chapter contributions are expected to present novel content as compared to earlier published work (a percentage of 25-30% novel content as compared to earlier published work is expected). Reports of significant real-world applications of vascular biometric systems are also welcome. Reproducible Research - Standard Compliance =========================================== The Handbook of Vascular Biometrics will have a focus on reproducible research (RR). All contributions are required to meet the following conditions: • experiments should relate to publicly available datasets as a first requirement for RR; • system scores generated with proposed methods should be openly available as a second requirement for RR. Additionally, the sharing of plots or performance figures should align with the international standard ISO/IEC 19795-1. Moreover open source code of the proposed methods and detailed instructions to reproduce the experiments is strongly encouraged. We are seeking a harmonized appearance of all chapters and thus invite authors to align their manuscripts with the Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary, as published in the international standard ISO/IEC 2382-37: http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c066693_ISO_IEC_23… Timeline ======== • Expression of Interest from Authors (chapter title, abstract and organisation): 2018-02-15 • Selection of chapters: 2018-03-15 • Commitment from Authors: 2018-04-15 • Deadline for authors: 2018-06-30 • Review: Jul - Oct 2018 • Response to Authors: 2018-11-01 • Final Manuscript Author Deadline: 2018-12-31 • Final manuscript to Springer: 2018-01-31 Prospective authors should express their interest by Feb 15th 2018 with a concise chapter proposal (title, authors, abstract, organisation, previous publications in the field, description of the nature and extent of original contribution compared to earlier work and action towards reproducible research if applicable) to the editorial team: Andreas Uhl - Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (AT) -- <uhl(a)cosy.sbg.ac.at> Christoph Busch - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (N) -- <christoph.busch(a)ntnu.no> Sébastien Marcel - Idiap Research Institute (CH) -- <marcel(a)idiap.ch> Raymond Veldhuis - University of Twente (NL) -- <r.n.j.veldhuis(a)utwente.nl> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | Andreas Uhl | Salzburg University | | ++43 662 8044 6303 | Department of Computer Sciences | | uhl(a)cosy.sbg.ac.at | Jakob-Haringerstr.2 | | www.wavelab.at | 5020 Salzburg Austria Europe | ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Submissions : UK OpenMP User's Conference
by OpenMP ARB 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

<https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…> * UK OpenMP User's Conference* *Call for Submissions - Deadline January 31, 2018* ------------------------------ Please Note: The Call for Papers for IWOMP 2018 and OpenMPCon which are taking place in Barcelona, Spain between 25 - 29 September 2018 will be published shortly. ------------------------------ The inaugural UK OpenMP User's Conference <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…> is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community of developers who use OpenMP, with the aims being to: - Share OpenMP programing knowledge and best practise amongst UK users. - Network with fellow developers. Help to promote the evolution of the OpenMP standard. - Provide a feedback channel to the OpenMP Architecture Review Board, so that the OpenMP language reflects the needs of the programmers who use it. - Enable the exchange of ideas with vendors of OpenMP hardware, software and tools. The event is open to anyone who is interested in participating in, or contributing to, the UK community of OpenMP developers. Visit the Conference Website <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…>. ------------------------------ Call for Submissions Submissions, in the form of short abstract (max 500 words) are requested for consideration by the program committee. Submissions related to any aspect of using OpenMP are of interest, including (but not limited to): case-studies of OpenMP use in applications, software tools, programming methods, debugging, performance analysis, and integration. Submissions will be evaluated on their merit based on their relevance to OpenMP users. They do not have to cover new or un-published work, but should be topical and be appropriate for a technical audience. Three formats of presentation are available: - Technical Presentations and Research Papers (30 min presentations) - Tutorials & Workshops (1/4 or 1/2 Day) - Posters (Displayed during the breaks) The deadline for all submissions is: *31st January, 2018 *and should be made via *EasyChair* <https://openmp.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&…> ------------------------------ Conference Program In addition to the technical sessions we will also be scheduling extended breaks during the event to ensure that there is plenty of time to meet and network with other member of the OpenMP community to discuss and share knowledge and experience of parallel programming with OpenMP. There will also be a panel discussion to include members of the OpenMP ARB, vendors and most importantly: OpenMP users. The following sessions have already been scheduled to provide an outline of the program. *Please don't let these limit your submissions! * Anything that is related to OpenMP will be considered as long as its of a technical nature (not marketing). *Monday Tutorials & Panel Discussion:* - A Hands-On-Introduction to OpenMP (all day): - Advanced OpenMP: Performance and 4.5 Features (half day) - Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: A Hands-On Introduction (half day) - Panel Discussion: OpenMP is Twenty. Where is it Going? Including an opportunity for users to put questions to the OpenMP ARB members present. There will be a Conference Dinner on the Monday evening followed by networking at local pub. *Tuesday* The following invited talks have currently been confirmed and additional talks will be added according to the Call for Submissions above. - Keynote: *Thread Alert: Improving Weather Warnings and Forecasts With OpenMP* by Paul Selwood, Manager of HPC Optimisation, Met Office Asbtract: - Abstract: Accurate weather forecasts are hugely important to a nation's economy. They help keep transport links open, keep electricity flowing and enable emergency response to extreme weather events. The Unified Model is a key component in the Met Office's ability to generate hundreds of forecasts every day to tight operational timescale. It is constantly being improved with more accurate and computationally expensive physics. OpenMP has been an important tool in meeting the scalability challenge this has presented. This presentation will describe the Unified Model's journey with OpenMP. This has taken it from an enabler of hyperthreads, through I/O acceleration to being a fully-fledged part of the model's parallelism strategy. The lessons learned during this process will be shared, along with some recent experiences with tasking to mitigate MPI load imbalance. - Invited Talk: *OpenMP Gotchas* by Dr Mark Bull, Architect (Research and Training), EPCC - Invited Talk: *OpenMP 4.5 Performance Portability* by Simon McIntosh-Smith, Prof. in High Performance Computing, University of Bristol Conference Dinner There will be a conference dinner on the evening of Monday 21st May. ------------------------------ Program Committee - Conference Chair: Simon McIntosh-Smith, Prof. in High Performance Computing, University of Bristol - Program Co-Chair: Dr Mark Bull, Architect (Research and Training), EPCC Program Co-Chair: - Jim Cownie, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Founder, Local Organiser & Marketing Chair: Tim Lewis, Croftedge Marketing Limited ------------------------------ Proceedings All the presentations, tutorials and posters presented at the meeting will be collated into a set of electronic proceedings and made available on-line. 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CFP CGSA'18 - Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
by Marina Gavrilova 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGSA'18 in conjunction with The 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2018) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 2 - 5, 2018 Melbourne, Australia Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 23, Midnight GMT, 2018 ============================================================ Important Dates --------------- February 23, 2018: Deadline for draft paper submission. April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance May 6,2018: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 2-5, 2018: CGSA'18 Workshop and ICCSA 2018 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics - Big Data Analytics and Security - Machine Learning and Security Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGSA'18 located in Melbourne, Australia. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2018 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2018 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2018 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGSA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Co-Chairs: Asish Mukhopadhyay, Professor, University of Windsor Marina Gavrilova, Professor, University of Calgary International Program Committee Members (to be confirmed): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Prof. Asish Mykhopadhyay School of Computer Science University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada e-mail: asishm(a)uwindsor.ca Marina L. Gavrilova Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CFP CW2018 - Singapore, October 2018
by Marina Gavrilova 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW2018) Singapore, 3-5 October, 2018 Organized by Fraunhofer Singapore In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association, and International Federation for Information Processing Conference web page: www.cyberworlds-conference.org CW 2018 SCOPE: Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that use computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. CW 2018 is the 17th conference organized annually since 2002. CW 2018 will consider the following tracks and topics: GENERAL TRACK: Applications of virtual and augmented reality; Networked and shared virtual worlds; Virtual collaborative spaces; Shape modeling for cyberworlds; Virtual humans and avatars; Multimodal interaction and rendering; Computer vision for augmented and mixed reality; Social computing; Online communities; Cyber-learning; Multi-user web games; Art and heritage in cyberspace; Cyber-museums; Cyberethics and cyberlaws; Welfare in cyberworlds; Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds; Visual analytics in cyberworlds COGNITIVE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION: Cognitive informatics; Human factors in transportation, maritime, industry 4.0; Neurorehabilitation and neuroplasticity; Affective computing; Mobile BCI; Machine and deep learning for EEG-based algorithms; Multi-modal Interfaces; Neurofeedback systems and games; BCI applications CYBERSECURITY AND BIOMETRICS: Security protocols; Authentication protocols; Privacy protocols; Password security; Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights management; Risk and reputation management; Identity and trust management; Information hiding and anonymity; Privacy, security and trust in social media; Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics; Performance evaluation of biometric systems; Multi-biometrics; Quality of biometric data; Biometric template protection; Presentation attack detection; Emerging biometrics CYBER CITIES AND CYBER MANUFACTURING: Real-time analytics, modelling, and simulation for the future smart cities and urban mobility; 3D city modelling, processing and simulation; Predictive analytics and machine learning for future healthcare; Medical Computing for future healthcare; Visual Computing for active ageing; Cyber-physical systems technologies; Computer vision for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing; Optical inspection for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing; Virtual and Augmented Reality for the future smart cities and smart manufacturing KEYNOTE TALKS: "From Augmented Reality to Personalized Reality” by Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan "Show Me How You Type on a Keyboard, and I will Guess Who You Are” by Christophe Rosenberger, Normandy University, France "Internet-based Design Informatics in New Product Development” by Chen Chun-Hsien, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: full (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and poster papers (up to 4 pages) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus, and SCI SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of all accepted full papers: Computers & Graphics (Elsevier); The Visual Computer (Springer); Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS); Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier); Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier); International Journal of Art, Culture, and Design Technologies (IGI Global) IMPORTANT DATES: Monday 7 May Papers (Full/Short) submission Monday 25 June Papers (Full/Short) notification Monday 2 July Poster papers submission Monday 16 July Poster papers notification Monday 30 July Author registration Wednesday 30 July Camera-ready papers submission to CPS Conference flyer for downloading: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourin/cw/cw2018/flyer.pdf CONTACT: Program Chair: Alexei Sourin cw2018(a)easychair.org Conference URL: www.cyberworlds-conference.org

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CFP CGSA'18 - Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
by Marina Gavrilova 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS CALL FOR PAPERS Privacy, Security and Trust 2017 Conference Privacy, Security and Trust 2017 (PST 2017) will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on August 28-30, 2017. PST 2017 is the 15th conference in this series, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results, developments and ideas in areas of Privacy, Security and Trust. The City and the University of Calgary are located in the foothills of the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 1,050 meters. Calgary hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics and annually holds the world famous Calgary Stampede. The natural beauty of the Rockies are easily accessible including Banff National Park, Lake Louise, and Canmore, which are a short drive from the city of Calgary. GENERAL INFORMATION: ________________________________________ PST 2017 topics are inter-disciplinary across Privacy, Security and Trust. Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to: • Access Control • Adversarial Machine Learning • Anonymity, Accountability and Audit • Attacks on Security and Privacy • Authentication • Biometrics • BlockChain and Related Technologies • Computer and Network Forensics • Cryptographic Protocols • Distributed Trust and Consensus • Formal Methods for Security and Privacy • Identity Management • Intrusion Detection • Key Management • Metrics for Security and Privacy • Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologies • Program Analysis for Security and Privacy • Quantum-Resistant Cryptography • Reputation Systems • Threat Modeling and Risk Analysis PST 2017 also seeks application of security and privacy technologies and the related socio-technical issues to, but not limited to, the following: • Big Data • Cloud Computing • Critical Infrastructures • CryptoCurrencies • Cyber-Physical Systems • e-Services • Internet of Things • Mobile Computing • Operating Systems • Databases • Social Media • Society, Economy, Legislation and Policy • Software Development and Programming Languages • Usability • Virtualization and Software Defined Network • Wireless and Wired Networks More details on the publication process will be announced on the conference website. http://www.ucalgary.ca/pst2017 Best Paper Award(s) will be presented. IMPORTANT DATES: ________________________________________ Submission Deadline: May 26, 2017 Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2017 Author Registration: July 20, 2017 Pre-proceedings Deadline: July 25, 2017 Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: ________________________________________ High-quality papers in all PST-related areas that, at the time of submission, are not under review and have not already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will be accepted as 'regular' papers up to 10 pages, or 'short' papers of up to 6 pages. The standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all submissions. IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be downloaded here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html PAPER SUBMISSION: ________________________________________ Go to the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pst2017 The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore as in previous editions of the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must register by July 20, 2017. A regular registration is required. Accepted (short or regular) papers will be published in the proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ General Chair: Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada Program Chair: Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Local Organizing Chair: Mike Jacobson, University of Calgary, Canada Privacy Track Chair: Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Security Track Chair: Philip Fong, University of Calgary, Canada Trust Track Chair: Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Publicity Chair: Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ Ali Ghorbani (Chair), University of New Brunswick, Canada Ali Miri, Ryerson University, Canada Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada Nora Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Patrick McDaniel, Penn. State University, USA Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Hossein Sarrafzadeh, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ________________________________________ Elli Androulaki, IBM Research, Switzerland Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Erman Ayday, Bilkent University, Turkey Foteini Baldimtsi, George Mason University, USA Anirban Basu, KDDI Research, Japan Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University, USA Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jeremy Clark, Concordia University, Canada Nicolas Courtois, University College London, UK Nora Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Tariq Elahi, KU Leuven, Belgium Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies-CNR, Italy José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand Gerhard P. Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Herrmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ghassan Karame, NEC Research Labs, Germany Aniket Kate, Purdue University, USA Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Aggelos Kiayias, University of Athens, Greece Pascal Lafourcade, University Clermont Auvergne, France Mohammad Mannan, Concordia University, Canada Stephen Marsh, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Keith Martin, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Atsuko Miyaji, School of Information Science, Japan Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Melek Önen, EURECOM, France Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Dominique Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sid Stamm, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA Douglas Stebila, McMaster University, Canada Willy Susilo, Wollongong University, Australia Nadia Tawbi, Universite Laval, Canada Julie Thorpe, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Vicenç Torra, University of Skövde, Sweden Mahesh Tripunitata, University of Waterloo, Canada Marten van Dijk, University of Connecticut, USA Huaxiong Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Amr Youssef, Concordia University, Canada Ting Yu, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore CONTACT: ________________________________________ General questions regarding PST 2017 can be directed to: PST2017(a)ucalgary.ca ______________________________________________ computational.science mailing list computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science Hosted by Sardina Systems: Hyper-Efficient OpenStack Cloud https://www.sardinasystems.com

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CADO CfP - Compiler Architecture, Design And Optimization (HPCS session)
by Benoit Meister 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies) HPCS 2018 Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization *Orléans, France* *July 16 – 20, 2018* *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- *March 12, 2018* Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- *April 11, 2018* Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------ *May 03, 2018* Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- July 16 – 20, 2018 *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES * The Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization provides a premier venue to bring together systems researchers working on compiler architecture, design and code optimization of high performance computing systems, particularly for many-core, GPU, and accelerators. The CADO Session aims at examining different solutions to compiler architecture, design, construction and optimization problems and includes, but is not limited to: - Compiler abstraction and intermediate representations - Integration of language features, representations, optimizations, and runtime support for parallelism - Auto-parallelization - Binary translation - Compiler-support for parallelism mapping, thread extraction, task scheduling, - - speculation, transaction, memory management, data distribution and synchronization - Compiler support for multi-core architectures, GPUs, CGRAs, FPGAs, and accelerators - Interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; - Code generation, optimization, synthesis and verification - Run-time techniques and just-in-time compilation - Platforms, tools, debuggers, and profilers - Domain specific techniques (e.g., mobile environments, embedded systems, ...) - Combinations of the above *PROCEEDINGS* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2018 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. More information (Conference policies, Paper submission information, Program Committee) is available on the dedicated web page: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018/sessio… *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Philippe Clauss - INRIA Camus, ICube Lab, CNRS, Strasbourg, France. Benoit Meister - Reservoir Labs, New York, USA

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Final Extension: Call for Papers DMDMS 2018 - International Workshop on Data Mining for Decision Making Support
by adla.abdelkader＠univ-oran.dz 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Dear Colleague, [Apologies for multiples copies] Please distribute this CFP among your colleagues and students] --------- DMDMS 2018 - CFP --------- Paper Submission: January 31, 2018 (Final) DMDMS: 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining for Decision Making Support In Conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies May 8-11, 2018, Porto, Portugal http://www.univ-oran1.dz/images/DMDMS'18/index.html We cordially invite you to submit a paper, and to participate in the Data Mining for Decision Making Support workshop (DMDMS), to be held in Porto, Portugal, May 8-11, 2018. This workshop will provide a common platform for discussion of challenging issues and potential techniques in this emergence field of data mining for decision support. It will also serve as a critical and essential forum for integrating various research challenges in this domain and promote collaboration among researchers from academia and industry to enhance the state-of-art and help define a clear path for future research in this emerging area. The workshop invites researchers and practitioners to submit original work on methodologies, models, algorithms, systems, tools, applications and case studies of DMDMS. Most importantly, the workshop will be a forum to discuss how to utilize advances from multiple disciplines for building DMDMS that can intelligently merge human knowledge and expertise with formal models to make better decisions. TOPICS The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Knowledge management for DMS - Ontologies for DMS - Case-based reasoning for DMS - Business intelligence for DMS - Data mining for DMS - Optimization methods for DMS - Knowledge and resource discovery for DMS - Information and Knowledge Retrieval for DMS - Group, distributed, and collaborative DMS - Big Data Analytics and DMS - Case studies of DMDMS PUBLICATION All papers accepted for the workshop will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the ANT-2018 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the workshop to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to contribute original and high-quality papers to DMDMS workshop in PDF format through online submission systems at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmdms2018 The submitted paper must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. They must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier, as given in ANT-2018 website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/ IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission: January 31, 2018 (Final) - Acceptance Notification: February, 23 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: March 9, 2018 Please check further details at the DMDMS Workshop Website: http://www.univ-oran1.dz/images/DMDMS'18/index.html We look forward to welcoming you in Porto! Workshop Contact: Abdelkader Adla Adla.abdelkader(a)univ-oran.dz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MESSAGE DE L'UNIVERSITE D'ORAN.

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Call for Papers - 4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2018)
by Giovanni Livraga 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** 4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2018) Beijing, China - May 30-June 1, 2018 http://spc2018.di.unimi.it/ ********************************************************************** Cloud computing is today the reference paradigm for large-scale data storage and processing due to the convenient and efficient network access to configurable resources that can be easily adjusted according to the users’ needs. Although the benefits of cloud computing are tremendous, security and privacy concerns have still a detrimental impact on the adoption and acceptability of cloud services. In fact, users as well as companies that rely on cloud storage and computation services lose the direct control over the systems managing their data and applications, thus putting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data at risk. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in discussing the security, privacy, and data protection issues emerging in cloud scenarios, and possible solutions to them. SPC 2018 is the fourth workshop in this series and will be held in Beijing, China, on May 30-June 1, in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2018). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research, as well as experimental studies, on all theoretical and practical aspects of security, privacy, and data protection in cloud scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Anonymity in cloud scenarios - Applied cryptography in cloud scenarios - Cloud-based biometric systems - Data and application security - Data and system integrity - Data availability in outsourcing scenarios - Data protection - Efficient access to outsourced data - Key management in cloud scenarios - Privacy - Privacy of accesses - Secure computation over encrypted data - Security and trust metrics - Security and privacy in crowdsourcing - Security and privacy in multi-clouds and federated clouds - Security and privacy in data outsourcing - Security and privacy in the Internet of Things - Security and privacy of big data - Security and privacy of distributed computations - Security and privacy of fog computing - Security and privacy policies - Selective information sharing - Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 9 pages in the IEEE 8,5"x11" two-column format. Submissions should not be anonymized. The workshop will also consider short submissions of up to 4 pages for results that are preliminary or that simply require few pages. Papers should be submitted for review through EDAS (http://edas.info/N24475). Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 5, 2018 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CNS 2018 conference proceedings and also in IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 5, 2018 Notification to authors: March 26, 2018 Camera ready due: April 2, 2018 PC CHAIR Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE To be announced If you have any question, please contact the organizers at spc2018(a)di.unimi.it

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 1, 2018 Author Notification: May, 27, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 17, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018
by res.mb.conference 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2) l papers only). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: Please read the template instructions carefully before submitting a paper, they can be found here (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/). Papers submitted to ARES 2018 have to use the SigConf template! Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2018 which are not presenting original work your paper will be plagiarism checked by PlagScan Plagarism Check. If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018 The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge. 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. This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. 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. 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. Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power. The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments 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 Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Novel distributed data mining algorithms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins). The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a…. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018 First round notification: May 1st, 2018 Revised version due: July 1st, 2018 Final notification: August 1st, 2018 Camera-ready due: September 15th, 2018 Publication tentative date: December 2018 Guest editors: Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, 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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1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications
by Massimo Cafaro 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

My apologies for multiple copies. 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance 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 algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 23, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 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 Program Committee To be defined... - ************************************************************************************ 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 Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: January 28, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 January 28, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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Joint Conference on Data Science 2018, Edinburgh
by Felix Engel 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

... sorry for cross posting! We would like to invite you to the first Joint Conference on Data Science in Edinburgh! Please share the invitation and let us know, if you are interested in submitting a paper, hosting a workshop or giving a demo session..... Call for Papers Joint Conference on Data Science (JCDS 2018) Deepening the role of data science as a transformational force for innovation, discovery, and societal benefit The aim of the Joint Conference on Data Science 2018 (JCDS18) is to bring together academics, policy-makers, and business people passionate about the emergent field of data science as a force for strategic transformation in an academic and professional context. This data science conference arises out of a series of successful predecessor conferences; the JCDS series has been created to foster a vital exchange between parties from industry and academia interested in the wide field of data science. Essentially, the increasing availability of vast libraries of digitised information influences the ways in which we comprehend and analyse our environment, and realise businesses for our societal benefit. In this situation, data science creates a transformational force with impact on current innovation potential in industry and academia. Given this transformational potential, it is inevitable that new teaching activities will play a significant role in realising this potential. Selected papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 22. -23. May 2018, Edinburgh, UK Important Dates · Workshop, Tutorial, and Demo Proposal Submission Due: 18. February 2018 · Paper Submission Due: 18. March 2018 Contact Conference Chairs · Professor Dr.-Ing. Matthias Hemmje, Department of MMIA, University of Hagen, Germany, <mailto:jcds18@ftk.de> jcds18(a)ftk.de · Dr. Wouter Los, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, <mailto:jcds18@ftk.de> jcds18(a)ftk.de <mailto:jcds18@ftk.de> More information · Website: <http://jcds2018.ftk.de> http://jcds2018.ftk.de · Twitter: <https://twitter.com/jcds2018> https://twitter.com/jcds2018 · Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/JCDS2018/> https://www.facebook.com/JCDS2018/

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PDSEC/IPDPS-18 workshop: extended deadline
by Peter Strazdins 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

(apologies for cross-postings) The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-18) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec18 will be held on May 25, 2018 in Vancouver in conjunction with IPDPS 2018. Deadline: PDSEC-18 extended deadline: 02 Feb 2018 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due (FINAL EXTENSION) . . . . . February 02, 2018 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 02, 2018 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2018 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2018 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Job Openings for Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Data Journalism, and Healthcare Analytics) (PR216/17-18)
by comp hkbu 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=417 Hong Kong Baptist University is developing cutting-edge Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and their cross-talks with different disciplines for high impact applications. The University's AI Cluster is now recruiting a number of full-time faculty members at all grades from Assistant Professor to Full Professor who have a strong passion in interdisciplinary research as well as a strong research track record in Data Analytics and AI algorithms or their applications to Chinese Medicine, Healthcare, Journalism, and Media. They will be working collaboratively towards interdisciplinary research challenges including data-driven drug discovery for Chinese medicine (TCM), evidence-based TCM knowledge graph development, automated news writing, visual analytics for investigative reporting, etc. The candidates are expected to have a PhD degree in Computer Science, Medical Science, Chinese Medicine, Journalism, Media or equivalent. They could be jointly appointed by more than one department, including but not limited by the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science), School of Chinese Medicine, and/or Department of Journalism (School of Communication). Associate Professors and Full Professors should have an established research track record and are expected to lead interdisciplinary research project teams for high impact Data Analytics and AI applications. Assistant Professors are expected to be key players in the interdisciplinary research project teams. The appointees are also expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the hosting departments, including programme management, as well as contribute to professional and institutional services. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years commencing in 2018. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please send email to *data-ai [at] hkbu.edu.hk <http://hkbu.edu.hk>*. More information can be found at http://hkbu.ai. *Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) and send in samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications. Applicants not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. Review of applications will begin on *1 March 2018* and will continue until the position is filled.

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Ada-Europe 2018 EXTENDED 5 February submission deadline
by Dirk Craeynest 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

The Ada-Europe 2018 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to finalize their contributions. In order to minimize conflicts with deadlines for related conferences, the deadline for all submissions is extended to Monday 5 February 2018. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 Organized by Univ. Lisboa and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE 5 FEBRUARY 2018 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 23rd 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) and Vienna, Austria ('17). General Information ------------------- The 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. Schedule -------- 5 February 2018: Submission of papers, industrial presentation outlines, tutorial and workshop proposals 9 March 2018: Notification of acceptance to all authors 24 March 2018: Camera-ready version of papers required 8 May 2018: 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 representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. This edition of Ada-Europe features a focused Special Session on Security in Safety-Critical Systems. Safety-critical systems, on which we daily bet our lives, have become increasingly more complex, networked and distributed. In combination with the growing professionalism of adversarial teams, this demands not only for safe systems but systems that remain safe while under attacks. This session seeks (but is not limited to) contributions aiming at bridging the safety and security gap in cyber-physical and other safety-critical systems. Topics include: Software and System Aspects of Secure and Dependable CPS, Vulnerabilities and Protective Measures for Safety-Critical System Infrastructures, and Fault and Intrusion Tolerance and Long-Term Unattended Operation for Safety-Critical Systems. For further information please contact the Special Session Chair directly. For the general track of the conference, topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance. - Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods. - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities. - Software Architectures: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture- Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development. - Methods and Techniques for Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools. - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK. - Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. - Mainstream and Emerging Applications: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc. - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics. - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 new language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. Call for Regular and Special Session Papers ------------------------------------------- Authors of papers which are to undergo peer review for acceptance are invited to submit original contributions by 5 February 2018. Paper submissions shall be 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors for both the general track and the special session shall submit their work via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2018. The format for submission is solely PDF. The International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies is listed in DBLP, SCOPUS, Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search, among others. Proceedings ----------- The conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the conference. Camera-ready accepted papers must be in conformance with the LNCS style, not exceeding 14 pages and are due strictly by 24 March 2018. For format and style guidelines authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. Call for Industrial Presentations --------------------------------- The conference seeks industrial presentations which deliver value and insight but may not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors are invited to submit a presentation outline of at least 1 page in length by 5 February 2018, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2018. The format for submission is solely PDF. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract and submit it by 8 May 2018, aiming at a 20-minute talk. Authors will be also invited to submit corresponding articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/), which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program. For any further information please contact the Industrial Co-chairs directly. Awards ------ Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Call for Tutorials ------------------ Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of the conference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day. Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposed topic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day), the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and a statement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as well as a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. Call for Workshops ------------------ Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication in the Ada User Journal. Call for Exhibitors ------------------- The commercial exhibition will span the three days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. Grants for Reduced Student Fees ------------------------------- A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected to be available for students who would like to attend the conference or tutorials. Contact the Conference Chair for details. Venue ----- The conference will take place at the VIP Executive Art's Hotel, in the Parque das Nações area of Lisbon, Portugal. Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Chair Nuno Neves, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal nuno at di.fc.ul.pt Program Chair António Casimiro, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal casim at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Special Session Chair Marcus Völp, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg marcus.voelp at uni.lu Tutorial and Workshop Chair David Pereira, CISTER/ISEP, Portugal dmrpe at isep.ipp.pt Industrial Co-Chairs Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France marco.panunzio at thalesaleniaspace.com José Rufino, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal ruf at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Publication Chair Pedro Ferreira, LASIGE/U. Lisboa, Portugal pmf at ciencias.ulisboa.pt Exhibition Co-Chairs José Neves, GMV, Portugal jose.neves at gmv.com Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland ahlan at Ada-Switzerland.ch Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Local Secretariat Madalena Almeida, Viagens Abreu S.A., Portugal madalena.almeida at abreu.pt Program Committee ----------------- Mario Aldea, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Ezio Bartocci, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Johann Blieberger, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Rakesh Bobba, Oregon State Univ., USA Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei Univ., Korea António Casimiro, LASIGE, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Juan A. de la Puente, Univ. Pol. de Madrid, Spain Virgil Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Michael González Harbour, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain J. Javier Gutiérrez, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain Jérôme Hugues, ISAE, France Ruediger Kapitza, Tech Univ. Braunschweig, Germany Hubert Keller, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany Raimund Kirner, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Adam Lackorzynski, TU Dresden & Kernkonzept GmbH, Germany Kristina Lundkvist, Mälardalen Univ., Sweden Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Luís Miguel Pinho, CISTER, ISEP, Portugal Erhard Plödereder, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Jorge Real, Univ. Politècnica de València, Spain José Ruiz, AdaCore, France Sergio Sáez, Univ. Politècnica de València, Spain Elad Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden Frank Singhoff, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France Jorge Sousa Pinto, Univ. of Minho, Portugal Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Univ., Finland Santiago Urueña, GMV, Spain Tullio Vardanega, Univ. di Padova, Italy Marcus Völp, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxemburg Industrial Committee -------------------- Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Luís Correia, EMPORDEF-TI, Portugal Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Thomas Gruber, Austrian Inst. of Tech, Austria Andreas Jung, European Space Agency, the Netherlands Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence and Space, Spain Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, Switzerland Maurizio Martignano, Spazio IT, Italy Marco Panunzio, Thales Alenia Space, France Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France José Rufino, LASIGE, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Emilio Salazar, GMV, Spain Helder Silva, EDISOFT, Portugal Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Consulting, Denmark Andreas Wortmann, OHB System, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair *** 23rd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2018 *** June 18-22, 2018 ** Lisbon, Portugal *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) - Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018
by Kevin Wang 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) http://cyber-science.org/2018/ Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018 Cyber Science for Cyber-enabled New Worlds INTRODUCTION --------------------- The modern digitized world has led to the emergence of a new paradigm on global information networks and infrastructures known as Cyberspace, which bring seamless integration of physical, social and mental spaces. Cyberspace is becoming an integral part of our daily life from learning and entertainment to business and cultural activities. To address these emerging challenges, there is a need to establish new science and research portfolios that incorporate cyber-physical, cyber-social and cyber-mental technologies together in a coherent manner to deliver the vision of Cyberspace. This is the aim of the IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), which was successfully held first in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2016 and then in Orlando (USA) in 2017. IEEE CyberSciTech 2018 is to continually offer a common platform for scientists, researchers and engineers to share their latest ideas and to exchange the latest developments and outcomes in their research and technologies, with a broad scope of cyber-related science, technology and application topics to understand and shape cyber-enabled new worlds. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018 Regular Paper Submission Due: Mar. 30, 2018 Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: Apr. 30, 2018 Authors Notification: May 20, 2018 Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2018 SCOPE AND TRACKS -------------------------- Regular Tracks Track 1: Cyberspace & Cyber Security Track 2: Cyber Physical Computing & Systems Track 3: Cyber Social Computing & Networks Track 4: Cyber Intelligence, Life & Mind Work-in-Progress Track Report on early or ongoing research activities within the scope of CyberSciTech Poster/Demo Track Describe a vision, technique or working system within the scope of CyberSciTech Workshop and Special Sessions http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html Tutorial http://cyber-science.org/2018/tutorial.html SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop/special session, poster papers all need to be in IEEE CS format and submitted following the same instruction on the CyberSciTech 2018 congress website (http://cyber-science.org/2018). A regular paper is between 6-8 pages. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be between 4-6 pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages. Kevin Wang Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Auckland New Zealand https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/kevin-wang

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1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications
by Massimo Cafaro 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

My apologies for multiple copies. 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance 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 algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 23, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 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 Program Committee To be defined... - ************************************************************************************ 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 Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: January 28, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) 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 2018 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 January 28, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 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. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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YEF-ECE 2018 - 2nd Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering
by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

Dear young Engineers / graduating MSc Students, Following the success of the 2017 edition we are proud to announce the organization of the 2nd International Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering - *YEF-ECE 2018*. 2017 International Young Engineers Forum (YEF-ECE) papers are available on the IEEE Xplore digital library, and indexed in the WEB OF SCIENCE. You are all kindly invited to submit a paper to the 2nd International Young Engineers Forum (*YEF-ECE 2018*), which will be held on May 4, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. *Scope and Motivation:* Young engineers / graduating MSc students are encouraged to submit manuscripts with their latest innovative developments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, based on their MSc theses or early career projects. Each submitted paper shall be jointly co-authored by a young engineer and his/her supervisor or mentor. The YEF-ECE Program Committee will review all submitted full papers and will select the best for presentation based on their innovative and original contribution to engineering solutions. All details are available on the official website: http://sites.uninova.pt/yef-ece Important Dates: Submission of Abstract: Now Full paper submission: February 10, 2018 Paper acceptance notification: March 13, 2018 Final paper submission: March 25, 2018 YEF-ECE 2018 will be co-located with the doctoral conference DoCEIS 2018 (http://sites.uninova.pt/doceis), giving participants the opportunity to attend both events on the same day. We are looking forward to meet you at YEF-ECE 2018 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Sincerely, YEF-ECE 2018 Committee -- _________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos NOVA University of Lisbon + Uninova Campus de Caparica 2829-516 Monte Caparica Portugal Tel. +351-212948517 Fax +351-212941253 or 212957786 URL: https://sites.google.com/a/uninova.pt/cam/ URL: http://docentes.fct.unl.pt/lcm e-mail: cam(a)uninova.pt or lcm(a)fct.unl.pt _________________________________________________

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CFP: The 4th Int. Conf. on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2018)
by M. Younas 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2018) (IEEE CS-TCI) 06-08 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain http://www.ficloud.org/innovate-data-2018/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. The increasing volume and velocity of the data, captured by business organizations, web repositories, social media, data centres, cloud and IoT, have resulted in the exponential growth of big data. Big data provides a key basis for innovations in various domains and applications. It can benefit data managers, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Innovate-Data conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. CONFERENCE TRACKS: Big Data Storage, Representation and Processing Data storage; Data representation and structures; Data management; Data processing; Data engineering and design; Storages and network requirements Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Data Security; Data Privacy; Data Trust; Data protection and integrity; Legal and ethical issues; Identity theft; Data loss and leakage Big Data Models, Infrastructure and Platforms Data models; NoSQL databases; Data consistency and availability; Fault tolerance and reliability; Network models and protocols; Performance evaluation; Resource management; Transaction management; RDBMS and big data; Memcached systems and techniques Visualisation of Big Data Data visualisation, Visual representation; Usability and user interaction; Graphs models and techniques for big data; Data acquisition and cleaning Big Data Analytics and Metrics Analytics models; Tools and technologies; Data patterns; Business intelligence and decision making; Optimization of resources and cost; Customer relations and satisfaction; Data economics; Metrics for big data; Analysis of online reviews Big Data Science Big data science models; Data searching and mining; Methodologies and use cases; Machine learning and deep learning; Algorithms and formal models; Mathematical and Statistical models for big data; Interdisciplinary approaches and methods Big Data Applications and Innovations Business applications; Social media and networks; Healthcare applications; Government and public sector systems; Multimedia and data streaming; Personal data logging and quantified-self; Context-aware data; Big data in cloud and IoT; Personalisation of data; Open and linked data PUBLICATION: All papers accepted for this conference are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (approval pending). 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 an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal Special Issues section). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 05 March 2018 Authors Notification: 16 May 2018 Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018 Organising Committee General Chair Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Program Co-Chairs Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Local Organising Chair Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain Publication Chair Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Workshop Coordinator Mourad Ouziri, Universite Paris Descartes, France Publicity Chair Georgia M. Kapitsaki University of Cyprus Cyprus Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Track Chairs Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna, Spain Yohei Saika, National Institute of Technology, Japan Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Rachid belhamari, Lakehead University, Canada Sherif Sakr, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania, Italy

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 13 Jan '18

13 Jan '18

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018 The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge. 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. This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. 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. 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. Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power. The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments 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 Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Novel distributed data mining algorithms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins). The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a…. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 1st, 2018 First round notification: May 1st, 2018 Revised version due: July 1st, 2018 Final notification: August 1st, 2018 Camera-ready due: September 15th, 2018 Publication tentative date: December 2018 Guest editors: Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, 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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Workshop on Recent Advances in Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Internet of Things - IoTforeHealth 2018 (due on Jan 17, 2018)
by Chang V.I. 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Dear colleagues, We have 1 workshop due on Jan 17, 2018, as an extended deadline due on Jan 17. Workshop on Recent Advances in Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Internet of Things - IoTforeHealth 2018. See http://www.iotbd.org/IoTforeHealth.aspx for detail and you can submit there. There are opportunities to submit to high quality journals later. Thanks. Thanks an regards, Victor http://www.iotbd.org/IoTforeHealth.aspx Chairs Farshad Firouzi, Katholieke Univ. Leuven and MSG Systems AG Germany Bahar Farahani, Pirouzan Group, Iran Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China SCOPE In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Big Data have grown at an exponential pace solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as healthcare, finance, business, transportation, etc. However, these innovations are not without their drawbacks. Many challenges related to computing, network, consistency, safety, reliability, etc. remain. In order to succeed in this technology, multidisciplinary research is needed, in addition to collaboration between academia and industry. This workshop will bring researchers and industrial partners together to examine and report state-of-the-art research on recent advances toward Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things. Topics of Interest Operating System, Applications and Protocols Design, and Validation Techniques for Internet of Things Enabling Technologies for Social Internet of Things Information and Resource Management Systems for Internet of Things Fusion for different services and its impacts in the IoT era Intelligent Algorithms and Standards for Interoperability in Internet of Things Communications, collaborations, and services in networks of embedded devices High-Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies Emerging Services Science for Cloud Computing Autonomous Cloud Relational and Non-relational big data stores Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Internet of Things Cyber Security and Biometrics in the IoT Era Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems Intelligent Security and Optimization in Edge/Fog Computing Innovative Network for Data Intensive Science Cognitive Internet of Things Assisted by Cloud Computing and Big Data Intelligent Sensing and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems Smart Data in Future Internet Technologies and Cloud Computing Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence Systems Technological innovations in Digital transformation Edge of the Cloud Novel edge computing-inspired approaches and paradigms for mobile IoT applications High-Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies Blockchain and Decentralization for Internet of Things Accountability and Privacy Issues in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Cloud and Fog Computing for Smart Cities Data Analytics and Visualization Landscapes of the Data Stream Processing in the era of Fog Computing Big Data for Context-Aware Applications and Intelligent Environment Computation Intelligence for Energy Internet Fog and Cloud Computing for Cooperative Information System management Benchmarking IoT and Big Data Systems Internet of Things and Machine Learning for Smart Healthcare Case studies of successful IoT systems (eHealth, Smart City, etc.) IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 17, 2018 (extended) Authors Notification: January 25, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 2, 2018

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Call For Paper: IEEE COMPSAC 2018: Deadline Extended - January 25, 2018
by Hossain Shahriar 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP Due to many requests, we are extending the deadline for abstracts and papers to January 25, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPSAC 2018: THE 42nd IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE & APPLICATIONS <http://www.compsac.org/> https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2018 TOKYO, JAPAN JULY 23-27, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications. It is a major international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results and advancements, emerging challenges, and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. The theme of COMPSAC 2018 is Staying Smarter in a Smartening World. Computer technologies are producing profound changes in society. Emerging developments in areas such as Deep Learning, supported by increasingly powerful and increasingly miniaturized hardware, are beginning to be deployed in architectures, systems, and applications that are redefining the relationships between humans and technology. As this happens, humans are relinquishing their roles as masters of technology to partnerships wherein autonomous, computer-driven devices become our assistants. What are the technologies enabling these changes? How far can these partnerships go? What will be our future as we deploy more and more “‘things” on the Internet of Things – to create smart cities, smart vehicles, smart hospitals, smart homes, smart clothes, etc.? Will humans simply become IoT devices in these scenarios and if so, what will be the social, cultural, and economic challenges arising from these developments? What are the technical challenges to making this all happen – for example, in terms of technologies such as Big Data, Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing, mobile computing, and pervasive computing in general? What will be the role of the ‘user’ as the 21st Century moves along? COMPSAC 2018 is organized as a tightly integrated union of symposia, each of which will focus on technical aspects related to the ”smart” theme of the conference. The technical program will include keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, fast abstracts, a doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and workshops and tutorials on emerging and important topics related to the conference theme. A highlight of the conference will be plenary and specialized panels that will address the technical challenges facing technologists who are developing and deploying these smart systems and applications. Panels will also address cultural and societal challenges for a society whose members must continue to learn to live, work, and play in the environments the technologies produce. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted except as highlighted at the COMPSAC Journal Publishing Opportunities webpage. All submissions must adhere to IEEE Publishing Policies, and all will be verified through the IEEE CrossCheck Portal. KEY ORGANIZERS *Standing Committee Chair: Sorel Reisman, California State University, USA *Steering Committee Chair: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA *General Chairs: Shinichi Honiden (NII, Japan) Roger U. Fujii, Fujii Systems, 2016 IEEE Computer Society President *Program Chairs in Chief: Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Stelvio Cimato (University of Milan, Italy) Yasuo Okabe (Kyoto University, Japan) Sahra Sedighsarvestani (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA) *Workshop Chairs: Kenichi Yoshida (University of Tskuba, Japan) Ji-Jiang Yang (Tsinghua University, China) Hong Va Leong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Chung Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada) Local Chair: Hironori Washizak (Waseda University, Japan) *IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference papers Due date: 25 January 2018 Notification: 31 March 2018 Workshop papers Due date: 10 April 2018 Notification: 1 May 2018 Camera Ready and Registration Due date: May 15, 2018

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IEEE Cyber Security 2018 Glasgow - Deadline 26th of January
by Dr Xavier Bellekens 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Call For Papers Cyber Security 2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018> https://www.c-mric.org/conferences <https://www.c-mric.org/conferences> IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security 2018) (Glasgow 2018) The aim of the Cyber Security 2018 is to encourage participation and promotion of collaborative scientific, industrial and academic inter-workings among individual researchers, practitioners, members of existing associations, academia, standardisation bodies, and including government departments and agencies. The purpose is to build bridges between academia and industry, and to encourage interplay of different cultures. Social Media 2018 invites researchers and industry practitioners to submit papers that encompass principles, analysis, design, methods and applications. All submitted papers are independently peer-reviewed. Cyber Security 2018 is part of four collocated conferences IEEE Social Media 2018, IEEE Cyber Situation Awareness 2018, and IEEE Cyber Incident 2018. Supported by: Topics: Computer Network Security Application Security Web Services Security Mobile Security Protective Security Software Security Wireless & Sensor Network Security Software Coding Security Security in Middleware Interface and Interaction Security Services in Authentication Authorisation Accountability Automation Availability Integrity and Nonrepudiation Security Management Security Operations Digital Trust and Reputation Geographical Location (IP Geolocation) Policy, Legal, Legislation & Compliance Security Standardisation Law, Legal and Ethics and Related Topics Keynote Speakers: - Prof Karen Renaud (Abertay University) - Prof Frank Wang (Kent University) - Dr Cyril Onwubiko (C-Mric) - Stu Hirst (Capital One) - Prof Jens Pedersen (Aalborg University) - Detective Inspector Eamonn Keane (Police Scotland) Important Dates: Full Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018 Short Paper Submission: 26th of January 2018 Paper Notification: 24th of March 2018 Authors of the best 20%-25% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for a publication in one of the special issue peer reviewed journal. Collocated Conferences: IEEE Situational Awareness 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/csa2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/csa2018> IEEE Social Media 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/sm2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/sm2018> IEEE Cyber Incident 2018 http://www.c-mric.com/ci2018 <http://www.c-mric.com/ci2018> Workshops: IEEE CIRC (International Workshop on Cyber Insurance and Risk Controls) https://www.c-mric.com/CIRC <https://www.c-mric.com/CIRC> Paper Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cybersa2018> Associated Partners and Sponsors Civic Reception organised by Glasgow City Council Call for Sponsors: http://www.c-mric.com/sponsorship <http://www.c-mric.com/sponsorship> Conference venue: Dr Xavier Bellekens Conference Chair Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRiC.ORG <http://c-mric.org/>) Address: 1 Meadway, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 7RF, UK Web: http://www.c-mric.org <http://www.c-mric.org/>

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2018 Vancouver Canada
by Didier Elbaz 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** The 8th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) https://pdco2018.sciencesconf.org/ held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2018) May 21-25, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** ************************************************** New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 ************************************************** Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed computing for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving these difficult problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. The use of new approaches in parallel and distributed computing like GPU, MIC, cloud computing, volunteer computing will be considered. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Scheduling; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Distributed optimization algorithms; * Nature inspired distributed computing; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Peer to peer computing and optimization problems; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be completed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico B. Ucar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2018 submission system: i.e. EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2018 Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 26, 2018. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available at the IPDPS web site. Important Dates: ================ - New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 - Author notification: February 23, 2018 - Camera ready version: March 15, 2018 - Workshop: May 21, 2018 Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at pdco2018(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2018@sciencesconf.org>

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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2018 Vancouver Canada
by Didier Elbaz 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** The 8th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) https://pdco2018.sciencesconf.org/ held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2018) May 21-25, 2017 Vancouver, Canada http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** ************************************************** New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 ************************************************** Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed computing for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and scheduling problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving these difficult problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. The use of new approaches in parallel and distributed computing like GPU, MIC, cloud computing, volunteer computing will be considered. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Scheduling; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Distributed optimization algorithms; * Nature inspired distributed computing; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Peer to peer computing and optimization problems; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be completed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico B. Ucar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2018 submission system: i.e. EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2018 Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 26, 2018. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available at the IPDPS web site. Important Dates: ================ - New Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 - Author notification: February 23, 2018 - Camera ready version: March 15, 2018 - Workshop: May 21, 2018 Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at pdco2018(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:pdco2018@sciencesconf.org>

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