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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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[IEEE DASC'18] Call for Papers, 12-15 August 2018, Athens, Greece
by Anna Kobusińska 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

==============CALL FOR PAPERS================= The 16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2018) 12-15 August 2018, Athens, Greece http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/ ============================================== --------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018 Paper Submission Due: Mar. 30, 2018 Demo/Poster/WiP Submission Due:April 30, 2018 Author Notification: May 20, 2018 Camera-ready Paper Due:June 15, 2018 ----------------------- INTRODUCTION ----------------------- IEEE DASC 2018 will be held in August 12-15, 2018 in Athens, Greece, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, IEEE DataCom 2018 and IEEE PiCom 2018 (the event location is very close to the Parliament of Greece). IEEE DASC 2018 aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to: ------------------------------- SCOPE AND INTERESTS -------------------------------- - Dependable, Autonomic, Secure Computing Systems, Architectures and Communications - Cloud Computing and Fog/edge Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment - Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems - Dependable Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems - Dependable Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems - Self-improvement in Dependable Systems - Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems - Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing - Software Engineering for Dependable Systems - Safety-critical Systems in Transportation and Power System - Security Models and Quantifications - Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, and PaaS - Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security - DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection - Context-aware Access Control - Virus Detections and Anti-Virus Techniques/Software - Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War - Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems - Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing - Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Cyber-Physical System - Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Big Data, SDN, and IoT Systems - QoS in Communications and Services and Service Oriented Architectures - Information and System Security - Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing - Wireless Emergency and Security Systems - Information Technology in Biomedicine - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks - Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design and Performance Evaluation - Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems - Software Engineering for Emerging Networks, Systems, and Mobile Systems - Evaluation Platforms for Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing Systems - Trustworthy Data, Secured Data Collection System, Model, and Architectures --------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original research work using IEEE CS Proceedings format via DASC 2018 website: http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/sub/. Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Work-in Progress (WiP) Papers (5~6 pages) and Demo/Poster papers (2~4 pages) must describe working systems within the scope of DASC. Workshop & Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to corresponding workshops & special sessions. * Accepted papers will be included into the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed). * At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. * Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for fast-track publication in some prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). * Best Paper Awards will be given for the best papers in DASC 2018. -------------------------------- Organizing Committees -------------------------------- General Chairs Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece General Executive Chairs Klimis Ntalianis, Athens U of Applied Sciences, Greece Paulo Pires, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Program Chair Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Program Co-Chairs Naohiro Hayashibara, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Kambourakis Georgios, University of the Aegean, Greece Tian Wang, Huaqiao University, China Workshop/ Special Session Chairs Konsts Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan Demo/Poster/WiP Chairs Taufiq Asyhari, Cranfield University, UK Rukhsana Afroz Ruby, SIAT, China Publicity Chairs Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Md. Arafatur Rahman, Univ Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia Shaikh M Arifuzzaman, University of New Orleans, USA Local Organizing Chair Nikolaos Mastorakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece Honorary Chair: Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy Advisory Committee Chairs Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), SFX University, Canada Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Please visit the DASC 2018 Website http://cyber-science.org/2018/dasc/ for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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[CFP] The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018)
by Anna Kobusińska 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

CALL FOR PAPERS ========================== The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/ ---------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 8, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 8, 2018 Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Aug. 8, 2018 Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in Conference Proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues. ---------------------------------------------- Ubiquitous Intelligence for Smart World The smart world is set to enhance everyday things with abilities of sensation, communication, computation and intelligence so that many tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and productive. It consists of numerous "smart things" that can be endowed with different levels/forms of computational intelligence and even capable of thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering many areas, essential problems and crucial issues in truly building the smart world that benefits humanity, and simultaneously safeguards the natural environment for sustainable development and evolution. The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress originated from the 2005 Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW, Taipei) and the 2005 Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World (UISW, Nagasaki). SmartWorld 2018 in Guangzhou is the continuation after the success of SmartWorld 2017 in San Francisco, SmartWorld 2016 in Toulouse, and SmartWorld 2015 in Beijing. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 aims to provide a high-profile, leading-edge platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and explore state-of-art advances and innovations in graceful integrations of Cyber, Physical and Social Worlds with Ubiquitous Intelligence. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Topics - Smart Industry and Manufacture - Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture - Smart Materials and Fabric - Smart Environment and Ecosystems - Smart Earth/Space System - Smart Grid and Energy - Smart Logistics and Retail - Smart Building and Structure - Smart Roads and Transportation - Smart Vehicles and Networks - Smart Machines and Robots - Smart Home and Furniture - Smart Appliances and Goods - Smart Wearables and Implants - Smart Medicine and Healthcare - Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care - Smart Foods and Living - Smart Learning and Education - Smart Disaster Management - Smart Internet of Things - Smart Sensing, System and Service - Smart Computing & Communication Six Co-located Conferences - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2018) - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018) - The 18th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (ScalCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and BigData Computing (CBDCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2018) - The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2018) IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Calls for - Papers that must be submitted electronically via the 2018 congress website - Workshop and Special Session Proposals in smart world related all aspects - Tutorial Proposals in addressing the emerging smart world areas - Smart AI City Competition Proposals for AI technological applications ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS Guojun Wang, Guangzhou Univ., China Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore PROGRAM CHAIRS Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham Univ., USA Frode Eika Sandnes, HiOA, Norway Ruixuan Li, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China WORKSHOP CHAIRS Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan Qin Liu, Hunan University, China TUTORIAL CHAIR Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA SUMMIT CHAIR Zhong Chen, Peking University, China COMPETITION CHAIR Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China HONORARY CHAIRS Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA Xin Yao, Southern Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ADVISORY CHAIRS Vincenzo Piuri, Univ. of Milan, Italy Hussein Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China STEERING CHAIRS Jianhua Ma, Hosei Univ., Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China EXHIBITION CHAIR Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China INDUSTRY SESSION CHAIR Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIR Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada COORDINATION CHAIRS Liming Chen, De Montfort University, UK Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand REGISTRATION CHAIRS Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Pin Liu, Central South University, China WEB CHAIR Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China

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SEIT-18 (Porto, Portugal, May 8-11 2018): Final Call for Papers - Deadline January 13
by Davidekova Monika 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-18) Porto, Portugal May 8-11, 2018 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18 **************************************************************************** Important Dates - Paper Submission Due: January 13, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018 The goal of the SEIT-18 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in sustainable energy information technology. All SEIT 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) Selected papers will be invited for publication in an international journal. SEIT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city. Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency. SEIT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/) Conference Main Topics: ================= - Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications - Energy Efficiency - Energy Policy - Environmental - Green Sustainability - Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines - Power Systems - Renewable Energies - Sensing & Monitoring - Smart Systems Committees General Chair Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada Program Chairs Álvaro Henrique Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Local Chair Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal Workshops Chairs Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Bilal A. Akash, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria Ilan Stern, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/#programCommittees

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CFP: Special Issue on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval -- Information Retrieval Journal
by Stefano Mizzaro 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Call for Papers Special Issue on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval Information Retrieval Journal, Springer https://goo.gl/dWvMJb Recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. This body of existing work opens up many promising new research directions, especially in applying axiomatic thinking more broadly to many problems in information retrieval. Since there is not yet a single source for researchers to use for understanding the state of the art of research in axiomatic thinking for information retrieval, a main goal of this special issue is to fill in this gap through accepting a set of representative papers that apply axiomatic thinking to various tasks in information retrieval and related application areas. In particular, we especially welcome submissions that (1) develop a general axiomatic framework to IR related tasks; (2) study how to apply axiomatic thinking to a specific task; (3) combine axiomatic thinking with other methodology such as learning-to- rank; and (4) discuss the past and future of the axiomatic thinking (i.e., position papers). * TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to applying axiomatic thinking to: - Retrieval models - Evaluation - Domain specific IR - Text categorization - Text clustering - Natural language processing - Machine learning - Human computer interaction - Multimedia IR - Cross-language retrieval - Question answering - Learning to rank - User and task modeling * SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS Enrique Amigo, UNED, Spain Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA Stefano Mizzaro, Udine University, Italy ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * IMPORTANT DATES - Initial submissions due: May 30, 2018 - Initial reviewer feedback: July 30, 2018 - Revised submission due: August 30, 2018 - Final reviews and notification: September 30, 2018 * PAPER SUBMISSION Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/10791 (submit online). At the beginning of the submission process in Editorial Manager, under "Article Type", please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process. For inquiries on the above please contact Hui Fang, hfang(a)udel.edu. A resource page of axiomatic thinking for IR is available at https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/AX.html -- Prof. Stefano Mizzaro, PhD Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Udine Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy mizzaro(a)uniud.it - http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/ Ph.: +39 0432 558456 - Fax: +39 0432 558499

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deadline extended: CMNA, computational models of natural argument at AISB 2018
by Grasso, Floriana 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Submission are solicited to the 18h Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, to be held in conjunction with AISB 2018<http://aisb2018.csc.liv.ac.uk/> at the University of Liverpool, UK, on April 4th-6th 2018. <http://www.cmna.info/cmna16%3Credir.aspx?REF=siVmMQ0P6F2Dd_u0BkY_hQanVzI2oz…>http://www.cmna.info/CMNA18 Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system. Please submit your paper here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmna18>. KEY DATES * Paper submission (all categories): 10 January 2018 Extended: 22 January 2018 * Notification to authors: 15 February 2018 * Final version of papers: 5 March 2018 * Early registration deadline: from the AISB 2018<http://aisb2018.csc.liv.ac.uk/> website * CMNA 18: one day workshop during the AISB conference 4th - 6th April 2018 (exact date to be announced) * CMNA18 proceedings will be published as <http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/convention-proceedings> AISB Convention Proceedings<http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/convention-proceedings>. <http://ceur-ws.org/> TOPICS The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling "natural" argumentation. Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest: * The characteristics of natural arguments: ontological aspects and cognitive issues. * Personalisation and tailoring of argument to a specific audience * Models of arguer and models of audience * The use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory, and in particular, approaches to specific schools of thought developed in informal logic and argumentation. * Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of argumentation. * The roles of manoeuvering and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features. * The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. Persuasive discourse processing (discourse goals and structure, speaker/hearer models, content selection, etc.). Language dependence and multilingual approaches. Empirical work based on corpora looking at these topics are especially welcomed. * Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation. * Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments. * Models of argumentation in multi-agent systems inspired by or based upon theories of human argument. * Empirically driven models of argument in AI and Law. * Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision support and advice giving). * Issues of domain specificity, and in particular, the independence of argumentation techniques from the domain of application. * Applications of computer supported collaborative argumentation, in realistic domains in which argument plays a key role, including pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate. * Applications of argumentation based systems, including, for example, the pedagogical, health-related, political, and promotional. * Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation. * Tools for interacting with structures of argument, including visualisation tools and interfaces supporting natural, stylised or formal dialogue. * The building of computational resources such as online corpora related to argumentation. The workshop encourages submissions in four categories: * Long papers, either reporting on completed work or offering a polemic discussion on a burning issue (up to 10 pages). * Short papers describing work in progress (up to 5 pages). * Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 3 pages). * Short abstract, describing a doctoral thesis summary or a project proposal (up to 2 pages). Dr Floriana Grasso Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool A: G16, Ashton Building, Liverpool L69 3GJ, United Kingdom P: +44 (0)151 795 4240 W: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/<https://owa.liv.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=1OE2ZazJZs-L4GmGx9B1nWJiy_BTGDn5Ku4w…> ATHENA SWAN<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/electrical-engineering-electronics-and-computer…><https://owa.liv.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=zUOqaFp7BOiTh7TlnCjzRPMBzRioAqwhkrIp…> - recognising and celebrating good employment practice for women working in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) in higher education and research

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FOSDEM 2018 - Ada Developer Room - Sat 3 Feb 2018 - Brussels
by Dirk Craeynest 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce the program for its 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 on 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/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. The 2018 edition takes place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February. It is free to attend and no registration is necessary. In this edition, Ada-Belgium organizes once more a series of presentations related to the Ada Programming Language and Free or Open Software in a s.c. Developer Room. The "Ada DevRoom" at FOSDEM 2018 is held on the first day of the event, Saturday 3 February 2018. --------------------------------------- Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Ada is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for safety- and mission-critical software engineering. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services, medical devices, etc. It is also perfectly suited for open source development. Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. As with the prior Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the first full implementation of the Ada 2012 standard was made available in gcc - the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT). More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects started. The Ada DevRoom aims to present the facilities offered by the Ada language (such as for object-oriented, multicore, or embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting tools and projects using Ada. -------------------------------- Ada Developer Room Presentations (room: AW1.125, 76 seats) -------------------------------- The presentations in the Ada DevRoom start after the opening FOSDEM keynote. The program runs from 10:30 to 19:00, and consists of 7.5 hours with 9 talks by 9 presenters from 5 different countries, plus 2 half-hour sessions with informal discussions. 10:30-11:00 - Arrival & Informal Discussions Feel free to arrive early, to start the day with some informal discussions while the set-up of the DevRoom is finished. 11:00-11:05 - Welcome by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium Welcome to the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018, which is organized by Ada-Belgium in cooperation with Ada-Europe. Ada-Belgium and Ada-Europe are non-profit organizations set up to promote the use of the Ada programming language and related technology, and to disseminate knowledge and experience into academia, research and industry in Belgium and Europe, resp. Ada-Europe has member-organizations, such as Ada-Belgium, in various countries, and direct members in many other countries. More information on this DevRoom is available on the Ada-Belgium web-site (see URL above). 11:05-11:50 - An Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog An overview of the main features of the Ada language, with special emphasis on those features that make it especially attractive for free software development. Ada is a feature-rich language, but what really makes Ada stand-out is that the features are nicely integrated towards serving the goals of software engineering. If you prefer to spend your time on designing elegant solutions rather than on low-level debugging, if you think that software should not fail, if you like to build programs from readily available components that you can trust, you should really consider Ada! 12:00-12:50 - Making the Ada_Drivers_Library: Embedded Programming with Ada by Fabien Chouteau - AdaCore The Ada programming language was designed for embedded programming and it is well known in the aerospace domains and in general every domain where failure is not an option. Unfortunately it is not used a lot in the embedded FOSS community. In the past two years, AdaCore worked to promote the use of Ada in the FOSS community, in particular for embedded programming with the "Make with Ada" blog post series, my interview for the Embedded.fm podcase, blog posts on "ARM Community" or the "Make with Ada" competition. In this 45 minutes lecture I will: + give a short introduction of Ada for embedded and how its features (programing by contract, strong typing, representation clauses (hardware mapping), OOP, static compiler checks and optional run-time checks) can help improving the development time, maintenance and quality of FOSS embedded projects; + present the Ada_Drivers_Library project, where we put all those features in practice to develop micro-controller device drivers in Ada; + make a quick getting started demo; + present some of the best projects from the "Make with Ada" competition. 13:00-13:20 - Shared Memory Parallelism in Ada: Load Balancing by Work Stealing by Jan Verschelde - University of Illinois at Chicago Tasking in Ada provides an effective tool for shared memory parallelism. For coarse grained regular parallelism, load balancing works with one single job queue. For finer grained and irregular parallelism, work stealing balances the load with multiple job queues. The programming concepts will be illustrated with examples of algorithms in polyhedral geometry. The demonstrated code belongs to the free and open source PHCpack. 13:30-13:50 - Ada, or How to Enforce Safety Rules at Compile Time by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog This is a real life story of a mixed criticality system, where a proper usage of Ada's features for controlling visibility allowed a provable enforcement of the segregation rules at compile time: any violation would simply not compile. 14:00-14:50 - Contract-based Programming: a Route to Finding Bugs Earlier by Jacob Sparre Andersen - JSA Research & Innovation Contract-based programming is a software development technique, where you include assertions of program properties as a part of the compiled source text. In the strict form, the assertions are checked at compile-time, but in this presentation I will focus on the more common, less strict, form, where at least some of the assertions aren't checked until run-time. Ada gives us a lot of help, so we can write the our assertions about the program properties once, and then have the compiler insert actual run-time checks wherever there is a possibility that the assertion is violated. This presentation will focus on how we can write these contracts in Ada in a way that make them effective at ensuring that our source text does what we intend it to and allow the compiler to generate efficient checks of the assertions. The intended audience is anybody with enough programming experience to know concepts like types, encapsulation and packages. Having tried to write Ada before will be a benefit, but it isn't a requirement. 15:00-15:50 - SPARK Language: Historical Perspective & FOSS Development by Yannick Moy - AdaCore SPARK started in 1987 as a restricted subset of Ada 83, defined by its own grammar rules. The overhaul of the language and toolset starting in 2010 increased greatly the language subset, dropping in effect the need for separate grammar rules. Since then, SPARK has progressively adopted most of the Ada features, to a point where the last remaining non-SPARK significant Ada feature today is pointers. We have started work on including safe pointers in SPARK, borrowing the ideas of pointer ownership from Rust. So one can legitimately wonder what difference remains between SPARK and Ada. In the first part of this talk, I will lay out the principles that have guided us through the inclusion of language features in SPARK since 2010. I will describe in particular the trade-offs that we considered for support of important features like recursion, types with non-static constraints, generics, object orientation, concurrency. I will give a preview of the support envisioned for pointers in SPARK. So that the distinction between Ada and SPARK appears clearly: it's not about quantity, it's about safety and security. In the second part of this talk, I will give a tour of FOSS projects which are using SPARK today: Aida, Certyflie, Muen, PolyORB-HI, Pulsar, StratoX, Tokeneer. For each one, I will describe at which level of assurance SPARK is used, with how much efforts and for which benefits. Then I will focus on the largest one, Muen, an x86/64 separation kernel for high assurance. Finally, we will look at the resources which are available to the community for FOSS development in SPARK. 16:00-16:50 - Writing REST APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger Ada by Stephane Carrez - Bouygues Telecom The OpenAPI specification is an emerging specification to describe RESTful web services. The Swagger suite is a collection of tools to write such API descriptions and have the code generated in more than 29 languages, including Ada. The presentation will describe how to write a REST operation with OpenAPI, generate the Ada client with Swagger Codegen and use the generated code to interact with the server. We will also describe the generated Ada server code and how to implement the server side and run a complete REST server. 17:00-17:50 - Browser-as-GUI and Web Applications with Gnoga by Jeffrey R. Carter - Atos Belgium Gnoga is an all-Ada library that uses the features of modern web browsers as a portable GUI. The program may run on the same computer as the browser, or on a server over the internet. Participants will be introduced to using Gnoga to create such programs. A singleton version of the Random_Int demo program will be used to demonstrate the use of Gnoga as the GUI for a program running on the same computer as the browser. Random_Int is a very simple program that generates (pseudo)random integers in a user-specified range. The Chattanooga demo is a text-chat server program allowing people to chat on line. It demonstrates the use of Gnoga to create web applications. A secure version of Chattanooga can sometimes be accessed at https://chat.gnoga.com/. (The certificate for this site has expired, but can still be used to ensure encrypted communication with the site.) After installing Gnoga, the demos are available in the demo directory. More information about Gnoga may be found at gnoga.com, especially the Tools page. 18:00-18:20 - Easy Ada Tooling with Libadalang by Raphaël Amiard and Pierre-Marie De Rodat - AdaCore A lot of developers consider that a language is only as good as the tooling that accompanies it. Ada has been conceived as a language pretty well amenable to tooling, yet the tooling offer besides AdaCore's is not very extensive, at least when compared to other languages like Java, despite the existence of the ASIS project (Ada Semantic Interface Specification). One of Libadalang's aims is to help solve that by providing an easy way to build new Ada-aware tools. Libadalang is a library that allows the user to query information about Ada code, including: + Syntactic information. Query the token stream, the syntax tree, find syntax patterns, etc. + Semantic information, such as which declaration an identifier references, the type of expressions, all references to a declaration, etc. In addition, one of the aims is to allow the users to modify the trees, and propagate the changes to the source. This talk will go over what Libadalang can already do today, how it differs from ASIS, future plans for the library, and potential exciting use cases. 18:30-19:00 - Informal Discussions & Closing Informal discussion on ideas and proposals for future events. ------------------------------- More information on Ada DevRoom ------------------------------- Speakers bios, pointers to relevant information, links to the FOSDEM site, etc., are available on the Ada-Belgium site at <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html> We invite you to attend some or all of the presentations: they will be given in English. Everybody interested can attend FOSDEM 2018; no registration is necessary. We hope to see many of you there! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Ada DevRoom coordinator Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9)

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iWAPT 2018 :: CALL FOR PAPERS (extended: Jan 29, 2018 (AOE))
by Boyana Norris 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

The deadline of submission is extended to Jan 29, 2018 (AOE). ============================================================== :: iWAPT 2018 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2018/ <http://www.iwapt.org/2018/> May 25, 2018 at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The iWAPT 2018 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2018. http://www.ipdps.org/ <http://www.ipdps.org/> =============================================================== # Important dates Submission closes: Monday, Jan 29, 2018 (AOE) Author notification: Monday, Feb 26, 2018 Camera-ready: Friday, Mar 16, 2018 Workshop: Friday, May 25, 2018 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2018> (If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.) # About iWAPT iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following areas (the list is not exhaustive): * Machine-adaptive algorithms * Automatic program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Adaptive numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures challenges * Compilation strategies (e.g. iterative and empirical compilers) * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper Submission guidelines Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: LaTex Package (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> Word Template (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2018 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2018>). Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPS proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE’s online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper. # Program Committee PC Chair: Jakub Kurzak (University of Tennessee, USA) PC Vice-Chair: Akihiro Fujii (Kogakuin University, Japan) Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Daichi Mukunoki, RIKEN AICS, Japan Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University, USA Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan # Organizing Committee * (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * (General Vice-Chair) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Toshiyuki Imamura (Riken AICS, Japan) * Takeshi Iwashita (Hokkaido University, Japan) * Takahiro Katagiri (University of Tokyo, Japan) * Markus Pueschel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech, USA) * Yusaku Yamamoto (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) * Weichung Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) # Contact iwapt2018(a)iwapt.org <mailto:iwapt2018@iwapt.org> =============================================================== -- Boyana Norris https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~norris

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 10 Jan '18

10 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 Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia 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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Gentle Reminder: Workshop on Sample size determination using R and SPSS
by Dev Rajput 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

It is to inform you that the *Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand *will be organizing Workshop Series for the academic year 2017-2018 followed by *Workshop* *on Sample size determination using R and SPSS* on 22th to 25th January 2017 at Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun. In an effort to enhance the competence of budding researchers (postgraduate students and faculty) This Workshop organized by the department will enable the participants, to know the application of Biostatistics and Sample size determination with the help of R & SPSS. · *Offline Registration:* You can also apply through offline on department email hod.biostats(a)srhu.edu.in and demand draft will be made in favor of “Swami Rama Himalayan University” payable at State Bank of India, Jolly Grant, Dehradun Branch (Code: 10580) to The Registrar, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Swami Ram Nagar, P.O. Doiwala, Dehradun-248140 Uttarakhand. · *The online Registration link is given below:* *http://www.srhu.edu.in/conferences/667-biostatistics-workshop-series-2017-18.html* <http://www.srhu.edu.in/conferences/667-biostatistics-workshop-series-2017-1…> *Kindly circulate this information to faculties and postgraduate students of your respective department.* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- *Shubham Pandey* Organizing Chairperson, Asstt. Professor & Head, Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India Ph: *8400192344,* Landline:* 0135-2471545 * *For registration, contact: * *Ankit Singh* Organizing Secretary Department of Biostatistics, Swami Rama Himalayan University Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India Contact No: *7831839434, **8896974756, 7007027833, 9560750241* Email: hod.biostats(a)srhu.edu.in ankitbiostat(a)gmail.com

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CFP META'18 @Marrakech
by El-ghazali Talbi 07 Jan '18

07 Jan '18

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ********************************************************************** META'2018 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 27-31 Oct 2018 Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/ ********************************************************************** META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the tradition, selected long papers will be published in a postponed Springer book as in META'2014 and META'2016. At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also confirmed: - Special issue in "Optimization and learning" in Wiley Journal ITOR - International Journal on Operational Research (deadline for submission: 31 May 2018) - Special issue in "Metaheuristics for 4.0 industry" in Elsevier Journal Swarm-and-Evolutionary-Computation (deadline for submission: 31 May 2018) META'2018 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions. The scope of the META’2018 conference includes, but is not limited to: * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, … * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search, … * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, … * Parallel algorithms * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, … * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, … * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, … * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, … * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive) * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing Submission of papers: ____________________ - Submission of papers via the website S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages. S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages. S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work. - Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S1 and S2 will be published in a Springer book and international journals (ISI journals). - Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/ - Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 15th March 2018. contact meta2018(a)sciencesconf.org Important dates _______________ - Submission deadline: April 13, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018

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IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management - Submission Extension: 26 January 2018 (final)
by Yixin Diao 05 Jan '18

05 Jan '18

Dear colleagues, We have received many individual requests for extensions and we are also interested in ensuring a high quality technical program. Therefore we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to 26 January 2018. Meanwhile, if possible, please register your paper as soon as you can. This will help us to prepare reviewer assignment earlier and to ensure the review quality. Keep up the good work in finalizing your submissions. We look forward to your paper submissions! Best regards and thanks, AnNet 2018 Workshop Organizers ============================================================================== 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018) In conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in Taipei, Taiwan on April 23, 2018. http://annet2018.loria.fr Submissions due: January 26, 2018 ============================================================================== The third IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in Taipei, Taiwan on April 23, 2018. Following the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of AnNet is to present research and experience results in the area of data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning are promising mechanisms to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. AnNet 2018 will include original full-papers presentations, a keynote, and short-paper sessions. The workshop attendees will be stimulated to participate in interesting discussions. To this end, short papers describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research and experimental work are also welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to one or multiple topic areas listed below: Data Analytics Analysis, modeling and visualization Operational analytics and intelligence Event, log and big data analytics Network traffic analysis Anomaly detection and prediction Crowd sensing Monitoring and measurements for management Predictive and real-time analytics Harnessing social data for management Machine Learning Techniques Supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning Clustering and data mining Reinforcement learning Multi-agent based learning Deep learning Bayesian methods Ensemble methods Cognitive computing Mining spatiotemporal and time series data Network Management Paradigms Autonomous and autonomic networks Fog/edge computing In-network processing Bio-inspired networks and self-management Cognitive and software defined networks Network function virtualization Security, fault, performance and resource management Application Domains Computer networks Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks Clouds and data centers Virtualized infrastructures Internet of Things Computing and network services IT service management Storage resource management ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract that clearly outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Authors should submit their papers via JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2882 Papers accepted for AnNet 2018 will be included in the conference proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Awards will be presented to the best paper at the workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Paper Registration: January 26, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: January 26, 2018 Acceptance Notification: February 28, 2018 Camera-Ready Papers: March 16, 2018 Workshop Date: April 23, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Organization General Chair Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA TPC Co-Chairs Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, Loria-Inria, France Noriaki Kamiyama, Fukuoka University, Japan Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Filip De Turck, Ghent University iMinds, Belgium Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact us if you have any question about the IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018): annet2018tpc(a)gmail.com

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S4ICPS 2018 CfP
by Igor Kotenko 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Call for Papers Special Session “SECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS” (S4ICPS 2018) on the 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS2018) https://icps2018.net/ https://icps2018.net/special-sessions/ https://icps2018.net/netcat_files/userfiles/callforpapers/SS-ICPS18-8-Secur… Scope of the Special Session: Complexity of cyber-physical security is caused by a dynamic nature of heterogeneous cyber-physical industrial devices securely operating and interacting with elements of a changing physical environment of distributed network, cloud and mobile based solutions. Special Session on "Security for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners handling techniques, algorithms and protocols for the collection and processing security information in industrial cyber-physical systems, cryptographic protection, authentication, secure information transfer, security analysis, simulation of cyber-physical attacks, visualization of security data and implementation of countermeasures for the protection of information to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Cloud-based cyber-physical security; ? Authentication, authorization and access control in cyber-physical systems; ? Cyber-physical security modeling and simulation; ? Security protocols for cyber-physical systems; ? Big data for cyber-physical security; ? Security evaluation of cyber-physical systems; ? Security of smart home infrastructure; ? Security of robotic complexes; ? Secure infrastructure of railway transport; ? Security of road infrastructure, including road transport management systems; ? Secure infrastructure of the energy and water supply system; ? Secure infrastructure of the mobile communication network; ? Security of Bodynets; ? Security policies in cyber-physical systems; ? Applied cryptography for cyber-physical systems; ? Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for cyber-physical security; ? Risk analysis and risk management for cyber-physical systems; ? Survivability of cyber-physical systems; ? Network and cyber-physical forensics. Submissions Procedure: Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (6 pages) following the IEEE template and instructions on the conference website http://icps2018.net/. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE proceedings to be included in IEEE-Xplore. Excellent papers may be invited to the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics. Deadlines: Deadline for submission of papers: 31 Jan 2018 Notification of acceptance of papers: 28 Feb 2018 Final manuscripts due: 31 Mar 2018 Session chair Igor V. Kotenko, ivkote(a)comsec.spb.ru, ITMO University, SPIIRAS International Program Committee (Reviewers) for the Special Session Fabrizio Baiardi, baiardi(a)di.unipi.it, University of Pisa, Italy Didier El Baz, elbaz(a)laas.fr, The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Sergey V. Bezzateev, bsv(a)aanet.ru, ITMO University, Russia Hakima Chaouchi, hakima.chaouchi(a)telecom-sudparis.eu, Telecom Sud Paris, Institut Mines Telecom, France Andrey A. Chechulin, chechulin(a)comsec.spb.ru, St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia Yannick Chevalier, yannick.chevalier(a)irit.fr, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse III, France Miguel Correia, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Vasily A. Desnitsky, desnitsky(a)comsec.spb.ru, St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia Elena V. Doynikova, doynikova(a)comsec.spb.ru, SPIIRAS, ITMO University, Russia Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Vladimir Oleshchuk, vladimir.oleshchuk(a)uia.no, University of Agder, Norway Igor B. Parashchuk, parashchuk(a)comsec.spb.ru, Signal Academy, Russia Roland Rieke, roland.rieke(a)gmx.de, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT, Germany Igor B. Saenko, ibsaen(a)comsec.spb.ru, SPIIRAS, Russia Martin Strecker, martin.strecker(a)irit.fr, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse III, France (TBD)

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CFP-The 2018 IEEE Smart World Congress
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

----------------CALL FOR PAPERS--------------------- * The 2018 IEEE Smart World Congress * Oct. 8-12, 2018, Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/cfp.php ---------------------------------------------------------------- The smart world is set to enhance everyday things with abilities of sensation, communication, computation and intelligence so that many tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and productive. It consists of numerous “smart things” that can be endowed with different levels/forms of computational intelligence and even capable of thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering many areas, essential problems and crucial issues in truly building the smart world that benefits humanity, and simultaneously safeguards the natural environment for sustainable development and evolution. The congress invites high quality papers in the broad areas related to ubiquitous intelligence and computing, advanced and trusted computing, scalable computing and communications, cloud and big data, and Internet of people towards the Smart World. Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, workshops, forums, demos, exhibitions are also extremely welcome. *SmartWorld 2018 topics include but are not limited to the following: * – Smart Industry and Manufacture – Smart Home and Furniture – Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture – Smart Appliances and Goods – Smart Materials and Fabric – Smart Wearables and Implants – Smart Environment and Ecosystems – Smart Medicine and Healthcare – Smart Earth/Space System – Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care – Smart Grid and Energy – Smart Foods and Living – Smart Logistics and Retail – Smart Learning and Education – Smart Building and Structure – Smart Disaster Management – Smart Roads and Transportation – Smart Internet of Things – Smart Vehicles and Networks – Smart Sensing, System and Service – Smart Machines and Robots – Smart Computing and Communication */_ _/* IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal: Feb. 8, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 8, 2018 Authors Notification: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Submission: Aug. 8, 2018 Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in Conference Proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestige journal special issues.

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Deadline Approaching - IoTBDS 2018 (3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security) Extended Deadline
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security Funchal, Madeira / Portugal March 19 - 21, 2018 http://www.iotbds.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015 LATE-BREAKING SUBMISSION DEALINE OF POSITION PAPERS: *JANUARY 4,2018 *Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 IoTBDS Conference. Due to many requests, the regular papers submission deadline of this conference has been extended --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The internet of things (IoT) is a platform that allows a network of devices (sensors, smart meters, etc.) to communicate, analyze data and process information collaboratively in the service of individuals or organizations. The IoT network can generate large amounts of data in a variety of formats and using different protocols which can be stored and processed in the cloud. The conference looks to address the issues surrounding IoT devices, their interconnectedness and services they may offer, including efficient, effective and secure analysis of the data IoT produces using machine learning and other advanced techniques, models and tools, and issues of security, privacy and trust that will emerge as IoT technologies mature and become part of our everyday lives. Big Data (BD) has core values of volume, velocity, variety and veracity. After collecting much data from IoT, BD can be jointly used with machine learning, AI, statistical and other advanced techniques, models and methods, which can create values for people and organizations adopting it, since forecasting, deep analysis and analytics can help identify weaknesses and make improvements based on different analysis. Maintaining a high level of security and privacy for data in IoT are crucial and we welcome recommendations, solutions, demonstrations and best practices for all forms of security and privacy for IoT and BD. Conference Areas: 1 - Big Data Research 2 - Emerging Services and Analytics 3 - Internet of Things (IoT) Fundamentals 4 - Internet of Things (IoT) Applications 5 - Big Data for Multi-discipline Services 6 - Security, Privacy and Trust - IoT Technologies ---------------------------- PUBLICATION ---------------------------- All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, EI and SCOPUS A short list of presented papers will be selected and their revised and extended versions will be published in the *Special Issue of Journal of Grid Computing (JGC)*. Applied Soft Computing fast track Other special issues in the high quality journals like FGCS are also being discussed. ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Position Papers Paper Submission: January 4, 2017 Authors Notification: January 22, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: January 31, 2018 Workshops Paper Submission: January 11, 2018 Authors Notification: January 25, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 2, 2018 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 Tutorials Tutorial Proposal: January 30, 2018 Demos Demo Proposal: January 30, 2018 Panels Panel Proposal: January 30, 2018 Open Communications Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 Forums Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 ---------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------------------- Tobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary --------------------------- WORKSHOPS: --------------------------- WICSPIT 2018:Workshop on Innovative CyberSecurity and Privacy for Internet of Things http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#WICSPIT IoTforeHealth 2018: Workshop on Big Data Analytics and IoT for Smarter Healthcare http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#IoTforeHealth SCBDADM 2018: Workshop on Smart Cities, Big Data Analytics and Digital Manufacturing: Inspiring New Organisational forms and Democratising the Means of Design Innovation and Production http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#SCBDADM ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Gary Wills, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Robert Walters, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Farshad Firouzi, IMEC/Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Roy Cecil, IBM Portugal, Portugal Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States Chung-Sheng Li, Accenture, United States KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Tobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Please visit IoTBDS 2018 http://www.iotbd.org for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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Thirteenth International Conference on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AND-MOD 18
by Beniamino Murgante 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Thirteenth International Conference on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AND-MOD 18 http://oldwww.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_An_Mod_18/index.html in conjunction with The 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2018) July 2th - July 5th 2018 Melbourne, Australia http://www.iccsa.org/ Description During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. OpenStreetMap, etc.), public initiatives (e.g. Open data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Bing Maps, etc.) produced an overabundance of spatial data, which, in many cases, does not help the efficiency of decision processes. The increase of geographical data availability has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. The inclusion of spatial simulation techniques in recent GIS software favoured the diffusion of these methods, but in several cases led to the mechanism based on which buttons have to pressed without having geography or processes in mind. Spatial modelling, analytical techniques and geographical analyses are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels, with a clear identification of the geographical information needed and reference scale to adopt. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This Conference aims at providing innovative and original contribution to the ongoing debate on the above mentioned issues and at improving the process of knowledge acquisition, by means of the development of new techniques and methods. The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following (but not limited to) Conference Themes: Geostatistics and spatial simulation; Agent-based spatial modelling; Cellular automata spatial modelling; Spatial statistical models; Space-temporal modelling; Environmental Modelling; Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis; Visualisation and modelling of track data; Spatial Optimization; Interaction Simulation Models; Data mining, spatial data mining; Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP; Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining; Spatial Decision Support Systems; Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis; Spatial Rough Set; Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory; Ontologies for Spatial Analysis; Urban modeling; Applied geography; Spatial data analysis; Dynamic modelling; Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality. Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on April 2018. Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages). Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes Authors Guideline Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web site ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 ). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Submission papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/ please don't forget to select " Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AND-MOD 18" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. Proceedings Papers accepted to "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 18" will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by WOS, Scopus and DBLP. Participants to "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 18" will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for special issues on International Journals and book. Participants to GEOG-AN-MOD 18 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for special issues on International Journals Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in the following special issues: * Transactions on Computational Science Journal VI Vol. 5730-0324, Springer-Verlag, Berlin ISSN: 1611-3349. * Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) " Geocomputation and Urban Planning " Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. * Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2011) "Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin * Murgante B., Kanevski M., Marvuglia A. Cellura M. (2012) Special Issue on "Analysing, Modelling and VisualizingSpatial Environmental Data ” International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) IGI Global volume 3(1), * Murgante B., Kanevski M., Marvuglia A. Cellura M. (2012) Special Issue on “Analysing, Modelling and VisualizingSpatial Environmental Data ” International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) IGI Global volume 3(2) * Borruso G., Bertazzon S., Favretto A. Murgante B., Torre C. (2011) “Geographic Information Analysis for Sustainable Development and Economic Planning: New Technologies” IGI Global * Murgante B., Borruso G., Gibin M. (2012) "NeoGeography and WikiPlanning" Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). * Lasaponara R., Asche H., Lanorte A., Murgante B., Borruso G. and Masini N. (2012) "Investigating Earth system changes and dynamics using remote sensing and geospatial analysis" Earth System Dynamics Interactive Open Access Journal (ISSN: 2190-4979 ). * Lasaponara R., Murgante B., Masini N., Ge Y., Masini N., Asche H. (2013) " Advance in geocomputation " International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation Elsevier. * Murgante B., Borruso G. (2013) "Using technologies to preserve and promote cultural heritage and landscape" International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) IGI Global volume 4(3). * Journal of Mobile Multimedia * International Journal of Web Information Systems * International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining 2013 Vol. 8 No. 4 * Marvuglia A., Murgante B., Benetto E. (2015) "Calling for an Integrated Computational Systems Modelling Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis” Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management Volume 3, Issue 3 pp. 213-216 | DOI: 10.5890/JEAM.2015.09.001 * Murgante B., Borruso G. (2015) “ Cities and Smartness: The True Challenge” International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, Volume 6, Issue 4 * Marvuglia A., Murgante B., Benetto E. (2015) “Computational Algorithms for Sustainability Assessment” Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management Volume 3, Issue 2 pp. 87-88 | DOI: 10.5890/JEAM.2015.06.001 * Murgante B., Borruso G. (2016) “ Recent trends in spatial information” International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, Volume 7, Issue 1 * Murgante B., Martellozzo F. (2016) “Decipher the Present to Shape the Future- Rethinking the Urban–Rural Nexus” Sustainability * Murgante B., Borruso G. (2017) “ New Approaches in Spatial Information in Real Estate Markets and Environmental Planning” International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2 Important dates 20 February 2018 : Deadline for full paper submission 8 April 2018 : Notification of acceptance 6 May 2018 : Deadline for Camera Ready Papers 2-3 July, 2018 : ICCSA 2018 Conference Beniamino Murgante _____________________________ Prof. Beniamino Murgante, PhD School of Engineering, University of Basilicata 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 85100 - Potenza - Italy tel. +39-0971-205125 fax +39-0971-205185 Mobile: +393204238518 Skype: beniamino.murgante e-mail: beniamino.murgante(a)unibas.it , murgante(a)gmail.com url: http://oldwww.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/Benny.html ORCID-ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2409-5959 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beniamino_Murgante Academia.edu: https://unibas-it.academia.edu/BeniaminoMurgante Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/beniamino-murgante2/

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IoTBDS 2018 with its workshops and High Quality Journal (HQJ) Forum
by Chang V.I. 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Dear colleagues, We wish you a Happy New Year. We have 1 forthcoming conference IoTBDS 2018 www.iotbds.org . We've extended the deadline for the position papers due on Jan 4, 2018. Venue will be in Madeira, Portugal. Conference date: March 19-21, 2018. We have a special issue with Journal of Grid Computing (JGC; IF: 2.766). We'll get a fast track with Applied Soft Computing (ASOC; IF: 3.541). We'll apply for well-known journals' special issues. There will be a High Quality Journal (HQJ) Forum http://www.iotbds.org/HQJForum.aspx to allow you to present the objectives and outcomes of the accepted/published papers in any approved SCI Q1 or A-grade journals. Winner can be invited to our SI or fast track mentioned above. Only 2 pages of extended abstract are required with deadline on Jan 11, 2018. There's also a Workshop on Big Data Analytics and IoT for Smarter Healthcare, IoTforeHealth 2018 due on Jan 11, 2018 http://www.iotbd.org/IoTforeHealth.aspx There's also a Workshop on Innovative CyberSecurity and Privacy for Internet of Things, WICSPIT 2018 due on Jan 11, 2018 http://iotbds.org/WICSPIT.aspx There's also a sister conference COMPLEXIS www.complexis.org for the position papers due on Dec 6 and it has similar workshops and forums as above. Hope you can consider. See some of pictures and videos: https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015 Many thanks. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks and regards, Victor ------ CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security Funchal, Madeira / Portugal March 19 - 21, 2018 http://www.iotbds.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015 Submission Extended Deadline: January 4, 2018 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 IoTBDS Conference. Due to many requests, the regular papers submission deadline of this conference has been extended --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The internet of things (IoT) is a platform that allows a network of devices (sensors, smart meters, etc.) to communicate, analyze data and process information collaboratively in the service of individuals or organizations. The IoT network can generate large amounts of data in a variety of formats and using different protocols which can be stored and processed in the cloud. The conference looks to address the issues surrounding IoT devices, their interconnectedness and services they may offer, including efficient, effective and secure analysis of the data IoT produces using machine learning and other advanced techniques, models and tools, and issues of security, privacy and trust that will emerge as IoT technologies mature and become part of our everyday lives. Big Data (BD) has core values of volume, velocity, variety and veracity. After collecting much data from IoT, BD can be jointly used with machine learning, AI, statistical and other advanced techniques, models and methods, which can create values for people and organizations adopting it, since forecasting, deep analysis and analytics can help identify weaknesses and make improvements based on different analysis. Maintaining a high level of security and privacy for data in IoT are crucial and we welcome recommendations, solutions, demonstrations and best practices for all forms of security and privacy for IoT and BD. Conference Areas: 1 . Big Data Research 2 . Emerging Services and Analytics 3 . Internet of Things (IoT) Fundamentals 4 . Internet of Things (IoT) Applications 5 . Big Data for Multi-discipline Services 6 . Security, Privacy and Trust 7 . IoT Technologies ---------------------------- PUBLICATION ---------------------------- All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, EI and SCOPUS A short list of presented papers will be selected and their revised and extended versions will be published in the *Special Issue of Journal of Grid Computing (JGC)*. Applied Soft Computing fast track Other special issues in the high quality journals like FGCS are also being discussed. ---------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------------------- Tobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom --------------------------- WORKSHOPS: --------------------------- WICSPIT 2018:Workshop on Innovative CyberSecurity and Privacy for Internet of Things http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#WICSPIT IoTforeHealth 2018: Workshop on Big Data Analytics and IoT for Smarter Healthcare http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#IoTforeHealth SCBDADM 2018: Workshop on Smart Cities, Big Data Analytics and Digital Manufacturing: Inspiring New Organisational forms and Democratising the Means of Design Innovation and Production http://iotbds.org/Workshops.aspx#SCBDADM ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: January 4, 2018 Late-Breaking Submission Deadline: January 4, 2018 Late-Breaking Authors Notification: January 22, 2018 Late-Breaking Camera Ready and Registration: January 31, 2018 Workshops Workshop Proposal: November 23, 2017 Paper Submission: January 11, 2018 Authors Notification: January 25, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 2, 2018 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 Special Sessions Special Session Proposal: December 13, 2017 Tutorials Tutorial Proposal: January 30, 2018 Demos Demo Proposal: January 30, 2018 Panels Panel Proposal: January 30, 2018 Open Communications Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 Forums Paper Submission: January 15, 2018 Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: February 7, 2018 ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Gary Wills, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Robert Walters, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Farshad Firouzi, IMEC/Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Roy Cecil, IBM Portugal, Portugal Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States Chung-Sheng Li, Accenture, United States KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Tobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Please visit IoTBDS 2018 http://www.iotbd.org/CallForPapers.aspx for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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Software Engg Symposiums & Workshop@ICCSA 2018(LNCS)2-5July'18 Melbourne, Australia
by Sanjay Misra 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Request: May I kindly request you to submit your paper(s) and circulate the following CFP in your department, software/Computer engineering groups and all interested researchers who may be potential authors. Dear Colleagues Sessions greeting and best wishes. First and foremost, Please accept my heartiest wishes for new year-2018; I pray to God almighty to bless you & your loved ones with health, wealth & peace. On this occasion I invite you to submit your research work to 10th Int Symposium on Software Engg Processes and Applications-2018,(Proceedings by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science) or 9th Int Symposium Software Quality- 2018(LNCS in Springer), and 10th Int Workshop on Tools and techniques in Soft Dev. Process 2018(Proceedings in Xplore( IEEE) ). All the three events*, *will be held in conjunction with the 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2018-http://www.iccsa.org/ *)*) during July 2 - 5, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia in collaboration with the Monash University, Australia. Please visit the following site for more detail. 10th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications (SEPA)-2018 (Publication in LNCS by Springer): http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=71 510&copyownerid=3644 http://sepa.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ http://www.iccsa.org/workshops 9th International Symposium Software Quality- (ISSQ)-2018-Publish in LNCS by Springer http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=71511 http://sq.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ http://www.iccsa.org/workshops 10th Int Workshop on Tools and techniques in Software Development Processes(TTSDP)- 2018(Publication in IEEE Xplore ): http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=59513 , http://ttsdp.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/ http://www.iccsa.org/workshops If your paper is a theme paper and 10-16 pages long, belongs/related to general area/applications of Software Engineering please submit it in Software Engineering process and applications (SEPA 2018). If you are working in any area related to quality issues of Software engineering , consider Software Quality (ISSQ 2018) for your submission. Further, if your paper is a session paper which is short and up to 6 pages long (in IEEE format), please select TTSDP 2018 for your submission. The extended version (minimum 30% in technical content) of SEPA 2018, SQ 2018 and TTSDP 2018 papers will be accepted by Several Journals (all SCOPUS/ESCI indexed Journal and the best paper in SCIE indexed Journal). The website for submission is open on following link- *http://ess.iccsa.org/ <http://ess.iccsa.org/>* *IMP-**While submitting to conference site, please select the one of below tracks (see just below the abstract box) of your submission. Otherwise your paper will be submitted in general track. * *"**10th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and Applications**"* *"**8th International Symposium on Software Quality**"* * "**10th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software Development Processes**"* While submitting your paper don’t forget to select the proper session/workshops. Hope and request for your contribution. best regards Sanjay Misra, Organizing Chair: SEPA 2017, ISSQ-2017, TTSDP-2017 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en (M.Tech.(In Software Engg-ML National Institute of Technology, India), PhD (Information and Know Engg.- Uni of Alcala, Spain) Prof of Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Nigeria http://covenantuniversity.edu. ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.VoDmYBV97Dc Visiting/ Prof., UCV, Valparasio, Chile Visiting Prof. University of Alcala, Spain Visiting Prof. Atilim University, Turkey Visiting Prof./Collaborative Researcher UNICEN, Tandil Argentina Visiting Prof. Federal University of Technology Minna Editor In Chief: Book series on “Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management (AITPPM)” (IGI Global USA) http://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-pro ject-management/77666 International Journal of Physical Sciences (Last IF: 0.540(2011)) http://www.academicjournals.org/ijps/Editors.htm Covenant J. of ICT(An official Journal of Covenant Uni.) http://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/cjict/#.UoNx3K5hK <http://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/cjict/#.UoNx3K5hK0w> -- Sanjay Misra <http://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.VrJRifkrLDd>

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

02 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 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms 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 Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia 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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[Mycolleagues] (Extended Deadline Jan 30, 2018) Wiley Software: Practice and Experience: Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics
by Gaurav Somani 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the same call. ______________________________________________ Call for Papers for Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics (Submission Deadline (Extended): Jan 30, 2018 Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) A call on SPE website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X /asset/homepages/Special_Issue_Proposal_CFP_SPE_Final_v4.pdf ?v=1&s=42188b687b9e225871c754b6ddffbe0354bc0551&isAguDoi=false ------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern computing edge has envisaged many technological advances which have impacted the livelihood of human being to society at large. Cloud Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics are three major innovative paradigms which have changed the way computing is transforming the organizations. Most of the industry sectors are driven by information technology (IT) and all these sectors whether it is government or manufacturing enterprises, health-care or start-ups, each one of them are finding and visualizing unprecedented opportunities and growth in systems driven by these three technologies. At the level of implementation and deployment, these technologies help in preparing a practical “Software System” where the functional aspects are implemented in real software and demonstrated practically. Often, these systems are applied in public sectors such as utility, facility management, smart city projects including transport, health care and power and water distributions. On the other hand, numerous systems are also envisaged along the lines of social networks driven systems, smart homes, smart buildings, smart vehicles, smart industries where cyber physical systems are automated and managed on the basis of these three important technologies. We invite high quality papers either on the use of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving real world or practical problems or the application and assessment of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving well-known societal problems and issues. We focus on submissions that stress software practice studies, and submissions that share a variety of software system development experiences in different domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Cloud and IoT Systems/platforms for Big Data and Data analytics such as smart cities, e-commerce and cyber physical systems leading to real innovation. - Systems using Data Classification on IoT environments and mining for next generation IoT networking - Practical Software System study and evolution using Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data Analytics - Software systems implemented for environmental and cyber physical systems sensing and computing, health care, mobile and personalized data-centered services, social networks analytics etc. - Real-time intelligence and control techniques - IoT architecture, tools and applications for Big Data analytics - Scientific Computing, Data Management and Analytics in Cloud - Software Systems for Enterprise, Government and Society, Cloud-assisted, IoT-based Cyber-Physical Systems, Resilient Infrastructures - Automatic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds - Research and Project Experience in Biomedical, Energy and Environment Control, Service Systems in Tourism, Transportation and Urban Planning, Vertical Markets – Telecom, Sensors, Social Networking, Smart Cities, Food and Agriculture. - Case Studies of Cloud, IoT and Big Data usage and value formation Special Issue Paper Submission This special issue invites submissions that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017, http://dsr.encs.vancouver.wsu.edu/BDCAT2017/) All submissions including invited papers will undergothe regular peer review process. We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version of an already published conference paper, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), (3) confirmation of the percentage of new material, and (4) the original conference paper. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed. While submitting paper to this issue, please select “Special Issue – On Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics” in the submission system. Regular Issue Submission If you have a paper on cloud computing or IoT which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing and IoT. Important Dates Submission: Jan 30, 2018 First Notification: April 1, 2018 Revision due: May 1, 2018 Notification of final acceptance: June 1, 2018 Final revised paper due: June 15, 2018 Guest Editors Gaurav Somani Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Central University of Rajasthan, India, Email: gaurav(a)curaj.ac.in Xinghui Zhao School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, USA, Email: x.zhao(a)wsu.edu Satish Narayana Srirama Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, Email: satish.srirama(a)ut.ee Rajkumar Buyya Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Email: rbuyya(a)unimelb.edu.au -- =================================================== Gaurav Somani, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Central University of Rajasthan, (Established under the Central Universities Act 2009) NH-8, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. =================================================== ------------------------------------------------------- We love you. We are sorry. Please forgive us. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues - Through this links above you can "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or change your settings in the list. OR - Easy unsubscribe: http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/options/mycolleagues

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HPCS 2018 - The 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

*HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018* [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** ** **The 2018 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** **(HPCS 2018)** ** **July 16 - 20, 2018** **Orléans, France** **http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 ** ** **In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP** ** **(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _February 19, 2018_)** **(Other Conference tracks may have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest.)** * You are cordially invited to participate in this international event through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their design, performance and use, their use in modeling and simulation, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed and archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: Please see Symposia: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia---hpcs2018 , Workshops: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2018 , Special Sessions: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018 . *SPECIAL ISSUE* Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue or more in a reputable ISI indexed Journal. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEEXPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. ================================================================= *Important Dates:* *Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ——— February 19, 2018** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————— February 20, 2018** ** Notification of Acceptance starts —————————————— April 07, 2018** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— May 03, 2018** ** Conference Dates ———————————————————— July 16 - 20, 2018** * ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs18 or contact one of the organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Orléans in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2018 Organizers

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15 Academic Positions at the University of Melbourne
by Uwe Aickelin 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] The University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems is seeking applicants for 15 continuing (i.e. tenure-track / permanent ) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer positions. We seek dynamic academics with expertise in Computer Science or Information Systems who have the potential to build a stellar teaching and research career at Melbourne. The School of Computing and Information Systems is an international research leader in computer science, information systems and software engineering. In this discipline, the School was ranked number 1 in Australia and 13th in the world in the 2016 QS World University Ranking exercise. We are particularly seeking applicants with expertise in the areas of business information systems, health informatics/digital health, software engineering, cybersecurity, or high-performance and distributed systems, but applicants whose work is aligned with any of the research groups in the School are encouraged to apply. Applications close on 15 Jan 2018. The positions are advertised at http://go.unimelb.edu.au/jsp6, where the formal position description and a brochure with more information are available. Contact Karin Verspoor karin.verspoor(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:karin.verspoor@unimelb.edu.au> for enquiries and further information.

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Fwd: CFP: J.UCS New trends in Semantic Web-based applications
by Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Apologise for duplicated emails Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) Special Issue *New trends in Semantic Web-based applications* *Description and Scope:* Semantic Web technologies are becoming more relevant to the research community. Such interest has inspired many people to create innovative technologies and applications such as Semantic Searches, Information Integration, Information Interoperability, Bioinformatics, eHealth, eLearning, Software Engineering, eCommerce, eGovernment, Social Networks. In this sense, the application of semantic web has carried out an extensive use of ontologies in such diverse fields. The application of ontologies has supposed an incredible advance in developing techniques to manipulate, share, reuse and integrate information across heterogeneous data sources. In particular, in Big Data to preserve such homogeneous format has become one of the principal problems that these tremendous datasets are facing. To face this difficulty, research areas like Natural Language Processing, Ontology Matching, Ontology Alignment or Ontology population are providing efficient methodologies based on RDF and OWL language technologies to provide standard ways to convert such datasets into Linked Data uniform format. Nowadays, the usage of Linked Data format has been established as a de facto standard; everyone wants to publish their data in such format, Social Networks, Smart cities and Context-aware mobile applications. Thus, according to this demand, the development of certain techniques to enable users to publish, visualize and manipulate their data in an easy way is high-demanded. Also, the standardization of this linked format has completely revolutionized the way of representing and analyzing data demanding new graph-based machine learning and data mining techniques to explore such representation. On the other hand, with the arrival of ontologies, fundamental questions have emerged about which kind of elements should be defined in an ontology model to specify knowledge and how this knowledge should be represented. In response to these questions, Ontological Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning research areas are working intensively to develop generic models which enable systems to employ reasoning techniques to produce knowledge. Therefore, the main objective of this special issue is to collect and consolidate innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding to semantic Web-based applications applied to different disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Database Management, Knowledge Representation and Engineering, Natural Language and Processing, Cloud Computing, Social Web, Web Science, among others. This special issue aims to provide insights on the recent advances in these topics by soliciting original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, models, experimental research and case studies for developing semantic Web-based applications. *Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:* • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning • Knowledge Acquisition • Ontological Engineering • Ontology Sharing and Reuse • Ontology Matching and Alignment • Ontology Learning and Population • Semantic Web Semantic Integration of heterogeneous data sources • Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval using Semantic technologies • Social Semantic Web and Web science • Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems • Linked Data Applications Industrial Applications and Case-studies • Context-aware visualization and interaction technique • Visualizations and user interfaces for ontologies and Linked Data • Consumption and publication of Linked Data • Extraction, linking and integration of Linked Data • Social Networks and Graph Analysis • Web mining and Web search systems • Semantic Data Management technologies for Big Data • Mobile Web, Sensors and Semantic Streams • Services, APIs, Processes and Cloud Computing • Smart Cities, Urban and Geospatial Data • Machine Learning and Data Mining for Web of Data • Solutions for bridging the gap between Web of Data and the Web of Services *Instructions for authors* Authors should submit their paper via email: miguel.rodriguez(a)urjc.es, valencia(a)um.es and galor(a)itorizaba.edu.mx and the subject of the email should be: “J.UCS SI Submission: Semantic Web”. All manuscripts for this special issue should be submitted electronically by December 29th, 2017. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers following a double-blind review process. Invited authors for extended versions of conference papers must include at least 30-50% additional materials relative to conference papers and the title of the extended version must clearly and unmistakably differ from the title of the paper presented at the conference. The length of the manuscript may not exceed 20 pages. Authors’ papers should accord to the J.UCS Style Guide for Authors which can be found at the following URL: http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/ info/submissions/style_guide.html *Important Dates* Working schedule • Submission deadline: February 28th, 2018 • Completion of first‐round reviews: April 1st, 2018 • Revised papers: May 30th, 2018 • Target of the second (last) round of reviews: August, 15th, 2018 • Publication (tentative): 2018 *Guest Editors* • Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-García, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain ( miguel.rodriguez(a)urjc.es) • Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia, Spain (valencia(a)um.es) • Giner Alor-Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, México ( galor(a)itorizaba.edu.mx)

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2nd Call for papers SS on ICPS Conference extended to January 31, 2018
by Gerardo Beruvides Lopez 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

Dear Colleague, We are glad to announce the second Call for Papers for the Special Session on Innovative Computational Intelligence Knowledge-based Solutions for Zero Defect Scenarios on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. The Special Session has been included in the 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE ICPS 2018) programme, May 15-18, 2018, Saint Petersburg, Russia. All accepted paper will appear in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and the good quality paper may be considered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics subjects to further rounds of review. Topics of interest include: - Predictive and prescriptive artificial intelligence architectures for ICPS - Real-time machine condition monitoring & diagnostic for global environments - Advance knowledge representation methodologies and ontologies - Pattern recognition and identification based on big data analytics in ICPS - Crowdsourcing and crowd cloud computing methodologies - Self-adaptive & self-reconfiguration system development methods - Virtual modelling and simulators for zero defect ICPS scenarios - Connected ICPS network sensors for smart manufacturing environments - Innovative deep learning topologies for ICPS applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline extended to: January 31, 2018 Paper acceptance: February 28, 2018 Final paper submission: March 31, 2018 Information on the IEEE ICPS 2018 will be regularly updated in the Conference website: http://icps2018.net/ I should be very grateful if you could publicize this event among your colleagues. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Best regards, Gerardo Beruvides SS-Chairman -- Gerardo Beruvides López, PhD Centro de Automática y Robótica, CSIC - UPM Ctra. de Campo Real Km. 0.200 La Poveda, Arganda del Rey C.P. 28500 Madrid - Spain gerardo.beruvides(a)car.upm-csic.es - http://www.gamhe.eu personal email: beruvides85(a)gmail.com Phone: (+34) 91 871 19 00 Ext. 244 Fax: (+34) 91 871 70 50

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IEEE ISORC 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS
by sidharta andalam 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

The 21st IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REAL-TIME COMPUTING (ISORC) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dates: 29th - 31st May 2018. https://cps-research-group.github.io/ISORC2018/index.html Important dates: -------------------------- Submission deadline: February 2, 2018 Acceptance notification: March 16, 2018 Camera-ready papers: March 22, 2018 Main theme and topics: -------------------------- ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. The conference theme for 2018 will be decentralized time-sensitive computing and enabling software infrastructures. This theme will focus on both: (1) Cloud infrastructures and platforms for time-sensitive computation and real-time computing (2) Algorithms and Computational Infrastructure to support complex social cyber-physical systems combining edge, fog, and cloud. We solicit high-quality papers pertaining to all aspects of ORC technology and especially those that are well aligned with the 2018 theme. Authors are encouraged to consider submissions with a practical orientation and validation related to case studies & applications in this area. The specific ORC focus areas include, but are not limited to: * Programming and system engineering: real-time programming challenges, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages and synchronous languages. * Embedded distribution middleware middleware such as .NET, RT RMI, RT Java, UML, model-maintenance, system of systems, time-predictable systems and hardware. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communication, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communication, trusted and dependable systems. * Algorithms for Real Time Analytics: clustering and classification approaches, stream processing algorithms, real time decision tree generation and update, real time machine learning, statistical approaches. Approaches related to stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels and OS, middleware support for ORC, QoS management, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, fault tolerance, security. * Real-time algorithms and infrastructure support for decentralized architectures including distributed ledgers with a focus on scalability and resilience. * Applications: Medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, Industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, Embedded systems (automotive, avionics, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc.), multimedia processing, RT Web-based applications. * System evaluation: performance analysis, monitoring & timing, dependability, end-to-end QoS, overhead, fault detection and recovery time. * Cyber-physical and Cyber-social systems (e.g. social media analytics) Submission guidelines: -------------------------- IEEE ISORC 2018 invites papers in three categories. 1) Regular Research Papers: Papers should describe original work and be maximum 8 pages in length using the IEEE paper format. A maximum of two extra pages may be purchased. 2) Industrial Papers and Practitioner Reports: Papers describing experiences of using ORC technology in application or tool development projects, are an integral part of the technical program of ISORC. A majority of these papers are expected to be shorter and less formal than research papers. They should clearly identify and discuss in detail the issues that represent notable industrial advances. Reports with project metrics supporting their claims are particularly sought, as well as those that show both benefits and drawbacks of the approaches used in the given project. 3) Short Papers: Short research papers, 4 pages or less using the IEEE format, on real-time analytics are also invited, and should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the project and evaluate the novelty of the problem or approach. Best papers from ISORC 2018 will be invited for submission to a Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. The special issue will be open to general submissions as well. The call for paper is available at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… . All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. Each accepted paper shall be accompanied by at least one non student conference registration. Organizing Committee --------------------- Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Joel Sherill, OAR Corporation, USA Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA Qixin Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Rui Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sidharta Andalam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

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Research Fellow Position in IoT Networks
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 26 Dec '17

26 Dec '17

A Research Fellow position is immediately available at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This position is part of a corporate lab initiative involving NTU and Delta Electronics, a leading electronics manufacturing company. The successful candidate will conduct research to improve the resilience of industrial IoT networks against dynamic environment conditions and cyber-attacks. The candidate should have obtained a Ph.D. degree in computer science or computer engineering (or relevant disciplines) and demonstrated strong research ability by publications on prestigious venues in networking. Knowledge and experiences on software-defined networking (SDN) are strong pluses. The candidate will work with a research team including multiple NTU faculty members and Delta engineers. The position will provide an excellent opportunity to perform both basic and translational research in close collaboration with industry. Other advantages of the position include (1) stable multi-year fund subject to satisfactory performance, (2) various opportunities in Singapore's strategic cyber resilience research cluster, e.g., Temasek Fellowship (http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/trf/index_trf.html) and (3) high-quality living and low tax rates in Singapore. Interested candidates can send CV with full publication list to Dr. Rui Tan at tanrui(a)ntu.edu.sg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rui Tan Assistant Professor School of Computer Science and Engineering Nanyang Technological University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________ 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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Reminder: Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning Journal Symbolic Computation
by Prof. Tomas Recio 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

Please help us disseminating this announcement. Sorry for duplicates. Please notice the submission deadline of February 2018! Further details follow: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Call for contributions to the JSC Special Issue on Dynamic Geometry and Automated Reasoning https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar <https://sites.google.com/site/kovzol/jsc-si-dg-ar> JSC=Journal of Symbolic Computation* https://www.journals <https://www.journals/>. elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation <http://elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation> GUEST EDITORS: Francisco Botana, University of Vigo, Spain Zoltán Kovács, The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Austria Tomas Recio, University of Cantabria, Spain IMPORTANT DATES submission deadline: February 1, 2018 notification of acceptance / rejection: July 1, 2018 final versions: September 15, 2018 SCOPE: Since the last half century, automated deduction in elementary geometry has become one of the most successful achievements in the field of automated reasoning. Along these decades various methods and techniques have been studied and developed for automated proving and discovering of elementary geometry statements. On the other hand, dynamic geometry software systems have emerged, such as Cabri Geometry, C.a.R., Cinderella, DrGeo, GeoGebra, The Geometer's Sketchpad, Geometry Expert, Geometry Expressions or Kig with an ever-increasing presence in mathematics education. Some of them possess a large number of users (over thirty million) all around the world. The merging of these two tools (automatic proving and dynamic geometry) 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 Issue intends to be an opportunity for - presenting the current state of the art concerning the development of automatic proving features on dynamic geometry systems, - discussing the current and potential applications of such features in different contexts, such as CAGD or mathematics education. TOPICS (not restricted to): - Algorithmic aspects: formal, logic and algebraic geometry approaches, constraint solving, invariant and coordinate-free methods, real and complex geometry issues, probabilistic, synthetic approaches, techniques from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics. - Software aspects: Implementation of automated proving methods in dynamic geometry programs, design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed computing, considerations for modern hardware and new devices. User-interface issues, use with systems for digital libraries, courseware, ... - Application aspects: applications to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. Papers should follow the guidelines for JSC submissions (see https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171… <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-symbolic-computation/0747-7171…>), and should be submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscdgarsi2018>). The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following questions in succinct and informal manner: - What is the problem? - Why is the problem important? - What has been done so far on the problem? - What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem? - Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification) - Why is the contribution non-trivial? Make the paper complete (since there is no page limit): - All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed. - All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed. - All the theorems must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed). - All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be illustrated by well-chosen examples. * An international journal, the Journal of Symbolic Computation, founded by Bruno Buchberger in 1985, is directed to mathematicians and computer scientists who have a particular interest in symbolic computation. Automated theorem proving is one of the research areas of interest highlighted in the Journal’s description. The Journal of Symbolic Computation has a 1.274 Impact Factor, according to the last Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2017).

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Call for Participation: COMSNETS 2018, 3 - 7 January 2018, Bangalore, India (www.comsnets.org)
by Vinayak Naik 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

*COMSNETS 2018, 3 - 7 January 2018, Bangalore, India* * www.comsnets.org <http://www.comsnets.org/>* Technical Co-Sponsors: *IEEE, IEEE COMSOC* In Co-operation With: *ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE*, *Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India* Conference Patrons: *CISCO, Qualcomm, TCS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Research, Bosch, **Singapore Management University, InnAccel, Adobe, VMware, Phimetrics, LG, ICANN* The Tenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 3-7, 2018. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement the technical program. The conference will recognize one or more papers, demos, posters, and Graduate Student forum presentations with awards. *Conference Highlights* The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held from *January 4-6 2018*. The workshops will be held on the first and the last day of the conference *- January 3 and January 7* *2018.* ASSET will be held on *January 8 and January 9* *2018.* - Keynote Talks - Invited Talks - Paper Sessions - Poster Sessions - Mentoring Sessions - Panel Discussions - Graduate Student Forum - Demo & Exhibits - Mobile India 2018 - *Co-located COMSNETS Workshops* - *WACI* - *Intelligent Transportation Systems* - *Social Networking* - *NetHealth* - ASSET *2018 Banquet Speaker* - VC Gopalratnam, Cisco, India (https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in /about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html <https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in/about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html> ) *2018 Keynote Speakers* - Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/) - Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany ( https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/ <https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/>) - Dhananjay Gore, Qualcomm R&D, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/d hananjay-gore-b2b19b1/?ppe=1) *2018 Invited Speakers* - Kirill Kogan, IMDEA Labs, Spain (http://people.networks.imdea. org/~kirill_kogan/) - Binbin Chen, ADSC, Singapore (https://adsc.illinois.edu/peo ple/binbin-chen) - Venu Veeravalli, UIUC, USA (http://vvv.ece.illinois.edu/) - Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Norhteastern University, USA ( http://krc.coe.neu.edu/) - Mahesh K Marina, University of Edinburgh, USA ( http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/ <http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/>) - Biplab Sikdar, NUS, Singapore (https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/st aff/bio/biplab.html) - Prasenjit Dey, IBM, IRL (https://www.linkedin.com/in/p rasenjit-dey-4082763/?ppe=1) - Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (https://www.net.in.tum.de/mem bers/carle/) - Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA (https://blogs.cisco.com/autho r/raghunathnambiar) - Lipika Dey, TCS Innovation Labs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/l ipika-dey-3381713/?ppe=1) - Josef Noll, Univ. of Oslo., Norway (https://www.mn.uio.no/its/eng lish/people/aca/jnoll/) - Ajit Rao, Qualcomm, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajitvrao/) *COMSNETS 2018 General Co-Chairs* Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Archan Misra, SMU, Singapore Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research, India *COMSNETS 2018 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs* Subir Biswas, MSU, USA Mun Choon Chan, NUS, Singapore Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India *COMSNETS 2018 Publicity Co-Chairs* Aswhin Rao, University of Helsinki Ashutosh Nayyar, USC, USA Arash Asadi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Vinayak Naik, IIIT Delhi, India

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Call for Workshop & Special Session Proposals: The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) - Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018
by Xiaokang Zhou 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CyberSciTech 2018 Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html CyberSciTech 2018 invites Workshops and Special Sessions (SS) to enrich and broaden the research focus of the main conference ( http://cyber-science.org/2018/) The purpose is to provide a comprehensive forum on topics that will not be fully explored during the main event as well as to encourage in-depth discussion of technical and application issues related to Cyber Science and Technology. This is a unique opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to shape the future research directions and share their original research results and practical development experiences on specific topics related to cyber science and technology. The proposals should contain the following information: • The title of the Workshop/SS, including both full name and abbreviation. • The scope and objectives (up to 1 page). • Short bios of the key organizers. • Brief plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise the Workshop/SS or possible submissions to special issues of journals), procedures for selecting papers (including the expected number of accepted papers), and the expected number of participants. • A tentative website/URL of the proposed Workshop/SS (optional). • If the proposed Workshop/SS has been previously organized, please also briefly describe its history (e.g., number of submissions and accepted papers, attendance, etc.) Please email your proposals in PDF format as early as possible and not later than February 10, 2018 to the Workshop Chairs at cyberscitechcongress(a)gmail.com. Please use “CyberSciTech 2018 Workshop/SS Proposal” as the email subject. Once we receive a proposal, a decision will be made in a week. Accepted proposals should follow strictly the important dates, particularly paper notification and camera-ready dates listed below. Important Dates for CyberSciTech 2018 Workshops/SS Proposal Submission Due Feb. 10, 2018 Proposal Decision Due Feb. 17, 2018 Paper Submission Due Apr. 30, 2018 Author Notification Due May 20, 2018 Camera-ready Papers Due June 15, 2018 For accepted proposals, organizers are responsible for composing the corresponding Workshop/SS program committees, advertising call for papers, reviewing submissions and planning the final program. CyberSciTech 2018 Workshop/SS Chairs will assist the organization and ensure their quality and success. The CyberSciTech 2018 organizer will provide facilities including the paper submission systems, working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, proceedings preparation, etc. -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) - Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018
by Xiaokang Zhou 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

[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. -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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CFP: Third IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), Sicily, June 18th/20th, 2018
by Sreenivasan Ramamurthy 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] *CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2018* Third IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2018) Sicily, June 18th/20th, 2018 http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys/2018/ <http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys18/> Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system apriori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies, and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value-added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human-centric cyber-physical-social systems. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human services and systems, including: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications *Important Dates* Paper submission: 28 February 2018 Notification: 30 March 2018 Camera Ready: 21 April 2018 Workshop Date: June 18th or June 20th 2018 *Organizing Committees* *Workshop Co-Organizers* Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Jason Hallstrom, Florida Atlantic University, USA Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy *Publicity Co-chairs* Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Arena Antonio, University of Pisa, Italy *Technical Program Committee* TBD

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CFP: 15th Int. Conf. on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems
by M. Younas 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

------------------------ Call for Papers ----------------------------------- The 15th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2018) (Springer, LNCS) 6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain http://www.mobiwis.org/2018/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The areas of the Web, mobile technologies, and information systems have been following a continuous and steady development over a number of years through the innovative research and practices of researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, governmental and scientific organizations. The International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis) aims to enable synergy between these areas and provides the premier venue to present and discuss latest research and developments related to research issues of the mobile web and the engineering of intelligent and innovative mobile systems and services. The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on the particular challenges regarding mobile Web and intelligent information systems in research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented Computing, Web of Things, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing, Security and Human-Computer Interaction. Conference Tracks: - Smart and Intelligent Systems - Mobile Software Systems - Adaptive Approaches for Mobile Computing - Middleware/SOA for Mobile Systems - Context- and Location-aware Services - Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications - Data management in the Mobile Web - Mobile Cloud Services - Mobile Web of Things - Mobile Web Security, Trust and Privacy - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications - Mobile Commerce and Business Services - Socially Influencing Systems - HCI in Mobile Applications - Industry and Demos Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 05 March 2018 Authors Notification: 16 May 2018 Final Manuscript Due: 12 June 2018 Submission Instructions: Full papers must be in English and must not exceed 12 pages. Short papers should be limited to 8 pages. Papers should be formatted in Springer's LNCS format. See submission instructions on the conference website. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see conference website). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is indexed by the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. See LNCS - Information on Abstracting and Indexing (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0) Organizing Committee: General Chair George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK Program Chair Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Marisa Catalán Cid, i2Cat Foundation, Spain Publication Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Publicity Chair Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Journals Special Issues Chair Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

---- 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,etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform 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 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

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 ****************************************************************************************** *********** 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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CFP: AW4city 2018, 4th International ACM Smart City Workshop: Enhancing Citizen Centricity with Web Applications
by Leonidas Anthopoulos 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AW4city 2018, 4th International ACM Smart City Workshop: Enhancing Citizen Centricity with Web Applications In conjunction with WWW'18: 27th World Wide Web International Conference Lyon, France, April 23, 2018 http://aw4city2018.wordpress.com Important Dates ------------------------- Submissions due: Jan. 20th, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 14, 2018. Workshop authors' registration and camera-ready papers: March 10, 2018 Workshop day: April 23, 2018 Workshop Objective ---------------------------- Following up the success of the past events at WWW2015, WWW2016 and WWW2017, the 4th AW4City 2018 aims to keep on attracting a significant international attention with regard to web applications for smart cities. The aim of this workshop is to address web-based application and Apps' design and development in the smart city and urban context. More specifically, it focuses on innovative applications smart city component and more specifically on the design and implementation of web-based applications and Apps. This component is crucial, since it addresses all the smart city dimensions: * Economy, since new types of entrepreneurship and innovative business models appear in data, creative and climate economies, and develop web applications and Apps. * Mobility, with regard to urban transportation (intelligent transportation), distance working, job offering demonstration etc. * Environment, since applications enhance resource management, transportation improvement, environmental monitoring etc. * Living, since applications enhance local life (i.e., e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, e-tourism etc.). * People, since they concern applications' end users and * Governance, where open data and e-government applications play crucial roles in smart city operation. This year, the workshop will emphasize on the contribution of web applications and Apps to citizen centricity. In the era of cities, municipal leaders, service and utility providers are making an important shift regarding thinking of people as customers and of customer experience. This shift is not a simple task since it demands a continuous service monitoring, assessment and improvement, which normally is based on accurate data analysis and appears as a thinking that makes government and providers more personal and responsive. In this respect, this workshop aims to demonstrate how web applications and Apps can enhance local service delivery and continuous monitoring and improvement. Theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and selected case studies from leading scholars and practitioners in the field showing the "big picture" of smart cities and urban areas will be examined in this workshop. This workshop aims at gathering researchers from the fields of smart cities and web application development to think about the obstacles that hurdle the leveraging of understanding and capturing of smart city trends with regard web application development that interconnect citizens, businesses and government in a smart city. AW4City 2018 is timely, since an increasing criticism is being generated that smart city represents an ambiguous urban utopia, which is supported by the partnership of local governments with big technological vendors. In this respect, articles can deliver a clearer view of smart city reality, while innovative applications can strengthen the existence of opportunities for new entrants in the smart city market. Moreover, most standardization bodies evolve competitive standards for smart city components and to this end, this workshop is expected to highlight existing development and trends with regard to application development (web-based, apps and end-to-end). We target researchers from both industry and academia to join forces in this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant developments in the general areas of smart cities and web applications and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at identifying trends and respective applications in smart cities; the potential impact of smart city in web applications; techniques from end-to-end solutions' or apps' development that will enable researchers to understand the dynamic phenomena in smart cities, as well as specify important directions for the research communities. Standards for web applications' development in smart cities is interesting for several areas such as sustainability, crisis management, marketing, security, and interoperability. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following topics (but not limited to): * Enhancing citizen/customer experience with Web Applications and Apps; * Apps that support citizen engagement; * Smart City management systems; * Practices of Web applications and Apps in smart cities; * Theoretical foundations on Smart City applications and standards; * Creative partnerships, creative industries and industry 4.0 in Smart City with a focus on application development (Internet Economics and Monetization); * Pervasive Web and Mobility for Smart City emerging topics (i.e., user behavior analytics, energy, water, waste, transportation etc.) * The role of government for smart city applications development and standardization (i.e., promotion push, start-ups, open data); * Web Infrastructure standardization; * The role of standards on smart city data mining; * Smart city e-services for evaluation and benchmarking; * Smart city information quality and evolution in social content; * Ensuring security and privacy in Smart Cities: the role of web applications and Apps. Submission ------------------------------------- We welcome full research papers, research in progress, and discussion papers. Full papers should be up to 6 pages long (max 5000 words), including the abstract and appendices. Discussion papers may be short (up to 4 pages), but should clearly and distinctly address one or more issues pertinent to Smart City research including research methods and quality as well as focus of studies. Papers should be designed to support in-depth discussions of one of these issues during the workshop. Although it is a half-day event, the workshop papers will be clustered and each session will discuss a small set of papers focusing on similar or related issues. Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------- The accepted papers will be included in the companion volume of WWW2018's proceeding, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. All submitted papers must be: - written in English; - contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; - be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; - be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted. Authors should submit a .doc/.docx too to the workshop's chairs. - occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system. Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop co-chairs and at least one external reviewer. More details regarding WWW2018 conference can be found on https://www2018.thewebconf.org/ Extended version of accepted articles are possible to be selected and included in a special issue with relevant theme of International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) or some other relative journals (i.e., Journal of Knowledge Economy (JKEC) and Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JoI) published by Springer). Accepted refereed papers, must be presented at the conference by an author who is registered to attend. Please be aware that the WWW 2018 organizers will require at least one registration per paper published in either the main Proceedings or in the Companion volume. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. We strongly encourage at least one author of every paper to register by the early-bird deadline so that session chairs can make plans for its presentation. Please submit your papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites) of WWW2018 or via e-mail (in .doc/docx and .pdf format) to: lanthopo(a)teilar.gr with the subject: "AW4city 2018 proposal" Details of the programme will be made available online. For any questions, please contact the Workshop chairs: ------------------------------ Leonidas ANTHOPOULOS, Associate Professor, University of Applied Science (TEI) of Thessaly, Greece, lanthopo(a)teilar.gr Marijn JANSSEN, Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, M.F.W.H.A.Janssen(a)tudelft.nl Vishanth WEERAKKODY, Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom, v.weerakkody(a)bradford.ac.uk Program Committee Members (tentative) ------------------------------ * Toru Ishida, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan * Sofia Toufic Shwayri, University of California at Berkeley * Nicolas Douay, MCF Paris 7 / UMR Geographie-Cites / LabEx DynamiTe * Beth Coleman, University of Waterloo, Director of City as Platform * Arthur Riel, The World Bank, Washington, U.S.A. * Cristina Maria Bueti, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) * Christopher G. Reddick, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A. * Markus Rittenbruch, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Flora Salim, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia * Mag. Michael Sachs, Zentrum fur E-Governance, Donau-Universitat Krems. * Stephen Cohen, Microsoft, USA * Nikolaos Mavridis, NCFSR Demokritos, Greece * Alois Paulin, TUWien, Vienna, Austria.

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4th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications (Innovate-Data 2018)
by Georgia (Zeta) Kapitsaki 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

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

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2nd CfP Ada-Europe 2018 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
by Dirk Craeynest 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd 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) *** DEADLINE 22 JANUARY 2018 *** *** Web submission site open *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------- 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

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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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) 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 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 Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia 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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IEEE 7th Parlearning workshop with IPDPS 2018
by ngoko 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************* The 7th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics May 21, 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA http://parlearning.ecs.fullerton.edu In Conjunction with 32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. Scaling up machine-learning (ML), data mining (DM) and reasoning algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) for massive datasets is a major technical challenge in the time of "Big Data". The past ten years have seen the rise of multi-core and GPU based computing. In parallel and distributed computing, several frameworks such as OpenMP, OpenCL, and Spark continue to facilitate scaling up ML/DM/AI algorithms using higher levels of abstraction. We invite novel works that advance the trio-fields of ML/DM/AI through development of scalable algorithms or computing frameworks. Ideal submissions should describe methods for scaling up X using Y on Z, where potential choices for X, Y and Z are provided below. Scaling up • Recommender systems • Optimization algorithms (gradient descent, Newton methods) • Deep learning • Sampling/sketching techniques • Clustering (agglomerative techniques, graph clustering, clustering heterogeneous data) • Classification (SVM and other classifiers) • SVD and other matrix computations • Probabilistic inference (Bayesian networks) • Logical reasoning • Graph algorithms/graph mining and knowledge graphs • Semi-supervised learning • Online/streaming learning • Generative adversarial networks Using • Parallel architectures/frameworks (OpenMP, OpenCL, OpenACC, Intel TBB) • Distributed systems/frameworks (GraphLab, Hadoop, MPI, Spark) • Machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, Caffe) On • Clusters of conventional CPUs • Many-core CPU (e.g. Xeon Phi) • FPGA • Specialized ML accelerators (e.g. GPU and TPU) IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission: February 16, 2018 AoE • Notification: March 16, 2018 • Camera Ready: March 30, 2018 PAPER GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be upto 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Format requirements are posted on the IEEE IPDPS web page. All submissions must be uploaded electronically at TBA TRAVEL AWARDS Students with accepted papers can apply for a travel award. Please find details at www.ipdps.org

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[simu-conf] Extended Deadline - Sysmposium of Theory of Modeling and Simulation 2018
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

TMS/DEVS'18: Theory of Modeling and Simulation/DEVS Symposium - Call for Papers April 15-18, 2018 Baltimore, MD, USA DEADLINE EXTENDED http://tmsdevs.org The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent advancements in M&S theory. The main focus is on modeling, methodology, practice and software to cope with the challenges arising out of these, as well as lessons learned and challenges. The Symposium bridges different areas in the field of theory of M&S, including formal modeling, model-checking, graph transformation, modeling methodologies. All papers will be archived in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries, SCOPUS and DBLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Theory * Advances in Modeling Formalisms (DEVS, Petri nets, Statecharts, etc.) * Model Transformation * Model Checking and Verification - Modular Approaches to M&S * Model Composition * Co-simulation * Interoperability * Modular Modeling of Hybrid Systems * Modular Modeling of Spatially Distributed Systems * Modular Representation of Numerical Solvers - Complex Systems M&S * Multi-Paradigm/Multi-Domain Modeling * Multi-Resolution/Multiscale Modeling * Cyber-Physical Systems M&S * Ultra-Large-Scale Systems M&S * Systems of Systems M&S - M&S Technologies * Parallel/Distributed/Cloud-Based Simulation * Real-Time and Interactive Simulation * M&S of Embedded Systems - M&S Tools and Standards * Simulation Languages/Libraries * Simulation Development/Visualization Tools * M&S Repositories/Data Formats Important Dates Full paper submission: Jan. 08, 2018 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 05, 2018 Camera-ready paper: Feb. 23, 2018 Details: http://tmsdevs.org [apologies for multiple postings - if you need to unsubscribe reply to this email or contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (Submissions due: 5 January 2018)
by Yixin Diao 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

============================================================================== 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018) In conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in Taipei, Taiwan on April 23, 2018. http://annet2018.loria.fr Submissions due: January 5, 2018 ============================================================================== The third IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) in Taipei, Taiwan on April 23, 2018. Following the success of the first two editions of this workshop, the main goal of AnNet is to present research and experience results in the area of data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning are promising mechanisms to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. AnNet 2018 will include original full-papers presentations, a keynote, and short-paper sessions. The workshop attendees will be stimulated to participate in interesting discussions. To this end, short papers describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research and experimental work are also welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to one or multiple topic areas listed below: Data Analytics Analysis, modeling and visualization Operational analytics and intelligence Event, log and big data analytics Network traffic analysis Anomaly detection and prediction Crowd sensing Monitoring and measurements for management Predictive and real-time analytics Harnessing social data for management Machine Learning Techniques Supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning Clustering and data mining Reinforcement learning Multi-agent based learning Deep learning Bayesian methods Ensemble methods Cognitive computing Mining spatiotemporal and time series data Network Management Paradigms Autonomous and autonomic networks Fog/edge computing In-network processing Bio-inspired networks and self-management Cognitive and software defined networks Network function virtualization Security, fault, performance and resource management Application Domains Computer networks Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks Clouds and data centers Virtualized infrastructures Internet of Things Computing and network services IT service management Storage resource management ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract that clearly outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Authors should submit their papers via JEMS: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2882 Papers accepted for AnNet 2018 will be included in the conference proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Awards will be presented to the best paper at the workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Paper Registration: January 5, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: January 5, 2018 Acceptance Notification: February 28, 2018 Camera-Ready Papers: March 16, 2018 Workshop Date: April 23, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Organization General Chair Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA TPC Co-Chairs Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, Loria-Inria, France Noriaki Kamiyama, Fukuoka University, Japan Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Filip De Turck, Ghent University iMinds, Belgium Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact us if you have any question about the IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2018): annet2018tpc(a)gmail.com

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CFP: Workshop on Industrial Internet of Things Security (WIIoTS)
by Cristina Alcaraz 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Workshop on Industrial Internet of Things Security (WIIoTS) Bilbao, Spain, June 4-7, 2018 (in conjunction with Global IoT Summit 2018) http://globaliotsummit.org Submission due: Feb 16, 2018 (GMT) Conference Outline: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an emerging paradigm in today’s (control) industry, comprising Internet-enabled cyber-physical devices with the ability to couple to the new interconnection technologies such as cloud/fog computing. Under this perspective, the new industrial cyber-physical “things” can be accessible and available from remote locations, the information of which can be processed and stored in distributed locations, favouring the cooperation, the performance in field, and the achievement of operational tasks working at optimal times. However, the incorporation of the IIoT in the new scenarios of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, entails having to consider the new security and privacy issues that can threaten the wellbeing of the new IIoT ecosystem and its coexistence with the existing industrial technologies, with a high risk of impact on the end-users. Therefore, this workshop will create a collaboration platform for experts from academia, governments and industry to address the new IIoT security and privacy challenges. Papers related to security and privacy of embedded systems working in industrial and control environments, such as SCADA, smart grid, smart cities, manufacturing systems, water systems, and in critical infrastructures in general, are all welcome at WIIoTS 2018. The technical topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: • Interoperable IIoT ecosystem-level security and privacy challenges • IIoT governance, regulation and standards • Cross-layer threat modelling in IIoT and risk assessment • Lightweight cryptography and key management • Lightweight IIoT security protocols and AAA services for IIoT • Collaborative and trustworthy IIoT frameworks and architectures • Privacy-preserving models and anonymization techniques for IIoT • Secure IIoT data storage and Big Data • Location privacy and trust management • Intrusion detection, anomaly diagnosis and situational awareness for IIoT • Response and resilience to IIoT cyber-attacks • Incident management and IIoT forensics • Case studies and practical validations: SCADA, energy, water, smart factory, etc. Important Dates: ================ • Submission due: Feb 16, 2018 (GMT) • Notification: Mar 31, 2018 • Camera-ready due: Apr 30, 2018 Program Chair: ============== • Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) General Co-Chairs: ================== • Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) • Yan Zhang (University of Oslo, Norway) Technical Program Committee: ============================ • Alvaro Cardenas (University of Dallas, USA) • Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus) • Dimitris Gritzalis (Athens University of Economics and Business) • Federica Pascucci (University of Roma Tre, Italy) • Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas, USA) • Luca Faramondi (University Campus Bio-Medico) • Mihalis Psarakis (University of Piraeus, Greece) • Nils Ole Tippenhauer (Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD), Singapore) • Panayiotis kotzanikolaou (University of Piraeus, Greece) • Rakesh Bobba (Oregon State University, USA) • Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) • Sherali Zeadally (University of Kentucky, USA) • Urko Zurutuza Ortega (University of Mondragon, Spain) • Xinyi Huang (Fujian Normal University, China) Publicity Chair: ================ • Juan E. Rubio (University of Malaga, Spain) Submission Instructions: ======================== Final submissions must not substantially overlap papers already or simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Their contents should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages see web conference for instructions. Papers must be submitted through EDAS. "IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference." Contact: ======== Email: rubio(a)lcc.uma.es WIIoTS Home: http://globaliotsummit.org

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WAT 2018: Call for papers (deadline extension)
by Organizing committee, WAT 2018 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Track: Workshop on Adaptive Technology -- WAT 2018 ================================================== https://usp.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=… The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies May 8-11, 2018, Porto, Portugal (https://usp.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=…) -- FINAL DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 7, 2018 -- (Other dates have changed as well, please refer to "Important dates" in the workshop website.) Theme ===== Adaptive approach aims to aid the solution search of practical problems through auto-modifiable mathematical abstractions such as adaptive models and devices. In other words, the adaptive approach can be described as an auto-modifiable formalism. An adaptive device is composed by two main aspects: subjacent and adaptive. The subjacent aspect is an rule-based device such as an automaton or an grammar. The adaptive aspect is a meta-level rule-based device that can change the configuration or topology of subjacent aspect. The adaptive aspect has both adaptive declarations and actions. Adaptive declaration is a pre-condition to an adaptive action; the adaptive action can modify the subjacent aspects´s rules through query, inclusion and exclusion. This is the mechanism that allows the auto-modification of adaptive device. The first adaptive device was applied upon an structured stack automaton. Since then there were been proposed several adaptive formalisms, tests and applications using statecharts, Markov chains, decision tables, grammars, trees, etc. Those are used in robotic, artifical intelligence, compiler construction, etc. This workshop is a development of a 10+ years national event held at University of São Paulo (Brazil) called WTA. It aims to provide a proper forum to discuss adaptivity both on theory and application. It is expected the presentation of high-quality, original research covering all aspects of adaptivity, its methodologies, design, analysis, implementation, verification, and case-studies. Original papers that embraces new and emerging research ideas about adaptivity are also welcome. Topics ====== Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Foundations of Adaptivity: notation, complexity, properties or comparison of models, automata, graphs and other auto-modifiable devices. - Adaptive Technologies: tools, methods and techniques that allows the application of adaptivity in several contexts (such as languages, software engineering, programming,etc). - Applications of Adaptivity to: artificial intelligence, networks, natural computing, automation, games, simulation, signal processing, computer art, etc Paper format and submission =========================== Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system (EasyChair) in PDF format before the deadline (link available in the workshop page). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier (available for download in the workshop page). Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. Important dates =============== Paper Submission:(*) January 7, 2018 Acceptance Notification:(*) February 16, 2018 Camera Ready:(*) March 01, 2018 WAT 2018: May 9-11, 2018 (*) Updated. ===================================== Unsubscribe computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from this list: https://usp.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=e2bd2dfe2bca5a783c68a77df&id=…

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) - 12-15 August 2018
by Xiaokang Zhou 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

[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 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. -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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