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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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Recruitment - PhD Interns on CPS Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Zhou Jianying 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university which was established in collaboration with MIT. iTrust is a Cyber Security Research Center with about 15 multi-discipline faculty members from SUTD. It has the world's best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/.) I am looking for PhD interns with interest in cyber-physical system security (IoT, water, power grid, transportation, and autonomous vehicle etc.). The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/ This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You

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Recruitment - Postdoc / Research Fellow on CPS Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Zhou Jianying 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university which was established in collaboration with MIT. iTrust is a Cyber Security Research Center with about 15 multi-discipline faculty members from SUTD. It has the world's best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/) I am looking for postdocs / research fellows with expertise on cyber-physical system security, especially on the legacy CPS protection. The candidates should have track record of strong R&D capability, be able to perform deep system-level investigations of security mechanisms, be a good team player, and also have good written/oral communication skills. The position will provide an excellent opportunity to perform both basic and translational research in close collaboration with industry. Successful candidates will be offered internationally competitive remuneration, and enjoy high-quality living and low tax rates in Singapore. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/ This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You

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Recruitment - Postdoc / Research Fellow on CPS Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Jianying Zhou 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university which was established in collaboration with MIT. iTrust is a Cyber Security Research Center with about 15 multi-discipline faculty members from SUTD. It has the world’s best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/) I am looking for postdocs / research fellows with expertise on cyber-physical system security, especially on the legacy CPS protection. The candidates should have track record of strong R&D capability, be able to perform deep system-level investigations of security mechanisms, be a good team player, and also have good written/oral communication skills. The position will provide an excellent opportunity to perform both basic and translational research in close collaboration with industry. Successful candidates will be offered internationally competitive remuneration, and enjoy high-quality living and low tax rates in Singapore. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/

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Recruitment - PhD Interns on CPS Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Jianying Zhou 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university which was established in collaboration with MIT. iTrust is a Cyber Security Research Center with about 15 multi-discipline faculty members from SUTD. It has the world's best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT. (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/.) I am looking for PhD interns with interest in cyber-physical system security (IoT, water, power grid, transportation, and autonomous vehicle etc.). The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/

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Formal Invitation to Special Session on Industrial CPS Conference
by Gerardo Beruvides Lopez 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

Dear all, We are glad to announce the 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: December 22, 2017 Paper acceptance: February 28, 2018 Final paper submission: March 31, 2018 Please, find as an attached PDF file the First Announcement and Call for Papers. 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. Best regards, Gerardo Beruvides -- 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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TSD 2018 - Preliminary Announcement and Call for Workshops
by TSD 2018 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

************************************************************ TSD 2018 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS ************************************************************ Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kenneth Church, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Pavel Král, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychlý, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. CONFERENCE PROGRAM The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

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CFP: 4th ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’18)
by Cristina Alcaraz 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 4th ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’18) Incheon, Korea, June 4, 2018 (in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'18) http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2018/ Submission due: Jan 20, 2018 (GMT) – firm Conference Outline: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Attack detection for CPS • Authentication and access control for CPS • Autonomous vehicle security • Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS • Data security and privacy for CPS • Embedded systems security • EV charging system security • Industrial control system security • IoT security • Key management in CPS • Legacy CPS system protection • Lightweight crypto and security • Maritime cyber security • Risk assessment for CPS • SCADA security • Security architectures for CPS • Security by design for CPS • Smart grid security • Threat modeling for CPS • Urban transportation system security • Vulnerability analysis for CPS • Wireless sensor network security Important Dates: • Submission due: Jan 20, 2018 (GMT) - firm • Notification: Mar 10, 2018 • Camera-ready due: Mar 31, 2018 Steering Committee: • Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) • Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) • Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) • Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) • Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) - Chair Program Chairs: • Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany & NTU, Singapore) • Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) Publicity Chair: • Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair: • Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee: • Kemal Akkaya (Florida International University, USA) • Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) • Alvaro Cardenas (UT Dallas, USA) • Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) • Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) • Sudipta Chattopadhyay (SUTD, Singapore) • Chen-Mou Cheng (Osaka University, Japan) • Raymond Choo (UT San Antonio, USA) • Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) • Marc Dacier (EURECOM, France) • Herve Debar (Telecom SudParis, France) • Yuval Elovici (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) • Afonso Ferreira (IRIT, France) • Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) • Jonathan Goh (ST Electronics, Singapore) • Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) • Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) • Jinguang Han (University of Surrey, UK) • Shao-Fei Huang (LTA, Singapore) • Harshan Jagadeesh (IIT Delhi, India) • Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) • Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) • Huy Kang Kim (Korea University, Korea) • Robert Kooij (TU Delft, Netherland) • Marina Krotofil (FireEye, USA) • Qi Li (Tsinghua University, China) • Hoon Wei Lim (SingTel, Singapore) • Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) • Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) • Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) • Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford, UK) • Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) • Martín Ochoa (SUTD, Singapore) • Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) • Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) • Vinay Sachidananda (SUTD, Singapore) • Biplab Sikdar (NUS, Singapore) • Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) • Pawel Szalachowski (SUTD, Singapore) • Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg) • William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) • Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) • Ngoc Hong Tran (Vietnamese German Uni, Vietnam) • Yi Wang (Continental Automotive, Singapore) • Daphne Yao (Virginia Tech, USA) • David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) • Xin Ye (Ford Motor, USA) • Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) • Peng Zhou (CSIRO, Australia) • Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) • Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss18. Contact: Email: cpss2018(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://jianying.space/cpss/CPSS2018/

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ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law 2018
by Raymond Choo 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

The ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law is the official annual conference of the ADFSL, the Association of Digital Forensics Security and Law. The Conference is a unique and innovative event organized and managed by the Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (ADFSL). The first annual conference of the ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on April 20-21, 2006. The conference was created on the premise that digital forensics goes beyond digital evidence. The mission of the conference is to significantly expand the domain of digital forensics research to a wide and eclectic audience of academics, consultants and executives who are involved in the curriculum, research and use of digital forensics. The next ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law will be held at The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX from May 17 to 18, 2018 (see http://commons.erau.edu/adfsl/2018/) The conference focuses on the current and expanding role of digital forensics within investigations and the courts as well as its important role within cyber security - both national as well as corporate. Topics not only include technology and evidence, but also are very much focused on how to prepare students for careers in digital forensics. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Digital forensics and information technology - Cyber law and information technology - Information security and information technology - Accounting digital forensics information technology INTERNATIONAL ISSUES - International issues in digital forensics - International issues in cyber law - International issues in information security - International issues in accounting digital forensics CURRICULUM - Digital forensics curriculum - Cyber law curriculum - Information security curriculum - Accounting digital forensics curriculum NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET - Digital forensics and the Internet - Cyber law and the Internet - Information security and Internet - Digital forensics accounting and the Internet THEORY - Theory development in digital forensics - Theory development in information security - Methodologies for digital forensic research - Analysis techniques for digital forensic and information security research TEACHING METHODS - Digital forensics teaching methods - Cyber law teaching methods - Information security teaching methods - Accounting digital forensics teaching methods ANTI-FORENSICS AND COUNTER ANTI-FORENSICS - Steganography - Stylometrics and author attribution - Anonymity and proxies - Encryption and decryption PRIVACY ISSUES - Privacy issues in digital forensics - Privacy issues in information security - Privacy issues in cyber law CASES - Digital forensics case studies - Cyber law case studies - Information security case studies - Accounting digital forensics case studies SOFTWARE FORENSICS - Software piracy investigation - Software quality forensics NATIONAL SECURITY AND CYBERCRIME - Cyber culture - Cyber terrorism - Cyber war - Cybercrime DEADLINES * January 15, 2018 Submission Due * February 15, 2018 Reviews Completed * March 1, 2018 Acceptance Decisions * April 1, 2018 Camera Ready Submission * May 17-18, 2018 Conference SUBMISSION TYPES * Research papers: A research question or an argument is posed and subsequently conducted. Empirical work (quantitative or qualitative) is necessary. Research papers will be presented by the authors in a regular conference session. These papers should be extensive. Typical length is about 5000-6000 words. All research papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL). * Short briefing papers: A technology or a management briefing on an aspect of digital forensics, information security, and/or cyber law. Such papers will be presented by the author in a round table discussion format at the conference. These papers need not be extensive. Typical length is about 1500-2000 words. * Case Studies: Case studies are typically descriptions of a given digital forensics situation. Names of organizations/actors can be kept anonymous to maintain confidentiality. Case studies will be presented by the authors at the conference. Typical length is about 5000-6000 words. All case studies will be considered for publication in the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL). * Student Scholar Track: Up to six student papers will be selected for the Student Scholar Track. Of the six papers, one will be selected for the Student Scholar Award. The primary author must be present at the conference. To participate, the primary author of the paper must be a student. The primary author must email the conference chair and specify that they wish their submitted paper to be considered for the Student Scholar track. * Panels: Panels and workshop proposals are welcome. Typical length is about 1000 words long and covers a current technology or a controversial issue. All research papers and case studies are double blind peer reviewed. Instructions for authors may be found at http://commons.erau.edu/adfsl/2018/ , and the Conference Submission System may be found at http://commons.erau.edu/cgi/ir_submit.cgi?context=adfsl BEST PAPERS Selected papers from the conference will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. PARTICIPANTS The conference is of particular interest to individuals who are interested in developing curriculum and teaching methods as well as conducting research related to the areas of digital forensics, security, and law. This conference will be of value to both academic and practitioner audiences. Conference General Chairs Program Chair Dr. David Dampier The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA david.dampier(a)utsa.edu<mailto:david.dampier@utsa.edu> Dr. Nicole Beebe The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA nicole.beebe(a)utsa.edu<mailto:nicole.beebe@utsa.edu> Dr. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA raymond.choo(a)fulbrightmail.org<mailto:raymond.choo@fulbrightmail.org> https://sites.google.com/site/raymondchooau/ Dr. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo FACS, SMIEEE Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security Office: NPB 3.356, Tel: 210 458 7876 One UTSA Circle - San Antonio, TX 78249-0631, USA + http://business.utsa.edu/faculty/rchoo/index.aspx + https://sites.google.com/site/raymondchooau/ + https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rRBNI6AAAAAJ

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CFP PASA 2018
by Rolf Wanka 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 13th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms PASA 2018 https://www.cs12.tf.fau.de/conf/pasa2018/ in conjunction with ARCS 2018 – 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems Braunschweig, Germany, 9-10 April 2018 organized by GI/ITG-Fachgruppe 'Parallel-Algorithmen, -Rechnerstrukturen und -Systemsoftware' (PARS) and GI-Fachgruppe 'Algorithmen' (ALGO) ------------------------------------------------------------- The PASA workshop series has the goal to build a bridge between theory and practice in the area of parallel systems and algorithms. In this context practical problems which require theoretical investigations as well as the applicability of theoretical approaches and results to practice shall be discussed. An important aspect is communication and exchange of experience between various groups working in the area of parallel computing, e.g., in computer science, electrical engineering, physics or mathematics. Topics of Interest include, but are not restricted to: - scheduling and load balancing - parallel and distributed algorithms - parallel embedded systems - models of parallel computation - ubiquitous and pervasive systems - parallel architectures & storage systems - reconfigurable parallel computing - parallel programming languages - data stream-oriented computing - software engineering for parallel systems - interconnection networks - parallel design patterns - network and grid computing - performance evaluation of parallel systems - distributed and parallel multimedia systems PASA 2018 Webpage: https://www.cs12.tf.fau.de/conf/pasa2018/ The workshop will comprise invited talks on current topics by leading experts in the field as well as submitted papers on original and previously unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the ARCS Workshop Proceedings as well as in the PARS Newsletter (ISSN 0177-0454). The conference languages are English (preferred) and German. Papers are required to be in English. A prize of 500 € will be awarded to the best contribution presented personally based on a student's or Ph.D. thesis or project. Co-authors are allowed, the PhD degree should not have been awarded at the time of submission. Candidates apply for the prize by e-mail to the organizers when submitting the contribution. We expect that candidates are or become members of one of the groups ALGO or PARS. Important Dates 12th January 2018: Deadline for submission of full papers under: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasa2018 6 pages in English, formatted according to IEEE CIS template in "conference mode" (see http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) More details depend on the requirements given by the ARCS organizers and will be provided here as soon as possible 31st January 2018: Notification of authors 7th February 2016: Final version for workshop proceedings Program Committee M. Dietzfelbinger (Ilmenau), A. Doering (Zurich), N. Eicker (Jülich), T. Fahringer (Innsbruck), D. Fey (Erlangen), T. Hagerup (Augsburg), V. Heuveline (Heidelberg), R. Hoffmann (Darmstadt), K. Jansen (Kiel), B. Juurlink (Berlin), W. Karl (Karlsruhe), J. Keller (Hagen), Ch. Lengauer (Passau), E. Maehle (Lübeck), U. Margull (Ingolstadt), E. W. Mayr (Munich), U. Meyer (Frankfurt), F. Meyer auf der Heide (Paderborn), J. Mottok (Regensburg), W. Nagel (Dresden), M. Philippsen (Erlangen), K. D. Reinartz (Höchstadt), Ch. Scheideler (Paderborn), B. Schnor (Potsdam), U. Schwiegelshohn (Dortmund), P. Sobe (Dresden), C. Trinitis, T. Ungerer (Augsburg), R. Wanka (Erlangen) Organisation Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Computer Engineering (ITEC), 76129 Karlsruhe, Phone/Fax +49-721-608-43771, E-Mail: wolfgang.karl(a)kit.edu Prof. Dr. Rolf Wanka, Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dept. of Computer Science, 91058 Erlangen, Germany, Phone/Fax +49-9131-8525-152/149, E-Mail: rolf.wanka(a)fau.de

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Logic Colloquium 2018 (LC18): 1st call for contributions
by Dario Della Monica 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

We are happy to announce the following event and we would be glad if you could forward this message to whom it might interest. LC 2018 Udine, Italy July 23-28, 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it ________________________________________________________________________ LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2018 https://lc18.uniud.it The Logic Colloquium 2018 is the annual European summer meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) (http://www.aslonline.org/index.htm) It will be held during July 23-28, 2018, at the University of Udine, Italy, and is organized by the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine. The latest meetings took place in Paris (2010), Barcelona (2011), Manchester (2012), Evora (2013), Vienna (2014), Helsinki (2015), Leeds (2016) and Stockholm (2017). The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. Its primary function is to provide an effective forum for the presentation, publication, and discussion of scholarly work in this area of inquiry. The Association holds two major annual meetings to present current research in all aspects of logic in a way that is accessible to all logicians. IMPORTANT DATES: ============================ Deadline for abstract submission: April 27, 2018 Deadline for travel grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: ================== K. Tent (WWU Münster) U. Sattler (University of Manchester) INVITED SPEAKERS: ================= M. Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) A. Atserias (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) V. Brattka (Universität der Bundeswehr München) A. Ciabattoni (TU Wien) P. D’Aquino (Università degli Studi della Campania) P. Oliva (Queen Mary University of London) L. Patey (Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon) A. Tserunyan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) S. Unger(Tel Aviv University) M. Viale (Università degli studi di Torino) D. Westerstahl (Stockholm University) GOEDEL SPEAKER: ================ R. Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) SPECIAL SESSIONS: ================= 6 special sessions with topics: * Descriptive set theory and dynamical systems: Chairs: B. Miller (Universität Wien), A. Törnquist (København Universitet) * Model theory: Chairs: F. Wagner (Université Lyon I), E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) * Proof theory and constructivism: Chairs: S. Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano), G. Sambin (Università degli Studi di Padova) * Temporal and multivalued logics: Chairs: M. Lange (Universität Kassel), B. Gerla (Università dell'Insubria) * Computability theory: Chairs: A. Sorbi (Università di Siena 1240), P. Shafer (University of Leeds) * Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Chairs: J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki), G. Sagi (University of Haifa) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ============= D. Macpherson (Chair) (University of Leeds) S. Demri (CNRS) A. Kechris (California Institute of Technology) C. Laskowski (University of Maryland) A. Marcone (Università degli Studi di Udine) A. Montalban (UC Berkeley) P. Pudlàk (Czech Academy of Sciences) G. Sher (UC San Diego) D. Sinapova (University of Illinois at Chicago) LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: ============= Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Italy G. D'Agostino (Co-Chair) A. Montanari (Co-Chair) V. Dimonte G. Gherardi A. Marcone F. Parlamento C. Piazza D. Della Monica M. Fiori Carones N. Gigante A. Molinari M. Valenti For questions please contact lc18(a)uniud.it SUBMISSIONS: =================== Abstracts of contributed papers must be submitted as pdf file via EasyChair at the URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lc18. If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you can create one at https://easychair.org/ Abstract should be prepared according to the ASL instructions http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html using the ASL abstract style (available at http://aslonline.org/abstractresources.html) For submission instructions see https://lc18.uniud.it starting from January 2018. The deadline for submissions is April 27, 2018. If electronic submission is not possible, abstracts should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the TeX source files. Abstracts are published as part of the meeting report in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic only if at least one author is a member of the ASL at the time the report is sent for publication. Abstracts of contributed papers submitted by ASL members will be published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, provided that they satisfy the Rules for Abstracts (see above). APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: ======================= The ASL, the NSF, and the local organizing committee will make available modest travel awards to graduate students in logic and to recent PhDs to attend the meeting. For more details on the grants, see: http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html . Applications for student travel grants and recommendations should be received between January 1 and May 4, 2018. They should be submitted electronically, by email to LC18grant(a)uniud.it If electronic submission is not possible, applications and recommendations should be mailed to: Prof. H. Dugald Macpherson, PC chair of Logic Colloquium 2018, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. The application should follow the instructions on https://lc18.uniud.it/applications Applicants will be notified in time to be able to register with the early registration fee. ______________________________________________ Event sponsored by ASL, NSF, SILFS and AILA. ______________________________________________ Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL): http://www.aslonline.org ASL newsletters: https://www.aslonline.org/info-newsletter.html -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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Two Research Fellow Positions at NTU Singapore on Green Data Center
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

Two Research Fellow positions with competitive remuneration are immediately available at School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The positions are part of a research project under Singapore’s strategic Green Data Center Program that aims at improving data center energy efficiency. The project will unprecedentedly provide full access to a newly built data center testbed that hosts nearly 100 servers, with system faults, failures, and server hardware damage allowed. Through extensive experimentation and data analytics, the research will explore basic relationships among server workload, computing performance, hardware component reliability, thermal condition, air flows, and etc under Singapore’s tropic environment condition. The results will provide basis for stipulating new construction and operation guidelines for Singapore's data center industry. The candidate should have obtained a PhD degree in computer science/engineering (or relevant disciplines) and demonstrated strong research ability by publications on venues in the areas of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and data analytics. Knowledge and experiences with data centers are pluses. Interested candidates can send CV with full publication list to Dr. Rui Tan at tanrui(a)ntu.edu.sg. The group that the successful candidates will join is dedicated to CPS and IoT research. We aim to conduct quality research and publish on prestigious CPS/IoT venues. Our past work has been recognized by multiple Best Paper Awards and Runner-Ups. We sincerely invite candidates with great passion for systems research to join us! ________________________________ 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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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo Cafaro 05 Dec '17

05 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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CFP- Complexis 2018: 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk Extended Deadline
by Anna Kobusińska 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

--------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 Complexis Conference. Due to many requests, the regular papers submission deadline of this conference has been extended: EXTENDED DEALINE OF POSITION PAPERS: *DECEMBER 6, 2017 * 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk (COMPLEXIS 2018) Funchal, Madeira / Portugal March 19 - 21, 2018 http://www.complexis.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015 ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Position Papers Paper Submission: December 6, 2017 Authors Notification: January 11, 2018 Camera Ready and Registration: January 24, 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 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 ---------------------------- Conference Scope: COMPLEXIS – the International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing innovative views on all aspects of Complex Information Systems, in different areas such as Informatics, Telecommunications, Computational Intelligence, Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Social Sciences. Information is pervasive in many areas of human activity – perhaps all and complexity is a characteristic of current Exabyte- sized, highly connected and hyper dimensional, information systems. COMPLEXIS 2018 is expected to provide an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the potential of new methodologies, technologies and application areas of complex information systems, in the academic and corporate world. Conference Areas: 1 - Complexity in Informatics, Automation and Networking 2 - Complexity in Biology and Biomedical Engineering 3 - Complexity in Social Sciences 4 - Complexity in Computational Intelligence and Future Information Systems 5 - Complexity in EDA, Embedded Systems, and Computer Architecture 6 - Network Complexity 7 - Complexity in Risk and Predictive Modeling ---------------------------- 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)*. 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 --------------------------- WORKSHOPS: --------------------------- Big Data Analytics and IoT for Smarter Healthcare - IoTforeHealth (IoTBDS) Chairs: Farshad Firouzi, Bahar Farahani and Victor Chang Submission: January 11, 2018 ---------------------------- PUBLICATION ---------------------------- In Cooperation with: International Federation for Systems Research European Association for Theoretical Computer Science All papers presented at the conference 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 ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Keynote Speaker Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Please visit the IEEE COMPLEXIS 2018 website http://www.complexis.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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Deadline Extension for ACM GLSVLSI'18 and Call for Special Sessions
by Yi-Chung Chen 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *************** DEADLINE EXTENSION: New Paper Submission Deadline: December 21, 2017. (Final Deadline) IN ADDITION, CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS: http://www.glsvlsi.org/GLSVLSI18-Special-Session-CFP.pdf The 28th Edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Sponsored by ACM SIGDA Conference dates: May 23-25, 2018 Location: Chicago, USA http://www.glsvlsi.org/ The 28th edition of GLSVLSI will be held in Chicago. Original, unpublished papers describing research in the general areas of VLSI and hardware design are solicited. Please visit http://www.glsvlsi.org/·for more information. In addition to the traditional topic areas of GLSVLSI listed below, papers are solicited for a special theme of IoT Hardware and Heterogeneous Computing for Artificial Intelligence. - Track 1: VLSI Design - Track 2: VLSI Circuits and Power Aware Design - Track 3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) - Track 4: Testing, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance - Track 5: Emerging Computing & Post-CMOS Technologies - Track 6: Hardware Security - Track 7: VLSI for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Details of the requirements that each track places on submitted papers can be found on the conference website. Paper Submission Guidelines ============================ Authors are invited to submit full-length (6 pages maximum), original, unpublished papers along with an abstract of at most 200 words. To enable blind review, the author list should be omitted from the main document. Previously published papers or papers currently under review for other conferences/journals should NOT be submitted and will not be considered. Electronic submission in PDF format to the http://www.glsvlsi.org/ website is required. Author and contact information (name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail) must be entered during the submission process. Paper Format: Submissions should be in camera-ready two-column format, following the ACM proceedings specifications located at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template-16dec2016and the classification system detailed at: http://www.acm.org/publications/class-2012. Paper Publication and Presenter Registration: Papers will be accepted for regular or poster presentation at the symposium. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered to the symposium by the time the camera-ready paper is submitted; at least one of the authors is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Important Dates ============================ Paper submission deadline: December 21, 2017 Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2018 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 13, 2018 Special Session Proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 31, 2018 Organizers ============================ General Chair: Deming Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Co-Chairs: Houman Homayoun George Mason University, USA Baris Taskin Drexel University, USA Finance Chair: Weisheng Zhao Beihang University, China Local Chair: Qi Zhu Northwestern University, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Robert Wille Johannes Kepler University, Austria Yuan-Hao Chang Academia Sinica, Taiwan Miao Hu Binghamton University, USA Special Sessions Chair: Yanjing Li University of Chicago, USA Web & Registration Chair: Yi-Chung Chen SUNY at New Paltz, USA Proceedings Chair: Kyle Rupnow Inspirit IoT, Inc., USA

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CFP to Special Issue in SCAC on Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World - Deadline Mar. 31, 2018
by Xiaokang Zhou 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] [SCAC Call for Papers] http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1608722/application/pdf/scalable+a… ======================================================================= Scalable Computing and Communications Special Issue on Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope Due to the emerging computing paradigm, the physical, social, and mental world are increasingly integrating and merging into the cyberspace. In this emerging but significant field, it is necessary to model the human individual information processing along with their corresponding behaviors, in order to build systematic knowledge about new phenomena, behaviors, properties and practices across the broad applications in cyber-enabled world. Specifically, studies related to scalable algorithm and behavioral analysis are conducted in terms of the cyber entities, as well as their relations and conjugations in physical, social and mental spaces, which focuses more on the basic attributes, models, functions, and evolutions of cyber entities, and all their possible relations conjugated with real things. For this scientific and systematic study, numerous challenges are raised as: How to establish and improve the foundational theory and methodology for the scalable computing and data processing in the cyber-enabled world? How to find a unified way to study and represent the diversified cyber entities along with their behavior patterns and communications? How to systematically extract, create, and fuse the information, knowledge, and intelligence generated across the physical-social systems for the sustainable utilization? How to deal with the accompanying issues while producing numerous cyber things, such as security, reliability, and etc. Topics may include (but are not limited to): • Scalable Communications in Cyber-world • Data Centric Computing in Cyberspace • Scalable Knowledge Modeling and Management in Cyber-world • User Behavior Analysis and Modeling in Cyber-physical Systems • User Influence Measure and Model in Cyberspace • Cyber-Social Sensing and Behavior Analysis • Scalable Cyber Hybrid Interface/System Design • Scalable Mechanisms for Intelligent Transportation Systems • Cyber-Based Learning Analytics with Scalable Computing • Cyber-Empowered Sentiment Analysis and Mental Computing • Wearable Computing and Smart Sensor • Scalable Computing for Healthcare • Scalability in Cyber Security, Privacy and Reliability • Scalable algorithms for Cyber Visualization • Scalable deep learning architectures • Scalable Brain-inspired Computing and Soft Computing • Scalable Agent-based Computing • Scalable algorithms for the Internet of Things • Scalable algorithms for Edge computing (EC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) • Scalable Services for Pervasive Computing Submissions Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors of Scalable Computing and Communications available from http://www.springer.com/41122 , and submit online at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/scac . To ensure that the manuscript is correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select "Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Tentative Schedule Paper Submission Due: Mar. 31, 2018 Completion of first review cycle: Jul. 15, 2018 Deadline for submitting the revised papers: Oct. 15, 2018 2nd review completion: Nov. 30, 2018 Camera-ready Manuscript Due: Dec. 31, 2018 Guest editors: Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan Kevin Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Flavia C. Delicato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Contact Information Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Zhou (zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp) -- 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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ACDL 2018, Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning - Early Registration March 31
by Giuseppe Nicosia 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

ACDL 2018, Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning An Interdisciplinary Course: Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence without Borders ACDL 2018 – A Unique Experience: Data Science & Machine Learning with the World’s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 19-23, 2018 https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/ Early registration deadline: March 31, 2018 https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/registration/ LECTURERS: Roman Belavkin, Middlesex University London, UK Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal, Canada Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research, Facebook New York University, USA Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT, USA Mauricio Resende, Amazon, USA More speakers to be announced soon! SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2018 will be The Certosa di Pontignano — Siena The Certosa di Pontigniano Loc. Pontignano, 5 – 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI) – Tuscany – Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info(a)lacertosadipontignano.com http://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/ A few kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/venue/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/registration/ lod(a)icas.xyz https://acdl2018.icas.xyz/

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Announcement - NICO Hosts International Conference on Computational Social Science
by Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, We are very excited to announce that Northwestern University and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO<https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/>) is once again hosting the annual International Conference on Computational Social Science from July 12-15, 2018<http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/ic2s2/2018.aspx>. Our Call for Abstracts for presentations has just opened, and our chairs and committee members thought members of your group might be interested. Visit this page?<https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/IC2S2/IC2S22018-CallForAb…> for further information. Feel free to forward this link to others if interested as well. Sincerely, Yasmeen Khan Business Coordinator, NICO?????? [cid:image001.jpg@01D362AD.C692A580]

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '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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IEEE 7th Parlearning workshop with IPDPS 2018
by ngoko 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '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: January 13, 2018 AoE • Notification: February 10, 2018 • Camera Ready: February 24, 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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CFP: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2018) in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2018 Vancouver Canada
by Didier Elbaz 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

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 ********************************************************************** ************************************************** Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017 ************************************************** 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 2017 submission system: i.e. EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2018 Abstract and paper can be uploaded until December 15, 2017. 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: ================ - Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: February 16, 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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Announcement - NICO Hosts International Conference on Computational Social Science
by Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, We are very excited to announce that Northwestern University and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO<https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/>) is once again hosting the annual International Conference on Computational Social Science from July 12-15, 2018<http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/ic2s2/2018.aspx>. Our Call for Abstracts for presentations has just opened, and our chairs and committee members thought members of your group might be interested. I have attached a PDF with further information. Feel free to forward this email to others if interested as well. Sincerely, Yasmeen Khan Business Coordinator, NICO?????????? [cid:image001.jpg@01D362AD.C692A580]

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1st CfP: international Metaheuristics Summer School - MESS 2018
by Mario Pavone 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

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

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CFP- Complexis 2018: 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk Extended Deadline
by Anna Kobusińska 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

--------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 Complexis Conference. Due to many requests, the regular papers submission deadline of this conference has been extended: *Submission Deadline of POSITiON PAPERS: NOVEMBER 22, 2017* 3rd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk (COMPLEXIS 2018) Funchal, Madeira / Portugal March 19 - 21, 2018 http://www.complexis.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015 COMPLEXIS – the International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing innovative views on all aspects of Complex Information Systems, in different areas such as Informatics, Telecommunications, Computational Intelligence, Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Social Sciences. Information is pervasive in many areas of human activity – perhaps all and complexity is a characteristic of current Exabyte- sized, highly connected and hyper dimensional, information systems. COMPLEXIS 2018 is expected to provide an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the potential of new methodologies, technologies and application areas of complex information systems, in the academic and corporate world. Conference Areas: 1 - Complexity in Informatics, Automation and Networking 2 - Complexity in Biology and Biomedical Engineering 3 - Complexity in Social Sciences 4 - Complexity in Computational Intelligence and Future Information Systems 5 - Complexity in EDA, Embedded Systems, and Computer Architecture 6 - Network Complexity 7 - Complexity in Risk and Predictive Modeling ---------------------------- 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)*. 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 --------------------------- WORKSHOPS: --------------------------- Big Data Analytics and IoT for Smarter Healthcare - IoTforeHealth (IoTBDS) Chairs: Farshad Firouzi, Bahar Farahani and Victor Chang Submission: January 11, 2018 ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Early registrations are accepted until: Conference Regular Papers: October 30, 2018 Conference Position Papers: January 24, 2018 Doctoral Consortium: February 7, 2018 Non-Speakers: February 7, 2018 Late registrations are accepted until: Non-Speakers: February 23, 2018 ---------------------------- PUBLICATION ---------------------------- In Cooperation with: International Federation for Systems Research European Association for Theoretical Computer Science All papers presented at the conference 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 ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR Victor Chang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Keynote Speaker Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Please visit the IEEE COMPLEXIS 2018 website http://www.complexis.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.

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20 Nov '17

Dear Colleague, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'18) will be held at UC Berkeley, CA, USA during July 15-18, 2018 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-18) The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer, Computational Intelligence and SMC Societies. The theme of ICCI*CC’18 is on Cognitive Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Systems and Cognitive Robotics. You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'18 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'18 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the proceedings will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. Paper submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccicc18. Submission deadline will be on Feb. 16, 2018. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'18. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'18 Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of ieeeicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: ieeeicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 - deadline Sun 26 Nov 2017
by Dirk Craeynest 19 Nov '17

19 Nov '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Presentations 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Sunday 26 November 2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 3 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the deadline is Sunday 26 November 2017. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also organize a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together by early December. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by November 26, 2017, or contact us if you need more time. We're looking forward to more proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [2]. [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html> [2] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html>

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CFP: Special Issue on 'Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization' in Scalable Computing and Communications (Springer)
by Javid Taheri 19 Nov '17

19 Nov '17

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing and Communications ~Special Issue Call for Papers~ Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: 15 Dec 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2018 - Final Version: 31 May 2018 INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION With maturity of virtualization techniques, more and more services are to be run inside virtualized Data Centers vDCs) to further reduce Operational (OPEX) and Capital Expenditures (CAPEX). Aligned with the general trend of migrating traditional IT architectures to clouds (public or private), next generation of telecommunication networks such as 5G are also envisaged to be run on virtualized environments where network functions are deployed on virtual machines and/or containers instead of current proprietary equipment. Several proof-of-concept and initial industrial deployments proved that Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are two promising technologies to enable such technological shift. Nevertheless, how to optimize and guarantee the performance of such virtualized systems is still challenging, because they require accurate modelling and efficient optimization to satisfy ever increasing demand of future networks. To address several major issues raised by migrating network applications to virtualized infrastructures, this special issue aims to highlight challenges, state-of-the-art, and solutions to a set of currently unresolved key questions including, but not limited to: performance, modelling, optimizations, reliability, security, and techno-economic aspects of virtualized networks. By addressing these concerns, technology might be one step closer to understanding, and consequently, closing the gap between the performance of the next generation SDN/NFV-based networks and their current counterparts in proprietary boxes. In this special issue, we welcome contributions that can shed light onto any of the following questions: 1. How virtualized networks should be designed to guarantee the performance required by network operations? 2. How virtualized services can be benchmarked and/or compared? 3. How virtualized services should be designed and/or operated to take advantage of cloud infrastructures and further provide flexibilities (such as load migration) that current proprietary equipment cannot provide? 4. How network functions should be placed and/or network capacities should be sliced to optimize network critical metrics such as throughput, delay, jitter, etc.? 5. How virtualized services should/can be efficiently orchestrated, monitored, and managed? PAPER SUBMISSION: - Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. - All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the Journal. - Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/41122 - Submit manuscripts to: http://SCAC.edmgr.com. Topics to be covered in this Special Issue are including, but not limited to: 1. Model, benchmark, and/or optimize operation of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 2. Resource and/or content allocation for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 3. Reliability and resiliency of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 4. Dynamic/flexible construction and deployment of Service Function Chains using SDN/NFV technologies. 5. Fault detection and/or correction for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 6. Architectures, applications, and use cases of SDN/NFV to provide networking services. 7. Monitoring techniques for SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 8. Deployment, management, and orchestration of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 9. Business/economic aspects of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 10. Security concerns of SDN/NFV-based networks and services. 11. Mobile and/or Wireless Networks enabled by SDN/NFV-based networks and services.

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier Submission deadline: February 1th, 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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One Post-doc and Two PhD Scholarships
by Jinjun Chen 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

We are now offering One Post-doc and Two PhD scholarships in the area of Data Security & Privacy or Blockchain; or Data Analytics in Healthcare/FinTech. 1. For One Post-doc, please refer to the website - http://www.swinburne.edu.au/about/jobs/search-apply/ --> Job search --> All vacancies --> "Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( School of Software & Electrical Engineering)". Alternatively, you can email to Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au for further detail. - 3-year fixed-term - Salary: Level B $91849 ~ $98691 - Plus 17% Superannuation - deadline: 5pm 28 Nov 2017 2. For Two PhD scholarships · Annual stipend $26,288 per year (2017 rate) for three years · Tuition fee waive for up to four years · Thesis allowance · Annual travel fund available We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Students need to meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements ( http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/). Interested candidates are invited to contact Prof Jinjun Chen at jchen(a)swin.edu.au with following references: 1. Your CV with your research interest 2. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees 3. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not your first language

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Deadline Extension until December 1, 2017: International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA)
by tweise＠gmx.de 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) at the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018) March 29-31, 2018 in Xiamen, China http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia18 BOCIA, the International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms, a part of the Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018), is cordially inviting the submission of original and unpublished research papers. Computational Intelligence (CI) is a huge and expanding field which is rapidly gaining importance, attracting more and more interests from both academia and industry. It includes a wide and ever-growing variety of optimization and machine learning algorithms, which, in turn, are applied to an even wider and faster growing range of different problem domains. For all of these domains and application scenarios, we want to pick the best algorithms. Actually, we want to do more, we want to improve upon the best algorithm. This requires a deep understanding of the problem at hand, the performance of the algorithms we have for that problem, the features that make instances of the problem hard for these algorithms, and the parameter settings for which the algorithms perform the best. Such knowledge can only be obtained empirically, by collecting data from experiments, by analyzing this data statistically, and by mining new information from it. Benchmarking is the engine driving research in the fields of optimization and machine learning for decades, while its potential has not been fully explored. Benchmarking the algorithms of Computational Intelligence is an application of Computational Intelligence itself! This workshop wants to bring together experts on benchmarking of optimization and machine learning algorithms. It provides a common forum for them to exchange findings and to explore new paradigms for performance comparison. All accepted papers in this workshop will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE ICACI 2018 published by IEEE Press and indexed by EI. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of these papers to the Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms appearing in the Computational Intelligence journal by Wiley Periodicals Inc., indexed by EI and SCI (see the end of this CfP, http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia-ci-si, and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8640) 1. Topics of Interest The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: o mining of higher-level information from experimental results o modelling of algorithm behaviors and performance o visualizations of algorithm behaviors and performance o statistics for performance comparison (robust statistics, PCA, ANOVA, statistical tests, ROC, …) o evaluation of real-world goals such as algorithm robustness, reliability, and implementation issues o theoretical results for algorithm performance comparison o comparison of theoretical and empirical results o new benchmark problems o automatic algorithm configuration o algorithm selection o the comparison of algorithms in "non-traditional" scenarios such as - multi- or many-objective domains - parallel implementations, e.g., using GGPUs, MPI, CUDA, clusters, or running in clouds - large-scale problems or problems where objective function evaluations are costly - dynamic problems or where the objective functions involve randomized simulations or noise - deep learning and big data setups o comparative surveys with new ideas on - dos and don'ts, i.e., best and worst practices, for algorithm performance comparison - tools for experiment execution, result collection, and algorithm comparison - benchmark sets for certain problem domains and their mutual advantages and weaknesses 2. Instructions for Authors Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight pages in IEEE Manuscript Format for Conference Proceedings (double column, A4 format), including results, figures and references, with a maximum file size of 4MB, in PDF format. More information regarding the submission process can be found at the conference website http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and under http://www.icaci2018.org/submission/. Templates can be found at http://www.icaci2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2014_04_msw_a4_format.d… (Word) and http://www.icaci2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ieee-latex-conference-t… (LaTeX). The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaci2018) where the "International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms" should be selected as track. The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form where the "International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms" should be selected as track. 3. Important Dates Extended Paper Submission Deadline: 1 December 2017 Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2017 Camera-Ready Copy Due: 15 January 2018 Author Registration: 15 January 2018 Conference Presentation: 29-31 March 2018 For more information please contact Thomas Weise at tweise(a)hfuu.edu.cn. 4. Chairs o Thomas Weise, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Markus Wagner, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia o Xingyi Zhang, Anhui University, Hefei, China o Jörg Lässig, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany 5. International Program Committee o Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Technical University of Cologne, Köln (Cologne), Germany o Josu Ceberio Uribe, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain o Wenxiang Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA o Marco Chiarandini, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark o Raymond Chiong, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia o Carola Doerr, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Paris, France o Mohamed El Yafrani, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco o Marcus Gallagher, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia o William La Cava, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Jörg Lässig, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany o Bin Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Pu Li, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany o Jing Liang, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China o Zhen Liu, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Manuel López-Ibáñez, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK o Yi Mei, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand o Martin Middendorf, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany o Antonio J. Nebro, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain o Randal S. Olson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Patryk Orzechowski, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Qi Qi, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China o Danilo Sipoli Sanches, Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Cornélio Procópio, Brazil o Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore o Ryan J. Urbanowicz, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA o Markus Wagner, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia o Thomas Weise, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China o Yang Yu, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China o Xingyi Zhang, Anhui University, Hefei, China 6. Chair Biographies Prof. Dr. Thomas Weise obtained the MSc in Computer Science in 2005 from the Chemnitz University of Technology and his PhD from the University of Kassel in 2009. He then joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as PostDoc and subsequently became Associate Professor at the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI) at USTC. In 2016, he joined Hefei University as Full Professor to found the Institute of Applied Optimization at the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology. Prof. Weise has more than seven years of experience as a full time researcher in China, having contributed significantly both to fundamental as well as applied research. He has more than 80 scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences. His book "Global Optimization Algorithms – Theory and Application" has been cited more than 730 times. He has acted as reviewer, editor, or programme committee member at 70 different venues. Prof. Dr. Bin Li received the B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 1992, the M.Sc. degree from Institute of Plasma Physics, China Academy of Science, Hefei, China, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China in 2001. He is currently a professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, USTC, Hefei, China. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 refereed publications. His major research interests include evolutionary computation, memetic algorithms, pattern recognition, and real-world applications. Dr. Li is the Founding Chair of IEEE CIS Hefei Chapter, Counselor of IEEE USTC Student Branch, senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), member of the Technical Committee of Electronic Circuits and Systems Section of CIE. Dr. Markus Wagner is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has done his PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research topics range from mathematical runtime analysis of heuristic optimization algorithms and theory-guided algorithm design to applications of heuristic methods to renewable energy production, professional team cycling and software engineering. So far, he has been a program committee member 30 times, and he has written over 70 articles with over 70 different co-authors. He has chaired several education-related committees within the IEEE CIS, is Co- Chair of ACALCI 2017 and General Chair of ACALCI 2018. Prof. Dr. Xingyi Zhang received the B.Sc. from Fuyang Normal College in 2003, and the M.Sc. in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2009 both from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University. His main research interests include unconventional models and algorithms of computation, multi-objective evolutionary optimization and membrane computing. He is the chair of 2017 Data Driven Optimization of Complex Systems and Applications and 2015 Asian Conference on Membrane Computing. He also serves as Editorial Board Member of Complex & Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Bio-inspired Computing. Prof. Dr. Jörg Lässig leads the Enterprise Application Development Group (EAD) of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in Germany since 2011. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Computational Physics, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science for his research on efficient algorithms and models for the generation and control of cooperation networks at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany), which he finished in 2009. Prof. Lässig has PostDocs at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Institute of Computational Sciences (Lugano, Switzerland) and the International Computer Science Institute Berkeley (California, USA). His EAD research group at HSZG and his IT security group with the Fraunhofer Society are focusing on topics concerned with intelligent data driven technologies for state-of-the-art IT infrastructures and services. His research directions include sustainable IT services, energy efficiency benchmarking, regional carbon footprints and energy informatics. 7. Hosting Event The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2018) Xiamen, China, March 29–31, 2018 http://www.icaci2018.org ICACI 2018 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state-of-the-art research and applications in computational intelligence. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. In addition, best paper awards will be given during the conference. The proceedings of ICACI 2018 will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex. Moreover, selected papers will be published in special issues of related journals. The conference will favor papers representing advanced theories and innovative applications in computational intelligence. Topics areas include, but are not limited to: computational neuroscience, connectionist theory and cognitive science, mathematical modeling of neural systems, neurodynamic analysis, neurodynamic optimization and adaptive dynamic programming, embedded neural systems, probabilistic and information-theoretic methods, principal and independent component analysis, hybrid intelligent systems, supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, deep learning, brain imaging and neural information processing, neuroinformatics and bioinformatics, support vector machines and kernel methods, autonomous mental development, data mining, pattern recognition, time series analysis, image and signal processing, robotic and control applications, telecommunications, transportation systems, intrusion detection and fault diagnosis, hardware implementation, real-world applications, big data processing, fuzzy systems, fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy decision making, fuzzy information processing, fuzzy logic control, evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization, genetic algorithms, parallel and distributed algorithms, particle swarm optimization, evolving neural networks, evolutionary fuzzy systems, evolving neuro-fuzzy systems, evolutionary games and multi-agent systems, intelligent systems applications. http://www.icaci2018.org/ 8. Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in Computational Intelligence – An International Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/bocia-ci-si Pre-Submission Deadline: 05 May 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: 05 June 2018 Expected Notification: 05 August 2018 Resubmission (Revision): 05 October 2018 Expected Notification (Revision): 05 November 2018 Final Submission: 05 December 2018 Decision Notification: 05 February 2019 Publication: 2019 The papers of this special issue will be processed according to the journal’s special issue guidelines at http://projects.cs.dal.ca/ci/Special-issue-instructions.html. This requires a preliminary submission step, for which the papers should be sent by the pre-submission deadline to tweise(a)hfuu.edu.cn with CC to markus.wagner(a)adelaide.edu.au, and binli(a)ustc.edu.cn.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - Special session “Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology” (PDP 2018)
by Paolo Cazzaniga 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

***Apologies for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this Call for Papers to your colleagues and contacts***Special session on “Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology” hosted by PDP 2018 (http://www.pdp2018.org/) Computer Lab, Cambridge, UK 21-23 March, 2018 Important dates - Paper submission: 30 November, 2017 - Acceptance notification: 10 December, 2017 - Camera ready due: 24 December, 2017 - Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018 Organized by: Daniela Besozzi (co-chair), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Paolo Cazzaniga (co-chair), University of Bergamo, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Carlos F. Lopez, Vanderbilt University, USA Aim and Scope Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at various scales of complexity, requiring different modeling frameworks and computational methods. The applicability of these approaches may be hampered by excessively burdensome execution times. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, cloud computing, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - analysis at the single-cell level - analysis and visualization of genome-wide models - analysis of robustness of cellular networks - Bayesian inference of biological systems - biomedical model parameterization - cancer progression models - design of synthetic biological components and circuits - drug design - emergent properties in complex biological systems - flux balance analysis - biomedical image analysis - metabolic engineering - metabolic pathway analysis - models of neural activity - model verification and refinement methods - multi-scale modeling and simulation of biological systems - parameter estimation methods - personalized models in Systems Medicine - reverse engineering of reaction networks - software tools for Systems and Synthetic Biology - spatio-temporal modeling and simulation of biological systems Program Committee John Albeck (UC Davis, USA) Daniela Besozzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Michael L. Blinov (University of Connecticut Health Center, USA) Tiziana Castrignanò (CINECA, Italy) Paolo Cazzaniga (University of Bergamo, Italy) Eric J. Deeds (University of Kansas, USA) James R. Faeder (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani (University of Michigan Medical School, USA) Hitoshi Iba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Daniel C. Kirouac (Genentech Inc., USA) David Klinke (West Virginia University, USA) Robin E. C. Lee (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Carlos F. Lopez (Vanderbilt University, USA) Molly Maleckar (Allen Institute for Cell Science, USA) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Marco S. Nobile (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Ion Petre (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Alex Pothen (Purdue University, USA) Daniele Ramazzotti (Stanford School of Medicine, USA) Filippo Spiga (University of Cambridge, UK) David Umulis (Purdue University, USA) Marco Villani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Submission of papers Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format (double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2017 <https://euromicro-pdp2018-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1yNFAg-y…>). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review". Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Conference post-proceedings The best papers submitted to this special session may be eligible for publication in a Special Issue of BMC Bioinformatics.

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CFP: IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
by Andalam Sidharta (Dr) 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Embedded Systems Letters Call for Papers: Special Issue on Real-Time Technologies in CPS Submission Deadline: 30th January, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction This special issue of Embedded Systems Letters will focus on research themes in real-time and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) related to the concluded conference IEEE 20th International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC), 2017. The objective is to present papers that explore the use of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology in the design of CPS. Besides papers related to ISORCÕs 2017 theme of scalable and real-time data analytics, we also welcome papers in other real-time CPS topics such as programming models, systems engineering, distributed computing and communication infrastructures, systems software, and technologies for resilience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope The scope of this special issue includes all areas related to real-time computing and communication technologies for CPS. In particular, papers that explore ORC technology and real-time data analytics for CPS are welcome. Besides regular research papers, perspective papers that present a grand challenge problem, charter a new direction of research, express a contradictory viewpoint, or promote an interdisciplinary research area related to the topic of this special issue are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Scalable and Real-Time Data Analytics: Algorithms and computational infrastructure to support real-time data analytics, case-studies and applications in real-time data analytics. - Programming Models and Systems Engineering: Object/component modelling frameworks, real-time language frameworks including synchronous languages, model-driven design and development, time-predictable hardware and software architecture design. - Distributed Computing and Communication Infrastructure: Real-time communication protocols, networked platforms, peer-to-peer computing, real-time wireless sensor networks. - Systems Software: Real-time kernels and OS, middleware support for ORC, quality-of-service management, resource synchronization, allocation and scheduling. - Resilience: Trusted and dependable systems, fault tolerance, security, self-awareness, resilient hardware and software architectures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must strictly follow the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters guidelines (http://www.ieee-ceda.org/publication/esl- publication/author-guidelines). Papers must be four pages or fewer in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE transactions two-column format in 10-pt. font, and must consist of original work that has not been previously published nor is currently under review elsewhere. Authors of ISORC 2017 who wish to submit a paper based on their conference publication, please note that your submission should either be a self-contained extension or a perspective paper on the topic of the publication. It is very important to select ÒSpecial Issue on Real-Time Technologies in CPSÓ as the submission type when submitting your papers (submission link: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/les-ieee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Full paper submission deadline: 30th January, 2018 First author notification: March, 2018 Revised paper due: April, 2018 Final author notification: May, 2018 Expected publication: July, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest-Editor Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email: arvinde(a)ntu.edu.sg<mailto:arvinde@ntu.edu.sg> ________________________________ 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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Workshop Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, Jun 27-29, 2018
by Peter Arbenz 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Workshop Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, Jun 27-29, 2018 http://pmaa18.ethz.ch/ This international workshop aims to be a forum for exchanging ideas, insights and experiences in different areas of parallel computing in which matrix algorithms play a key role. The Workshop will bring together experts and practitioners from diverse disciplines with a common interest in matrix computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Parallel methods for solving large sparse or dense linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problem * Parallel environments and tools for enabling matrix applications. * Large scale applications from any field that have an emphasis on parallel matrix computation * Novel architectural paradigms (e.g. GPU, MIC, etc.) * Hybrid approaches to parallel programming * Automatic tuning and performance modeling * Combinatorial Scientific Computing Invited speakers: Chao Yang (Berkeley), Inderjit Dhillon (Austin), Frederic Nataf (Paris), Edgar Solomonik (Urbana-Champaign). Important dates: - March 15, 2018: Submission of Minisymposium proposals by e-mail to pmaa18(a)ethz.ch - March 30, 2018: Submission of abstracts for MS and contributed talks For more information see http://pmaa18.ethz.ch/

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CFP: PDSEC-18 workshop (with IPDPS-18)
by Peter Strazdins 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

(apologies for cross-postings) The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-18) http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec18 will be held on May 25, 2018 in Vancouver in conjunction with IPDPS 2018. Deadline: PDSEC-18 papers are due Friday 25 Jan 2018 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends of HPC system evolution indicates increasing burden for application developers in management of the unprecedented levels of complexity in hardware and the associated performance characteristics. Many existing application codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. It will be important to utilize, in unison, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The HPC community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences of scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. In particular, we will focus on the following topics in parallel and distributed scientific and engineering applications, but not limited to: * Code modernization methodologies and experiences for adapting the changes in future computing systems such as porting of legacy simulation code and libraries/tools to facilitate code refactoring and porting. * Application and algorithm development of various parallel and distributed programming models/framework such as CAF, UPC, Chapel, X10, Charm++, HPX, Uintah, Legion, and/or the interoperation of multiple models within single applications (e.g. MPI+X where X is OpenMP, OpenCL, CUDA etc). We appreciate the experiences of early adopters of new programming models and platforms. * Experience in new tools and libraries for effective application development, including performance tools, application development frameworks, Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), etc. * Tools and techniques for improving application reliability and resilience. This includes both performance and correctness issues, with the latter arising from adverse operating conditions (e.g. low power) or very large system scales. * Use cases of enterprise distributed computing technology (such as MapReduce, Data Analytics and Machine-learning tools) in scientific and engineering applications. * Large-scale parallel and distributed algorithms supporting science and engineering applications. * Methodologies and experiences in developing large-scale applications. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 25, 2018 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 02, 2018 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 16, 2018 (TBC) Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2018 General Chairs Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Program Chairs Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Joseph Antony, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LION12 -- Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN -- Kalamata Greece June 10-15, 2018
by Ilias Kotsireas 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to participate or organize a special session at LION12: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference LION 12, Kalamata, Greece, June 10-15, 2018 http://www.caopt.com/LION12/ Sincerely, Technical Program Committee Chairs Roberto Battiti, Universita degli Studi di Trento Mauro Brunato, Universita degli Studi di Trento Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States

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