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Visiting Assistant Professor position
by M. H. Samadzadeh 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Applications are invited for one Visiting Assistant Professor position for the 2017-2018 academic year, August 2017 to May 2018. The position is contingent upon availability of funds. The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Computer Science Department is seeking applications from candidates with teaching experience in all areas of Computer Science. An earned Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely-related field from an accredited institution is required at the time of appointment. The position is for the main OSU campus in Stillwater; however, duties may be assigned in either the OSU-Stillwater campus, the OSU satellite campus in Tulsa, or both. The OSU Computer Science Department (http://www.cs.okstate.edu/) is strongly committed to excellence in research, teaching, and outreach. The Department offers the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and has a Graduate Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics. The Department also offers courses to students at remote sites using interactive video and the Internet. There are currently about 240 undergraduate students and about 80 graduate students enrolled in the Department. To apply, visit: http://cs.okstate.edu/VAP_Search-2017-2018 For full consideration, applications should be received by July 21, 2017; however, applications will be considered until the position has been filled. Oklahoma State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/E-verify employer committed to diversity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other protected category. OSU is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and desires priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. OSU will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) OSU-Stillwater is a tobacco-free campus.

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ERCIM STM 2017 PhD Thesis Award - Call for Applications (deadline approaching: July 19, 2017)
by STM 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

================================================== CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ERCIM STM WG 2017 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management ================================================== The European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) has a technical WG on Security and Trust Management (STM) for performing a series of activities, as research projects, workshop/conference organization, dissemination of knowledge, for increasing the European research and development capabilities on security, trust, and privacy. One of the main goals of the WG is to promote the scientific growth of young researchers interested in the field of security and trust management. ERCIM STM WG then decided to establish an award for the best Ph.D. thesis in this area to increase the visibility of the young researchers within the ERCIM scientific community as well as in the scientific community in general. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * applied cryptography; * data and application security; * identity management; * networked systems security; * privacy, anonymity, and untraceability; * rigorous semantics and computational models for security and trust; * security, privacy, and trust in emerging computing paradigms; * security and trust management architectures, mechanisms, and policies. Applications for the award in 2017 are open to all Ph.D. holders that defended their thesis during 2016 in any European University. Applications consisting of the Ph.D. Thesis (in PDF format), a short summary of the Thesis (mandatory in English), a curriculum vitae (in PDF format), and letters of support from at least two researchers, one of whom should be from an ERCIM STM WG Institution, should be sent by July 19, 2017 to stm(a)unimi.it. Please use "ERCIM STM PhD Award 2017 -- Application" as subject of the message. Theses will be evaluated by a Committee appointed from the European research community. The theses will be judged on the basis of scientific quality, originality, clarity of presentation, as well as potential impact of the results. The ceremony for the award will be held during the 13th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2017) on September 14-15 2017, Oslo, Norway. --- STM WG web page: http://www.iit.cnr.it/STM-WG ERCIM web page: http://www.ercim.org

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention
by Andrii Shalaginov 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention. It is co-located with IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 that will take place in Boston, USA, December 11-14, 2017. Workshop webpage: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieeebigdata2017 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Sept 10, 2017: Due date for full workshop papers submission Oct 15, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2017: Camera-ready for accepted papers Dec 11-14, 2017: Workshop *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become inevitable in every aspect of the digital forensics process. Increase in personal devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage mediums) results in an expanding volume of potential evidence found in them. The increase in data is one of the largest challenges facing law enforcements’ timely prosecutions; with the effect, that human analysts can no longer be the lone actor in the loop. There is a need to create innovative and advanced models and analysis methods to help human analysts within law enforcements in order to automatically aid with the discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of evidence in criminal cases. Advanced big data analytics are important for cybercrime investigation and require novel approaches for automation. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithms - Machine learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modeling - Secure platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Secure collaborative platforms 2. Applications - Network forensics readiness - Cyber threats intelligence - Malware analysis and detection - Emails mining - Events correlations - Access logs analysis - Mobile and Internet of Things forensics - Fraud detection - Database forensics 3. Data - Novel datasets - Digital forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - Data storage standards - New formats and taxonomies *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Ali Dehghantanha (University of Salford) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Carl Leichter (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Ethan Rudd (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Hamid Ebadi (Chalmers University of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Pavel Gladyshev (Dublin School of Computer Science) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See formatting instructions here: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieee-bigdata-2017-formatting-ins… *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics”. Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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GraMSec 2017 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Barbara Kordy 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

****************************************************************** GraMSec 2017 The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Co-located with CSF 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu/ ****************************************************************** GraMSec REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN To register please follow the instructions given at http://www.gramsec.uni.lu/registration.php If you need a visa support letter, please check http://csf2017.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/visa.html ABOUT GraMSec Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic methodology to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Such models have been subject of academic research and they have also been widely accepted by the industrial sector, as a means to support and facilitate threat analysis and risk assessment processes. The objective of GraMSec is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies and tools for their practical usage. INVITED TALK Anoop Singhal, NIST Security Metrics and Risk Analysis for Enterprise Systems ACCEPTED REGULAR PAPERS * Karin Bernsmed, Christian Frøystad, Per Håkon Meland, Dag Atle Nesheim, and Ørnulf Jan Rødseth Visualizing Cyber Security Risks with Bow-Tie Diagrams * Angèle Bossuat and Barbara Kordy Evil Twins: Handling Repetitions in Attack–Defense Trees - A Survival Guide * Aitor Couce-Vieira, Siv Hilde Houmb, and David Ríos-Insua CSIRA: A Method for Analysing the Risk of Cybersecurity Incidents * Peter Gjøl Jensen, Axel Legay, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen Quantitative Evaluation of Attack Defense Trees using Stochastic Timed Automata * Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford, Alexandr Vasenev, and Roel Wieringa Graphical Modeling of Security Arguments: Current State and Future Directions ACCEPTED SHORT PAPERS * Olga Gadyatskaya and Rolando Trujillo-Rasua New Directions in Attack Tree Research: Catching up with Industrial Needs * Ryan Habibi, Jens Weber, and Morgan Price Circle of Health Based Access Control for Personal Health Information Systems * Letitia Li, Florian Lugou, and Ludovic Apvrille Security Modeling for Embedded System Design * Brian Ruttenberg, Dave Blumstein, Jeff Druce, Michael Howard, Fred Reed, Leslie Wilfong, Crystal Lister, Steve Gaskin, Meaghan Foley, and Dan Scofield Probabilistic Modeling of Insider Threat Detection Systems GENERAL CHAIR Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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Third Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) - Due date July 23. 2017
by Peter Mueller 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

Third Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) ----------------------------------------------------------- http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/qcit17-workshop/ At IEEE Globecom’17, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017 http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org The scope of this dedicated workshop is to explore the opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology and its applications. The workshop is the annual main event of ComSoc’s Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (ETC-QCIT). Over the last decade, a wide variety of experimental quantum communications and processing devices has been invented and used for fundamental demonstrations in laboratories. Results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications and information related fields. Recently one can observe upcoming applications in areas like a quantum communications, quantum sensors and random number generators which are partially even commercially available. Companies and governments started to spend significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. However, the step from quantum technology based devices to real systems running a communications or information processing task has not completed yet. Moreover, many problems show opportunities to contribute with knowhow, technologies and engineering out of the communications area. The following topics are crucial to the development of future quantum technology based systems: - Algorithms and applications complexity - Analysis of classical vs quantum software - Coding theory - Coherent routers, repeaters and converters - Communications and information theory - Devices and circuits - Entanglement distillation - Error correction - Experimental results and demonstrations - Interconnection and complexity theory - Metrology for quantum systems - Modeling and simulation - Network coding - Photonic communications technology - Processing and systems architecture - Quantum electro-dynamics - Quantum information theory - Quantum key distribution - Quantum sensors - Quantum-algorithms and applications - Remote state preparation - RF based programming and algorithms - RF technology and control - Signal processing for quantum control It is the aim of this workshop to connect people from academia and industry to discuss about theory, technology and applications and exchange ideas to move efficiently forward in research, engineering and development of this exciting area. Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts -------------------------------------------- Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23835 Further information is available in the Globecom 2017 webpages: http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org Important dates --------------- Manuscript submission due date: 23. July, 2017 (extended) Notification date: 1. September, 2017 Final manuscript due date: 1. October, 2017 Conference date: 4.-8. December, 2017 Workshop organizers ------------------- Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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FPS 2017 - Deadline Extension July 23rd, 2017
by Abdessamad Imine 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers (EXTENDED): July 23, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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Register Now for SSBSS 2017
by SSBSS Organizing Committee 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

Register Now for SSBSS 2017 - July 17-21, University of Cambridge, UK http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ Call for Participation ================ http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form applicants will be notified of acceptance within a few days of application submission. https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54 Call for Abstracts ================ We are still accepting abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. Abstracts can be uploaded to EasyChair and authors will be notified of acceptance within a few days of abstract submission: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017>* Please register and join us at the University of Cambridge for SSBSS 2017! More details about the conference can be found below and at the SSBSS 2017 web site: http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ We hope to see you there! SSBSS 2017 Organizing Committee == INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Antonino Cattaneo, *Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy* Carole Goble, *University of Manchester, UK* Jim Haseloff, *University of Cambridge, UK* Jay Keasling, *University of California, Berkeley, USA* Edda Klipp, *Humboldt University, Germany* Natalio Krasnogor, *Newcastle University, UK* Markus Ralser, *University of Cambridge, UK & The Francis Crick Institute, UK* Uwe Sauer, *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland* Gill Stephens, *The University of Nottingham, UK * Mike Stubbington, *EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK* Eriko Takano, *University of Manchester, UK* Sarah Teichmann, *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL, European Bioinformatics Inst., UK* Talks Talks Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Other speakers will be announced soon. Industrial Panel Jonathan Chesnut, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., USA Other speakers will be announced soon. TOPICS ======================== Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Biological Design Automation Computational/Mathematical Modelling and Design Computer Aided Design Directed Evolution Designing and Writing Genomes DNA Synthesis, Assembly, and Sequencing High Throughput Design Space Exploration Industrial Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Mammalian Synthetic Biology Metabolic Engineering Microbial Synthetic Biology / Microbiome Engineering Molecular Programming Omics Science and Synthetic & Systems Biology Pedagogical/Educational Tools Plant Synthetic Biology Protein Engineering Synthetic & Systems Biology for Cell Culture and Medical Applications Synthetic & Systems Biology of Industrial Microorganisms SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ======================== Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Richard Allmendinger, The University of Manchester, UK Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Paola Branduardi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Italy Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics & Medicine TIGEM & U. of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy Barbara Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group - BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany Simone Furini, University of Siena, Italy Emanuele Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy J. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev Groups, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA Guido Grandi, University Trento, Italy Mario Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Markus Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paolo Magni, University of Pavia, Italy Donato Malerba University of Bari, Italy Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy Nelson Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca and SYSBIO - Center of Systems Biology, Italy Enzo Medico, IRCC - Candiolo and University of Torino, Italy Giuseppe Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA Wieslaw Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland Gennaro Piccialli, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Danilo Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Francesco Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Nicola Segata, University of Trento, Italy Gianna Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy Renato Umeton, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA FURTHER INFORMATION ========================== ssbss.school(a)gmail.com http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *4th International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School - SSBSS 2017* ** Biology meets Computer Science & Engineering ** *July 17-21, 2017, University of Cambridge, Robinson College, UK* http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *Contact Email:* ssbss.school(a)gmail.com *SSBSS 2017:* http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ *SSBSS 2016: *http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss2016/ *FB:* https://www.facebook.com/ssbss.school/ *SSBSS - Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School*: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238417586492061/ *Computational Synthetic Biology Group*: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014624245288596/

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Register Now for SSBSS 2017
by Ludovico Montalcini 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

Register Now for SSBSS 2017 - July 17-21, University of Cambridge, UK Call for Participation ================ http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/#application-form applicants will be notified of acceptance within a few days of application submission. https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/dms/index.php?eid=54 Call for Abstracts ================ We are still accepting abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. Abstracts can be uploaded to EasyChair and authors will be notified of acceptance within a few days of abstract submission: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssbss2017>* Please register and join us at the University of Cambridge for SSBSS 2017! More details about the conference can be found below and at the SSBSS 2017 web site: http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ We hope to see you there! SSBSS 2017 Organizing Committee == INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Antonino Cattaneo, *Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy* Carole Goble, *University of Manchester, UK* Jim Haseloff, *University of Cambridge, UK* Jay Keasling, *University of California, Berkeley, USA* Edda Klipp, *Humboldt University, Germany* Natalio Krasnogor, *Newcastle University, UK* Markus Ralser, *University of Cambridge, UK & The Francis Crick Institute, UK* Uwe Sauer, *Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland* Gill Stephens, *The University of Nottingham, UK * Mike Stubbington, *EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK* Eriko Takano, *University of Manchester, UK* Sarah Teichmann, *Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & EMBL, European Bioinformatics Inst., UK* Talks Talks Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Other speakers will be announced soon. Industrial Panel Jonathan Chesnut, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., USA Other speakers will be announced soon. TOPICS ======================== Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Biological Design Automation Computational/Mathematical Modelling and Design Computer Aided Design Directed Evolution Designing and Writing Genomes DNA Synthesis, Assembly, and Sequencing High Throughput Design Space Exploration Industrial Applications of Synthetic & Systems Biology Mammalian Synthetic Biology Metabolic Engineering Microbial Synthetic Biology / Microbiome Engineering Molecular Programming Omics Science and Synthetic & Systems Biology Pedagogical/Educational Tools Plant Synthetic Biology Protein Engineering Synthetic & Systems Biology for Cell Culture and Medical Applications Synthetic & Systems Biology of Industrial Microorganisms SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ======================== Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy Richard Allmendinger, The University of Manchester, UK Matteo Barberis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, Synthetic Biology Group@Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland Leonidas Bleris, Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Paola Branduardi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio, Italy Jole Costanza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Domitilla Del Vecchio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics & Medicine TIGEM & U. of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy Barbara Di Ventura, Synthetic Biology Group - BioQuant/DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany Simone Furini, University of Siena, Italy Emanuele Domenico Giordano, University of Bologna, Italy J. Gootenberg, Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev Groups, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA Guido Grandi, University Trento, Italy Mario Guarracino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Markus Herrgard, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Paolo Magni, University of Pavia, Italy Donato Malerba University of Bari, Italy Vincenzo Manca, University of Verona, Italy Nelson Marmiroli, University of Parma, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca and SYSBIO - Center of Systems Biology, Italy Enzo Medico, IRCC - Candiolo and University of Torino, Italy Giuseppe Narzisi, New York Genome Center, USA Wieslaw Nowak, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland Gennaro Piccialli, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Danilo Porro, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Francesco Ricci, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Nicola Segata, University of Trento, Italy Gianna Maria Toffolo, University of Padova, Italy Renato Umeton, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Luca Zammataro, Yale University, USA FURTHER INFORMATION ========================== ssbss.school(a)gmail.com http://www.taosciences.it/ssbss/ Organization by Cambridge Systems Biology Centre - University of Cambridge, UK

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The 2017 ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017)
by ICT DataScience 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

The 5th ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017) [http://www.bigdatalab.ac.cn/~dsbda/2017/] In conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017) [http://icdm2017.bigke.org/] New Orleans, USA · November 18, 2017 Introduction ================ Due to the rapid development of IT technology including Internet, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, and Internet of Things, as well as the consequent decrease of cost on collecting and storing data, big data has been generated from almost every industry and sector as well as governmental department. The volume of big data often grows exponentially or even in rates that overwhelm the well-known Moore’s Law. Meanwhile, big data has been extended from traditional structured data into semi-structured and completely unstructured data of various types, such as text, image, audio, video, click streams, log files, etc. It is no doubt that big data can offer us unprecedented opportunities. However, it also poses many grand challenges. Due to the massive volume and inherent complexity, it is extremely difficult to store, aggregate, manage, and analyze big data and finally mine valuable information/knowledge from the complex data/information networks. Therefore, in the presence of big data, the theories, models, algorithms and methods of traditional data related fields, such as, data mining, data engineering, machine learning, statistical learning, computer programming, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, uncertainty modeling, and high performance computing etc., become no longer effective and efficient. On the other hand, some data is generated exponentially or super-exponentially in a streaming manner. Therefore, how to delicately analyze and deeply understand big data so as to obtain dynamical and incremental information / knowledge, is a grand challenge. In general, at the era of big data, it is expected to develop new theories, models, algorithms, methods, and paradigms for mining, analyzing, and understanding big data, and even a new inter-discipline, Data Science, for studying the perception, acquisition, transportation, storage, management, analysis, visualization, and applications of big data, and finally implement the transformation from data to knowledge. DSBDA 2017 aims to provide a networking venue that will bring together scientists, researchers, professionals, and practitioners from both industry and academia and from different disciplines (including computer science, social science, network science, etc.) to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, share experiences, promote collaborations, and report state-of-the-art research work on various aspects of data science and big data analytics. Topics ================ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data science and data analytics * Acquisition, representation, indexing, storage, and management of big data * Processing, pre-processing, and post-processing of big data * Models, algorithms, and methods for big data mining and understanding * Knowledge discovery and acquisition from big data * Visualizing analytics and organization for big data * Streaming data processing * Context data mining from big Web data * Social computing over big Web data * Industrial and scientific applications of big data * Tools for big data analytics Submissions ================ The page limit of workshop papers is 8 pages in the standard IEEE 2-column format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) including the bibliography and any possible appendices. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2017 submission guidelines available at http://icdm2017.bigke.org/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the CyberChair submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP04&u… . Note that all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2017 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The workshop proceedings will be in a CD separated from the CD of the main conference. The CD is produced by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Therefore, papers must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop, conferences or journals. Important Dates ================ Submissions Due Date: August 7, 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2017 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 15, 2017 Workshop Date: November 18, 2017 Steering Committee =================== Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China Prof. Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Chairs ================ Dr. Xiaolong Jin Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: jinxiaolong(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Jiafeng Guo Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: guojiafeng(a)ict.ac.cn Dr. Huewei Shen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Email: shenhuawei(a)ict.ac.cn

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[CFR]: ESORICS+Workshops 2017 Registration is Open (Early-bird pricing through ***August, 15th 2017***)
by Cristina Alcaraz 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to join us at the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2017 in Oslo, Norway! ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Registration for ESORICS+Workshops 2017 is open, but will end soon. Early registration deadline is ***August, 15th 2017*** Registration rates: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/registration If an invitation letter is needed (e.g. VISA) the letter will be provided after the registration. To do this, it is necessary to send an email to the organizing committee: mailto:esorics2017@ntnu.edu Venu page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/venue Travel and accommodation page: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/travel-accomodation We hope to see you in Oslo, Norway! -- Cristina Alcaraz ESORICS 2017 Publicity Chair University of Malaga

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New Book (Springer) : Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data
by Mourad Elloumi 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

*Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data:* *Techniques, Approaches, and Applications* Editor: Mourad Elloumi (Springer) <http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319598246> The 14 contributed chapters in this book survey the most recent developments in high-performance algorithms for NGS data, offering fundamental insights and technical information specifically on indexing, compression and storage; error correction; alignment; and assembly. The book will be of value to researchers, practitioners and students engaged with bioinformatics, computer science, mathematics, statistics and life sciences. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Buy this book eBook: $99.00 Customers within the U.S. and Canada please contact Customer Service at 1-800-777-4643, Latin America please contact us at +1-212-460-1500 (Weekdays 8:30am – 5:30pm ET) to place your order. Hardcover: $129.00

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FPS 2017 - Deadline approaching (July 9, 2017)
by Abdessamad Imine 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification : September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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Fifth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation
by William Spataro 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Fifth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2018 The 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Cambridge, UK 21-23 March 2018 http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2017 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops which were held in Turin, Turku and Crete, we are glad to invite you to our fourth edition which will take place in St. Petersburg (Russia). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 15th Sep 2017 Acceptance notification: 13th Oct 2017 Camera ready due: 17nd Nov 2017 Conference: 21th - 23th Mar 2018 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors’ own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2018 Manuscript submission 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 for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. For instance, a selected number of papers of the past workshop editions have been published on the ISI Journal “International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications” and “Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience”. Organizers William Spataro – University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio – University of Sassari, Italy Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D’Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D’Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <http://unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view_largomento.cfm?48976>

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IGSC'17 Call for Papers **Deadline Extended to July 11**
by Ishan Thakkar 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17) **Deadline Extended to July 11** ================================================================================================ www.green-conf.org October 23-25 2017, Orlando, Florida IGSC’17 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will consist of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and tutorials on these topics. IGSC’17 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green Computing ----------------- - Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware - Low-power electronics and systems - Power-efficient multi/many-core chip design - Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs - Sensing and monitoring - Power and thermal behavior and control - Data centers optimization - Smart grid and microgrids - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability ----------------------------- - Renewable energy models and prediction - Matching energy supply and demand - Smart transportation and electric vehicles - Smart buildings and urban computing - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture - Computational models for epidemics, infectious diseases, and human well-being - Computational methods for sustainable economy and society Paper submission guidelines ---------------------------------- IGSC’17 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (www.green-conf.org) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Best paper award and journal publication ------------------------------------------ The Technical Committee will select the best contributions to be extended and considered by the Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and special sessions --------------------------------- Proposals are solicited for workshops and special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Special Sessions Chair (iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu) Ph.D. forum ------------ Submissions are solicited for a Ph.D. forum, from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing. Please refer to the IGSC website for specific instructions for extended abstract submission. Important dates ----------------- Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: Aug 1, 2017 Paper submission: July 11, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications sent to authors: Aug 4, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: Aug 15, 2017 Organization -------------- Steering Committee Chairs: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), shirazi(a)wsu.edu General Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA), weisong(a)wayne.edu Tech. Program Chair: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, USA), sudeep(a)colostate.edu Workshop Chair: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca Publicity Chair: Ishan Thakkar (Colorado State University, USA), ishan9it(a)rams.colostate.edu

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QOECenter Introduction
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

Dear Professor, QoECenter is a open and visual platform for QoE Evaluation of Streaming Video Services. Per the streaming video lifecycle, QoECenter provides an integrated set of web-based video QoE evaluation capabilities in parameter control, data acquisition, and data-driven analysis. Under the as-a-service model, it facilitates testing and comparing the performance of state-of-the-art video QoE evaluation methods under various web-based video streaming constrains. You can use it by http://qoecenter.com/ Cheers, Shangguang Wang 2017-07-06 --------------------------------------------------- Shangguang Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Science State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 187#, 10 Xi Tu Cheng Rd. Beijing, China URL: http://www.sguangwang.com/index.html TELE: +86-10-61198162 Zip: 100876 ---------------------------------------------------

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[Brain Informatics 2017] - Call for Abstracts
by Yang 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17) "Investigating the Brain and Mind from Informatics Perspective" November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ --------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 20, 2017 One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B --------------------------------------- *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China) Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US) Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China) Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) *** WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission deadline for workshop/special session full papers has been EXTENDED to July 20, 2017 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Full paper / abstract submission for worshop / special session is still open, please see http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/workshops.htm for more information) # Workshop on Brain and Artificial Intelligence (BAI 2017) Organizers: Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Shuliang Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China # Workshop on Knowledge Representation: Brain and Machine (KRBM 2017) Organizers: Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University, China Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China # Workshop on Affective, Psychological and Physiological Computing (APPC 2017) Organizers: Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China Zhijun Yao, Lanzhou University, China Mi Li, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Big Data and Visualization for Brainsmatics (BDVB 2017) Organizers: Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anan LI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # Workshop on Brain Big Data Based Wisdom Service (BBDBWS 2017) Organizer: Jiajin Huang, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Semantic Technology for eHealth (STeH 2017) Organizers: Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands # Workshop on Big Data Neuroimaging Analytics for Brain and Mental Health (BDNABMH 2017) Organizer: Shouyi Wang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA # Workshop on Novel Methods of the Brain Imaging in the Clinical and Preclinical Neuroscience (NMBICPN 2017) Organizers: Vassiliy Tsytsarev, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA Vicky Yamamoto, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA Yan Li, University of Southern Queensland, Australia # The 1st International Workshop on Deep Learning in Brain MRI and Pathology Images (DLBMPI 2017) Organizers: Yan Xu, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, BUAA Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia # Workshop on Mesoscopic Brainformatics (MBAI 2017) Organizers: Dezhong Yao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Li Dong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China # Special Session on Brain Informatics in Neurogenetics (BIN 2017) Organizers: Hong Liang, Harbin Engineering University, China Lei Du, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Li Shen, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA # Special Session on BigNeuron Project (BP 2017) Organizers: Zhi Zhou, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA Min Liu, Hunan University, China ================================================== Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies. BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies, including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a difference in various large-scale brain studies and their applications. BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI. Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing IMPORTANT DATES : =========================== May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers June 20, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts July 25, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance July 30, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions November 17-18, 2017: Main conference ABSTRACT (TYPE-II) SUBMISSIONS : ================================= (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2017): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. ----------------------------------------------- One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B ----------------------------------------------- *** Post-Conference Journal Publication *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted abstracts from the conference will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA) Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Chairs Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China) Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA) Organizing Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China) Tutorial Chair Wenming Zheng (South East University, China) Publicity Chairs Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn shouyiw(a)uta.edu yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) at SC17: Extended abstracts due Sept. 1
by Jason D. Bakos 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2017 Friday Morning, November 17, 2017 Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 (one page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its third year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on legacy and new high-level programming models, optimizations specific to scientific computing and data analytics, tools for performance/energy improvements, FPGA computing in the cloud, and popular applications for reconfigurable computing such as machine learning and big data. ========================================================================== Submissions (one page extended abstract): Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high-performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in Supercomputer, Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Supercomputing, Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Runtimes/OS/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future-gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as a ONE PAGE EXTENDED ABSTRACT in ACM SIG Proceedings format. ========================================================================== You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2017 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: November 4, 2017 Workshop Date: November 17, 2017 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: H2RC is a half-day Friday workshop. It will be comprised of Keynote and invited talks and talks selected from paper submissions. ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Program Committee: Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Carl Ebeling, Altera Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Alan George, University of Florida Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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Call for Papers for Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics
by Gaurav Somani 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) A call on SPE website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X /asset/homepages/Special_Issue_Proposal_CFP_SPE_Final_v4. pdf?v=1&s=42188b687b9e225871c754b6ddffbe0354bc0551&isAguDoi=false ------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern computing edge has envisaged many technological advances which have impacted the livelihood of human being to society at large. Cloud Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics are three major innovative paradigms which have changed the way computing is transforming the organizations. Most of the industry sectors are driven by information technology (IT) and all these sectors whether it is government or manufacturing enterprises, health-care or start-ups, each one of them are finding and visualizing unprecedented opportunities and growth in systems driven by these three technologies. At the level of implementation and deployment, these technologies help in preparing a practical “Software System” where the functional aspects are implemented in real software and demonstrated practically. Often, these systems are applied in public sectors such as utility, facility management, smart city projects including transport, health care and power and water distributions. On the other hand, numerous systems are also envisaged along the lines of social networks driven systems, smart homes, smart buildings, smart vehicles, smart industries where cyber physical systems are automated and managed on the basis of these three important technologies. We invite high quality papers either on the use of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving real world or practical problems or the application and assessment of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving well-known societal problems and issues. We focus on submissions that stress software practice studies, and submissions that share a variety of software system development experiences in different domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Cloud and IoT Systems/platforms for Big Data and Data analytics such as smart cities, e-commerce and cyber physical systems leading to real innovation. - Systems using Data Classification on IoT environments and mining for next generation IoT networking - Practical Software System study and evolution using Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data Analytics - Software systems implemented for environmental and cyber physical systems sensing and computing, health care, mobile and personalized data-centered services, social networks analytics etc. - Real-time intelligence and control techniques - IoT architecture, tools and applications for Big Data analytics - Scientific Computing, Data Management and Analytics in Cloud - Software Systems for Enterprise, Government and Society, Cloud-assisted, IoT-based Cyber-Physical Systems, Resilient Infrastructures - Automatic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds - Research and Project Experience in Biomedical, Energy and Environment Control, Service Systems in Tourism, Transportation and Urban Planning, Vertical Markets – Telecom, Sensors, Social Networking, Smart Cities, Food and Agriculture. - Case Studies of Cloud, IoT and Big Data usage and value formation Special Issue Paper Submission This special issue invites submissions that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017, http://dsr.encs.vancouver.wsu.edu/BDCAT2017/) All submissions including invited papers will undergothe regular peer review process. We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version of an already published conference paper, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), (3) confirmation of the percentage of new material, and (4) the original conference paper. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed. While submitting paper to this issue, please select “Special Issue – On Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics” in the submission system. Regular Issue Submission If you have a paper on cloud computing or IoT which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing and IoT. Important Dates Submission: December 30, 2017 First Notification: February 28, 2018 Revision due: April 1, 2018 Notification of final acceptance: May 1, 2018 Final revised paper due: May 15, 2018 Guest Editors Gaurav Somani Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Central University of Rajasthan, India, Email: gaurav(a)curaj.ac.in Xinghui Zhao School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, USA, Email: x.zhao(a)wsu.edu Satish Narayana Srirama Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, Email: satish.srirama(a)ut.ee Rajkumar Buyya Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Email: rbuyya(a)unimelb.edu.au -- =================================================== Gaurav Somani, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Central University of Rajasthan, (Established under the Central Universities Act 2009) NH-8, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. ===================================================

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CFP - IEEE SC2 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing)
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEESC2 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing（IEEE SC2 2017） http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017 Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2017 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2017 will be held on Nov. 22-25, 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. -Cluster Computing (Springer) -Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) -Vehicular Communications Journal (Elsevier) -Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences -International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science -Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) -International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (ESCI, EI, Scopus) -International Journal of Big Data Intelligence -Sustainability -Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing -China Communication ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Tutorial / Workshop / Special Session Proposal Due: May 29, 2017 Paper Submission (Research Track): July 15, 2017 Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop): Aug 10, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP): Aug 30, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): Sept 5th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): Sept 20, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: October 1, 2017 --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Christophe Cerin, Université Paris 13, France General Executive Chairs Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Program Chairs Amir H. Alavi, Michigan State University, USA Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Alex Kuo, University of Victoria, Canada Demo/Poster Chair Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Special Session Chair Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan Award Chair Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan International Liaison & Publicity Chair Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia Bingwei Liu, Aetna Inc., USA Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Li-Hsin Yen, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Rynson Lau, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Publication Chair Wen-Hwa Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging, Malaysia Steering Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hui Lei, IBM, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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CFP IEEE SOCA 2017 - The 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEE SOCA 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 10 th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017) http://conferences.computer.org/soca Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key enabler for the development of robust and high-quality intelligent Internet-scale distributed applications. Extensive research and development in the past few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art applications in emerging areas such as Cloud computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Mobile-Edge Computing, Social computing as well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA) research opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories and e-Health, just to mention a few. Many of the service components are deployed on resource-limited embedded systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of resource-limited systems and high-end servers. Edge servers and clouds are connected through various types of networks, including emerging network function virtualization services. These components are part of complex applications and systems that span multiple execution environments. Their capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via emerging software-defined and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with humans in order to obtain useful human-sensing data and solve complex problems. Thus, on the one hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of emerging trends in such environments to build SOC applications and systems for large-scale service-based systems is an open research challenge. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017 http://conferences.computer.org/soca/) provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service- oriented computing. The conference includes three days of parallel-track program, special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas: -Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications -Cloud-based service systems -SOCA in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems -Service Models and Applications for Mobile-Edge Computing -Service coordination techniques in IoT and cloud environments -SOC-based smart process and workflow management -Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware -Data analytics and data services in and for SOC-based systems -IoT and data marketplaces -Smart data and service contracts -Cognitive computing techniques for SOCA -Social computing for and atop SOCA -SOCA development, deployment and testing tools and methodologies -Security and privacy for SOCA -Dependable and trustworthy SOCA -SOCA for smart applications (cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.) ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal May 30, 2017 Workshop/Special Session Notification June 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline July 31, 2017 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission October 1, 2017 ---------------------------- Paper Format and Submission ---------------------------- We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch) with a page limit of 8 pages. Short paper should be limited with 4 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. The paper can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2017 ---------------------------- Organizing Committees ---------------------------- General Chairs Boualem Benatallah, UNSW, Australia Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan General Vice-Chairs Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Program Chairs Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Tech., China Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Program Vice-Chairs Jing Fan, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Tech., Poland Kevin Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand Workshop Co-Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Changqin Huang, South China Normal University, China Finance Chair Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Publication Chair Jong-Chan Kim, Kookmin University, Korea Web Chair Ci-Wei Lan, IBM CSDL, Taiwan Steering Committee Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jane YJ Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China

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Extended deadline - IEEE DataCom 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing（IEEE DataCom 2017） https://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/ Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Big data is a rapidly expanding research area spanning the fields of computer science and information management, and has become a ubiquitous term in understanding and solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications. The goal of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2017) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Big Data intelligence and computing. IEEE DataCom 2016 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Big Data. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with at least 30% new material) for review and publication in special issues of international journals. IEEE DataCom 2017 will be held on Nov. 6-10, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value - Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualization and semantics - Software and tools for big data management. - Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data - Big data economy, QoS and business models - Scientific discovery and business intelligence - Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing - Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis - Infrastructures and systems for big data analytics and managements - Middleware and tools for big data analytics and managements - Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation - Data quality issues: such as validation, metrics, optimizations and consistency - Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration - Data intensive computing theorems and technologies - Big data for advanced manufacturing and productivity - Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation - Green data centers / environmental-friendly perspectives - Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability - Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated ---------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ---------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. - Future Generation Computer Systems - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - International Journal of Big Data Intelligence - International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems - Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing - International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Journal of Supercomputing - Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- *Workshop/Special Session notification: (ongoing as received)* *Paper Submission: July 10, 2017 Author Notification: August 10, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): August 17th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): August 24, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: September 1, 2017 * —----------------- SUBMISSION —----------------- Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via the IEEE DataCom 2017 web site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedatacom2017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to DataCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster Chair. - Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA Hai Jin, HUST, China Manu Malek, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA General Executive Chairs Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Tao Li, NSF/UFL, USA Program Chairs Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China Workshop Chairs I-Hsin Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Wuu Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Demo/Poster Chair Che-Rung Lee, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Special Session Chair Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Award Chair Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA International Liaison & Publicity Chair Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Huang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Bhekisipho Twala, Univ. Johannesburg, South Africa Hao Wang, Aalesund University College, Norway Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Publication Chair Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italy Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Cho-Li Wang, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jinsong Wu, University de Chile, Chile Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Steering Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA

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Call for Paper - SoCTA2017-Scopus-Springer-Jhansi-India
by socta 01 Jul '17

01 Jul '17

-----------------------Apologies for cross postings --------------------------------------- Dear Professor/Researcher Greetings of the Day! The 2nd Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2017), December 22 – 24, 2017, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, UP, INDIA URL: http://socta.in<http://socta.in/> https://sites.google.com/view/events-tks/home The conference is technically sponsored by MIR Labs, USA and IET, UK. Proceedings of SoCTA 2016, Volume 1 & Volume 2 are now online. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811056864 http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9789811056987 <http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9789811056987> Conference Highlights (Scopus & UGC Approved Proceedings) * All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. (Listed in UGC approved list, please refer List 1- Page 32 - S.No. - 1375) (http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf<http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf==%20VFgKNw=============…>) * Additionally, registered author(s) & attendees can attend various workshops during the conference for FREE. The details of the workshops will follow soon. * Special issues (Scopus & ESCI indexed / UGC Approved Journals) Registered & Presented papers of high quality will be published in Special Issues 1. International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC), IGI Global Special Issues on: Intelligent Solutions to Engineering Design Problems http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…> Indexed in: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which is a new edition of the Web of Science, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, INSPEC, JournalTOCs, The Standard Periodical Directory and many more… 2. International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC) Special Issue On: Modern Hybrid Heuristic Optimization Techniques http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…> Indexed in: ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, INSPEC, JournalTOCs, The Standard Periodical Directory and many more… 3. International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing (IJISDC) Special Issue On: Intelligent Solutions to Computer Network Problems through Modern Heuristics http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijisdc<http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijisdc========…> Indexed in: Google Scholar, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities, cnpLINKer (CNPIEC) and many more… Dates to Remember Paper Submission: 20 July 2017 Paper Acceptance: 20 September 2017 Final Submission: 10 October 2017 Registration: 10 October 2017 Looking forward to welcome you at Jhansi, a historical city in December. (http://jhansi.nic.in/) Kindly circulate to your fellow colleagues. Best Regards Team SoCTA2017 https://sites.google.com/view/events-tks/home

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - extended deadline 14th July
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW)- deadline extended Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualisation BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017 by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page ( http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information about templates and submission types. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 14, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 25, 2017 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 - info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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[simu-conf] WSC 2017 - Posters, Case Studies, PhD Colloquium, Vendor track
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa www.wintersim.org Posters, Case Studies, PhD Colloquium, Vendor tracks WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! With 360 accepted papers, panels, special tracks, and an amazing venue, this 50th Anniversary Winter Simulation Conference promises to be a very exciting event. This is a reminder that there are other upcoming deadlines: . Poster Track http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/poster-sessions/ . PhD Colloquium http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/phd-colloquium/ . Case Studies http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#caseStudies . Vendor Track http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#vendor KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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CFP BIOMA'2018 @Paris
by El-ghazali Talbi 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** BIOMA 2018 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications 16-18 May 2018 Paris, France http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** The 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications BIOMA 2018 will be held in Paris (France) on May 16-18, 2018. http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ BIOMA is one of the main events focusing on the progress of the area of bioinspired optimization methods and their applications. As in the seven previous editions, BIOMA 2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. BIOMA 2018 welcomes papers that cover any aspects of bioinspired optimization research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and experimental studies. BIOMA 2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks and special sessions. Important dates - Submission deadline Dec 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Feb 15, 2018 - Final papers Mar 1, 2018 Paper submission : We will accept submissions in two different formats. - S1: Extended abstracts of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Long papers of a maximum of 12 pages Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a conference Springer book or LNCS (Lectures Notes in Computer Science) is considered. Proposals of invited sessions - Deadline Nov 1, 2017. Contact bioma2018(a)sciencesconf.org E-G. Talbi (Conference Chair)

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ACS 2017 -- Submission Deadline 30 June, 2017
by Roger Hallman 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

ACS 2017 : The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security Link: http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ When: Sep 18, 2017 - Sep 22, 2017 Where: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2017 Notification Due: Jul 11, 2017 Final Version Due: Jul 21, 2017 Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security (ACS 2017) Co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- September 18-22, 2017 Cloud computing is used by many organizations to build scalable systems in different domains, such as retail, healthcare, human resources, finance, education, and government. Our society has become more dependent on the services provided by these cloud-based systems. As a result, cyber-attacks on these cloud-based systems can have a dramatic impact on all aspects of our lives. Cloud security is an active area of research, involving many approaches for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and applications hosted in the cloud. However, existing techniques for securing cloud-based systems, including autonomic-based cloud systems, are based on the assumption that people will be involved in managing them. These techniques require end user input to implement effective cybersecurity strategies to defend the systems. The emerging area of Autonomic Cybersecurity can provide solutions that complement existing cybersecurity techniques in the cloud. The goal of Autonomic Cybersecurity is to use Autonomic Computing techniques and approaches to defend computing systems. The Autonomics and Cloud Security workshop aims to investigate approaches to cloud security in general, including cloud-based autonomic systems, as well as autonomic cybersecurity approaches for defending cloud-based systems. The workshop is soliciting papers in two categories, namely, the use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security, and techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in these two categories, which include, but are not limited to, the following major areas: The use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security: -Challenges in autonomics and cloud security and privacy -Emerging issues in autonomic cloud security -Autonomic identity and access management in cloud computing -Autonomic cybersecurity monitoring and incident response in cloud computing -Autonomic auditing and accountability in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to usable security in cloud computing -Autonomic security protocols in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to privacy in the cloud -Autonomic approaches for securing data and communication in the cloud -Secure autonomics-based cloud federation -Self-adaptive security policies -Self-configuration of cloud systems -Scalable cybersecurity in the cloud -Autonomic event recovery in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to moving target defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to cyber defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to intrusion detection and prevention systems in the cloud -Techniques and approaches for building resilient cloud systems -Cybersecurity in fog and edge computing -Application of big data analytics to securing the cloud -Autonomic approaches to trusted computing Techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems: -Cybersecurity in the cloud for supporting IoT applications -Security protocols in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for privacy preservation in cloud-based autonomic systems -Event detection and forensics in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for cloud-based autonomic systems resiliency -Secure computing techniques for the cloud (securing data-in-processing via Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and other secure computing techniques). -Techniques and approaches for anomaly detection in cloud-based autonomic systems -Scalable cybersecurity in cloud-based autonomic systems -Ethical hacking and penetration testing in cloud-based autonomic systems -Case studies in securing cloud-based systems We solicit research papers containing original research results and challenge papers motivating new research directions. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. Submissions may be made via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acs17 . UPDATE: A special issue on Cluster Computing (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) will include an extension of the best papers of all the workshops that will be held in conjunction with ICCAC 2017. Organization: General Chair Mamadou H. Diallo -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Program Co-Chairs Michael August -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Sherif Abdelwahed -- Mississippi State University, USA Technical Program Committee: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo -- The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tiago Cruz -- University of Coimbra, Portugal Song Fu -- University of North Texas, USA Roger Hallman -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nuno Neves -- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Jason R.C. Nurse -- University of Oxford, United Kingdom Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Muthu Ramachandran -- Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, United Arab Emirates Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA Vijay Varadharajan -- University of Newcastle, Australia Publicity and Web Chair: Christopher Graves -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Scott M. Slayback -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Contact: General Chair -- mamadou.h.diallo(a)navy.mil Publicity and Web Chair -- christopher.t.graves(a)navy.mil

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CFP: SC17 workshop, Computational Reproducibility at Exascale 2017 (CRE-2017)
by Keyrouz, Walid (Fed) 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Apologies for the potential duplication. -Walid ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== Computational Reproducibility at Exascale Workshop (CRE2017) ------------------------------------------------------------ Where: In cooperation with SC17, Denver, Colorado When: Sunday afternoon, November 12, 2017 Web: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Deadline: Monday, August 28, 2017 Notifications: Monday, September 18, 2017 Full Papers: Monday, October 02, 2017 Organized by: Walid Keyrouz (NIST), Miriam Leeser (NEU), and Michael Mascagni (FSU & NIST) ====================================================================== This workshop will address the problems of reproducibility in HPC in general and those anticipated as we scale to Exascale machines in the next decade. We seek contributions of extended abstracts (two pages) in the areas of computational reproducibility in HPC from academic, government, and industry stakeholders. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Case studies of reproducibility or the lack of thereof - Reproducibility issues in current HPC - System-level solutions - Algorithmic solutions - Software solutions - Uncertainty quantification in computational reproducibility - Fundamental numerical analysis of reproducibility - Future prospects Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed and the top papers will be selected to be presented at the workshop. In addition, a group of papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) devoted to Computational Reproducibility. Please note that papers submitted to the IJHPCA for the CRE2017 special issue must fall within the IJHPCA's editorial scope. This primarily means that all papers for the special issue must have relevance to high-performance computing. Overview and Background ======================= Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. As computing has grown into a powerful tool for scientific inquiry, computational reproducibility has been one of the core assumptions underlying scientific computing. With "traditional" single-core CPUs, documenting a numerical result was relatively straightforward. However, hardware developments over the past several decades have made it almost impossible to ensure computational reproducibility or to even fully document a computation without incurring a severe loss of performance. This loss of reproducibility started when systems combined parallelism (e.g., clusters) with non-determinism (e.g., single-core CPUs with out-of-order execution). It has accelerated with recent architectural trends towards platforms with increasingly large numbers of processing elements, namely multicore CPUs and compute accelerators (GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs). Programmers targeting these platforms rely on tools and libraries to produce codes or execute them efficiently. As a result, codes can run efficiently, but have execution details that can be impossible to predict and are often very difficult to understand after execution. Furthermore, parallel implementations often result in code with varying execution orders between runs, leading to non-reproducible computations. The underlying reasons are that (1) the hardware and system software allocate parallel work in ways that are not always specifiable at compile time and (2) the execution often proceeds in an opportunistic manner with the execution order changing between runs. As such, floating-point computations, which are not commutative and associative, can have different execution orders and execute on different processing elements between runs, leading to runs with varying results as a matter of fact. The predictability of systems is further complicated by two issues that are becoming more critical as systems grow in scale: (1) interconnect systems with latencies that are often outside the control of programmers and (2) reliability as the mean time between failure (MTBF) is now measured in hours on large systems. This situation seriously affects the ability to rely on scientific computations as a metrological substitute for experimentation. This workshop extends the Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale Workshops (conducted in 2015 and 2016 at SC) to address the broader range of issues in reproducibility that arise when computing at Exascale. The first edition, NRE2015 was held at SC15, its webpage can be found here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/numreprod2015.cfm. The second edition, NRE2016, was at SC16 and its webpage can be found here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre/nre-2016.html. Submissions =========== Submissions of two page extended abstracts are sought. The format for the abstracts should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. Templates are available at "IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings" (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) The full papers must be in the format of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelines) The abstracts are to submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Important Dates (all are Mondays) ================================= Aug. 28, 2017: submission deadline for two page abstracts via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Sep. 18, 2017: notification of authors about their submissions based on rejection, acceptance as a paper, acceptance as a paper and presentation Oct. 02, 2017: submission deadline for full papers for refereeing via the IJHPCA site, the papers must be in IJHPCA format Organizers and Co-Editors of the IJHPCA Special Issue ===================================================== - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Michael Mascagni, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Florida State University, USA Steering Committee ================== - Dong H. Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA - David Bailey, UC Davis, USA - Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Torsten Hoefler, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland - Walid Keyrouz (co-organizer), NIST, USA - Miriam Leeser (co-organizer), Northeastern University, USA - Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA - Michael Mascagni (co-organizer), FSU/NIST, USA - Junji Nagano, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan - Nathalie Revol, INRIA/ENS-Lyon, France - Siegfried Rump, University of Hamburg, Germany - Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Contact ======= E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace ".at." by "@") -Walid ------ Walid Keyrouz, PhD Research Scientist NIST | ITL | SSD

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[CFP] 7th Int. Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA2017)
by Fulvio Frati 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

** SIMPDA 2017 ** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp] **************************************************************************** *** SIMPDA 2017 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS 6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it **************************************************************************** *** ## About SIMPDA With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Neuchatel. ###Call for Papers The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2017) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume of CEUR workshop series. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911) scheduled for late 2018 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: - Business Process Modeling languages, notations and methods - Lightweight Process Model - Data-aware and data-centric approaches - Process Mining with Big Data - Variability and configuration of process models - Process simulation and static analyses - Process data query languages - Process data mining - Privacy-aware process data mining - Process metadata and semantic reasoning - Process patterns and standards - Foundations of business process models - Resource management in business process execution - Process tracing and monitoring - Process change management and evolution - Business process lifecycle - Case studies and experience reports - Social process discovery - Crowdsourced process definition and discovery ### Workshop Format: In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop: The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students. Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc that they got out of the workshop. ### Call for PhD Research Plans The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. Research plans should be at most of 5 page long and should be organised following the following structure: - Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. - Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. - Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). - Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. - Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. - Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA PhD award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted. Student Scholarships An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP. In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it ### CALL for Demonstrations and Posters Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 10 pages. Posters allow the presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Accepted demonstrations and posters will be presented at the symposium. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings. ### Important Dates - Paper Submission: 4 October 2017 - Submission of PhD Presentations: 4 October 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 14 November 2017 - Submission of Camera Ready Papers: 28 November 2017 - Second International Symposium on Process Data: 6-8 December 2017 - Post-proceeding submissions: 30 March 2018 ## Keynote Speakers TBA ## Organizers ### CHAIRS - Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kilan Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ### ADVISORY BOARD - Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Robert Meersman, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Wilfried Grossmann, University of Vienna, Austria ### Program Committee - Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA - Benoit Depaire, University of Hasselt, Belgium - Chintan Mrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Christophe Debruyne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada - Edgar Weippl, TU Vienna, Austria - Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia - George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK - Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK - Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Josep Carmona, UPC - Barcelona, Spain - Kristof Boehmer, University of Vienna, Austria - Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany - Marcello Leida, TAIGER, Spain - Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria - Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven TU, Netherlands - Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College, UK - Mazak Alexandra, University of Vienna, Austria - Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Robert Singer, FH Joanneum, Austria - Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Thomas Vogelgesang, University of Oldenburg, Germany - Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania - Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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[Deadline approaching] CFP: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing, SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop)
by roman 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Dear Colleague, We invite you to submit a contribution to SPIFEC 2017, the 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing. The paper submission deadline is June 30th. This workshop will be held on September 14th, in conjunction with ESORICS 2017. Revised accepted papers will be published as a joint post-proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with other ESORICS Workshops. More information is available at: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec Looking forward to meeting you in Oslo! Best regards, the organizers, Rodrigo Roman, Chunming Rong, Ruben Rios

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CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) ***************************************** Important Dates Papers Due: 30 July 2017 Notifications of Acceptance: 9 September 2017 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2017 Final Papers Due: 1 October 2017 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. WORKS papers will be published in collaboration with SIGHPC and will be available from both ACM and IEEE digital repositories. ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK – General Chairs Johan Montagnat, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC, USA Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece ***************************************** WORKS 2017 Program Committee Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Université Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, University of Athens, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Embedded and VLSI Design 2018
by Ishan Thakkar 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Call for Papers: International Conference on Embedded and VLSI Design 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 31st International Conference on VLSI Design The 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems January 6-11, 2018, Pune, India http://embeddedandvlsidesignconference.org This joint conference is a forum for researchers and designers to present and discuss current topics in VLSI design, electronic design automation, embedded systems, and emerging technologies. Two days of tutorials will be followed by three days of regular paper sessions, special sessions, and embedded tutorials. Industry presentation sessions along with exhibits, panel discussions, Design Contest, and Education Forum round off the program. The conference is followed by the Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT) workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on previously unpublished results in the following categories: ******************************** EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN E1: Embedded Systems Hardware: HW/SW co-design, SoC, multi-core systems, board level hardware, HW security, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, sensors/actuators, displays E2: Embedded Systems Software: Operating systems, firmware, algorithms, middleware, runtimes, parallelization, virtualization, software for low power, security, reliability, real-time support, emerging applications (e.g., automotive, telematics, analytics) E3: FPGA and Reconfigurable Systems: FPGA architecture and FPGA circuit design, CAD for FPGA, FPGA prototyping, FPGA-based accelerators E4: Wireless Systems: Sensor networks, low-power wireless systems, wireless protocols, wireless power delivery E5: Embedded Case Studies: Practical and industrial tools, methodologies, designs in various application areas: wireless, medical, networking, multimedia, automotive, controls, etc. DESIGN TOOLS AND EDA T1: Design Verification: Functional, formal, coverage-driven, hardware-assisted, and assertion-based verification, behavioral, RTL, and gate-level simulation, emulation, equivalence checking T2: Test, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance: DFT, fault modelling and simulation, ATPG, BIST, repair, delay test, fault tolerance, online test, AIMS/RF test, board-level and system-level test, silicon debug, post-silicon validation, memory test, reliability testing T3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD): Logic and behavioral synthesis, logic mapping, simulation and formal verification, layout (partitioning, placement, routing, floor planning, and compaction), post route optimizations DESIGN METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGY M1: System-level Design: Methodologies and architectures, processor and memory design, multi-core, GPU design, networks-on-chip, defect-tolerant architectures, accelerators, distributed systems (e.g., automotive), cyber-physical systems M2: Advances in Digital Design: Logic and physical synthesis, place and route, clock tree design, timing and signal integrity, design for manufacturability and yield, power integrity, variation-tolerant design M3: Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF Design: Design of analog, mixed signal, and RF IP, high-speed wired and wireless interfaces, low-power analog and RF M4: Power-Aware Design: Power analysis and estimation, optimization and low-power design, energy-efficient design, battery-aware design, thermal management, energy harvesting M5: CMOS Technology and Devices: Deep nanoscale CMOS devices, device modelling and simulation, multi-domain simulation, device/circuit-level reliability and variability M6: Emerging Technologies: Post-CMOS devices, MEMS sensors, biomedical circuits, lab-on-chip, carbon nanotubes, silicon photonics, spintronic, memristors, neuromorphic and quantum computing SAFE AND SECURE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS S1: Design for Safety and Reliability Physically unclonable functions, random number generators, fault tolerance systems and architectures S2: Secure Circuits and Systems System security, side channel attacks and anti-piracy methodologies, Embedded systems security in healthcare, automotive, industrial and IoT applications S3: Safety Assurance of Circuits/ Systems Design for functional safety and certifications in airborne, health care, automotive systems ******************************** EMBEDDED TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS: Proposals in relevant emerging areas should be submitted as two-page abstracts. On acceptance, authors are required to submit full regular papers. HALF-DAY AND FULL-DAY TUTORIALS: Tutorial proposal are invited for topics of interest including VLSI design, EDA, VLSI technology, and embedded systems. The tutorials will be arranged on the first two days of the conference. PANELS: Proposals must be submitted with an abstract, and a list of panelists. SUBMISSIONS: All submissions should be made electronically via the conference website by July 16, 2017. Your manuscript should clearly state the novel ideas, results, and applications of the contribution. Paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review. Papers must be in PDF format and not exceed 6 single-spaced pages including figures and references in two-column IEEE conference paper format. Papers exceeding the page limit or identifying the authors will be rejected without review. EXHIBITS: Please contact the Exhibits Chair to explore opportunities to display your products/services. FELLOWSHIPS: The conference will award fellowships, based on need and merit, to partially cover expenses of attendees from India. Application details will be posted at the conference website. DESIGN CONTEST: Please check the conference website or contact the Design Contest Chair for more details. USER TRACK AND PHD FORUM: Please check the conference website for details on criteria and submission dates. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full paper deadline: July 16, 2017 Acceptance notification: September 17, 2017 Camera ready paper due: October 8, 2017

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Third IEEE International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SN-2017)-Berlin, Germany
by Shao Ying Zhu 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Call for Papers The Third International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE NFV-SDN conference, 6-8 November, Berlin, Germany Workshop website: http://www.sn-2017.info/ Scope Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) have changed the networking industry dramatically. NFV virtualizes network services by utilizing virtualization technologies to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware. NFV provides many benefits such as faster service enablement, ease of resource management and lower OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes. SDN provides many benefits such as reduced costs, ease of deployment and management, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine-grain control of traffic and security. Like traditional networks, they are subject to various security threats and attacks. In this workshop, we invite high-quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and other related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks and requirements, threats and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide novel methods and approaches to assure security in NFV and SDN. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: · Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks · Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security · Secure design of NFV and SDN solutions, security enablers · Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies · Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV · Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems · Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions · 5G security architecture, trust and confidence · Authentication, authorization and Accounting in SDN · Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network · Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT · Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing · Security of SDN API · Risk and compliance issues in SDN · Securing SDN infrastructure · Security architecture for SDN · Security standard of SDN · Security of SDN data plane · Security of SDN control plane · Security of SDN application plane · Security of Routing in SDN · Security of network slicing · Security as a service for SDN The workshop deadlines: · Paper Submission: June 30, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2017 · Camera Ready Submission: September 15, 2017  Submission Please use EDAS to upload your submission at http://edas.info/N23798. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two‐column Manuscript Templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages for full papers and up to four (4) pages for short papers (work in progress), including figures. All papers need to be submitted in PDF format via EDAS<http://edas.info/N23798>. All submitted papers will be peer‐reviewed. To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Explore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (double submission). These matters are taken very seriously and the IEEE Communications Society will take action against any author who engages in either practice. Workshop Chairs · Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby,UK · George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece · Collin Allison, University of St Andrews,UK · Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee (TPC) · Diego Lopez – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Harilaos Koumaras – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui – i2CAT, Spain · Ludovic Jacquin – Hewlett Packard Labs, UK · Nicolae Paladi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden · Augusto Ciuffoletti – University of Pisa, Italy · Carolina Canales – Ericsson, Spain · Michail-Alexandros Kourtis – NCSR Demokritos, Greece · Marco Anisetti – University of Milan, ItalyMarco Anisetti – University of Milan, Italy · Sandra Scott-Hayward – Queen’s University Belfast, UK · Miguel Angel Garcia – Ericsson, Spain · Antonios Litke – Infili, Greece · Nikolaos Papadakis – Infili, Greece · Dimitris Katsianis, Incites, Luxemburg · Antonio Agustin Partor Perales – Telefonica I&D, Spain · Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany · Abdelkader Outtagarts – Nokia, Bell Labs, France Contacts Eleni Trouva - trouva(a)iit.demokritos.gr<mailto:trouva@iit.demokritos.gr> Dr. Shao Ying Zhu - s.y.zhu(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.y.zhu@derby.ac.uk> Dr. George Gardikis - ggar(a)space.gr<mailto:ggar@space.gr> Linas Maknavicius - linas.maknavicius(a)nokia-bell-labs.com<mailto:linas.maknavicius@nokia-bell-labs.com> Dr. Colin Allison - ca(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:ca@st-andrews.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ________________________________ ********** WORKS 2017 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Monday 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC17, http://sc17.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2017 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications

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CFP - IEEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17)
by Peter Mueller 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Third IEEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17) ----------------------------------------------------------- http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/qcit17-workshop/ At IEEE Globecom’17, Singapore, 4-8 December 2017 http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org The scope of this dedicated workshop is to explore the opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology and its applications. The workshop is the annual main event of ComSoc’s Emerging Technical Committee on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (ETC-QCIT). Over the last decade, a wide variety of experimental quantum communications and processing devices has been invented and used for fundamental demonstrations in laboratories. Results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications and information related fields. Recently one can observe upcoming applications in areas like a quantum communications, quantum sensors and random number generators which are partially even commercially available. Companies and governments started to spend significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. However, the step from quantum technology based devices to real systems running a communications or information processing task has not completed yet. Moreover, many problems show opportunities to contribute with knowhow, technologies and engineering out of the communications area. The following topics are crucial to the development of future quantum technology based systems: - Algorithms and applications complexity - Analysis of classical vs quantum software - Coding theory - Coherent routers, repeaters and converters - Communications and information theory - Devices and circuits - Entanglement distillation - Error correction - Experimental results and demonstrations - Interconnection and complexity theory - Metrology for quantum systems - Modeling and simulation - Network coding - Photonic communications technology - Processing and systems architecture - Quantum electro-dynamics - Quantum information theory - Quantum key distribution - Quantum sensors - Quantum-algorithms and applications - Remote state preparation - RF based programming and algorithms - RF technology and control - Signal processing for quantum control It is the aim of this workshop to connect people from academia and industry to discuss about theory, technology and applications and exchange ideas to move efficiently forward in research, engineering and development of this exciting area. Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts -------------------------------------------- Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23835 Further information is available in the Globecom 2017 webpages: http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org Important dates --------------- Manuscript submission due date: 1. July, 2017 Notification date: 1. September, 2017 Final manuscript due date: 1. October, 2017 Conference date: 4.-8. December, 2017 Workshop organizers ------------------- Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy, a.conti(a)ieee.org Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, lh(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland, pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, sxn(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk

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CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) - July 18
by Nico Saputro 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your papers to the IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/ in Las Vegas, NV USA, October 9-11, 2017. The CPS-Sec Workshop will primarily focus on the security and privacy aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things. The workshop will include papers (both novel and work-in-progress submissions), invited talks, panels, and discussions to facilitate the exchange of research ideas in a community environment. We are sure that the CPS-Sec workshop will greatly benefit from your contributions. The submission deadline is July 18, 2017 and the author notification is planned for August 9, 2017. We look forward to your contributions. Please feel free to contact the TPC Chairs of the CPS-Sec Workshop (suluagac(a)fiu.edu, conti(a)math.unipd.it, kakkaya(a)fiu.edu) should you have any questions. For more information regarding the workshop, please visit http://cns2017.ieee-cns.org/workshop/cps-sec-international-workshop-cyber- physical-systems-security Thank you in advance. ---------------------------------- Nico Saputro Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Florida International University

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REV-A 2017 - Paper deadline extension
by Luiz DeRose 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline Extension -------------------- REV-A 2017 CFP --------------------- Re-Emergence of Vector Architectures Workshop - https://rev-a.github.io/ To be held in Conjunction with the IEEE Cluster 2017 September 5, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Paper submission: REV-A Submission<https://easychair.org/conferences/overview.cgi?a=13663824> Papers due: June 25, 2017 The commoditization of high performance computing to a broader range of applications coupled with the reduction in performance improvement from traditional scaling technologies has led to a broad interest in a number of new compute acceleration technologies from GPGPUs to CGRAs and FPGAs. Meanwhile, SIMD widths have been widening to try to keep up with computational demand and general purpose architectures have started incorporating features from the vector architectures that used to dominate high performance computing. From IBM's Vector Media eXtension (VMX) to NEC's SX architecture to Intel's Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX) to ARM's recently announced Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) -- all of the major general purpose architectures seem to have embraced a return to vector based functionality. Supporting these hardware developments there are a number of features being proposed for incorporation into modern programming models and languages in order to support the vector additions as well as restructuring memory access in order to feed the computational pipelines. Meanwhile application developers have been hard at work trying to refactor code to take advantage of wider vector units and more complicated memory hierarchies. Tools and techniques for developing for these new vector architectures are still evolving, particularly on emerging languages and runtimes. The REV-A 2017 workshop will be a full-day meeting to be held at the IEEE Cluster 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on all aspects of vector architectures, programming models, programming frameworks, and applications. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Programming framework * Programming model and language explorations * Compilation and optimization including: o algorithmic improvements o code optimization * Performance Analysis and Debugging Tools * Performance Metrics and Evaluations * Libraries and run-time systems * Design, generation, verification and validation of representative applications * Case-studies of representative applications * Innovative applications for vector architectures * Hardware studies and micro-architectural implementation tradeoffs The REV-A workshop proceedings will be published along with the IEEE Cluster Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should follow the IEEE Xplore format for publication: not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal. Accepted papers will have a page limit of 8 pages, and authors can purchase an additional 2 pages, for a total of 10 pages maximum. Important Dates: Papers due: June 25, 2017 <<<--- Extension Author notification: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready final papers due: July 30, 2017 REV-A Workshop: September 05, 2017 Workshop Chairs: Luiz DeRose Cray Inc. Eric Van Hensbergen ARM Research Program Committee: David Abramson University of Queensland Bronis R. de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mootaz N. Elnozahy KAUST Roger Espasa SemiDynamics Michael Garland NVIDIA Ian Karlin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory David Lilja University of Minnesota Sally McKee Chalmers University of Technology Sanyam Mehta Cray Inc. Hiroshi Nakashima Kyoto University Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University Mitsuhisa Sato Riken Sunil Shrestha Cray Inc. Xinmin Tian Intel Mateo Valero Barcelona Supercomputing Center / UPC Jeffrey Vetter Oak Ridge National Laboratory Felix Wolf TU Darmstadt Pen-Chung Yew University of Minnesota

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CyberSciTech 2017 CFP
by Kevin Wang 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call-for-Papers The 2nd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017) http://cyber-science.org/2017/ Orlando, USA, 6-10 November 2017 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) INTRODUCTION --------------------- The modern digitized world has led to the emergence of a new paradigm on global information networks and infrastructures known as Cyberspace and the studies of Cybernetics, 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. As expected, this whole concept of Cybernetics brings new challenges that need to be tackled. 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 2017 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017) to 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. CyberSciTech 2017 covers four main research tracks including but not limited the following areas or topics. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- Paper Submission Due: July 10, 2017 Authors Notification: August 10, 2017 Camera-Ready Manuscript Due: September 1, 2017 SCOPE AND TOPICS -------------------------- CyberSciTech 2017 covers four main research tracks including but not limited the following areas or topics. Track 1: Cyber Science and Fundamentals Cyberspace Structure & Property, Cyber-world Constituents & Evolution, Cyberspace & Cyber-world Modeling, Cyber-enabled Hyper-connection, Cyber Visualization, Web Science, Internet Science, Data Science, Cyber Physical Science, Cyber Social Science, Cyber Human Science, Cyber Life Science, Cyber Physics, Cyber Biology, Cyber Ecology, Cyber Dynamics, Cyber Security Track 2: Cyber Physical Computing and Systems Cyber-Physical Systems, Cyber-Physical Interface, Cyber-Physical Hybrid Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Networked Robots, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Wearable/Bearable Computing, Cyborg, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Object, Smart Sensor, Smart Environment, Smart City, Smart Agriculture, Smart Manufacture, Smart Healthcare, Smart Service, Smart Cloud, Smart World Track 3: Cyber Social Networks and Computing Cyber-Social Networks, Cyber-Sociology, Cyber-Culture, Cyber-Economy, Cyber-Social Evolution, Cyber-Social Sensing, Cyber-Social Simulation, Cyber-Behavior Analytics, Cyber-Crowdsourcing, Cyber-Trust, Cyber-Privacy, Cyber-Rights, Cyber-Crime, Cyber-Law, Cyber-Telepathy, Anticipatory Computing Track 4: Cyber Mind and Mental Computing Cyber-Brain, Cyber-Individual, Cyber-Life, Cyber/Digital Clone, Cyber-Human Evolution, Cyber-Psychology, Cyber-Cognition, Cyber-Affordance, Cyber-Human Analytics, Cyber-based Learning, Cyber-Thinking, Cyber-Creation, Affective Computing, Emotional Computing, Mental Computing, Sentiment Analysis SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Submitted papers need to abide by IEEE Computer Society formats. Final papers must be formatted accordingly (see “IEEE Manuscript Templates <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>”) and submitted via EDAS https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23118. Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively by emailing cyberscitechcongress(a)gmail.com. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. Main track, workshop/special session, poster (short) papers all need to be in IEEE CS format and submitted following the same instruction on the CyberSciTech 2017 congress web site. A main track, workshop, or special session paper should be between 6-8 pages. A poster (short) paper should be between 2-4 pages. All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of the following journals. (( http://cyber-science.org/2017/si.html) 1 - IEEE Cloud Computing (https://www.computer.org/cloud-computing) 2 – Scalable Computing and Communications - Special Issue on "Scalable Algorithms and Behavior Analytics in Cyber-Enabled World" ( http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-2-1572358-preview&dynamic=true) 3 - Future Generation Computer Systems ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems) 4 - Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks)

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ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended
by Youakim Badr 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended version: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2017 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)

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CfP - Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact - Enviroinfo 2017
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Enviroinfo 2017 workshop: "Applied Environmental Modelling – Operation and Impact" September 13/14/15, 2017 Neimënster Abbey, 28 Rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg Submission deadline (abstracts): 3rd July 2017 http://www.envcomp.eu/enviroinfo17/ or http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/ (programme, workshops & special sessions) The proposed workshop brings together experts in green IT, IT cost assessment, environmental modelling, disaster risk assessment and global supply chain optimisation to lay the groundwork for an economic and ecologic cost-benefit analysis framework that can be used to estimate optimal investments in operational environmental modelling services. The workshop will include a mix of invited presentations and peer-reviewed papers submitted through a normal peer-review process. The themes and focus areas of the workshop bring together and support cross-pollination between several themes of the EnviroInfo 2017 conference: • Cross-border collaboration and issues and environmental informatics • Environmental Modelling and Simulation • Applications of Geographical Information Systems • Risk Assessment and Resilience • Software Tools and Environmental Databases • Design, Sustainability and Green Software Engineering Paper submission Contributions should be submitted as 1-4 page extended abstracts via the conference tool (https://www.conftool.net/enviroinfo2017/) please refer to the conference author guidelines ( http://www.enviroinfo2017.org/en/call-for-papers/authors-guidelines/) for different submissions options. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in a journal after the workshop. Discussions pending with FGCS. Important dates Abstract submissions due: 3rd July 2017 Notification: 24th July 2017 Camera ready: 7th August 2017 Conference dates: 13th to 15th June 2017 Structure of the workshop Full day workshop split into four 1.5 hour sessions. Organisation Dieter Kranzlmüller (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) Volker Wolgemuth (HTW Berlin) Matti Heikkurinen (LMU München) Full list of environmental computing events: http://www.envcomp.eu/events/ -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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STM 2017 - submission deadline extended to June 23, 2017
by stm2017 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline extended to June 23, 2017 (11:59PM American Samoa time) *** ****************************************************************************** 13th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2017) Oslo, Norway - September 14-15, 2017 http://stm2017.di.unimi.it co-located with with ESORICS 2017 ****************************************************************************** STM (Security and Trust Management) is a working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2017 is the thirteenth workshop in this series and will be held in Oslo, Norway, in conjunction with the 22nd European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Access control - Anonymity - Applied cryptography - Authentication - Complex systems security - Data and application security - Data protection - Data/system integrity - Digital rights management - Economics of security and privacy - Formal methods for security and trust - Identity management - Legal and ethical issues - Mobile security - Networked systems security - Operating systems security - Privacy - Security and trust metrics - Security and trust policies - Security and trust management architectures - Security and trust for big data - Security and trust in cloud environments - Security and trust in content delivery networks - Security and trust in crowdsourcing - Security and trust in grid computing - Security and trust in the Internet of Things - Security and trust in pervasive computing - Security and trust in services - Security and trust in social networks - Social implications of security and trust - Trust assessment and negotiation - Trust in mobile code - Trust models - Trust management policies - Trust and reputation systems - Trusted platforms - Trustworthy systems and user devices SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of accepted papers). The final version of an accepted paper must be in the format required for publication in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stm2017 . Papers must be received by the extended deadline of June 23, 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to STM 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for STM 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to STM 2017, you must await our response before submitting elsewhere. If you submit your paper to another conference or journal either before/after submission of the paper to STM 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will also notify the other conference/journal. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: June 23, 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time) [extended] Notification to authors: July 27, 2017 Camera ready due: August 05, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Chris Mitchell Royal Holloway, University of London, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada Colin Boyd, NTNU, Norway David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Stig Mjolsnes, NTNU, Norway Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Siani Pearson, HP, UK Gunther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Marinella Petrocchi, CNR, Italy Benoit Poletti, INCERT GIE, Luxembourg Silvio Ranise, FBK, Italy Ralf Sasse, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Vicenc Torra, University of Skovde, Sweden Fabian Van Den Broek, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Damien Vergnaud, ENS, France Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong If you have any question, please contact the program chairs at stm2017pcchairs(a)gmail.com

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - submission deadline 30th June
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualisation BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017 by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page ( http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information about templates and submission types. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 30, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 11, 2017 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 - info(a)envcomp.eu Full list of environmental computing events: http://www.envcomp.eu/events/ -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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IGSC'17 Call for Papers **Deadline Extended to June 30**
by Ishan Thakkar 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17) ================================================================================================ www.green-conf.org October 23-25 2017, Orlando, Florida IGSC’17 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will consist of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and tutorials on these topics. IGSC’17 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green Computing ----------------- - Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware - Low-power electronics and systems - Power-efficient multi/many-core chip design - Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs - Sensing and monitoring - Power and thermal behavior and control - Data centers optimization - Smart grid and microgrids - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability ----------------------------- - Renewable energy models and prediction - Matching energy supply and demand - Smart transportation and electric vehicles - Smart buildings and urban computing - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture - Computational models for epidemics, infectious diseases, and human well-being - Computational methods for sustainable economy and society Paper submission guidelines ---------------------------------- IGSC’17 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (www.green-conf.org) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Best paper award and journal publication ------------------------------------------ The Technical Committee will select the best contributions to be extended and considered by the Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and special sessions --------------------------------- Proposals are solicited for workshops and special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Special Sessions Chair (iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu) Ph.D. forum ------------ Submissions are solicited for a Ph.D. forum, from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing. Please refer to the IGSC website for specific instructions for extended abstract submission. Important dates ----------------- Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: July 16, 2017 Paper submission: June 30, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: Aug 5, 2017 Organization -------------- Steering Committee Chairs: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), shirazi(a)wsu.edu General Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA), weisong(a)wayne.edu Tech. Program Chair: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, USA), sudeep(a)colostate.edu Workshop Chair: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca Publicity Chair: Ishan Thakkar (Colorado State University, USA), ishan9it(a)rams.colostate.edu

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Reminder: Central European Cybersecurity Conference (16-17 November 2017)
by CECC 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Dear Colleague, There are a few days left to register a research paper by submitting an abstract to the Central European Cybersecurity Conference – CECC 2017 to be held on 16 – 17 November 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. CECC 2017 aims at establishing a venue for the exchange of information on cybersecurity and its many aspects in central Europe. CECC 2017 encourages the dialogue between researchers of technical and social aspects of cybersecurity, both crucial in attaining adequate levels of cybersecurity. Complementary contributions dealing with its economic aspects as well as any legal, investigation or other issues related to cybersecurity are welcome, too. Papers will be published in following publications: 1. All accepted and presented research papers -- will be available in Open Access conference proceedings published by the University of Maribor Press and submitted for indexing by DBLP, Elsevier SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection. 2. Selected accepted and presented research papers -- will be published, after further revision to ensure adequate quality for journal papers, in special issue “Technical and Social Aspects of Critical Infrastructure Security” of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (ISSN 0948-695x / 0948-6968). Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: 19 June 2017 Full paper submission deadline: 17 July 2017 More details can be found on the conference website: https://www.fvv.um.si/cecc2017/ Best regards, CECC 2017 Organizers

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Call for Participation – ICCCN 2017
by Narman, Husnu S. 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleagues, We would like to cordially invite you to join us at the ICCCN 2017 to be held in Vancouver, Canada between July 31st and August 3rd, 2017. This year will be the 26th year of ICCCN and we have a fantastic slate of keynote speakers, panelists, and research papers. We encourage you to join us to help celebrate this milestone for ICCCN! Christian Poellabauer, ICCCN 2017 General Chair Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Haiying Shen, TPC Co-Chairs Song Fu and Abhishek Parakh, Workshop Co-Chairs Lu Su, Poster Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Highlights: ICCCN 2017 (http://icccn.org/icccn17/) July 31st – August 3, 2017 Vancouver, Canada Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE, IEEE Communication Society; Huawei (Industry Sponsor) ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. The four-day program features three keynote talks and three plenary panels given by world-renowned scholars covering a variety of exciting research topics. We have more than 175 research presentations scheduled in the main conference plus the accompanying workshops and the poster session, all held in Vancouver, one of the most livable and beautiful cities in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers: • Topic: Research Challenges and Solutions for IOT/CPS Prof. John A. Stankovic, IEEE/ACM Fellow Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia • Topic: Protecting Web Sites from the Internet of Compromised Things Prof. Bruce Maggs Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Vice President, Research, Akamai Technologies • Topic: Telecom Policy: Competition, Spectrum, Access and Technology Transitions Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, IEEE/ACM Fellow Department of Computer Science, Columbia University & Chief Technology Officer, FCC Panel #1: Age of the Internet of Things Panelists: Sajal Das (MST); Krishna Kant (Temple University); Rick Schlichting (ATT); Lixia Zhang (UCLA) Panel #2: Cloud Scale Big Data Analytics Panelists: Indranil Gupta (UIUC); Jeff Kephart (IBM); Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University); Vanish Talwar (Nutanix); Pei Zhang (MU) Panel #3: Federal Funding for Research in Networking and Beyond Panelists: Vipin Chaudhary (US NSF); Richard Brown (US NSF); Reginald Hobbs (US Army Research Lab); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshops (Thursday, August 3, 2017): • 1st Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Blockchain Technologies (PSTBT) • 7th Workshop on Industrial Internet of Things Communication Networks (IioTCom) • 7th International Workshop on Internet on Things: Privacy, Security and Trust (IoTPST) • 2nd Workshop on Network Security Analytics and Automation (NSAA) • 11th International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2017) • 3rd International Workshop on Vehicular Networking and Intelligent Transportation Systems (VENITS’17). Poster Session (13 presentations) – August 2, 2017. Best Regards Husnu Narman

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Posting CFP of ICMC 2018
by Debasis Giri 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2018) January 09-11, 2018, Varanasi, India Conference website: http://iitbhu.ac.in/icmc2018/apm/index.html ICMC 2018 - Indian Institute of Technology<http://iitbhu.ac.in/icmc2018/apm/index.html> iitbhu.ac.in OBJECTIVE . The fourth ICMC 2018 will highlight the new advances and research results in the fields of Computational Applied Mathematics, including, but not limited ... The fourth International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2018) will be held during January 09-11, 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. ICMC 2018 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Cryptology, Security and applied Mathematics. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, expert from industry, and researchers in the domain of interest from around the world. The conference will have pre-conference Tutorial presentations, Invited talks and Research paper presentations. The invited talks and tutorials will be delivered by renowned experts. The conference proceedings of ICMC 2018 will be published by Springer. Important Dates: ---------------------- * Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2017 * Acceptance Notification: October 30, 2017 * Camera Ready Submission: November 7, 2017 * Early Bird Registration: November 10, 2017 Topics of Interest: ------------------------ The topics are as follows but are not limited to: Computing Track ================= Cryptography and Security Digital Image Processing Digital Watermarking Coding Theory Combinatorics Computer Graphics and Visualization Digital Signal Processing Mathematics Track ==================== Numerical Analysis Approximation Theory Analysis Linear Algebra Differential Equations Computational Number Theory Operations Research Probability and Statistics Soft Computing Computational Fluid Mechanics Mathematical Modelling and Simulation Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory More information can be found through the conference website: http://iitbhu.ac.in/icmc2018/apm/index.html ICMC 2018 - Indian Institute of Technology<http://iitbhu.ac.in/icmc2018/apm/index.html> iitbhu.ac.in OBJECTIVE . The fourth ICMC 2018 will highlight the new advances and research results in the fields of Computational Applied Mathematics, including, but not limited ... If you have any question, please contact the organizers at debdas.mat(a)iitbhu.ac.in<mailto:debdas.mat@iitbhu.ac.in> (Dr. Debdas Ghosh) Thanks & best regards, Program Co-chairs: Prof. Ram N. Mohapatra (University of Central Florida, USA) Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI (Kyushu University, , Japan) Prof. Debasis Giri (Haldia Institute of Technology, India) Prof. Ekram Savas (Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey)

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DAES 2017: The Third International Workshop on Data Analytics and Emerging Services (DAES), submit before July 22, 2017, thanks!
by Chang V.I. 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, We have 1 international workshop on Data Analytics and Emerging Services. Details are on https://easychair.org/cfp/DAES-2017 / https://tiantiandaboli.github.io/ICET2017/ICET2017.html Submission is on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daes2017. There are special rates for Turkish, Kazakhstani, Uzbekistani, and Kyrgyzstani participants who currently work/study at the Turkish, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, or Kyrgyzstan Institutions. Submission deadline: July 22, 2017. Thanks and see you. Top authors will invited by top journals. Only us. Turkey is a great place for summer holidays too. See you there! MTAP: http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1592844/application/pdf/1059T+-+Se… , extended to the end of Sep. TFSC: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-chan… FGCS: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… Committees Thanks and regards, Victor --- DAES 2017 Our workshop presents a summary of Data Analytics and Emerging Services (DAES), which offer innovative approaches of delivering services and making contributions to research and enterprise communities. Following the successful delivery of our previous workshops and conferences related to Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things and Security, we maintain our passion to continue running this workshop. Previously it was known as Emerging Software as a Services and Analytics (ESaaSA). To reflect recent updates in the emerging trends, topics and collaborative conference, it is now known as DAES. We oversee the importance of DAES as a unique and rising field and all services in SaaS should always be designed, deployed and integrated. Emerging means innovative techniques and methods used for the traditional areas (finance, healthcare, education, security etc) or new areas (mobile apps, social networks, weather visualization, Big Data processing etc). We will seek papers to demonstrate proofs-of-concept, demonstrations, design and implementations, successful case studies and use cases of adopting DAES. The focus of this workshop is to demonstrate new techniques, demonstrations and innovative approaches in DAES and analytics services. The impacts of research contributions are as follows. Explain how to implement analytics, and their added values. Demonstrate how DAES can be used in different case studies. Describe how to resolve challenges in each of Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things and Security scenario. Provide reproducible steps for anyone to follow, and support reproducibility and innovation, two important aspects in Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things and Security. Explain how their Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things and Security services can work effectively in production and real-time Present how their services can make contributions to users involved in the use of Cloud services and adoption. Sum up and disseminate all the lessons learned and recommendation to play an influential role in academia and industry Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please follow IEEE format, with double columns. Final version should follow the IEEE format. Please submit to Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daes2017 List of Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Data as a Service Databases: Systems, applications and recent development Data Analytics NoSQL databases Visualization Algorithms, Methods and scientific processes Modern Architectures Big Data software and proof-of-concepts Spark, Hapdoop, Apache Pig and any new Big Data tools Financial services, financial modeling and business processes Banking, econometrics and economic research Risk management and analysis Health informatics and IoT IoT services and technologies IoT applications Smart cities Security, privacy and Trust Cloud Computing services Education as a Service Gaming as a Service (GaaS) Framework (conceptual, logical or software) Integration and fusion Weather analysis and computation Real time Cloud, IoT and big data services Fog and edge computing e-Government, e-Commerce, e-Science and creative technologies for Cloud and IoT Management information systems Social network analysis Scheduling, service duplication, fairness, load balance for SaaS and Analytics IoT, Big Data and Analytics discussion from scientists, business/IS academics and industrial consultants Modern data center and system architecture to improve performance, security and integration Real-life examples and case studies Any emerging DAES services Important dates Submission deadline: July 22, 2017: Result notification: July 30, 2017 Registration deadline: August 10, 2017 Date of the workshop: August 21-23, 2017 Special issues and best paper award Authors of top papers will be invited to special issues from Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) and also other leading journals. The best paper winner will receive an official certificate and will be invited for the regular paper submission to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) if the quality is excellent. Further information will be confirmed and updated. MTAP: http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1592844/application/pdf/1059T+-+Se… , extended to the end of Sep. TFSC: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-chan… FGCS: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… Committees Program Committee (more will be added, thanks) Victor Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (Lead) Gang Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Pandi Vijayakumar, University College of Engineering Tindivanam, India Gary Wills, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Dan Liao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Jian Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Farshad Firouzi, IMEC/Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Germany Óscar Mortágua Pereira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Roger A. Hallman, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, USA Anna Kobusińska, Poznań University of Technology, Poland Dongcheng Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Hui Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Organizing committee Dr. Victor Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (Lead) Dr. Gang Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Dr. Pandi Vijayakumar, University College of Engineering Tindivanam, India Roger Hallman (publicity) Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to victorchang.research(a)gmail.com

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[CFP] SUBMISSION OPEN: 7th Int. Symp. on Secure Virtual Infrastructures -- Cloud and Trusted Computing (C&TC 2017)
by Fulvio Frati 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

*** C&TC 2017 - SUBMISSION OPEN *** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures -- Cloud and Trusted Computing (C&TC 2017) October 23-27, 2017 -- Rhodes, Greece http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/ctc-2017 ========================================================================== ================== Special Theme 2017 ================== Secure and Trustworthy Big Data Analytics and IoT Integration: From the Periphery to the Cloud =========== Description =========== Current and future service-based software needs to remain focused towards the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for internet-based and intranet-based systems in organizations, as well to move to IoT integration and big data analytics. Today, service-based software covers a very wide range of application domains as well as technologies and research issues. This has found realization through Cloud Computing, Big Data, and IoT. Vital element in such networked, virtualized, and sensor-based information systems are the notions of trust, security, privacy and risk management. Cloud and Trusted Computing (C&TC 2017) is the 7th International Symposium on Cloud Computing, Trusted Computing and Secure Virtual Infrastructures, organized as a component conference of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops. C&TC 2017 will be held in Rhodes, Greece. The conference solicits submissions from both academia and industry presenting novel research in the context of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and IoT, presenting theoretical and practical approaches to cloud, big data, and IoT trust, security, privacy and risk management. The conference will provide a special focus on the intersection between cloud paradigm, big data analytics, and IoT integration, bringing together experts from the three communities to discuss on the vital issues of trust, security, privacy and risk management in Cloud Computing, shedding the light on novel issues and requirements in big data and IoT domains. Potential contributions could cover new approaches, methodologies, protocols, tools, or verification and validation techniques. We also welcome review papers that analyze critically the current status of trust, security, privacy and risk management in the cloud, big data, and IoT. Papers from practitioners who encounter trust, security, privacy, and risk management problems, and seek understanding are finally welcome. =========== Topics =========== For 2017, a special emphasis will be put on Secure and Trustworthy Big Data Analytics and IoT Integration: From the Periphery to the Cloud. Topics of interest are classified in four main themes and include, but are not limited to: TRUST, SECURITY, PRIVACY AND RISK MANAGEMENT - Assurance Techniques - Access Control, Authorization, and Authentication - Big data security and privacy - Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment - Cooperative systems - Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols - Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War - DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection - Emergency and Security Systems - End-to-end security over complex cloud supply chain - Forensics - Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems - Identity and Trust Management - IoT security and privacy - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Clouds - Network Security - Networks of Trust, Clouds of Trust - Privacy, Anonymity - Privilege Management Infrastructure - Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing - Risk evaluation and Management - Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing - Security Models and Quantifications - Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security - Trust Evaluation and Prediction in Service-Oriented Environments - Trust, Security, Privacy and Confidentiality - Trust in big data analytics - Trust in IoT environments - Trusted Computing in virtualized environments - Trusted Execution Environments - Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, XaaS - Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software DATA MANAGEMENT - Algorithms and Computations on Encrypted Data - Big Data, Frameworks and Systems for Parallel and Distributed Computing - Big Data Processing and Analytics - Big Data Preparation - Big Data Representation - Big Data Visualization- Database as a Service, Multi-tenancy, Data management and analytics as a service - Data Provenance - Data Integrity - Data Science and Scalable Machine Learning - Elasticity and Scalability for Cloud Data Management Systems - Encryption Systems for IoT Data - High Availability and Reliability - Interoperability between Clouds- New Protocols, Interfaces and Data Models for Cloud Databases - Resource and Workload Management in Cloud Databases - Sensor-Based Data Collection, Management, and Security - Service Level Agreements and Contracts - Transactional Models for Cloud Databases, Consistency and Replication - Threats and countermeasures - Virtualization and Cloud databases, Storage Structures and Indexing INFRASTRUCTURES AND ARCHITECTURES - Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications - Big Data Infrastructures - Cloud Resource provisioning with QoS Guarantees - Cloud Operation and Resource Management - Cloud Performance Modeling and Benchmarks - Datacenter Architecture and Management - Formal methods and Tools for Cloud computing - Infrastructures for Social Computing and Networking - IoT Infrastructures - NoSQL Databases - Software Architectures and Design for Trusted Emerging Systems - Virtualized Computing Infrastructures APPLICATIONS - Big Data Applications and Case Studies - Cloud Business Applications and Case Studies - Clouds and Social Media, Network and Link Analysis - Data Intensive Applications - IoT Applications and Case Studies - Large Scale Cloud Applications, Reality Mining - Mobile Cloud Services - New Parallel / Concurrent Programming Models for Cloud Computing - Pervasive / Ubiquitous Computing in the Cloud - Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Quality-of-Service - Service Level Agreements and Performance Measurement - Service-Oriented Architectures, RESTful Services in Cloud Environments =============== Important Dates =============== Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: July 5, 2017 Conference Paper Submission Deadline: July 12, 2017 Acceptance Notification: Aug 20, 2017 Camera Ready Due: Aug 30, 2017 Author Registration Due: Aug 30, 2017 ================ Paper Submission ================ FULL PAPERS Regular paper submissions to Cloud and Trusted Computing 2017 (C&TC 2017) must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. Successful submissions typically represent a major advance for the fields of cloud computing, big data, and IoT referencing and relating the contribution to existing research work, giving a comprehensive, detailed and understandable explanation of a system, study, theory or methodology, and support the findings with a compelling evaluation and/or validation. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format (no longer than 18 pages in length). Accepted regular papers will be included in the printed conference main proceedings and presented in the paper sessions. Submissions to C&TC 2017 must not be under review by any other conference or publication at any time during the C&TC review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. NOTES (SHORT PAPERS) Short papers (not longer than 6 pages in length) must report new results and provide support for the results, as a novel and valuable contribution to the field just like full papers. Short papers are intended for succinct work that is nonetheless in a mature state ready for inclusion in archival proceedings. Short papers will be held to the same standard of scientific quality as full papers, albeit for a shorter presentation, and must still state how they fit with respect to related work, and provide a compelling explanation and validation. Short papers must be submitted as single PDF file in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Accepted short papers will be published in the conference main proceedings and will be presented in the paper sessions of the conference. We plan a journal special issue for which we will invite the best papers (to be confirmed) Paper submission site: http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/paper-submission PAPER FORMATTING AND PRESENTING The paper and notes submission site giving all the relevant submission details is located at: http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/paper-submission/authors-kit. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers or notes will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. =============== Program Chairs =============== - Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Adrian Belmonte, ENISA, Greece - Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ================= Program Committee (TBC) ================= - Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain - Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece - Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen, Italy - Damien Sauveron, Université de Limoges, France - Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London - David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK - Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Eugenia Nikolouzou, ENISA, Greece - Francesco Di Cerbo, SAP Labs, France - George Karabatis, University of Maryland, USA - Gwanggil Jeon, Incheon National University, South Korea - Ioannis Askoxylakis, Bournemouth University, UK - Julian Schutte, Fraunhofer, Germany - Konstantinos Rantos, Industrial Informatics Department of the Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece - Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK - Marco Anisetti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany - Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy - Meiko Jensen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany - Michele Bezzi, SAP, France - Miguel Vargas Martin, University of Ontario, Canada - Nabil El Ioini, Free University of Bozen, Italy - Raja Naeem Akram, Royal Holloway, UK - Rasool Asal, British Telecommunications, UK - Scharam Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria - Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH-ICS, Greece - Stefan Schulte, Technical University of Vienna, Austria - Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece =============== Publicity Chair =============== - Fulvio Frati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy More information available at http://otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/ctc-2017

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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FPS 2017 Call for Papers (Springer-LNCS Proceedings)
by Abdessamad Imine 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification : September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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