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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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Register Now for SSBSS 2017 - July 17-21, University of Cambridge, UK
by Giuseppe Nicosia 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

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 <http://www.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/>

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CFP - Intl. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017)
by Peter Mueller 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Call for Papers for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) ***One of China Computer Federation (CCF) Class "C" Conferences*** Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Central South University, China Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE TCSC. Venue & Dates: Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ Co-Located Conferences: (1) The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ (2) The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 14+ SCI & EI indexed special issues (confirmed): (1) IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.79) http://tii.ieee-ies.org/ (2) IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: to appear soon) https://www.computer.org/web/tetc (3) IEEE Access (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.270) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/ (4) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.364) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ (5) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.430) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ (6) Cluster Computing - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.514) http://link.springer.com/journal/10586 (7) Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.331) https://link.springer.com/journal/11042 (8) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Elsevier (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.320) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput… (9) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.94) http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/ (10) Security and Communication Networks - Hindawi (SCI&EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.806) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/ (11) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE (13) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES (14) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn * More special issues will be added later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Keynote Speeches shared by IEEE ISPA 2017 and its co-located IEEE IUCC 2017 and SpaCCS 2017 Conferences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2017 (15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 15th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2016 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2017 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA 2017 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Interests (1) Systems and Architectures Track Cloud computing and data center technology Migration of computations Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability Energy management and Green Computing Wireless and mobile networks Internet of Things (IoT) Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems (2) Technologies and Tools Track Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC Parallel and distributed algorithms Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development Novel parallel programming paradigms Programming models for cloud services and applications Code generation and optimization Compilers for parallel computers Middleware and tools Scheduling and resource management Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security (3) Applications Track High-performance scientific and engineering computing Grid and cluster computing Pervasive and ubiquitous computing Databases, data mining, and data management Big data and business analytics Scientific cloud systems and services Internet computing and web services Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission and Publication Information All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa2017) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings Format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017 Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 General Chairs: Qinghua Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Chairs: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Program Vice Chairs: (1) Systems and Architectures Track Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia Qing Yang, Montana State University, USA (2) Technologies and Tools Track Julien Bourgeois, Universit¨¦ de Franche-Comt¨¦, France Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China (3) Applications Track Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Weigang Li, University of Brasilia, Brazil Steering Chairs: Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee Members: Please check the conference website for detail. Workshop Chairs: Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Publicity Chairs: Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Publication Chair: Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chair: Pin Liu, Central South University, China Organizing Chairs: Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Webmaster: Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China Contact: Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ISPA 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (ISPA2017Guangzhou AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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Deadline approaching - 13th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2017)
by stm2017 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** 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 deadline of June 17, 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 17, 2017 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa time) 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 (to be completed) 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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Invited Paper Submission to IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017)
by Kor, Ah-Lian 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

We would like to invite you to submit to the 2nd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017) http://cyberscitech.net/2017/, to be held in Orlando, USA, 6-10 November 2017. The details of the call for the sponsored conference by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) is as below: CALL For Papers 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 -------------------------- Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2017 Authors Notification: July 30, 2017 Camera-Ready Manuscript Due: August 15, 2017 Author Registration Due: August 15, 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>"). 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<mailto:cyberscitechcongress@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 prestige journals. Dr. Ah-Lian Kor PhD MBCS IEEE FHEA Senior Lecturer Course Leader for MSc Sustainable Engineering School of Computing, Creative Teachnologies and Engineering 202 Caedmon Hall, Leeds Beckett University, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS UK Tel. No: 0044 113 8123243 Skype Name: lmualkor Email: A.Kor(a)leedsbeckett.ac.uk<mailto:A.Kor@leedsbeckett.ac.uk> To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to:- http://disclaimer.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/disclaimer/disclaimer.html

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Submission extension: IEEE HiPC abstracts due June 23, full paper due June 30
by Anand Panangadan 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics HiPC 2017 December 18-21, 2017 Jaipur, India http://www.hipc.org Paper Abstract Submission: Friday, June 23, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline (firm): Friday, June 30, 2017 Author Notifications for Rebuttal: Thursday, August 8, 2017 Author Rebuttal Response Due: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: Friday, September 8, 2017 Camera Ready paper Submission Due: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 HiPC 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS HiPC 2017 will be the 24th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the area high performance computing. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. In 2016, to keep pace with new computing trends, the conference added two new areas of interest to its name, Data and Analytics, as reflected in the list below. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, data and analytics. Topics include (but are not limited to): Algorithms: Design and Application of Parallel and Distributed Big Data and Analytics Algorithms Algorithmic Techniques to Improve Energy and Power Efficiency Quantum and Bio-Inspired Algorithms Resilient and Fault Tolerant Algorithms Parallel algorithms for Numerical Linear Algebra Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management Large Scale Graph Analytics Streaming Algorithms Architectures: Interconnection Networks and Architectures Cache/Memory Architecture for High Performance Computing High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures Quantum and Bio-Inspired Architectures Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques Resilient and Fault Tolerant Architectures Applications: Big Data Computing and Applications Cross-Cutting Methods such as Co-Design of Parallel Algorithms, Software, and Architectures Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, IoT, and Nanotechnology Hardware Acceleration for Parallel Applications Parallelism in Scientific Data Visualization and Visual Analytics Scientific/Engineering/Industrial Applications and Workloads Scalable Machine Learning and Data Mining Applications Scalable Graph and other Irregular Applications Design of Simulation Applications and Peta- and Exascale Applications Systems Software: Big Data Analytics Systems and Software Architectures Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing Exascale Computing, Cloud Platforms, Data Center Architectures and Services Parallel Languages, Programming Environments, and Performance Assessment Operating Systems for Scalable High -Performance Computing Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators Dealing with Uncertainties, Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Systems One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2017 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier). Program Chair Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Vice-Chairs Algorithms: Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France Applications: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Architecture: Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA System Software: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA

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CFP: Special Issue on "Security and Privacy in Cloud-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems" in Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier)
by Cristina Alcaraz 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** ================================================================================ C a l l F o r P a p e r s COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL - Elsevier Special Issue: Security and Privacy in Cloud-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems ================================================================================ Cloud-assisted Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) feature a tight coupling between embedded computing devices and their physical environment. CPSes can be viewed as the bridge between physical components/processes and the cyber space. Specifically, the notion of CPSes is to use computing (e.g. sensing, analyzing and predicting), communication (e.g. interaction, intervene and interface management), and controlling (e.g. inter-operation, evolving and evidence-based certification) to make intelligent and autonomous systems. Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the development of CPSes services, including ubiquitous health care, smart electricity grid, and smart buildings. However, the fast-growing data volume is hard to process. The present CPSes cannot support ultra-fast computing, and thus it cannot provide real-time and reliable services to meet the requirements, which are essential for mission-critical systems. Fortunately, cloud infrastructures and platforms can provide flexible and on-demand processing power and high-capacity storage for data streams, as well as provisioning of a variety of services using telecommunication and networking technologies. Thus, the large-scale nature of CPSes can be effectively and efficiently supported and assisted by cloud systems, which is referred to as cloud-assisted CPSes (Cloud-CPS). The coupling of cloud systems and CPSes, though advantageous, is subject to new forms of risks that have not been considered adequately in the traditional computing domain. CPSes often collect sensitive and private information about the physical environment. A loss of security for a CPS can therefore have significant negative impact including loss of privacy, potential physical harm, discrimination, and abuse. Though numerous security primitives have been developed in the cyber domain to address the very same problems, their applicability to the Cloud-CPSes domain is still questionable due to the reason that they are usually complex to implement and oblivious to cyber-physical interactions. The goal of this special issue is to unveil and address the security and privacy aspects associated to the Cloud-CPeSs. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following. * Secure data sharing in Cloud-CPSes * Big data security and privacy in Cloud-CPSes * Secure computation in Cloud-CPSes * Location privacy in Cloud-CPSes * Lightweight block ciphers for low-resource devices in Cloud-CPSes * Searchable encryption in Cloud-CPSes * End to end secure communications in Cloud-CPSes * Access control in Cloud-CPSes * Key management in Cloud-CPSes These topics remark the differences between the classical CPSes and Cloud-CPSes, and particularly when designing security and privacy solutions for specific Cloud-assisted CPSes applied in restricted environments with rigorous performance requirements and criticality in mind. ----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: June 30, 2017 * Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2017 * Final manuscript due: October 15, 2017 ----------------------------------------- Paper Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------------- All submitted papers to this special issue must be well written in English, and must be original and not be under review in any other journal or conference proceedings. When submitting their papers authors must select “Security in Cloud CPS” as the article type. Submitted papers should be presented according to the journal style. For more detailed information regarding the requirements for submission, please refer to: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computer-networks/1389-1286/guide-for-aut…. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ----------------------------------------- Guest Editors ----------------------------------------- Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, alcaraz(a)lcc.uma.es Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, xyhuang81(a)gmail.com Erich Rome, Fraunhofer, erich.rome(a)iais.fraunhofer.de

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[Conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth] Special Issue on Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
by Special Issue on JAIHC 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexi… Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo Loia Special Issue on Systems and Applications of Internet of Things for building Smart Environments Aims and Scope The new advances on embedded systems and mobile computing provide great potential to the development of the information and communication society. Progress made open new possibilities for designing value-added applications for the user. The purpose of this special issue is to foster quality research in this field. The scope of this special issue deals with the scientific and technological issues for building smart environments made of connected devices and cloud computing support. Overview Most of the current IoT advances are mainly focused on sensors, connectivity networks and architectures, however the key-enabling aspect of this paradigm is the implementation of user-centred applications that focus on improving the life of citizens and the places in which they live. Smart cities, assisted living, transportation, sport monitoring and health applications are just some examples of applications which have emerged in this domain. The development of smart objects, embedded intelligence, and smart networks may further aid progress. In addition, connecting the Internet-of-Things to the Cloud can address the problem of access to near-limitless computational power and allows to unlock advanced multi-tiered IoT applications and to provide smarter behaviour of the IoT systems. However, this paradigm still has technological and scientific challenges related to several areas of computing and communications. The objective of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address key aspects of Smart Environments powered by Internet of Things and related areas. Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are solicited. Why this subject is important to Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing readers The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing is an international and prestigious journal in the field of IoT applications; in this perspective, this SI focusing on IoT and building of smart environments, will be able to collect several scientific contributions from different research areas, since the IoT paradigm can be considered a quite consolidated but at the same time an emerging paradigm with an increasing interest from academics, government and industry. List of the topics to be covered Topics of interest around IoT include, but are not limited to, the following scope:  Application development trends for IoT.  IoT system design, modeling and evaluation.  Cyber-Physical Systems  Mobile Cloud Computing.  Real-time computing for IoT.  Cloud Computing and IoT.  Embedded sensing and actuating.  Smart Cities development.  Ubiquitous computing.  Human centric computing.  Distributed smart systems and applications.  Data management in IoT.  Quality of Service in IoT applications.  Scalability and mobility issues.  Specialized embedded architectures. Proposals should address some of the above-mentioned topics, and identify the added value of the proposed approach specific to IoT and smart environments. It is expected to include usage scenarios to demonstrate the practicality of the approach. Submission Guidelines All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by JAIHC http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexi…. Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/aihc/default.aspx. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the journal reviewing procedures. Authors have to select the Article Type “IoT for Smart Environments” in the submission system. Schedule – important dates  Paper submission due: Oct. 30, 2017  1st round review notification: Dec. 30, 2017  Revised version submission due: Jan. 30, 2018  2nd round review notification: Feb. 30, 2018  Final Acceptance notification: Mar. 30, 2018 Guest Editors Dr. Higinio Mora Mora Senior Researcher. Computer Technology and Computation Department. University of Alicante. Spain. Dr. Bruno Volckaert Professor. Department of Information Technology. Ghent University. Belgium. Dr. Virgilio Gilart Iglesias Senior Researcher. Computer Technology and Computation Department. University of Alicante. Spain. Dr. Raquel Pérez del Hoyo Senior Researcher. Department of Building Sciences and Urbanism, University of Alicante, Spain _______________________________________________ CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH(a)sercontecpma.com http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_…

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CfP: MACIS 2017, Submission: Sep 3 / Conference: Nov 15-17 / Vienna, Austria
by res.mb.conference 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

*** Call for Papers MACIS 2017 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences November 15-17, 2017 Vienna, Austria. Web site: https://macis2017.sba-research.org/ **** MACIS is a series of biennial conferences focusing on research in mathematical and computational aspects of computing and information science. MACIS 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective four-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. +++ Important Dates +++ Submission deadline (REGULAR/SHORT papers): September 3, Sunday (SHORT papers are decided on a rolling basis) Notification deadline for all submissions: October 2, Monday Registration opens: October 2, Monday Camera-ready due: October 15, Sunday Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. +++ MACIS 2017 Organization +++ General Chair: Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria PC Chairs: Johannes Bloemer, Paderborn University, Germany Temur Kutsia, RISC, Johannes Kepler University, Austria MACIS Steering Committee: Ilias Kotsireas (Chair), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Siegfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Thomas Sturm, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Dongming Wang, Beihang University, China Jinzhao Wu, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Chee Yap, New York University, USA +++ Proceedings +++ All accepted SHORT or REGULAR papers (details, below) are planned to appear in a conference proceedings volume published by Springer LNCS (pending approval). In addition, REGULAR papers have the opportunity to be considered for post-conference special issues of the journal ``Mathematics in Computer Science'' (MCS http://link.springer.com/journal/11786) by Birkhauser/Springer. +++ MACIS 2017 Topics +++ MACIS authors are required to choose one of the following tracks: Track 1: Foundation of Algorithms in Mathematics, Engineering & Scientific Computation Track Chairs: Matthew England (Coventry University, UK), Jonathan Hauenstein (University of Notre Dame, USA), Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Elias Tsigaridas (INRIA, France) Topics: quantifier elimination and decision procedures; global optimization; differential equations; numeric, symbolic, interval and hybrid solution techniques; satisfiability modulo theories; combinations of logics and deductive engines; applications, especially in systems analysis and formal verification; solving (parametric) polynomial systems Track 2: Combinatorics and Codes in Computer Science Track Chairs: Daniel Augot (INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique, France), Alexander May (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), Alfred Wassermann (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Topics: combinatorics, enumerative, combinatorial designs, their analysis and algorithmic constructions of them, complexity problems in combinatorics; codes constructions, decoding methods and their complexity, information theory aspects, Kolmogorov complexity Track 3: Data Modeling and Analysis Track Chairs: Xiaoyu Chen (Beihang University, China) Joachim Giesen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Giorgos Kollias (IBM Research, USA) Topics: knowledge discovery; data mining; differential privacy, pattern recognition; complex knowledge - representation and management; foundations and theories for data analysis - systems; design and analysis of machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis for big data Track 4: Mathematical Aspects of Information Security and Cryptography Track Chairs: Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Switzerland), Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Guenael Renault (ANSSI, France) Topics: security models; formal methods for security and privacy; design and analysis of algebraic, elliptic, number theoretical, code-based, lattice-based and hash-based cryptographic primitives; algebraic cryptanalysis, algebraic attacks, number theoretical algorithms, mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography; (lattices, codes); algorithms and software for symbolic computation in cryptography - For general inquiries regarding MACIS 2017, please send e-mail to Dimitris Simos <dsimos(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dsimos@sba-research.org>> - For inquiries regarding MACIS topics, please send e-mail to Johannes Bloemer <bloemer(a)mail.uni-paderborn.de<mailto:bloemer@mail.uni-paderborn.de>> or to Temur Kutsia <kutsia(a)risc.jku.at<mailto:kutsia@risc.jku.at>> +++ Submission Guidelines +++ Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research: - REGULAR papers are up to 15 pages, and SHORT papers are up to 5 pages, including references. - Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. - Please use the LNCS format from Springer: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip - Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by using the easychair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=macis2017. - For detailed submission guidelines please see the MACIS website: https://macis2017.sba-research.org

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CFP: 12th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Ilia Pietri 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

******* WORKS 2017 Workshop ******* Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop Monday, 13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA. Held in conjunction with SC1 <http://sc17.supercomputing.org/>7, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ 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) ************************************* Paper Submission 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 The paper must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. WORKS papers this year 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, French National Center for Scientific Research (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, USC, 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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Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2017
by Dirk Craeynest 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017 12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017 *** Check out tutorials and workshop! *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Online proceedings available at event *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 22nd Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Vienna Vienna, Austria (6 June 2017) - TU Vienna and Ada-Europe organize from 12 to 16 June 2017 the "22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017" in Vienna, Austria. The event is organized in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general, and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. This year's conference offers two days of parallel tutorials, a workshop, three keynotes, a full technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Eight excellent tutorials on Monday and Friday cover a broad range of topics: Introduction to SPARK 2014; Ada on ARM Cortex-M, a Zero-Run-Time Approach; Software Measurement for Dependable Software Systems; Real-Time Parallel Programming with the UpScale SDK; Using Gnoga for Desktop/Mobile GUI and Web development in Ada; Frama-C, a Collaborative Framework for C Code Verification; On beyond ASCII: Characters, Strings, and Ada 2012; Modular Open System Architecture for Critical Systems. In addition, on Friday the conference hosts for the 4th consecutive year the International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (De-CPS 2016), now with a focus on "Transportation of the Future". Three eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program. Giovanni Battista Gallus (Array, Italy), in "The laws of robotics and autonomous vehicles may be much more than three, but don't panic... yet", will talk about the future European legal framework, which is relevant for the development of autonomous vehicles, and especially programming issues. Thomas Henzinger (IST, Austria), in "Behavioral Software Metrics", will show how the classical satisfaction relation between programs and requirements can be replaced by quantitative preference metrics that measure the "fit" between programs and requirements. Kay Römer (TU Graz, Austria), in "Dependable Internet of Things", will introduce the Dependable Things research center at TU Graz and present recent results on improving the dependability of wireless communication and localization, embedded computing, and networked control for the Internet of Things. The technical program presents 14 refereed and carefully selected papers on the latest research, new tools, applications and industrial practice and experience, a collection of 9 industrial presentations reflecting current practice and challenges, 4 presentations and a discussion in a special panel session on "The Future of Safety-Minded Languages", and vendor presentations. Springer Verlag publishes all peer-reviewed papers in the proceedings of the conference, as LNCS Vol. 10300. The remainder of the proceedings will be published in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday morning and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, VectorCAST, and Ada-Europe. The social program includes a Welcome Reception plus robotics presentations on Tuesday evening at "TU the Sky"; its terraces at the top of TU Vienna's buildings offer a terrific view on the city. On Wednesday evening there will be a Vienna bus tour, followed by the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at a very famous "Heuriger". Each day, coffee breaks in the exhibition area and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. The conference is hosted by TU Vienna at Palais Eschenbach, which is located near the center of Vienna and can easily be accessed by metro. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 16-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/AE2017_final_program.pdf> Check out the 8 tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are very reasonable and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017> or go directly to <https://adaeurope.upv.es/index.html>. For those who can't attend the full conference, note that Wednesday 14 June is "Meet Ada-Europe day!", and single day registration is discounted. The proceedings, published by Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10300, are already available online. See <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-60588-3>. A printed copy is included in every full conference registration. Help promote the conference by advertising for it! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/picts/AE2017_poster.png>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2017. For the latest information consult the conference web site <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2017 Publicity Chair *** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017 *** June 12-16, 2017 *** Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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CFP: ACS 2017 The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security
by Roger Hallman 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Link: http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ WikiCFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=64433&copyownerid=… 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 MORE TO COME 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 SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop): 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing
by roman 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** ============================================================================== C a l l F o r P a p e r s SPIFEC 2017: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing (In conjunction with ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway, September 14, 2017 Website: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec ============================================================================== Overview The main goal of Fog Computing and other related Edge paradigms, such as Multi-Access Edge Computing, is to decentralize the Cloud and bring some of its services closer to the edge of the network, where data are generated and decisions are made. Cloud-enabled edge platforms will be able to cooperate not only with each other but with the cloud, effectively creating a collaborative and federated environment. This paradigm shift will fulfill the needs of novel services, such as augmented reality, that have particularly stringent requirements like extremely low latency. It will also help improve the vision of the Internet of Things by improving its scalability and overall functionality, among other benefits. To enable this vision, a number of platforms and technologies need to securely coexist, including sensors and actuators, edge-deployed systems, software-defined networks, hardware virtualization, data mining mechanisms, etc. However, this paradigm shift calls for new security challenges and opportunities to leverage services for new scenarios and applications. The field of edge computing security is almost unexplored, and demands further attention from the research community and industry in order to unleash the full potential of this paradigm. Topics This workshop expects original research papers on, but not limited to, the topics described below: • Edge devices security • Attacks and Countermeasures to Edge computing platforms • Authentication and Access control in Edge computing • Accountability and Accounting in Edge computing • Identity management systems in Edge computing • Secure federation of Edge computing devices • Secure Orchestration and Management of Edge devices • Secure Software-Defined Networking for Edge computing • Secure Virtualization in Edge Computing • Secure Migration of resources in Edge Computing • Data and Computation integrity in Edge Computing • Trust and Reputation Management in Edge computing • Privacy in Edge Computing • Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems for Edge computing • Digital Forensics in Edge Computing • Risk Analysis in Edge Computing • Incident Management in Edge Computing Important dates: - Submission deadline: 30th June 2017 - Authors’ notification: 30th July 2017 - Camera ready version: 27th August 2017 Paper Submission Guidelines: Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spifec2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or submitted to another conference or journal. Papers must be written in English and they must adhere to the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 18 pages total. Only PDF format is accepted. 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 (confirmed). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American Samoa time (UTC-11) Organisation Committee PC Chairs - Rodrigo Roman University of Malaga, Spain - Chunming Rong University of Stavanger, Norway General Chair - Ruben Rios University of Málaga, Spain Program Committee - Ketan Bhardwaj Georgia Tech, USA - Egemen K. Çetinkaya Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA - Xiaofeng Chen Xidian University, China - Nathan Clarke Plymouth University, UK - Mauro Conti University of Padova, Italy - Jose M. De Fuentes University Carlos III Madrid, Spain - Roberto Di Pietro Nokia Bell Labs, France - Martin G. Jaatun SINTEF, Norway - Donghyun Kim Kennesaw State University, USA - Costas Lambrinoudakis University of Piraeus, Greece - Qun Li College of William and Mary, USA - Kaitai Liang Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Flavio Lombardi Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy - Javier López University of Malaga, Spain - Masahiro Mambo Kanazawa University, Japan - Haralambos Mouratidis University of Brighton, UK - Abderrahmen Mtibaa New Mexico State University, USA - Jose A. Onieva University of Malaga, Spain - Fernando M.V. Ramos University of Lisbon, Portugal - Pierangela Samarati Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Juan E. Tapiador University Carlos III Madrid, Spain For any inquiries please contact the PC Chairs at: spifec2017(a)nics.uma.es

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CIBB 2017 - Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
by Chiara Damiani 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2017 <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/>, 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 7-9 September 2017, Cagliari, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 4 June 2017 12 june 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks   biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems   flux balance analysis   metabolic engineering   metabolic pathway analysis   model verification and refinement methods   models of neural activity multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems   parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks   software tools for systems biology   spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: 4 June 2017 12 june 2017 Acceptance: 22 June 2017 5 july 2017 Registration due: 17 July 2017 Camera-ready: 22 July 2017 PROCEEDINGS Authors of accepted short papers (4-6 pages) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph, which is planned to be published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Best papers will be invited to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://co2.unica.it/cibb2017/call.php> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Riccardo Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918

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New research positions in Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
by Madden, Michael 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hello; I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of relevant candidates. Up to three new research positions are available in the Data Mining & Machine Learning Research Group, led by Dr Michael Madden in the National University of Ireland Galway, to contribute to a substantial European Union research project called ROCSAFE, which involves an exciting combination of aerial robotics, ground-based robotics, sensing systems, image analysis, and artificial intelligence. There are positions available for a software engineer and for two research scholars (MSc by research with possibility to transition to PhD). The software engineer will receive a salary commensurate with experience. The MSc students will receive a tax-free scholarship of €16,000 per year, with fees also paid. Additional funding is provided for research-related travel. The research and software development work is likely to involve topics such as: (1) development of communications protocols and simulation of a realistic multi-agent system; (2) routing of autonomous vehicles for optimal collection of multi-resolution image and sensor data; (3) context-aware decision support driven by sensor data analytics. This is an excellent opportunity to combine research with software development, working in a flexible and stimulating research environment, while collaborating with academic and industrial partners across Europe. For information on how to apply, please see our website: http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/ Thank you, Michael. -- Dr Michael Madden Head of Data Mining & Machine Learning Group National University of Ireland, Galway +353-91-493797 / +353-86-7952802 http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/

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New PhD in AI/Machine Learning in a life-saving application
by Madden, Michael 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Hello all; I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of relevant students. A new PhD position is available in the Data Mining & Machine Learning Research Group, led by Dr Michael Madden in the National University of Ireland Galway. The successful candidate will join the Data Mining & Machine Learning Group and contribute to a new research project, ROCSAFE (see below) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. The research is likely to involve one of: (1) advances in temporal Bayesian reasoning for decision support; (2) routing of autonomous vehicles for optimal collection of multi-resolution image and sensor data; (3) context-aware decision support driven by sensor data analytics. The successful candidate will receive a tax-free scholarship of €18,000 per year, with fees also paid and additional funding available for research-related travel. This is an excellent opportunity to combine research with software development, working in a flexible and stimulating research environment, while collaborating with academic and industrial partners across Europe, with occasional travel to meet partners and to attend research conferences. Candidates must have a strong honours bachelor degree (equivalent to H1) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar discipline, and preferably a relevant MSc degree also. Candidates must have excellent mathematical ability, strong software development skills, great communication skills, and a strong interest in research. Preferably, candidates should demonstrate prior experience in data mining and machine learning. Expected Start Date: 1 Oct 2016 or as soon as possible after. This position will remain open until filled, but first consideration will be given to those received by 20 September 2016. Further information and how to apply: http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/index.php/?option=com_content&view=articl… About the project: ROCSAFE (Remotely Operated CBRNe Scene Assessment & Forensic Examination) has recently been funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. Led by Dr Michael Madden in NUI Galway, it will make advances in autonomous robotics, probabilistic reasoning, intelligent decision support, and miniaturised sensors, all of which will work together to gather forensic evidence in the event of a chemical, biological, radiation/nuclear or explosive (CBRNe) incident. ROCSAFE’s overall goal is to fundamentally change how CBRNe events are assessed, and ensure the safety of crime scene investigators, by reducing the need for them to enter dangerous scenes to gather evidence. There are 13 partners in total involved in the project across Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany, along with a further group of advisory board members. There is more information at http://www.nuigalway.ie/remoteforensics/. Regards, Michael. -- Dr Michael Madden Head of Data Mining & Machine Learning Group National University of Ireland, Galway +353-91-493797 / +353-86-7952802 http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/

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The 2017 ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data Analytics (DSBDA 2017)
by ICT DataScience 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '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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[Brain Informatics 2017] - Call for Abstracts
by Yang 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '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 *** (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 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 # 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 June 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers June 30, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts 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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Call for Papers: 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17)
by Ishan Thakkar 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

DEADLINE IS APPROACHING: 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 Workshop and Special Session proposals: May 15, 2017 Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: June 16, 2017 Paper submission: June 16, 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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Call for Papers: WS on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’17)
by Peter Mueller 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 - 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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Extension of OpenMPCon submission deadline
by Matthijs van Waveren 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

<http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?e=&u=2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5&id=ad7c9cb…> View this email in your browser <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2cbbeac1cf1adba6fb39190d5/images/3acd5a75-01b…> Extension of OpenMPCon Submission Deadline Do you have something to share with the OpenMP community? Submit a short abstract by June 15 to <http://openmpcon.org/conf2017/call-for-submissions/> OpenMPCon for an opportunity to present your ideas to the community! The deadline to submit a talk for OpenMPCon 2017 has been extended to June 15, 2017 and we encourage everyone to help us create an interesting agenda for the OpenMP Community meeting by submitting relevant talks, such as: * A new tool with OpenMP support * Extension of the functionality of your tool with better OpenMP support * How you and your organization uses OpenMP in applications * Ideas to extend OpenMP which can lead to an interesting discussion * Any other interesting news in the context of OpenMP Go to <https://t.co/VeP2fFPbIW> http://openmpcon.org/conf2017/call-for-submissions/ for additional information on submission to OpenMPCon to present your work. ***************************************************************** OpenMPCon2017 September 18-20, 2017 Stony Brook, New York, USA <http://www.openmpcon.org> http://www.openmpcon.org IMPORTANT DATE: Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2017 ***************************************************************** Sponsored by: OpenMP ARB Description: OpenMPCon is the annual OpenMP Developers conference organized by the OpenMP community, for the community. OpenMPCon takes place 18-20 September in Stony Brook, NY, USA and will focus on the practical usage of OpenMP and other directive based languages, to deliver high-performance computing through parallel processing. Submissions: Submissions are requested from industry experts, developers, and academia on all topics related to OpenMP, including but not limited to: application development from any discipline, algorithms, performance analysis, tools and libraries, optimization, verification, portability and education. Sessions can be in the form of technical presentations, tutorials and workshops, posters, or panel discussions. All submissions should be in the form of short abstracts (minimum 300 words, maximum 1,000 words) and must be handed in as a PDF document. All submissions will go through a peer review process. Session material will be posted on the OpenMPCon website and will be available to conference attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * How you Use OpenMP * Guidelines of OpenMP * Tips, tricks, gotchas of OpenMP * Performance of OpenMP * Conformance, build, options of OpenMP compilers/runtime implementations * Latest OpenMP and older releases and how it changes life for users * Accelerator, and heterogeneous computing (GPUs, accelerators, FPGA) * Tasks, task groups and task dependencies * Scientific, HPC workloads * Commercial, analytic workload * Oil and Gas use of OpenMP * Research on OpenMP (although a good research paper should be submitted to IWOMP) * Manufacturing, games, graphics, operating system, device drivers, and networking domains for OpenMP * Comparisons with other parallel languages * Future of OpenMP * Reduction * Base language (C++, C, Fortran) with OpenMP * Affinity * SIMD and vectors * Memory model, atomics, locks, mutexes, barriers & critical sections in OpenMP * OpenMP APIs and environment variables * Cancellation and Error Model * Technical Reports, TR1, TR2 * Arrays shaping in OpenMP * OpenMP concurrency and parallelism * OpenMP designs * Cancellation * Interoperability * Event programming, futures * Governance, ARB, committee logistics * OpenMP website, discussion groups, forums, wikis * Conferences, language meetings, IWOMP * Speculative execution and transactional memory * Software development tools for OpenMP * Relation with other (MPI, OpenCL, OpenACC, ISO, etc) * History of OpenMP * Tutorial-style sessions GENERAL CHAIRS Michael Klemm, OpenMP ARB CEO PROGRAM CHAIR Dirk Schmidl, RWTH Aachen PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Beyer, NVIDIA Michael Klemm, Intel Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS Helen He, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR Matthjis van Waveren CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT Kathleen Mattson Tim Lewis <https://twitter.com/OpenMPCon> <https://www.facebook.com/OpenMPConference/> <http://openmpcon.org/> Copyright © 2017 OpenMP ARB, All rights reserved. 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Three PhD positions in Security and Privacy
by Rolando TRUJILLO RASUA 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

The University of Luxembourg seeks to hire three outstanding PhD candidates at the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit. The positions are part of the FNR PRIDE doctoral training programme on "Security and Privacy for System Protection". The University offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer. You will work in an exciting international environment and will have the opportunity to participate in the development of a dynamic and growing centre. Successful candidates will participate in the activities of the Security and Trust of Software Systems (SaToSS) research group led by Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw. The group is focused on formalising and applying formal reasoning to real-world security problems and trust issues. We offer three different research projects: - Multi-party Authentication Protocols. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/yqPo6q - Adaptive Cyber-defenses. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/FlMo5E - Security and Privacy in Social Networks. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at: https://goo.gl/TpZ3S7 Applications can be sent to more than one research project. Each application will be considered on receipt, therefore applying before the deadline is encouraged. ================================================== Deadline for applications: August 31st, 2017 ==================================================

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FGCS Journal - Special Issue on Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing.
by Anna Kobusińska 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Call for papers - *Future Special Issue on Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing* https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… The future development of cloud computing systems is more and more influenced by Big Data and IoT. There are research and industrial works showing applications, services, experiments and simulations in the Cloud that support the cases related to IoT, Big Data and Security. Cloud users and cloud service providers face a variety of new challenges like encrypted data search, share, auditing, key management security and privacy. There is also a need for protocols that facilitate big data streaming from IoT to the cloud and QoS. This special issue encourages submissions related to all aspects of IoT, Big Data and Cloud Computing. In particular, it aims to examine the prospects and challenges that arise in conjunction with the trending topic in the field of Internet of Things and Big Data which are essential to comply with the necessities of modern cloud applications. Promoting the submission of the ongoing work with the existing important theoretical and practical results, along with position papers and case studies of already present verification projects, this special issue will highlight the art in this domain. As one of the goals, this special issue intends to convene researchers and practitioners to review the diverse range of features of security, privacy, trust and reliability in IoT and Cloud. It also examines significant theories, scrutinies technology enablers, formulates significant application and devise new methods to overcome the major problems that this research area poses. The objective of this special issue is to capture the latest advances in research topics that include but are not limited to: * Big Data and IoT on the Cloud * IoT Services and Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust in IoTSensor Networks * Remote Diagnosis and Development * Data Analysis and Visualization for IoT * Performance Evaluation and Modeling for IoT * Networking and Communication Protocols for IoT * Physical Security and Data LocationTechnological focus for Smart Environments * Data and Knowledge Management * Data Mining * Big Data Security * Cloud Computing Platforms, Applicationsand Management * Cloud Security and Privacy Management * Mobile Cloud Computing * Services Computing * Hybrid Cloud Computing * Virtualization of Resources in Clouds * Energy Efficiency in Clouds * Data Storage in Clouds * Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring *Important Dates* Paper submission due: June 30, 2017 First-round acceptance notification: September 1, 2017 Revision: October 15, 2017 Final decision: December 15, 2017 Submission of final paper: January 15, 2018 Publication date: March, 2018 *Submission Guidelines* Paper submissions for the special issue should follow the submission format and guidelines for regular Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the FGCS reviewing procedures. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Authors should select “*SI:**Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing*” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Top conference papers from SC2-2016 (http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2016) and IoTDBS 2017 (http://www.iotbds.org) will be invited for extended and enhanced version for this special issue. Extended conference contributions must have *at least 50%* difference from the original works (the authors must indicate the conference name and make the reference to the base conference paper). *Guest Editors* Anna Kobusinska (Lead guest editor), Faculty of Computing,Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Raghavendra S, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering,Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Carson Leung, Department of Computer Science,University of Manitoba,Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Robert Hsu, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Victor Chang, International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China.

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Attractive positions - chairs, Phd and post-doc - At the e2s excellence program Univ. of Pau France
by Christian La Borderie 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Dear Colleagues, Univ of Pau was elected in the Isite excellence call for proposal that ranks it among the best French universities in the domain of sciences. Within the frame of the Isite project which concerns energy and environment, the civil engineering takes it place in the domain of building physics but also in the classical domain of mechanics of materials (concrete, rocks), safety of structures, couplings and particularly in the domain of computation modeling thru FE computations. - 2 junior chair, 12 PhD grants and 4 postdoctoral fellowship are available The department of Civil Engineering of the University is located in the attractive place of the French Basque Country in the suburb of Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz. Applicants are firstly chosen on their skills and transcripts, then they must develop a project in link with a professor of the university. Be careful at the deadlines - 20th of June for the Junior Chair - 10th of June for the Phd and the post-doc positions Best regards Christian La Borderie SIAME EA-4581 <http://siame.univ-pau.fr/> / ISA-BTP <http://isabtp.univ-pau.fr/> Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour <http://www.univ-pau.fr/>. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering <http://www.tandfonline.com/tece>

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ACM-BCB Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) - Ext. Deadline
by Mario Cannataro 31 May '17

31 May '17

I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement ======================================================================================== 6th International Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/parbio2017/ held in conjunction with ACM BCB 2017 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics August 20-23, 2017 Boston, MA, USA http://acm-bcb.org/ ======================================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ======================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission (EXTENDED): June 11, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: June 18, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2017 (THIS IS A FIRM DEADLINE) Workshop: August 20, 2017 ======================================================================================== Due to the availability of high-throughput platforms (e.g. next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging), a recent trend in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine is the increasing production of experimental and clinical data. Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks. While Parallel Computing and Grid Computing may offer the computational power and the storage to face this overwhelming availability of data, Cloud Computing is a key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall model of biomedical research and health provision. Grid infrastructures may offer the data storage needed to store the huge experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST, mpiBLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. On the other hand, these technologies yet require great investments by biomedical and clinical institutions and are based on a traditional model where users often need to be aware and face different management problems, such as hardware and software management, data storage, software ownership, and not scalable costs (different professional-level applications in the biomedical domain have high starting costs that prevent many small laboratories to use them). The Cloud Computing technology, that is able to offer scalable costs and increased reachability, availability and easiness of application use, and also the possibility to enforce collaboration among scientists, is already changing the business model in different domains and now it starts to be used also in the bioinformatics (see for instance the recent JCVI Cloud Bio-Linux initiative) and biomedical domains. However, many problems remain to be solved, such as availability and safety of the data, privacy-related issues, availability of software platforms for rapid deployment, execution and billing of biomedical applications. The goal of ParBio 2017 is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance and cloud computing, computational biology and medicine, to discuss, among the others, the organization of large scale biological and biomedical databases, the parallel/service-based implementation of bioinformatics and biomedical applications, and problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud. The workshop will focus on research issues, problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud, as well as on the opportunity to define guidelines and minimum requirements for a Biomedical Cloud. Moreover, the workshop will discuss about parallel and distributed management and analysis of molecular and clinical data, that more and more need to be integrated and analyzed in a joint way. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main themes and research topics will regard the applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine, as well as Cloud Computing opportunities and problems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Integration and analysis of molecular and clinical data - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of omics and clinical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes - Cloud Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Cloud Computing for health systems - Privacy issues for Cloud-based biomedical applications - (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine PROGRAM The workshop will take place on August 20, 2017 It is scheduled as half-day The program is not available yet. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION ParBio 2017 welcomes original submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. Papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see ACM templates - http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. ParBio’s technical program committee will review all submitted papers. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. Authors of selected papers may be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit an online ACM Copyright Form. Authors will be contacted by ACM requesting this information. (Note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with NIH and similar open access policies, see http://authors.acm.org/main.html for more information.). Authors should submit papers using the ParBio2016 Easy Chair Installation (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parbio2017) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission (EXTENDED): June 11, 2017 Notifications sent to authors: June 18, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2017 (THIS IS A FIRM DEADLINE) Workshop: August 20, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Prof. Mario Cannataro, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Prof. John A. Springer, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, PL, and University of Amsterdam, NL Umit Catalyurek, The Ohio State University, USA Jake Y. Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA Concettina Guerra, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Kamer Kaya, The Ohio State University, USA Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

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(Deadline extended) CFP -- ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks @ SIGIR 2017
by Hui Fang 31 May '17

31 May '17

Call For Papers (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 23) ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks Co-located with ACM SIGIR 2017 August 11, 2017. Tokyo, Japan Workshop Website: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html <https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html> Motivation The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in applying axiomatic analysis to all kinds of IR and IR-related problems, including particularly both those interested in developing retrieval models and those interested in developing evaluation measures, and to enable them to share their findings (both positive or negative), to present their latest research results, and to discuss future directions. Theme As the title of the workshop suggested, the general theme of the workshop will be about all aspects of applications of axiomatic thinking to solve IR and IR-related problems. The basis of this general theme is the recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics, which we expect to continue. The existing work has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. However, much more research is still needed in multiple directions. Opportunities of applying axiomatic thinking also go beyond analyzing the basic retrieval functions; in fact, understanding constraints is also beneficial to many IR tasks that use machine learning techniques. Instead of having a designer carefully choose a set of assumptions to make when designing a formal model, these approaches use machine learning to weight items in a pool of features derived from many retrieval heuristics. However, this potentially results in a bloated backend which computes many features irrelevant to the task or collection. Having knowledge about relevant features would help slim down backends and speed learning and ranking. An important strength of the axiomatic methodology is that evaluation data sets become resources used to check motivated hypotheses instead of optimization mechanisms, which are at risk of overfitting. There are even more opportunities for new research on applying axiomatic thinking to evaluation as has already been happening where researchers have done axiomatic analysis of metrics for tasks such as text categorization, clustering, and ranking. In general, an understanding of how to apply axiomatic thinking to IR problems may become increasingly important as information retrieval continues to broaden into new areas. New tasks often require new constraints, and an understanding of these constraints can provide guidance on how to adapt existing methods or how to develop new methods for the new tasks. For example, domain-specific IR tasks such as medical record search might require new retrieval constraints that can capture the domain knowledge. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from a broader community to exchange research ideas and results and to foster collaborations across subcommunities. Some of the specific topics we envision to be covered by the workshop theme include, but not limited to: - What constraints are effective to improve retrieval performance independent of the underlying model? - What constraints were expected to be useful but have not been effective in practice? Why not? - In the case of evaluation metrics, why some metric constraints do not affect the system comparison or the user satisfaction? - How can we potentially unify the axiomatic analysis of IR models and evaluation metrics given that both lines of work aim at formally modeling relevance? - Have new languages, media, or domains suggested new constraints for established domains? - To what extent is a valid constraint in one domain also valid in other domains? More generally, which constraints for retrieval methods or evaluation metrics are core ones, and which constraints are highly scenario dependent? - How can axiomatic thinking be combined with machine learning techniques to learn more effective retrieval functions? Planned Activities - Keynote talk - Panel - Presentations of papers Paper Submission We solicit papers describing research work related to the above theme. In addition to the innovative methods with promising results, we also welcome papers reporting negative results. Papers need to be: - 4 or 10 pages - In ACM format - Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atir2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atir2017> Formal proofs can be added as additional material. The submissions are not anonymous. Important Dates - Submission deadlines: June 23 (for both long and short papers) - Review due: July 7 - Notification: July 10 Workshop Organizers - Enrique Amigo - Hui Fang - Stefano Mizzaro - ChengXiang Zhai ———— Hui Fang Associate Professor David L. and Beverly J. C. Mills Chair JPMC Scholar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Delaware

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Call For Participation: The 26th ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC-26)
by Song, Shuaiwen 30 May '17

30 May '17

Call for Participation - HPDC-2017<http://hpdc.org/2017/> Washington D.C., June 26-30, 2017 Early registration is open!<http://hpdc.org/2017/registration/> The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. The 26th HPDC conference and its seven associated workshops will take place at the Westin George Hotel, June 26-30 in Washington, D.C., featuring a technical program covering various aspects of high-performance computing, three distinguished keynote speakers, and an industry session: HPDC 2017 Program<http://hpdc.org/2017/program/> Keynote speakers: Julia Lane<http://cusp.nyu.edu/people/julia-lane/>, Professor at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Rick Stevens<https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/directory/rick-stevens>, Professor at UChicago and Argonne National Labs. Janice Coen<https://staff.ucar.edu/users/janicec>, Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Achievement Award Recipient: David Abramson<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2986>, Professor at University of Queensland. Technical Sessions: * Scheduling * Data Management * Parallel Methods and Algorithms * Fault Tolerance * Performance Modeling and Analysis * Data Partitioning Workshops: FTXS<https://sites.google.com/site/ftxsworkshop/home/ftxs-2017> (Fault Tolerance) SEM4HPC<http://periscope.in.tum.de/sem4hpc/> (Software Engineering) ROSS<http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ross2017/> (Operating Systems) ScienceCloud<https://sites.google.com/site/sciencecloudhpdc/> (Scientific Cloud Computing) HPDC'17 Student Travel Grants Application<http://www.hpdc.org/2017/registration/student-travel-grants/> Applications due by June 2nd, 2017 General Co-Chairs Howie Huang - George Washington University, USA Jon Weissman - University of Minnesota, USA Program Co-Chairs Adriana Iamnitchi - University of South Florida, USA Alexandru Iosup - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Posters Chair Radu Prodan - University of Innsbruck, Austria Workshops Chairs Rich Wolski - University of California at San Diego, USA Ana Lucia Varbanescu - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Shuaiwen Leon Song Staff Research Scientist High Performance Computing Group, Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Washington, US, Office:509-372-4189 Email: Shuaiwen.Song(a)pnnl.gov HomePage: https://sites.google.com/site/shuaiwenleonsongresearch/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It is never too late to become what you might have been. ^ -- George Elliot ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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CFP – Central European Cybersecurity Conference (16-17 November 2017)
by CECC 29 May '17

29 May '17

Dear Colleague, Please consider submitting an article 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. The abstract submission deadline has been recently extended to 19 June 2017. 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). More details can be found on the conference website: https://www.fvv.um.si/cecc2017/ Best regards, CECC 2017 Organizers

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PhD Scholarship in Intelligent and Immersive Big Data Analytics
by Quang Vinh Nguyen 29 May '17

29 May '17

With the growth of data and technologies, visual analytics platforms have been extended from ordinary personal computers to different environments such as large and high resolution displays, portable devices and virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) or both. Immersive visual analytics have been considering one of the potential approaches for analysing and manipulating large data sets. Large immersive systems may not be suitable for individual analysts due to their size, complexity and the lack of portability. Portable immersive environment, such as Microsoft Hololens, gives the users holograms real-world context and scale, allowing them to interact with both digital content and the world around them. The device could open a new research direction in analysing large information interactively and in real time in the personalised and immersive environment. This project looks at a new way to use supporting technologies in virtual reality and augmented reality to support the large scale visual analytics. The specific objectives of this research are to * Investigate new interactive visualisation platform for VR and AR environment. * Integrate and expand knowledge in information visualisation, artificial intelligent with technologies to enable personalised visualisation. * Develop new methods and algorithms that enables the natural interaction and data manipulation in the immersive environment. * Evaluate the effectiveness of the visual analytics What does the scholarship provide? * Domestic students receive a tax-free stipend of up to AU$30,000 per annum for up to 3 years, and a funded place in the doctoral program. * International students receive a tax-free stipend up to AU$30,000 per annum. Outstanding students may be awarded a Tuition Fee Waiver valued at approximately AU$24,000 per annum for up to 3 years. Selection Criteria The successful candidate must have: * A bachelor degree with First Class Honours, OR a Masters Degree with research experience (including research publications). * A strong background in the field of computer science or related degrees. * High-level of interest and knowledge in Visualisation, Human-Machine Interaction or Data Science are preferred. * High-level of programming skills. * Must satisfy Western Sydney University's English language requirements. How to Apply * Applicants should discuss their eligibility and the project with Doctor Quang Vinh Nguyen (q.nguyen(a)westernsydney.edu.au<mailto:q.nguyen@westernsydney.edu.au>) before submitting the application, including sending CV, academic transcripts, and publications. * Submit a scholarship application form, CV, and all other relevant supporting documentation to the Graduate Research School (grs.scholarships(a)westernsydney.edu.au) * Applicants should ensure that all relevant documents are certified according to Western Sydney University requirements. Incomplete applications will not be considered. * If you have any queries regarding the application process or enrolment, please contact the Graduate Research School at grs.scholarships(a)westernsydney.edu.au; +61 2 4736 0966. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. This scholarship is made possible by philanthropic support from Oracle Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/more_news_stories/o… -- Best Regards, Dr. Quang Vinh Nguyen | Senior Lecturer in Visual Analytics School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, and MARCS Institute Room: ER.G.18 (Building ER), Parramatta Campus Phone: +61 2 9685 9328 Email: q.nguyen(a)westernsydney.edu.au Homepage: http://staff.scem.westernsydney.edu.au/~vinh/ [WSU_Logo_hex_142x56px_email signature]

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Cyber Security PhD Schoalrship
by Vijay Varadharajan 28 May '17

28 May '17

Cyber Security PhD Scholarship – The University of Newcastle with the Defense Science and Technology (DST) Group Supervisors: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle and Dr. Anton V. Uzunov, DST Group Topic Area: Advanced Authorization Infrastructures for Distributed Autonomic Systems Autonomic computing – or equivalently, self-adaptive computing – is concerned with supporting dynamic system evolution in response to changing internal or external circumstances, by endowing systems with automated self-management capabilities, thereby turning ordinary software systems into autonomic systems (or equivalently, self-adaptive or self-managing systems). One of the core properties whose enforcement leads to supporting such self-management capabilities is self-protection, which can be defined as a system’s ability to anticipate, to prevent, to detect and guard itself against cyber security threats. A significant problem with self-protection is how to constrain and control system actions, which involves aspects such as specification of privileges to perform actions, propagation of privileges in a distributed environment and their enforcement in heterogeneous systems and devices, ranging from cloud servers to mobile Internet of Things. The project is expected to investigate cryptographically enforced access control models and distributed capability-based models. The research will consider how access classes and capabilities with different privileges can be specified, keys and capabilities can be securely propagated in distributed, heterogeneous environments, how access to services and to devices/nodes should be enforced in a decentralized context, and what adaptation mechanisms should be applied in response to changing system/operational conditions. The project will involve the design of security architecture, development of new algorithms as well as the development of proof-of-concept implementations or case studies to validate the developed models and techniques in simulated or real-life scenarios. It is envisioned that the outcomes and outputs of the project will be specifically applicable to both IoT and autonomous cyber defense scenarios, and all case studies and/or application examples will be drawn from these areas. Scholarship Duration: 3 and ½ years Eligibility * Australian Citizenship required. * Must be Motivated and Committed to Doing Research * Knowledge of Cryptography and Security Techniques will be helpful. Contact: vijay.varadharajan(a)newcastle.edu.au<mailto:vijay.varadharajan@newcastle.edu.au> or Anton.Uzunov(a)dst.defence.gov.au<mailto:Anton.Uzunov@dst.defence.gov.au> Application Deadline: 30 June 2017

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - Oct 24 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 26 May '17

26 May '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

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PhD positions in Python and OMR, PGAS
by Eric Aubanel 26 May '17

26 May '17

The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS Atlantic)? has two fully funded positions available immediately for research related to Python. The first will explore the benefits and challenges of using OMR components (e.g. JIT, GC) in the Python runtime. The second will implement support for parallel programming with Python, using the PGAS parallel programming model. Details available at http://www.unb.ca/research/casatlantic/prospectivestudents/phd_positions.ht… Dr. Eric Aubanel, Professor Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick Phone: (506) 458-7268 http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/aubanel new book: https://www.crcpress.com/9781498727891

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Job Opening for Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (PR322C/16-17)
by comp hkbu 26 May '17

26 May '17

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=387 FACULTY OF SCIENCE The Faculty of Science has identified Environment and Health, a highly interdisciplinary theme research area across the departments, as a Faculty Niche Research Area, and aims to establish world-class research teams and facilities for tackling key questions relating to human health and environmental impacts. Major resources will be allocated to this Faculty Niche Research Area, to develop the needed experimental platforms as well as modelling and data analysis capabilities. The ultimate goal is to uncover mechanistic links between various environmental factors and human diseases, leading to new strategies of disease prevention, diagnostics and treatment. Department of Computer Science To work on the niche research area "Environment and Health", the Department of Computer Science now invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions, in the areas of health informatics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning, security and privacy, and cloud computing. The appointees are expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses including programme management, perform high-impact research, as well as contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the Department's key research areas: (i) computational intelligence; (ii) databases and information management; (iii) networking and systems; and (iv) pattern recognition and machine learning. Applicants should also demonstrate strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and demonstrate the ability to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Candidates for the senior positions should also have a strong track record of research and teaching accomplishments. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please contact Prof P C Yuen, Head of Department (email: pcyuen [at] comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application Procedure: Applicants are invited to write in response to the requirements and provide an updated curriculum vitae and/or fill in the application form which is obtainable (a) by downloading from http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/applicationforms; or (b) by fax at 3411-7799; or (c) in person from the Personnel Office, Hong Kong Baptist University, AAB903, Level 9, Academic and Administration Building, 15 Baptist University Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon. The completed application form should be sent to the same address. Please quote PR number on all correspondence. Applicants are requested to send in samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference to the Personnel Office direct. Applicants not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. Review of applications will begin on 1 June 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.

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CILC 2017: call for papers---extended deadlines
by Dario Della Monica 26 May '17

26 May '17

We are happy to announce extended deadlines for the following event. Feel free to forward this message to whom it might interest. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Italian Conference on Computational Logic (CILC 2017) -- http://cilc2017.unina.it/ Naples, Italy, September 26-29, 2017 ********************************************************************** CILC (Italian Conference on Computational Logic) is the annual conference organized by GULP (Group of researchers and Users of Logic Programming, www.programmazionelogica.it) Its 32nd edition will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 26-29, 2017. Since the first event of the series, which took place in Genoa in 1986, the annual GULP conference represents the main opportunity for users, researchers and developers working in the field of computational logic to meet and exchange ideas. Over the years the conference broadened its horizons from the specific field of logic programming to include declarative programming and applications in neighboring areas such as artificial intelligence and deductive databases. CILC 2017 is co-located with the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science ICTCS 2017 (http://ictcs2017.unina.it/) with which it will share part of the program. The two events will feature plenary events, on September 29, to be specified later. Contributions: -------------- The conference will feature presentations of refereed contributions, including the demonstration of software prototypes, concerning all aspects of computational logic. The conference invites two types of submissions: full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Logic Programming, Constraint Programming and other paradigms of declarative programming Extensions and integrations of declarative programming paradigms Analysis, transformation, validation, and verification of programs Instruments and environments for program development Implementations and benchmarking Model Checking Temporal logics Automated Theorem Proving Non-Monotonic Reasoning Answer Set Programming Knowledge representation and extraction Treatment of uncertain and incomplete knowledge Approximate Reasoning Abductive Logic Programming Model-based Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Deductive Databases Data Mining and Data Integration Multi-agent systems Logics for strategic reasoning Semantic Web Natural Language Processing Computational logic for concurrency, coordination, mobility and objects Planning and scheduling Probabilistic Logic Programming Computational Logic and formal methods in Artificial Intelligence Applications of Computational Logic Pedagogy of Computational Logic Invited Speakers: ----------------- The invited speakers for this joint CILC/ICTCS event are: Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 7 June 2017 Notification of acceptance: 7 July 2017 Final version and early registration deadline: 24 July 2017 Conference: 26-29 September 2017 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2017 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. In particular, we invite submissions of system or prototype software descriptions which use techniques or tools of computational logic, or which themselves aid the development of applications based on computational logic. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by GULP. Therefore, Italian attendants are required to be members of GULP (it is possible to join GULP at the conference). Proceedings: ------------ All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the conference web site including a link to the original publication if already published. As in previous years, we plan to publish a selection of the best papers in a special issue of an international journal (to be determined). This is open to full and short papers that have not been published in a journal. General chair: -------------- Aniello Murano (University of Naples "Federico II") Program co-chairs: ------------------ Dario Della Monica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Luigi Sauro (University of Naples "Federico II") Program Committee: ------------------ Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy Vittorio Bilò, University of Salento, Italy Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Ferdinando Fioretto, University of Michigan, USA Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Raffaella Gentilini, University of Perugia, Italy Laura Giordano, DISIT, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Manna, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Maratea, DIBRIS, University of Genova, Italy Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS University of Genova, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Paola Mello, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo Mio, CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France Fabio Mogavero, University of Oxford, UK Marco Montali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Laura Nenzi, IMT, Lucca, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Fabio Patrizi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Giuseppe Perelli, University of Oxford, UK Adriano Peron, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Alberto Pettorossi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy Luca Pulina, POLCOMING, University of Sassari, Italy Fabrizio Riguzzi, University of Ferrara, Italy Gianfranco Rossi, University of Parma, Italy Guido Sciavicco, University of Ferrara, Italy Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino , Italy Tiziano Villa, University of Verona, Italy Venue: ------ The conference will take place at the "Complesso di San Giovanni a Teduccio---Complesso Napoli Est", in Corso Nicolangelo Protopisani, 70, 80146 Napoli. -------------- For more information email cilc2017(a)easychair.org. -- Dario Della Monica, Postdoctoral Researcher Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (DIETI) University of Naples "Federico II" via Claudio, 21, 80125 Naples, Italy cell: (+39) 328 2477327 email: dario.dellamonica [at] unina.it skype: dariodellamonica web site: http://wpage.unina.it/dario.dellamonica/

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Call for Papers and WS Proposals - IEEE IUCC'17
by Peter Mueller 26 May '17

26 May '17

-------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers for the 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IEEE IUCC 2017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Computer Society and IEEE TCSC. Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/IUCC2017/ Co-Located Conferences: (1) The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2017) http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/ISPA2017/ (2) The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2017/ Introduction: The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2017 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. IUCC 2017 follows the tradition of a successful series of conferences that has been held all along the world, in places as Granada(Spain) in 2016, Liverpool (UK) in 2015, Chengdu (China) in 2014, or Melbourne (Australia) in 2013. Scope and Interests: Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Submission and Publication Information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iucc2017) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages (or up to 12 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings Format ( http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Important Dates: Workshop Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017 Author Notification: September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 15, 2017 Conference Dates: December 12-15, 2017 General Chairs: Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Program Chairs: Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Program Vice Chairs: (1) Ubiquitous Computing Track Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA Meikang Qiu, Pace University, USA Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan (2) Ubiquitous Communications Track Wei Yu, Towson University, USA Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Haojun Huang, Wuhan University, China (3) Ubiquitous Systems, Services and Applications Track Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea (4) Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing Track Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy Sean He, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Steering Committee: Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Jes¨²s Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Jia Hu, Liverpool Hope University, UK Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Workshop Chairs: Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Publicity Chairs: Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA Publication Chair: Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chair: Pin Liu, Central South University, China Organizing Chairs: Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Webmaster: Yinong Long, Central South University, China Contact: Please email inquiries concerning IEEE IUCC 2017 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (IUCC2017 AT gmail DOT com). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshop Proposals, IEEE IUCC 2017, Guangzhou, China, Dec 12-15, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The themes of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops should be related to the scopes of the IEEE IUCC 2017 main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of ubiquitous computing and communications. The organizers of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee on reviewing and selection of papers as well as planning workshop program. The registration fees for workshops will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops. The main conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society (indexed by EI Compendex). Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE IUCC 2016 Workshop Chairs via email by May 15, 2017: - Title of the workshop (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scopes, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bios of the key organizers and their experiences on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date (September 15, 2017) and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date (October 15, 2017). The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshops! IEEE IUCC 2017 Workshop Chairs Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain <gregorio AT um DOT es> Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China <jinxiaolong AT ict DOT ac DOT cn> Qin Liu, Hunan University, China <gracelq628 AT 126 DOT com> Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University, Lebanon <azzam.mourad AT lau DOT edu DOT lb> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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