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IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP
by OpenMP ARB 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

*IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP* September 21-22, 2017 Stony Brook, NY, USA https://you.stonybrook.edu/iwomp2017/ *Background* For many years, OpenMP has provided a very rich and flexible programming model for shared memory architectures. OpenMP 4.0 is a major advance that adds new forms of parallelism: device constructs for accelerators, SIMD constructs for vector units, and several significant extensions for work-sharing and task-based parallelism. OpenMP 4.5 further extends OpenMP for use with today's complex heterogeneous architectures. The International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) is an annual workshop dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP. It is the premier forum to present and discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas, and results related to OpenMP. We solicit submissions of unpublished technical papers detailing innovative, original research and development related to OpenMP. *Topics* All topics related to OpenMP are of interest, including OpenMP performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness tools, proposed OpenMP extensions, and OpenMP applications in any domain (e.g., scientific and numerical computation, video games, computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization, text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing, and machine learning). Advances in technologies, such as new kinds of memory, deep memory hierarchies, multi-core processors, and support in OpenMP for devices (accelerators such as GPGPUs, DSPs and FPGAs), Multiprocessor Systems on a Chip (MPSoCs), present new opportunities and challenges for software and hardware developers. Recent advances in the C, C++ and Fortran base languages also offer interesting opportunities and challenges to the OpenMP programming model. IWOMP 2017 particularly solicits submissions in these areas as well as ones that discuss how to apply OpenMP to additional models of parallelism such as event loops. *Paper Submission and Registration* Submitted papers for review should be limited to 12 pages and follow LNCS guidelines. Submission deadline is April 28, 2017 (AOE). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a final paper of up to 15 pages. As in previous years, IWOMP 2017 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers in Springer Verlag's LNCS series. *Important Dates* Paper Submission Deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2017 Deadline for final version: June 8, 2017 *Organizers* General Chair: - Abid Malik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Co-chairs: - Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

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WPDM 2017 CFP
by Massimo Cafaro 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: April 3, 2017 (extended) Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 3, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 21, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------------ May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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International Conference on Dependency Linguistics - 1st Call for Papers
by Depling 2017 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics Pisa, Italy 18-20 September 2017 Conference web site: http://depling.org/depling2017/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE AIMS The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. In the past decade, dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have become very widespread in natural language processing. However, the linguistic significance of these structures often remains vague, and the need to discuss the theoretical and formal foundations of dependency-based concepts is felt strongly by many people working in these domains. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: - The use of dependency trees in syntactic analysis, parsing, generation, and corpus annotation of written and spoken texts; - Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics; - The use of semantic valency-based predicate and actancy graph structures and their link to classical logic; - The elaboration of formal dictionaries for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations; - Links to morphology and linearization of dependency structures, using, for example, topological field theories; - Dependency-like structures beyond the sentence, for example, to model discourse phenomena; - The description and formalization of semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure; - History, epistemology, and psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar, including its relation to generative approaches to language; - Dependency grammar and linguistic universals. SHARED TASK This year Depling is co-located with the "International Workshop on Parsing Technologies" (IWPT 2017), which will take place immediately after Depling 2017. The two conferences will have an overlapping day, September 20th, in which the results will be reported of a joint shared task playing the role of Depling-IWPT "bridge event" and focusing on "Extrinsic Parser Evaluation" (EPE). The goal of this shared task is to try to shed light on the relative `utility' of different types of dependency representations for downstream applications that depend on grammatical analysis. For background and information on participation, see: http://epe.nlpl.eu/ PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the Depling2017 EasyChair site ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=depling2017 ). Papers may consist of up to 10 pages of content (including references). All submissions should follow the two-column format and the style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument or Microsoft Word templates created for the Depling 2017 conference. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2017 Final version of papers due: July 15, 2017 Depling conference: September 18-20, 2017 For the shared task timetable, see website. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa Felice Dell'Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" - CNR Maria Simi, University of Pisa Email contact: depling2017(a)depling.org

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AlCoB 2017: call for posters
by GRLMC 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

AlCoB 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** The 4th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. AlCoB 2017 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal) on June 5-6, 2017. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on algorithms in computational biology are encouraged on the following topics: - assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, - identifying gene structures in the genome, - recognizing regulatory motifs, - aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, - reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and - inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: April 28, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: May 5, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNBI proceedings volume of AlCoB 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by May 22, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 260 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches...). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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Fwd: BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* *www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>* Lyon, France August 28 - 31, 2017 In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed in all over the world in databases. Analyzing biological big data is a challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Big Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Big Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Big Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …). *Data Mining: *Biological Big Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Big Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Big Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Big Data Mining. *Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via* numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration *PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: * Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/ starting from January 2017. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: April 2, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 9, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017 Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK. Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK ***

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Sixth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

*** Sixth Call for Papers *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… *** Submission Deadline: 17 April 2017 (extended) *** The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information system research communities from European countries and the rest of the world. The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the main conference. TOPICS We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list. · Data intensive sciences and databases · Theoretical foundations of databases · Management of large scale data systems · Data models and query languages · Database monitoring and (self-)tuning · Data curation, annotation, and provenance · Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools · Indexing, query processing and optimization · Data mining and knowledge discovery · Big data storage, replication, and consistency · Modeling, mining and querying user generated content · Data quality and data cleansing · Web, XML and semi-structured databases · Sensor databases and mobile data management · Text databases and information retrieval · Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying · Temporal and spatial databases · Graph databases · Databases on emerging hardware architectures · Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores, and Big Data systems · Information extraction and integration · Streaming data analysis · Scalable data analysis and analytics · Data and information visualization; and user interfaces · Information quality and usability · Information system architectures and networking · Business process modeling and optimization · Data and information flow engineering and management · Context-aware and adaptive information systems · Data and information intensive services · Requirements engineering for databases and information systems · Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems · Data, information, and information systems security · Innovative platforms for data and information handling · Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering · Novel database and information systems applications PAPER PUBLISHING ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find here http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. The program committee may decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper with students as first authors will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/) and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES · Papers must be written in English. · Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference. · Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed below. · An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to have the paper published. · Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. · ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . · Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document · Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready version of their paper a copyright form filled (http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution) tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country should not tick this box. IMPORTANT DATES · Full and Short Papers: April 17, 2017 (extended) · Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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CfPD: SASO 2017 - IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, September 18-22, Tucson, Arizona
by Markus Esch 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

************************************************************************* CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 18-22 September 2017 https://saso2017.telecom-paristech.fr/ ************************************************************************* Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences Collocated with: The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017) ==== Aims and Scope ==== FAS* conference continues its tradition of offering poster and demo sessions, which are a great opportunity for an interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on FAS* topics. These sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge. Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and present original, cutting-edge ideas inclusive of speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged: - Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds. - Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design, deployment, management and control, validation. - Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self-adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc. - Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, dependability assessment and analysis. - Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective awareness, gamification and serious games. - Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and cloud computing. - Autonomic Cloud Computing: Self-managing cloud services. Autonomic resource and energy management in cloud computing. Autonomic cloud applications and services - Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods: Evaluation, validation and quality and correctness assessment of autonomic loops. Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analyzing autonomic computing systems, control and decision theory - Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications: Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications. Stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications Demos may target virtual systems (e.g., software applications), physical systems (e.g., robots or sensor networks), or cyber-physical systems combining the two. Physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid solutions using both simulations and real platforms. Submissions which highlight the utility and general applicability of the contribution - whether short, medium or long term - are particularly solicited, and interactivity of a demo is considered a further asset. ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: June 30, 2017 Notification: July 9, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: July 12, 2017 Conference: September 18-22, 2017 ==== Submission Instructions ==== For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract for their poster or demo. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here. Demo submissions must include a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work. Please visit the SASO website for further information on how to submit: www.saso-conference.org ==== Accepted Posters and Demos ==== If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera-ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from the reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters and Demos will be advertised in the final program, and authors’ two-page extended abstracts will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author of accepted posters or demos is required to register at the conference, give a brief presentation of the poster or demo in the interactive session, as well as stay with the poster and/or demo to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled session. ==== Poster Content and Layout Guidelines ==== Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved session, taking into consideration that all posters should include the following information: - The purpose and goals of the work. - Any background and motivation needed to understand the work. - Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work. - A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them. - The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters. - Where to find additional information. This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work; how to contact the authors, including email addresses; for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information. The format and nature of posters require authors to capture the viewers’ attention effectively, and present core concepts to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the poster is A0, and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters to the conference. ==== Demo Guidelines ==== At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarising their system and demo, following the above guidelines. ==== Evaluation and Awards ==== Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse). At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees. The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both. ==== Contact Information ==== For any further information, please contact the Posters and Demos Chair.

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IEEE Big Data 2017 Call for Papers
by CFP Conference 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

*Call for Papers* *2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)* http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. · The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. · The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2017 will offer* student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Journal Publication * A set of about 10 papers will be selected for a fast-track review and then published at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* 8.5" x 11" (DOC <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.doc>, PDF <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf>) *LaTex Formatting Macros* <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.…> *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 9, 2016 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2017 Conference: Dec 11-14, 2017 *PC Co-Chairs* Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research, USA *Industry and Government Co-Chairs:* Raghunath Nambiar, CISCO, USA Ghosh Rumi, BOSCH, USA Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, IncUSA Hui Zang, Huawei Research, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDQyIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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CAI 2017 -- Kalamata - Greece -- *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 ***
by Ilias Kotsireas 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

============================================================================ Third Call for Papers CAI 2017 7th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics June 25-28, 2017 Kalamata, Greece http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/CAI2017/ CAI is the biennial conference serving the community interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science, algebra, and related areas. CAI 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective five-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. ** Important Dates ** *** Extended submission deadline: March 31, 2017 *** Author notification: April 15, 2017 Early registration deadline: May 15, 2017 CAI 2017 General Chair Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CAI Steering Committee Symeon Bozapalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Olivier Carton, Universite Paris 7, Denis Diderot, France Manfred Droste, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany Zoltan Esik (deceased), University of Szeged, Hungary Werner Kuich, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Dimitrios Poulakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Arto Salomaa, University of Turku, Finland Proceedings The CAI 2017 conference proceedings will be published in electronic form. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier). Topics Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track 1: Automata Theory and Logic Chair: Manfred Droste (Germany) Invited Speaker: Heiko Vogler (TU Dresden, Germany) Topics: This includes all topics of theoretical computer science with connections to automata theory and logic in computer science, in the broad sense. Submissions by e-mail: droste(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de A PC will select the 10% best submissions for a 'distinguished lecture'. Authors will receive a confirmation of this and will have more time than the usual talks. Track 2: Cryptography and Coding Theory Chairs: Stephane Ballet (France), Dimitrios Poulakis (Greece), Robert Rolland (France) Invited Speaker: Claude Carlet (Universite Paris 8, France) Topics: - Elliptic Curves Cryptography - Lattice Cryptography - Cryptanalytic Methods - Identity Based Cryptography - Symmetric Ciphers - Public Keys Cryptosystems - Digital Signatures - Steganography - Quantum Cryptography - Cryptographic Protocols - Computational Number Theory - Boolean Functions - Error-Correcting Codes - Algebraic-Geometric Codes - Code Based Cryptography - Quantum Codes Submissions by e-mail: stephane.ballet(a)univ-amu.fr, poulakis(a)math.auth.gr, robert.rolland(a)acrypta.fr Track 3: Computer Algebra Chairs: Rafael Sendra (Spain), Franz Winkler (Austria) Invited Speaker: Michael Wibmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Topics: - symbolic mathematical computation - exact algorithms - implementation of symbolic algorithms - applications Submissions by e-mail: Rafael.Sendra(a)uah.es, Franz.Winkler(a)risc.jku.at Track 4: Design Theory Chairs: Lucia Moura (Canada), Dimitris Simos (Austria) Invited Speaker: Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University, USA) Topics: - algebraic and combinatorial methods in design theory - algorithms for construction and classification of designs - applications of combinatorial designs in computer science, coding theory and information theory - complexity problems in design theory Submissions by e-mail: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca , CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org Submission instructions: At the bottom of this mail. Track 5: Natural and Quantum Computing Chair: Mika Hirvensalo (Finland) Invited Speaker: Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada) Topics: - evolutionary algorithms - molecular computing - neural networks - quantum computing Submissions by e-mail: mikhirve(a)utu.fi For general inquiries regarding CAI 2017, please send e-mail to ikotsire(a)wlu.ca Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit papers, presenting original and unpublished research. Submitted papers should not exceed 25 pages. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or journals is not allowed. Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference, by e-mail to the track Chairs. All proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. ======================================================== Instructions for Submissions for the Design Theory Track, CAI 2017: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 6 pages), containing original research results. The authors are responsible for convincing the reviewers of the correctness and interest of their results using only those six pages. Authors can add an optional appendix with proofs, sketches of proofs, or additional material. If included, the appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers if required to reach a decision. The appendix has no page limit, and because it will not be published, it cannot be referenced in the extended abstract. Submission of a paper implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of a lecture or academic thesis), that it is not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form. A special volume of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) will be dedicated to accepted extended abstracts to the Design Theory track of CAI 2017 and the publication date is expected for the second semester of 2018. The extended abstracts must comply with the ENDM LaTeX style and are limited to 6 pages, including the front matter, text, and references. Instructions for submission preparation may be obtained in the ENDM web page http://www.elsevier.com/locate/endm. Once prepared, the paper should be submitted by e-mail to the Design Theory track chairs using BOTH the email addresses below: CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)uottawa.ca, CAI2017.DesignTheory(a)sba-research.org NOTE: The publication of the extended abstract in the Design Theory track (ENDM) is independent and complementary to a possible submission of full papers to the volume of Theoretical Computer Science dedicated to best papers among all tracks of CAI 2017. =================================================

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Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2017) - CFP
by Barbara Kordy 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

GraMSec 2017 - call for papers The Fourth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Santa Barbara, CA, USA - August 21, 2017 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2017 LNCS proceedings confirmed SCOPE Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection measures. Cyber security researchers, as well as security professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different security facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis, automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage. TOPICS The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis • Graphical models for risk analysis and management • Graphical models for requirements analysis and management • Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and business security • Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and cyber-physical systems • Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness • Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm • Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical security models • Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models • Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models • Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models • Scalable evaluation of graphical security models • Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models • Dynamic update of graphical security models • Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling • Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants • Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security • UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security • Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis • Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security modeling paradigm INVITED SPEAKER To be decided. PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two types of submissions: • Regular papers (up to 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. • Short papers (up to 7 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work in progress. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular and short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. The GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2017 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec17 IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: Sunday, May 21, 2017 • Acceptance notification: Friday, July 7, 2017 • Workshop: Monday, August 21, 2017 GENERAL CHAIR • Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM CHAIRS • Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA • Ketil Stølen, SINTEF Digital and University of Oslo, Norway PC MEMBERS Mathieu Acher, University Rennes 1, Inria, France Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, France Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI, Germany Kristian Beckers, Technical University of Munich, Germany Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy Stefano Bistarelli, Università di Perugia, Italy Marc Bouissou, EDF RD, France Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, France Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Mathias Ekstedt, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden Frank Fransen, TNO, The Netherlands Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Joshua Guttman, WPI and MITRE, USA René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Maritta Heisel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, Norway Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands Cristian Johansen, University of Oslo, Norway Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, The Netherlands Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Pascal Lafourcade, Université Clermont Auvergne, LIMOS, France Jean-Louis Lanet, Inria, France Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, Hong Kong, SAR China Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA Stéphane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Wolter Pieters, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, France Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, France Christian W. Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark David Pym, UCL, UK Saša Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Yves Roudier, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, UNS, France Guttorm Sindre, NUST, Norway Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA Axel Tanner, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Alexandre Vernotte, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia CONTACT For inquiries please send an e-mail to gramsec17(a)easychair.org

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CFP: Euro-EDUPAR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
by Rizos Sakellariou 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2017. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos/euroedupar/index.html Submission deadline: May 5, 2017 Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In this context, the 3rd European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and/or research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2017 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 5, 2017: Paper submission deadline June 16, 2017: Author notification July 21, 2017: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings October 3, 2017: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University, USA Program Chair: Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster, Germany Thilo Kielmann, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, UCD, Ireland Tomas Margalef, UAB, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Gudula Ruenger, TU Chemnitz, Germany Jesper Larsson Traff, TU Wien, Austria Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia David Walker, Cardiff University, UK

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The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS'17)
by Peter Mueller 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Call for Papers and Participation The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2017) The 15th Annual Meeting July 17 - 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2017 - Extended You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, software and middleware in HPC systems, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (may have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest. http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. FOLLOW US ON Twitter: https://twitter.com/HPCS_Conference Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HPCSConference/ ================================================================= Important Dates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline - March 24, 2017 - Extended Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline - March 10, 2017 Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts - April 24, 2017 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due - May 11, 2017 Conference Dates - July 17 - 21, 2017 ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Genoa in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2017 Organizers

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2nd CFP: CIBCB Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods
by Marco S. Nobile 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 31 March 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods <http://dinamico2.unibg.it/cazzaniga/CIBCBss.html> hosted by IEEE CIBCB 2017 <http://cibcb2017.org/> 23-25 August 2017,Manchester, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Computational intelligence is frequently exploited to devise efficient heuristics to solve problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology. However, these approaches are computationally challenging as they might require excessively burdensome execution times in the case of real-world problems, therefore limiting their applicability. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of computational intelligence methods specifically accelerated either by means of conventional architectures (e.g., computer clusters, GRID computing) or by unconventional technologies (e.g., Graphics Processing Units, Many Integrated Core coprocessors, biomimetic devices). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * analysis and visualization of large datasets * analysis and visualization of genome-wide models * biomedical model parameterization * development of synthetic biological devices * drug design * emergent properties in complex biological systems * flux balance analysis * gene expression array analysis * high-throughput data analysis * high efficiency algorithms for solving biological problems * medical image analysis * medical imaging and pattern recognition * metabolic pathway analysis * mining of biomedical data * modelling, simulation and optimization of biological systems * molecular dynamics and molecular docking * molecular evolution and phylogenetics * molecular sequence alignment and analysis * prediction and searching of molecular structure and folding * spectral analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper submission: 31 March 2017 Paper acceptance notification: 2 June 2017 Final paper submission: 30 June 2017 Conference: 23-25 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers Marco S. Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Daniel Ashlock - University of Guelph, Canada Paolo Cazzaniga - University of Bergamo, Italy Daniela Besozzi - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission guidelines * Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight(8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. * Papers must be in PDF and written in English.Detailed instructions and templates for preparing your manuscripts can be found here <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. * At maximum, two additional pages are permittedwith over-length page charge of US$125/page, to be paid during author registration. * Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. * All papers should be submitted via the EasyChair online submission system. Furhter information can be found in the CIBCB2017 submission page <http://cibcb2017.org/index.html#submission>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts Marco S. Nobile, PhD University of Milano-Bicocca Email: nobile(a)disco.unimib.it

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[CfP] ICCST-2017: 51st IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/ The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges. All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review process.Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE Xplore. As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city, its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will include a display of flamenco dancing. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017 Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017 Early Registration: August 15, 2017 Best Regards, ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee ICCST-2017 Executive Committee http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/

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ACA 2017, July 17-21, 2017, Jerusalem, Israel
by Ilias Kotsireas 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

ACA 2017, 23rd International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra Commemorating the heritage of Jonathan Michael Borwein Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel, July 17-21, 2017 The ACA conference series is devoted to promoting all kinds of computer algebra applications, and encouraging the interaction of developers of computer algebra systems and packages with researchers and users (including scientists, engineers, educators, and mathematicians). The 23nd International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA), will take place in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 17-21, 2017. Contact: aca2017(a)jct.ac.il Website: http://www.aca2017.jct.ac.il CONFERENCE FORMAT The ACA conferences are organized as a few keynotes and a series of Special Sessions. Talk submissions have to be directed to the organizers of an appropriate Special Session ACA 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS: Thierry Dana-Picard, Jerusalem College of Technology Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada ACA 2017 ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Michael Wester, Albuquerque, NM, USA Stanley Steinberg, Albuquerque, NM, USA Eugenio Roanes-Lozano, Madrid, Spain SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: ACA Working Group ACA 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (1) Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria (2) Rob Corless, Western University, London, ON, Canada (3) Sara Hershkovitz, Center for Educational Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel (4) Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, USA SESSIONS 1. Computer Algebra in Education 2. Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology 3. Computer differential and difference algebra and its applications 4. Computer algebra modeling in science and engineering 5. Computational Algebraic Geometry, and Post-Quantum Cryptography - Multivariate Public Key Cryptography 6. Computer Algebra for Applied Physics 7. Computer Algebra for Dynamical Systems and Celestial Mechanics 8. Algorithmic Combinatorics 9. Geometry of Plane Curves 10. Automated Theorem Proving in Dynamic Geometry 11. Algebraic methods in geometric modeling 12. Parametric polynomial systems 13. Computer Algebra in image processing 14. Computer Algebra in Algebraic Graph Theory 15. Poster session 16. General session PUBLICATION Book of abstracts: Abstracts have to be sent using the LaTeX template. Please send both the LaTeX source and a compiled PDF version to the corresponding session chair. The book of abstracts will be made available on the website prior the conference. Proceedings will be published as a special issue of the Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) Journal http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/11786

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CFP PST'17 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

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

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Deadline: 17.04.2017: Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE) as part of BIS, Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017
by Rainer Unland 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

** *[Apologies if you receive this more than once]* * Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### ** CALL FOR PAPERS ******First Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE)* ** *as part of* ** *20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/* *Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017* *Important dates* Submission dateApr 17, 2017 Notification dateMay 15, 2017 Paper ready deadlineMay 29, 2017 Conference datesJun 28-30, 2017 *Links* BIS: http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/ SESSISE: Homepage *Workshop motivation* The climate changes, the catastrophe in Fukushima, the recent biggest blackout in history in India due to an overloaded electricity grid or the dwindling oil reserves world-wide are some of the manifold different reasons why countries massively increase their efforts in shaping their future energy generation, distribution, transportation and consumption, in short in future smart Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. They are expected to be the enablers of a high penetration of renewable energy, facilitate the wide adoption of electrical vehicles, increase the awareness and the involvement of the end-user in the energy scene, and altogether contribute to create a sustainable lifestyle for the eco-aware 21^st century citizen. Although much is still in a state of flux it is nevertheless commonly accepted that existing energy systems, infrastructures, environments, and business opportunities cannot simply be adapted or extended to address the requirements of the next generation of energy supply and consumption. Instead, a fundamental re-engineering is required. Thus, all these prospected transformations also bring with them numerous challenges and opportunities. Regardless of whether and how the energy supply will be designed and operated in the near future it is obvious that the key enabler for a successful transformation of the energy supply will be a meaningful and purposeful used ICT infrastructure. New solutions will consolidate and represent the combined knowledge and experience of different disciplines as engineering, business management and economics and computer science and, thus, contribute significantly to the stabilisation of the energy supply and to the success of involved companies. The IT backbone for such solutions will be distributed, collaborative, autonomous and intelligent software packages for simulation, monitoring, control and optimization as well as appropriate data and business models, reporting systems and maybe also mobile solutions. Besides the topic of future energy grids the recent past was also dominated by the discussion about so called smart cities and smart homes. A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services. This especially means that the contact between citizens and government is eased and improved substantially with the aim to equip inhabitants with more power, responsibility and easing their life substantially from bureaucratic and useless tasks. Another highly relevant goal is to reduce costs and resource consumption. Smart cities will connect, utilize and optimize a number of sectors including transport and traffic management, energy consumption and management or water and waste issues. However, they also need to rely on the next lower level of abstraction, namely smart buildings and homes. This, however, implies that smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings and homes, and smart infrastructures need to be deeply integrated in order to shape the smart overall energy environment of the future. And that looks more like a revolution than an evolution. Thus, revolutionary papers are highly welcome even if they are not too elaborated or too mature. This workshop is not meant to rely on the presentation of mature research results but wants to provide a lively environment with a lot of even vague input for intensive and fruitful discussions. For that, also shorter provocative statements and ideas are very welcome. *Workshop topics* The SESSISE workshopaims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using new IT-based solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. For this, the conference provides a forum for different scientific disciplines. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following areas and topics of interest: /Smart Grids, Smart Homes and Buildings, Smart Infrastructures/ •Smart Energy Systems •Energy Storage •Microgrids •Decentralized Control Systems •Stability in Energy Grids •Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks •Self-aware, Self-configuring or Self-healing Energy Systems •Simulation Environments for Smart Grids •Hybrid Energy Networks •Assistance Systems for Smart Energy control •Integrated Infrastructures •Development of Standards for Smart Grids •Industry, Municipality and University Cooperation •Sustainable Cities •Zero Energy Cities and Buildings /Smart Data Handling / •Alternative Data Storing and Proceeding Technologies •Big Data and Smart Energy Environments •Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks •Data Security •Data Structures and required Standards •Mobile Solutions for Smart Energy Environments •ICT Services in Smart Grids/Smart Cities/Smart Environments /Smart Markets, Trading and Business models/ •Forecasts / Predictions •Management of distributed Energy Generation and Storage •Business Models for (hybrid) Energy Networks •Products and User Interfaces •Business Models and electronic marketplaces for Smart Grids •Competition Analysis •Process Management •Electric Mobility •Solar Home Storage Systems •End Users and Demand Response *Structure of SESSISE* SESSISE will be a one or two day workshop and will include several presentation sessions for the accepted paper as well as invited overview papers on topics of overall interest in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is intended to give much space for lively discussions. The workshop is meant to end with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed. *Review Process* Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will include (in all cases possible): relevance, significance, impact, originality, quality of presentation, practical applicability. It is not expected that the papers prohibit mature research results. Good elaborated ideas, visions and directions which may be starting point for more intensive discussions are very welcome. The idea is less the presentation of narrow, however, mature research but the presentation of broader visions, possible solution spaces and research directions, open fields for research, emergent trends, etc. *Submission guidelines* All papers need to be formatted according to the Springer formatting instructions: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… */Regular papers/*: up to 12 pages */Short papers and Work-in-progress reports/*: up to6 pages */Demo papers/*: up to 4 pages Papers must be written in English and need to be submitted in PDF format. Submission system is available at EasyChair. /Original/work approved for presentation at SESSISE 2017 will be published in the BIS 2017 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2017 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. *Workshop proceedings* It is intended to publish revised papers in post-proceedings of BIS 2017 workshops as a book by Springer Publishing Company in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. *Journal publication of excellent papers* It is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a special issue, otherwise as regular papers. *Workshop organisers / PC Chairs* Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de Lars Moench, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; lars.moench(a)FernUni-Hagen.de Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; rkowalczyk(a)swin.edu.au *Program Committee* Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Germany Anke Weidlich, Hochschule Offenburg, Germany Christian Derksen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brasil Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Hangseng Che, University of Malaya, Malaysia Hanno Hildmann, Khalifa University, UAE Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier, Germany Jingxin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA Krzysztof Chmielowiec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Liana Cipcigan , Institute of Energy at Cardiff University:, UK Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany Michael Sonnenschein, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Germany Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Sajjad Siddiqi, Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany Zbigniew Nahorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Paper Deadline 23.4.2017: MATES - 15th German Conf. on Multiagent System Technologies, Aug. 23 - 26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CfP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### ==CALL FOR PAPERS ==MATES 2017 (*/B-ranked conference/*) ==15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies ==Wed-Sat, August 23 - 26, 2017 ==Leipzig, Germany == ==http://mates2017.uni-trier.de == == Co-located with the 2017 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on ==Web Intelligence (WI 2017) ==http://webintelligence2017.com/ == ==*** */CONFIRMED COMMON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS/* *** == Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: ==Computational Social Science == Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three ==intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing == Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid == Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI == Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications == Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for ==Industry 4.0:Showcases and Challenges ==================================================================== =*/Submission deadline regular papers: Sun, April 23, 2017/* ==at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 ==================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== The MATES conference aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems (MAS). It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. MATES 2017 will offer a competitive set of special topical sessions, PhD mentoring track, invited keynotes by distinguished experts, and issues a Best Paper Award. The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. Topics of Interest ================== MATES 2017 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multiagent platforms and tools - Agent communication languages - Validation and verification of (multi)agent technologies - Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of MAS - Standards for agents and MAS - MAS: Conventions, norms, institutions, trust and reputation - Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations - Adaptive agents and multiagent learning - Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications - Agent-based modeling and social simulation - Mobile agents - Autonomous robots and robot teams - Human-agent teamwork (Humans, software agents, robots, animals, animoids) - Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling - Recommender agents - Agent-based planning and scheduling - Agent-based information retrieval - Agent-based distributed data mining - Agent-based service discovery, composition, negotiation - Agents for the semantic Web - Agents for the social Web - Agents for the Internet of Services - Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing - Agents for cloud computing - Ethical aspects of (multi)agent systems design and deployment - Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy). MATES PhD mentoring track ========================= The MATES PhD mentoring (doctoral consortium) is meant to support PhD students working in the area of web intelligence. It offers a platform to researchers in all stages of their PhD studies to present and discuss their ideas in a professional academic environment. The program provides an opportunity to PhD students to interact with their peers as well as with experienced researchers in the field, and to receive valuable feedback on their work and advice for their future careers. In particular, each student will be assigned a member of the WI doctoral consortium committee, who is an experienced researcher in the relevant field and will be available for personal interactions during the day of the MATES PhD mentoring track. More information is to be found on the MATES homepage. The main goals of the PhD mentoring session are - to give PhD researchers an opportunity to get feedback and suggestion on their work from experienced researchers and their peers. - to interact with other PhD researchers and to get an overview of the field of multi-agent systems. - to get advice for their (academic) career. - to provide networking opportunities. PhD-Paper Submission: ---------------------- Submissions to the PhD mentoring session (PhD short papers) should provide information on the following aspects of the PhD work: - Motivation - State of the Art - Methodical approach - Preliminary results/findings (optional - Affiliation and contact details of the PhD supervisor PhD papers can be up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see below). The selection process takes into account the quality of the submitted PhD short paper which will be peer-reviewed by members of the MATES PhD mentoring program committee. The PhD short papers must be submitted electronically via e-mail to Alexander Pokahr: pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Rene Schumann:rene.schumann@hevs.ch Presentation and Publication: ----------------------------- All accepted PhD short papers will be assigned a slot for oral presentation during the MATES PhD mentoring session. In addition, a selected set of these accepted papers describing original, unpublished work mature enough for publication will be included in the MATES proceedings. Invited Speakers ================ Together with Web Intelligence 2017 MATES 2017 provides keynotes from renowned experts on up-to-date topics: * Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994): The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science * Amit Sheth: Semantic, Cognitive, and Perceptual Computing – three intertwined strands of a golden braid of intelligent computing * Cristiano Castelfranchi: Cognition & Self-Organization in a Hybrid Society & Coupled Reality: The role of AI * Frank Leymann: Loose Coupling and Architectural Implications * Matthias Klusch: Intelligent Agents and Semantic Technologies for Industry 4.0:Showcases and Challenges Regular Paper Submission and Publication ================================ The MATES proceedings are published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) subseries of the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 16 pages (full) or 8 pages (short) in Springer LNCS style, PDF. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Submissions are expected to report on novel research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal. Please submit your contribution using EasyChair via the following link and follow the submission guidelines on the conference website. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2017 For an accepted paper to be published in the proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register for the conference. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, April 23, 2017 (Regular Papers) Deadline for Submission: Sun, May 14, 2017 (PhD-Track Papers) Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers:Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference:Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 Conference Organisation ======================= General Chairs: Jan Ole Berndt (Trier University, Germany) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Honorary Chairs: Ana L. C. Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Alexander Pokahr (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rene´ Schumann (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland) Program Committee: Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Sebastian Ahrndt (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Matteo Baldoni (University of Turin, Italy) Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) Federico Bergenti (University of Parma, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENSM de Saint-Etienne, France) Vicent Botti (Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain) Cristiano Castelfranchi (National Research Council, Italy) Liana Cipcigan (Cardiff University, UK) Massimo Cossentino (National Research Council, Italy) Paul Davidsson (University of Malmoe, Sweden) Joerg Denzinger (University of Calgary, Canada) Frank Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Johannes Faehndrich (DAI Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany) Klaus Fischer (DFKI, Germany) Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy) Maria Ganzha (University of Gdansk, Poland) Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Axel Hahn (Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP, Germany) Takahiro Kawamura (Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Wolfgang Ketter (Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands) Yasuhiko Kitamura (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Franziska Kluegl (University of Oerebro, Sweden) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburn University of Technology, Australia) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) Arndt Lueder (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany) John-Jules Meyer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Lars Moench (Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany) Joerg P. Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Ingrid Nunes (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal) Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen, UK) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Peter Palensky (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland) Terry Payne (University of Liverpool, UK) Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy) Jordi Sabater Mir (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) David Sarne (Bar Ilan University, Israel) David Sislak (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Michael Sonnenschein (Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) George Vouros (University of Piraeus, Greece) Georg Weichhart (PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria) Gerhard Weiss (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) Michael Weyrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Michael Winikoff (University of Otago, New Zealand) Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Ingo Zinnikus (DFKI, Germany) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) MATES Steering Committee ======================== Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) Jörg P. Müller (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Paolo Petta (OFAI and University of Vienna, Austria) Ingo J. Timm (Trier University, Germany) Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) For more information on the MATES conference series,please visit: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series ========================================================================= -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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Deadline in a few days - 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017)
by SECRYPT 2017 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline in a few days! (March 22, 2017) *** ************************************************************************ 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) Madrid, Spain, 24-26 July 2017 http://secrypt.icete.org ************************************************************************ SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017) will be held in Madrid, Spain, July 24-26, 2017. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security requirements Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.insticc.org/primoris/. Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper". Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: March 22, 2017 [extended] - Authors Notification: May 10, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 24, 2017 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 18, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 24, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: June 6, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Antunes, U. Porto, Portugal, Portugal Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy Prithvi Bisht, Adobe, United States Carlo Blundo, Universita' di Salerno, Italy Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Dario Catalano, Universita' di Catania, Italy Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France Jun Dai, California State University, United States Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Tassos Dimitriou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece and Kuwait University, Kuwait Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Alberto Ferrante, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Mines-Telecom, TELECOM SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, United States Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, United States Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Olivier Markowitch, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Refik Molva, Eurecom, France Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, United States Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Cristina Serban, AT&T, United States Daniele Sgandurra, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vicenc Torra, University of Skovde, Sweden Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States Corrado Aaron Visaggio, University of Salerno, Italy Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy Haining Wang, The College of William and Mary, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Qiben Yan, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States Yongjun Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore For any questions, please contact the program chair: secrypt2017(a)unimi.it

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[MoCS 2017] Extension Call for papers - Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017)
by Dario Russo 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Call for papers Seventh Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017) http://mocs.disi.unibo.it/ July 3rd, 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Organized by: National Research Council of Italy University of Messina, Italy in association with: The Twenty-Second IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017) Important Dates --------------- Submission: April 1, 2017 Notification: April 17, 2017 Camera-ready: April 24, 2017 Workshop: July 3, 2017 Scope and topics ---------------- The low cost of hardware components and the rapid growth of a business model for Cloud services are two important drivers for the success of the Cloud. Nevertheless, most of the players today require also to analyze data available on the Cloud with a holistic approach provided often by data mining techniques. Under this respect, services designed for complex scenarios like Smart Cities benefit of this new Cloud era. The objective is to track and comprehend the flow of novelty in Cloud systems and to put on the foreground all the features and related issues, with a particular attention to the convergence of Cloud systems together with Smart City systems and on the (re)use of open Cloud platforms for designing services for Smart Cities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Experiences on the use of Cloud systems when applied to services designed for Smart Cities; - Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems scalability and to achieve resource saving in socio-technical Smart City systems - Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective - Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; - New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level, within/between data centres (intra- /inter-domain); - Big Data flows processing for Smart City scenarios; - Relationship between IoT and Cloud systems in Smart City scenarios; - (Re)use of open Cloud-integrated platforms for the design of Smart Cities services. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2017 Proceedings and will submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org) Contacts -------- Michele Girolami: michele.girolami(a)isti.cnr.it Maria Fazio: mfazio(a)unime.it

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Fwd: BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *8th International Workshop on* *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Data **(BIOKDD'17)* Held in parallel with *28th International Conference on Database and * *Expert Systems Applications **(**DEXA’17**)* *www.dexa.org/biokdd2017 <http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2017>* Lyon, France August 28 - 31, 2017 In the recent years, there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more *biological data*, i.e., data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins). The rise of *Next Generation Sequencing* (NGS) technologies, also known as *high-throughput sequencing* technologies, has contributed actively to the deluge of these data. In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed in all over the world in databases. Analyzing this huge volume of data is a challenging task, not only, because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to use computer tools and develop new *in silico* high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological macromolecules and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. *Biological **Knowledge Discovery from Data* (BIOKDD) is a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD’17 workshop include, but not limited to: *Data Preprocessing: *Biological Data Storage*, *Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …). *Data Mining: *Biological Data Regression (regression of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Clustering/Biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences, …), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text Mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web Mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Data Mining. *Data Postprocessing:* Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules *via* numerical indicators, e.g. *measurements of interest*, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration. *PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: * Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CSP format *http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>*. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’17 Workshops with IEEE CSP*. *One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’17 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’17 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2017/ starting from January 2017. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission of abstracts: March 25, 2017 Submission of full papers: April 2, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2017 Camera-ready copies due: June 07, 2017 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) Emanuel Weitschek, Uninetuno University, Rome, Italy Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada Ronnie Alves, Instituto Tecnológico Vale D.S, Belém, Brasil Paul Yoo, Bournemouth University, UK Davide Verzzotto, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Hasan Oğul, Başkent University Ankara, Turkey Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Evangelos Theodoridis, Intel Labs Europe, London, UK. Manoj Kumar Shukla, Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tangier, Morocco Gaurav Kumar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Giosuè Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Yongchao Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA Zina M. Ibrahim, King’s College, London, UK ***

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Three PhD Scholarships available in Big Data or Data Science
by Jinjun Chen 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

We are now offering three PhD scholarships in the broad areas of Big Data and Data Science. Students who are interested in research of big data analytics, casual association rules mining, data knowledge discovery, machine intelligence, as well as challenging and world-changing application areas such as healthcare, transport and energy , are strongly encouraged to apply. These positions will be based in recently established Swinburne Data Science Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is a top ranked most livable city in our world. The PhD research will be performed under the supervision of Professor Jinjun Chen - http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ Scholarship information: · Annual stipend $26,682 (2017 rate) for three years (with possible 6 month extension) · Tuition fees for up to four years · Thesis allowance · Annual travel fund available We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Preference will be given to those students who have: - An excellent track record on Bachelor or Master degree, - Very good programming and math skills, - Very good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and writing, - Background in the fields of statistics, data mining, machine learning, sensing system, Internet of Things, natural language processing, and etc. - Meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements ( http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/) Application: Interested candidates are invited to send their applications to Professor Jinjun Chen (jchen(a)swin.edu.au) by 30 April 2017, including: 1. A cover letter describing your detailed research interest 2. Soft copy of your publications if any (e.g., master’s thesis, conference/journal papers) 3. Your CV 4. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees 5. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not your first language

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow 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 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 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 ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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[Conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth] UCAmI 2017 2nd cfp
by UCAmI 2017 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAMI 2017 http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2017 Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NOVEMBER 7 TO 10TH, 2017 Conference Background & Goals The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments and systems. These solutions aim to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services these solutions provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in AmI environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services, such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others. The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference will be "Ambient Intelligence: Sensing, Processing and Using Environmental Information". Publication All accepted conference papers will be included in SPRINGER LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS). Selected papers will be published in the following journals: * Sensors Journal (IF(2015) = 2.033) * Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (IF(2015) = 3.634) * Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (IF(2015) = 0.835) * Computer and Electrical Engineering (IF(2015) = 1.726) Important Dates * Paper submission: * Notification of acceptance: * Camera-ready version: * Conference dates: * MAY 1ST, 2017 * June 15th, 2017 * July 10th, 2017 * November 7 to 10th, 2017 TRACKS HEALTH (AMIHEALTH) (Topics) * Health, wellness and disease monitoring * Communication, cloud, and network architectures for Health * Education and e-Learning systems in Health domains * Knowledge management for health: context, behavior and user modeling * Data Analytics for Health environments * Health ecosystems: frameworks, models and methodologies * Interaction, social, and user experience within Health environments * Mobile and ubiquitous Health * Smart technologies and algorithms for Health AAL (IWAAL) (Topics) * Monitoring of chronic and non-chronic diseases in AAL * Solutions for active ageing, social integration and self-care * Entertainment and promotion of healthy life in AAL * Stress, burden and quality of life in carers of AAL environments * People learning and education in AAL environments * Security and privacy in AAL * Behaviour analysis in AAL environments * Context-Awareness in Assistive environments * Experiences and study cases in AAL * Wearables technologies and sensor networks. Smart homes for AAL * Middleware architectures for AAL * Sensing, Data management and Big data in AAL * Standards and interoperability AD-HOC SENSOR NETWORKS (Topics) * Applications of hybrid wireless ad hoc networks * Self-organizing protocols for heterogeneous ad hoc networks * Device-2-Device Communications (D2D); * Cooperation incentive models for Ad-hoc Networks * Vehicle-to-X communications (V2X) * Protocols for Ad-Hoc networks * Innovative real-world sensor network deployments and applications * Topology control and routing protocols in sensor network deployments * Novel communication paradigms for wireless sensor networks * Mobility management in sensor applications and deployments * Location techniques, routing, medium access control for sensor networks * Energy efficiency, energy efficient protocols for sensor networks SUSTAINABILITY (Topics) * Environmental health and climate monitoring * Sustainable and smart cities * Information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D) * Computational Energy Consumption * Sustainability and Assistive Computing * Ambient Intelligence for Health and Sustainability * Mobile Computing for Sustainability HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Topics) * Natural User Interfaces * Human-centric interfaces for AmI environments * Multimodal interfaces * Use of context and location information in user interfaces * Novel input devices * Robot-human interaction * Human-ambient interaction * Mobile interfaces * Affective interfaces (recognition and enactment of emotions) * User modeling * Personalization and adaptation of user interfaces * Ubiquitous and ambient displays * User experience in ambient computing * Interaction with smart objects and tangible interfaces * Brain computer interaction * Evaluation of interfaces in ambient and ubiquitous environments IOT & SMART CITIES (Topics) * IoT applications and services. Research and Innovation * How IoT technology will affect business and product development * Current and future trends in IoT * Distributed mobile applications based on IoT * Making money with the Internet of Things. New IoT Business Models * Security, privacy and trust in IoT * IoT Interoperability and Integration * Iot in the Transport system. The new VANET * Performance evaluation metrics IoT * Designing ultra-low power IoT nodes * Design and Deployment of the Infrastructure for IoT-enabled systems and applications * Brillo. Google's IoT O.S. Experiences and developments * Internet of Things and the Web of Things applied to smart cities * Web of Data and Linked Data to assemble urban apps * Citizen participation and data generation, controlling data provenance and trust * Security and privacy challenges for IoT, citizen-generated data, and Linked Data * Gaming with a purpose (GWAP) to incentivize citizen participation * Interaction paradigms in the Smart City * Novel context sensing mechanisms in the city * Behaviour Change practices applicable to urban environments * Urban analytics: determining human dynamics in the smart city * City services publication, indexing, discovery, recommendation and consumption * Architectures for consuming and analyzing Urban Broad Data * Real deployments, using cases and experiments * Urban Transports Special Sessions SOCIO-COGNITIVE & AFFECTIVE COMPUTING (Topics) * Affective Computing * Sentient Computing * Social Interaction * Virtual and Augmented Reality * Emotional Robots * Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing * Mobile Computing * Context Aware Computing * Ambient Intelligence * Ambient Assisted Living * Physiological Computing * Brain-Computer Interfaces * Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Systems * Eye Movements, Gaze Monitoring and Eye Blink Activity * Wearable Systems * Applications and Case Studies AMI SYSTEMS & MACHINE LEARNING (Topics) * Learning from observation from humans * Learning from natural instruction * Learning from conversation with a human * Experiential learning * Learning from a human coach (reverse intelligent tutoring systems) * Human Interaction with Ubiquitous and mobile System * User modeling * User Profiling * Human-Ambient Interaction * User experience in Ambient Computing * Evaluation of interfaces in Ambient and Ubiquitous environments Networking Session [1] Contact * grupo.mami at uclm.es * grupo.mami(a)uclm.es In order to view, change, or cancel your subscription to the CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list, please click here [2]. 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SmartIoT 2017, August 25th-27th, 2017 at Dalian, China
by SmartIoT 2017 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017) will be held on 25th-27th, August 2017 at Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017 Submission Due: 10 May 2017 Author Notification: 20 June 2017 The primary goal of SmartIoT 2017 is to exchange, share and discuss the latest research, theories and applications for Smart Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Track 1. Architectures and systems of IoT * Track 2. Sensing, monitoring, networking and routing * Track 3. Cloud computing and Big data analysis * Track 4. Industrial 4.0 and Industrial IoT * Track 5. Localization, tracking and recognizing for IoT * Track 6. Social networks, multimedia and mobile computing * Track 7. Smart cities and internet of vehicles * Track 8. Emerging research or Technologies for CPS * Track 9. Control and decision making for smart IoT or CPS * Track 10. Security and privacy for smart IoT or CPS Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the SmartIoT 2017 submission site: http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017/submission.html Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI. Authors of 50% papers will be invited to submit their paper to a special issue in a SCI-indexed journal. Look forwards to receiving your submission. Best regards. Smart-IoT 2017 Organization Committee smartiot.conf(a)gmail.com 2017 International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2017), 25th-27th, August 2017 in Dalian, Liaoning, China. http://www.isiot.org/SmartIoT2017

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

*** Fourth Call for Doctoral Consortium *** 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 24 - 27 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The internationally recognized ADBIS conference already for 21 years is gathering researchers and practitioners around topics related to databases, data processing, and information systems, in general. The conference is run in Europe but attracts researchers from all over the world. The 21st ADBIS conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including doctoral consortia and workshops. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum where PhD students can present their research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback from mentors, and tie cooperation bounds. Students will receive inspiration from their peers and will have a chance to discuss their research objectives with senior members of the community in the context of an established international conference. The DC session will take place on September 24, in parallel with the workshop sessions. Each participant will present her/his work, followed by a discussion with senior researchers. ELIGIBILITY We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertation year. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the DC. SUBMISSIONS To apply to the DC, please submit a single-authored paper (which will appear in the proceedings of DC), accompanied by a short email from the thesis advisor stating support for your participation in the DC, describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving your expected date of graduation. The papers for DC should be at most 12 pages in Springer format (formatting instructions can be obtained via http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… and describe the state of the whole PhD project, rather than a specific completed result. The paper should outline the objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main conference or one of accompanying workshops. A paper submitted to the DC may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the DC. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format at CMT: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…. In case of multiple files, please submit a single compressed file (zip or rar). After logging into CMT, please choose the "ADBIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium" track. REVIEW PROCESS Each paper submitted to the DC will be reviewed by at least two members of the DC program committee and will be judged based on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance. The authors of successful submissions must take into account the reviewers' comments during the preparation of the final version and describe the changes in a separate document to be submitted together with the final camera-ready version. The program committee reserves the right to reject a paper if the final version does not meet the requirements above. Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) will not be considered. The authors of accepted papers must register to the conference, attend the DC and present their work. PROCEEDINGS The DC papers will be published by Springer, together with the ADBIS workshops proceedings, in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission: May 19, 2017 · Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: July 14, 2017 · Doctoral Consortium: September 24, 2017 COMMITTEES Steering Committee Chair · Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia · Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Proceedings Chair · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops Chairs · Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France · Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24
by GRLMC 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration March 24*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2017 Bilbao, Spain July 17-21, 2017 Organized by: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/ ************************************************************ --- Early registration deadline: March 24, 2017 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2017 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neuroscience, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 4 keynote lectures, 30 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: In principle, graduate students, doctoral students and postdocs will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. DeepLearn 2017 is also appropriate for more senior academics and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3-4 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2017 will take place in Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque Country, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao, Spain KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Richard Socher (Salesforce), Tackling the Limits of Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Narendra Ahuja (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Basics of Deep Learning with Applications to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory and Applications to the Natural Sciences Sven Behnke (University of Bonn), [intermediate] Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Mohammed Bennamoun (University of Western Australia), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Vision Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Sequence Modeling: Historical Perspective and Current Trends Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Segmentation, Processing, and Tracking, with Applications to Video, Gaming, VR, and Self-driving Cars George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), [intermediate] Deep Learning of Behaviors Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), [introductory] Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models Li Deng (Microsoft Research), tba Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Michael Gschwind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning Applications at the Enterprise Scale Yufei Huang (University of Texas, San Antonio), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Bioinformatics Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Multi-modal Deep Learning for the Recognition of Human Emotions in the Real Li Erran Li (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers Michael C. Mozer (University of Colorado, Boulder), [introductory/intermediate] Incorporating Domain Bias into Neural Networks Roderick Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow), [intermediate] Applications of Deep Learning Models in Human-Computer Interaction Research Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Representations for Vision, Speech and Text Processing Applications Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning in the Brain Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Foundations of Deep Learning and its Recent Advances Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padua), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Sequences Jimeng Sun (Georgia Institute of Technology), [introductory] Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Healthcare Applications Julian Togelius (New York University), [intermediate] (Deep) Learning for (Video) Games Joos Vandewalle (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Data Processing Methods, and Applications of Least Squares Support Vector Machines Ying Nian Wu (University of California, Los Angeles), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Machine Learning Perspectives of Extending Deep Neural Networks: Kernels, Logics, Regularizers, Priors, and Distributed Algorithms Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Games - But Not for Playing them Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research), [introductory/intermediate] Continuous Representations for Natural Language Understanding Richard Zemel (University of Toronto), [introductory/intermediate] Learning to Understand Images and Text OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 9, 2017. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A specific session will be devoted to demonstrations of practical uses of deep learning in industrial processes. Companies/people interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration, the duration requested and the logistics necessary. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017. EMPLOYERS SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search should have registered for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 2, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Pablo García Bringas (co-chair) José Gaviria Carlos Martín (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Iker Pastor Borja Sanz (co-chair) David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2017/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: A suggestion for accommodation is available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidad de Deusto Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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POF Symposium at OFC 2017 and POF Technology & Applications Pavilion
by Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

[1] POF Symposium at OFC 2017 Visit POFTO Booth #3859 [2]POF Symposium at OFC 2017 Thursday, 23 March, 2017 (11:00 - 13:00) Expo Theater III Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA The Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) will organize a POF Symposium during OFC 2017 that will cover recent developments in plastic optical fibers (POF) technology, applications, technical standards, industry progress and new markets. Speakers from around the world will review opportunities for POF in areas such as Gigabit POF, 4K/8K ultra high definition television (UHDTV), home networking, active optical cables, aerospace & automobile applications, POF sources & sensors, and high-temperature POF, among others. 11:00 – 11:05 Organizer and Program Chair: Hui Pan, Chief Economist,Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO), USA 11:05 – 11:30 Keynote Presentation: Status of GI POF towards Noise-Free 8K Data Transmission Yasuhiro Koike, Director, Keio Photonics Research Institute( KPRI) and Professor, Keio University, Japan; Dr. Azusa Inoue, Project Senior Assistant Professor, Keio University /KPRI, Japan Presenters 11:30 – 11:50 IEEE Standards on POF Technology in Automotive Applications Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Manager, Plastic Molding Material Department, Fiber Optics Section, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., LTD, Japan 11:50 – 12:10 Winning the Market for Short-Distance High-Speed Data Links: GigaPOF® in Active Optical Cables Frank Graziano, CEO, Board Member, Chromis Fiberoptics, Inc., USA 12:10 – 12:30 POF in Future Access and Home Networks Eugene Dai, Principal Transport Architect, Cox Communications, USA 12:30 – 12:50 High Bitrate Transmission over SI-POF Marco Dietrich, CTO, albis-elcon system Germany GmbH, Germany 12:50 – 13:10 POF-based Indoor Networks For Converged Wired-Wireless Delivery Of Broadband Services Ton Koonen, Professor, COBRA Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands The event is free and open to all OFC attendees. However, for planning purposes, please email the program chair Dr. Hui Pan, [3]hpan(a)igigroup.com to [4]reserve a seat at the POF Symposium. [5]POF Technology and Applications Pavilion at OFC 2017 (booth #3859) POFTO is also organizing a POF Technology and Applications Pavilion at OFC 2017 where POFTO member companies will demonstrate their products and technologies during the show. Attendees can bring their problems and receive design advice on POF solutions from industry experts. Hope to see you there! Dr. Hui Pan[6] [7]POFTO Secretariat[8] Information Gatekeepers Inc. PO Box 35880 Boston, MA 02135, USA Tel: +1-617-782-5033 Fax: +1-617-507-8338[9] hpan(a)igigroup.com[10] References 1. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/exhibit-hall/show-floor-programming… 2. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/exhibit-hall/show-floor-programming… 3. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 4. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 5. http://www.expocadweb.com/17OFC/ec/forms/attendee/index5.aspx#fpPanel 6. http://www.igigroup.com/ 7. http://www.pofto.com/ 8. http://www.igigroup.com/ 9. mailto:hpan@igigroup.com 10. mailto:pof2012usa@gmail.com This message was sent to computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from: Plastic Optical Fiber Trade Organization | list(a)igigroup.com | IGI Group | PO Box 35880 | Brighton, MA 02135 Manage Your Subscription: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=36158000&l=29400&s=16FD&m=4…

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CFP: ACM WiSec '17 -- deadline March 20!
by Prof. Mauro Conti 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks ACM WiSec '17 Boston, USA July 18th - 20th 2017 http://wisec2017.ccs.neu.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract registration/Paper submission: March 20, 2017 (11:59:59 PM EDT) Notification to authors: April 24, 2017 Poster and demo proposal submission: May 17, 2017 Notification to poster/demo presenters: May 19, 2017 Camera-ready version: May 29, 2017 CONFERENCE SCOPE: ACM WiSec is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, cryptography, and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications such as Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security & privacy for smart devices (e.g., smartphones) * Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity * Secure localization and location privacy * Cellular network fraud and security * Jamming attacks and defenses * Key management (agreement or distribution) for wireless or mobile systems * Information-theoretic security schemes for wireless systems * Theoretical and formal approaches for wireless and mobile security * Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security * NFC and smart payment applications * Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems * Wireless or mobile security for emerging applications (e.g, privacy in health, automotive, avionics, smart grid, or IoT applications) * Physical tracking security and privacy * Usable mobile security and privacy * Economics of mobile security and privacy * Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) security * Mobile malware and platform security * Security for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access systems * Security protocols for wireless networking The proceedings of ACM WiSec, sponsored by SIGSAC, will be published by the ACM. FULL AND SHORT PAPERS: Full paper submissions to ACM WiSec 2017 can be up to 10 pages in the ACM conference style excluding the bibliography and well marked appendices, and up to 12 pages in total. ACM WiSec also encourages the submission of short papers with a length of up to 6 pages, which describe mature work of a more succinct nature. All papers must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website. *** New at WiSec 2017 *** OPINION PAPERS: ACM WiSec 2017 invites papers (ACM conference style, up to 3 pages excluding references) that present personal perspectives on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks. Opinion papers could also criticize previous research or research directions, as well as highlight possible promising research directions. The opinions expressed in these papers are expected to be anyway corroborated by theoretical foundations, experiments, or experiences. Like the regular papers, the opinion papers will be reviewed by the WiSec Technical Program Committee. The selected opinion papers will be a part of the WiSec technical program and will be published in the conference proceedings. Opinion papers should be submitted using the same submission procedure adopted for the full papers. The title of these papers must have the prefix "Opinion:". *** New at WiSec 2017 *** WiSec REPRODUCIBILITY LABEL: This year WiSec is pioneering a process to support greater reproducibility in mobile and wireless security experimental research. The goal of this process is to increase the impact of mobile and wireless research, enable dissemination of research results, sharing of code and experiments set-ups, and to enable the research community to build on prior experimental results. Towards this goal, Wisec is introducing a reproducibility label to recognize papers whose results were reproduced by an independent group of researchers. Authors of accepted papers, can participate in this voluntary process by submitting their experiments following the reproducibility evaluation instructions. Authors are encouraged to plan ahead when running their experiments to minimize the overhead of applying for this label. POSTERS AND DEMOS: WiSec also solicits submission of posters and demos. ORGANIZATION: General Chair: * Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Program Chairs: * Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy * Sneha Kumar Kasera, University of Utah, USA Steering Committee: * Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (chair) * William Enck, North Carolina State University * Ivan Martinovic, Oxford University, UK * Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University, USA * Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany * Patrick Traynor, University of Florida, USA -- Prof. Mauro Conti, PhD Head of SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group EU Marie Curie Fellow - IEEE Senior Member Associate Editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE COMST Address : University of Padua - Department of Mathematics Via Trieste, 63 - 35121, Padua, Italy Room : 528 Phone : +39 049 827 1488 Fax : +39 049 827 1479 Email : conti(a)math.unipd.it Web : http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/ http://spritz.math.unipd.it/

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ACM AsiaCCS 2017 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Prof. Mauro Conti 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

ACM AsiaCCS 2017 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017 April 2-6, 2017, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates http://asiaccs2017.com/ ASIACCS is a major international forum for information security researchers, practitioners, developers and users to explore and exchange the newest cyber security ideas, breakthroughs, findings, techniques, tools and experiences. Besides the main conference, there are 5 specialized workshops: * The 4th ACM ASIA Public-Key Cryptography Workshop (APKC 2017) * ACM Workshop on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (BCC 2017) * 3rd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS 2017) * 3rd International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (IoTPTS 2017) * The Fifth International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC 2017) We received 359 submissions, a new record in the conference's decade-long history. After the review process concluded, 67 full papers were accepted to be presented at the conference, representing an acceptance rate of about 18%. In addition, 5 short papers and 10 posters/demos were also included in the program. The advanced program is available at the conference web site. http://asiaccs2017.com/program/ In addition to technical presentations, there will be the following keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials. Keynotes ----------------------- * Hardware Trojans and Other Threats against Embedded Systems Prof. Christof Paar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum • Monday April 3, 9:30 * What might it mean for security to be sustainable? Prof. Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge • Monday April 3, 18:30 * Advanced Security Research in the World of IoT Gregory Neal Akers, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems • Tuesday April 4, 9:15 Invited Talks ----------------------- The Malware Menace: How Does It Find Its Way to Our Computers? Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Wednesday April 5, 16:35 CoverUp: Privacy Through “Forced” Participation in Anonymous Communication Networks Srdjan Capkun, ETH, Switzerland • Monday April 3, 13:30 Security and Privacy Challenges for Aviation Networks Ivan Martinovic, Oxford University, UK • Monday April 3, 17:25 The Case for System Command Encryption David Naccache, ENS, France • Tuesday April 4, 11:40 Control-Flow Hijacking: Are We Making Progress? Matthias Payer, Purdue, US • Tuesday April 4, 10:45 Security in Personal Genomics: Lest We Forget Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine, US • Monday April 3, 14:30 Tutorials ----------------------- Remote Attestation – Building trust in things you can’t see N. Asokan and Andrew Paverd, Aalto University, Finland • Wednesday April 5, 13:15 Post-quantum cryptography, an overview Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany • Monday April 3, 15:35 On the Security of PoW-based Blockchains Ghassan Karame (NEC) and Alexandra Dmitrienko (ETH, Switzerland) • Thursday April 6, 9:30 Contact --------------------- For inquiries on conference venue and logistics, please contact general chairs: Ramesh Karri, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA - <rkarri(a)nyu.edu> Ozgur Sinanoglu, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE - <ozgursin(a)nyu.edu> For inquiries on technical program, please contact program chairs: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - <ahmad.sadeghi(a)trust.cased.de> Xun Yi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - <xun.yi(a)rmit.edu.au> Sponsors --------------------- Center for Cyber Security - NYU ABU DHABI Web and Further Information --------------------- http://asiaccs2017.com/ -- Prof. Mauro Conti, PhD Head of SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group EU Marie Curie Fellow - IEEE Senior Member Associate Editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE COMST Address : University of Padua - Department of Mathematics Via Trieste, 63 - 35121, Padua, Italy Room : 528 Phone : +39 049 827 1488 Fax : +39 049 827 1479 Email : conti(a)math.unipd.it Web : http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/ http://spritz.math.unipd.it/

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TUDelft job announcement
by Frances Brazier - TBM 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

The Systems Engineering Group at TUDelft has announced a tenure track Assistant Professor position …. (please also see ... https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUD/vacancy/39004/lang/en/ Assistant Professor of Distributed Systems, Design & Simulation Faculty/department Technology, Policy and Management Level PhD degree Maximum employment 38 hours per week (1 FTE) Duration of contract Tenure track Salary scale €3,427 to €5,330 per month gross Technology, Policy and Management The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) develops robust models and designs, to solve the complex challenges of today’s networked society. TPM combines insights from the engineering sciences with insights from the humanities and the social sciences. The Systems Engineering group within TBM focuses on the design of large-scale, distributed systems that enable and support participation in networked society. The Systems Engineering group is seeking to fill an open tenure-track position in the design of such large-scale, distributed systems, in particular with respect to understanding the dynamics of self-organisation and emergence (www.participatorysystems.org<http://www.participatorysystems.org>). Job description We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in computer science, artificial intelligence, distributed simulation, or a related field, intrigued by interdisciplinary research in large-scale, socio-technical systems. Examples of large-scale, distributed, socio-technical systems designed and studied within the Systems Engineering group include distributed energy markets, supply-demand networks, international food chain management, crisis management, health systems, and systems designed to support citizen participation. This position extends our current research portfolio to focus on the design of dynamic, multi-agent systems – design, development, simulation, and application in practice. Could you strengthen our international, interdisciplinary, leading-edge research group? Do you have the background, drive, and commitment to explore the design space for participation, to analyse, design, and orchestrate coordination of self-management and emergence, to study dynamics of participatory system behaviour, to explore changing roles and their implications, and to work together with experts from many different fields? A Tenure Track, a process that leads to a permanent appointment as an Assistant Professor at the TU Delft, offers talented academics a clear and attractive career path. During the Tenure Track, you will have the opportunity to develop into an internationally acknowledged and recognised academic. We offer a structured career and personal development programme designed to offer individual academics as much support as possible. For more information about the Tenure Track and the personal development programme, please visit www.tudelft.nl/tenuretrack<http://www.tudelft.nl/tenuretrack>. Requirements Applicants should have the following qualifications: • a strong background in (multi-agent) system design, simulation, and development; • a PhD in Computer Science, Multi-Agent Systems, Artificial Intelligence or a related field; • excellent scientific credentials; • strong appreciation for, experience with, and ability to work in an academic, interdisciplinary environment with both social scientists and computer scientists; • demonstrated didactic qualities and experience in interdisciplinary educational programmes; • experience in attracting external funding; • a strong (international) network within academic, industrial, and national and international governmental organisations. Conditions of employment A Tenure Track, a process that leads to a permanent appointment as an Assistant Professor at the TU Delft, offers talented academics a clear and attractive career path. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. An International Children’s Centre offers childcare and an international primary school. Dual Career Services offers support to accompanying partners. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. If you have less than five years of experience and do not yet have your teaching certificate, we allow you up to three years to obtain this. Information and application For more information about this position or to apply, please contact Prof.dr. F.M. Brazier, phone: +31 (0)15-2787529, email: F.M.Brazier(a)tudelft.nl<mailto:F.M.Brazier@tudelft.nl>. To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV, list of publications and references along with a letter of application by 23 April 2017 to Prof. Brazier, vacature-tbm(a)tudelft.nl<mailto:vacature-tbm@tudelft.nl>. When applying for this position, pl

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[Deadline extension] WPDM 2017 International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

The first International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2017) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: April 3, 2017 (extended) Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelising existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organisation and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimising data dependences. Another concern is related to minimising synchronisation and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimised as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Scalable message-passing parallel data mining algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel data mining algorithms using OpenMP - Scalable hybrid MPI + OpenMP parallel data mining algorithms - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA for parallel data mining applications - Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms - Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimisation techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimisation and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpdm2017. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the symposium, please contact the symposium organisers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- April 3, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 21, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: -------May 03, 2017 Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Renato Vimieiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organisation, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17 or contact one of the Conference's organisers. - ************************************************************************************ Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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[CFP] Workshop on Underwater Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Ad Hoc Networks, Niagara Falls, Canada, September 28-29, 2017.
by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------- ======================================================================== Call for Papers 9th EAI International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, Workshop on Underwater Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Ad Hoc Networks http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/cf-workshops Niagara Falls, Canada, September 28-29, 2017 Springer Proceedings ** Submission Deadline: 15 May 2017 ** ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 * Acceptance Notification: June 12, 2017 * Camera Ready Version: June 30, 2017 ======================================================================== Scope: Underwater autonomous vehicle and sensor ad hoc networks imply the deployment of elements over large and remote areas. Multiple sensing nodes produce information, e.g., seabed or vertical line hydrophone arrays, magnetometers, moored or surface-float suspended, and mobile autonomous vehicles. The network elements operate strategically throughout areas of interest. They need to communicate with each other, to collect and route data to fusion centres or for control purposes. Underwater conditions rule out the extensive use of conventional electromagnetic and cabling communications. Wireless acoustic communication networks are therefore required. Topics of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to): * Modem and signalling protocol analysis, design and implementation * Channel modelling and simulation * Communication techniques and protocols (physical, data link and network) * Medium access control * Experimental results * Routing algorithms * Topology control * Network management * Detection, localization, classification and tracking of objects of interest in the underwater environment * Model of serviceable coverage ranges * Data trustworthiness and data provenance * Detection of counterfeit sensor outputs ======================================================================== Highlights: The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. Accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: EI, ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings at Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Accepted Authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to Special Issue in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. ======================================================================== Submission guidelines: Papers should be submitted via Confy system, using the following link: http://confy.eai.eu/#conftrack-overview/conf/52338/cid/52338 Please follow instructions on initial submission (available at http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/initial-submission) and in author's kit (available at http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/authors-kit) when submitting your paper. ======================================================================== Chairs: * Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, CANADA * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Paris-Saclay University, FRANCE ======================================= FURTHER INFORMATION ======================================= Additional information available at: http://adhocnets.org/2017/show/cf-workshops

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16 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, The deadline for paper submission to IEEE ICCI'CC’17 (16th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing) has been extended to April 1, 2017 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-17). Special session proposals and short papers are welcome. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'17 will be published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Extended versions of selected papers will be published in EI or SCI indexed journals. Full papers are expected to be around 6-10 pages in IEEE double column format. Short papers (4-5 pages) that report industrial experience, case studies, work in progress, or graduate students’ research are also welcome. Paper submission site is at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc17 . We look forward to meeting you at University of Oxford during July 26-28, 2017. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'17 Co-Chairs

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CILC 2017: Preliminary Call For Papers
by Dario Della Monica 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

We are happy to announce the following event. ********************************************************************** 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 Important dates: ---------------- Abstract, paper, and demo submission deadline: 25 May 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 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. 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: ------------ Papers accepted for presentation at the conference (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. 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). 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") 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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Fully funded PhD studentship / scholarship at Univ of Birmingham, UK
by Xin Yao 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

FULLY FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP at the University of Birmingham, UK http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/PhDAdvert.html RPOJECT: Experience-based Optimisation This project aims at improving the efficiency of optimisation processes for problems inspired by industrial application scenarios. The key research issues include the conservation, abstraction and modelling of experience gained from optimising one problem instance and the smart integration of such experience/knowledge in solving related problem instances. In this project, novel algorithms and techniques will be designed that will become more and more effective as they solve more and more problem instances. The key research challenges include: the representation of experience; the mapping/transfer of the problem-solving experience across problem instances; the incorporation of transferred experience into solving the current problem instance at hand. FUNDING: The PhD studentship is for three-years, covering tuition fees and GBP14,553 per year tax-free living stipends. Additional funding is available for conference travels and research collaborations with industry. RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT: The University of Birmingham has a long tradition of supporting outstanding PhD students in natural computation. Our former PhD students have won prestigious IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awards (twice), CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award (Runner-up), and highly competitive Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, EPSRC Theoretical Computer Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, etc. APPLICATION DEADLINE AND EXPECTED STARTING DATE: The PhD studentship is available immediately. This position will remain open until it is filled. CANDIDATES: The successful applicant must have at least a 2.1 or above degree in computer science or a closely related field (or a Distinction at the MSc level). We do consider outstanding applicants from mathematics, physics and engineering as long as they have sufficient computer science background. Previous research experience is an advantage, but not essential. Excellence is our top priority. Both EU and overseas applicants are welcome. HOW TO APPLY: Only online applications will be considered. For further details of how to apply, please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate-research/ and follow the instructions and links there. CONTACT PERSON FOR RESEARCH ISSUES: Prof. Xin Yao: x.yao(a)cs.bham.ac.uk.

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017) Oslo, Norway -- September 11-15, 2017 WWW: https://www.ntnu.edu/web/esorics2017/ ================================================================================ Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in computer security are solicited for submission to the Symposium. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development. Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2017 * Notification to authors: June 16, 2016 * Camera ready due: July 26, 2016 Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * access control * accountability * ad hoc networks * anonymity * applied cryptography * authentication * biometrics * data and computation integrity * database security * data protection * digital content protection * digital forensics * distributed systems security * embedded systems security * inference control * information hiding * identity management * information flow control * information security governance and management * intrusion detection * formal security methods * language-based security * network security * phishing and spam prevention * privacy * privacy preserving data mining * risk analysis and management * secure electronic voting * security architectures * security economics * security metrics * security models * security and privacy for big data * security and privacy in cloud scenarios * security and privacy in complex systems * security and privacy in content centric networking * security and privacy in crowdsourcing * security and privacy in the IoT * security and privacy in location services * security and privacy for mobile code * security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing * security and privacy policies * security and privacy in social networks * security and privacy in web services * security and privacy in cyber-physical systems * security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures * security verification * software security * systems security * trust models and management * trustworthy user devices * usable security and privacy * web security * wireless security Paper Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------ Submissions must be made through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2017 Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). All submissions should follow 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 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Submissions are to be made to the Submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 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 ------------------------------------ General Chairs: * Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Organization Chair: * Laura Georg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Workshop Chair: * Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Program Committee Chairs: * Dieter Gollman, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany * Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Program Committee: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Alessandro Armando, University of Genoa, Italy Michael Backes, Saarland University, Germany Giampaolo Bella, Università degli studi di Catania, Italy Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carlo Blundo, Università degli studi di Salerno, Italy Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Colin Boyd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Brunthaler, SBA Research, Austria Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham, UK Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK Frederic Cuppens, IMT Atlantique, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Mads Dam, KTH, Sweden Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Wenliang Du, Syracuse University, USA Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden Riccardo Focardi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Felix Freiling, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom ParisSud, France Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, China Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research , USA Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Michael Huth, Imperial College, UK Aaron D. Jaggard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Dogan Kesdogan, Universität Regensburg, Germany Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France Marina Krotofil, Honeywell, USA Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany Junzuo Lai, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kwok-yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS, Estonia Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Peng Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Luigi V. Mancini, "Universita di Roma ""La Sapienza""", Italy Heiko Mantel, TU Darmstadt, Germany Olivier Markowitch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA John Mitchell, Stanford University, USA Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Refik Molva, EURECOM, France Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii, USA Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany David Pichardie, ENS-IRISA, Rennes Frank Piessens , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Michalis Polychronakis, Stonybrook University, USA Christina Pöpper, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kai Rannenberg, Goeth University, Germany Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Y.A. Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ralf Sasse, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Björn Tackmann, IBM Research, Switzerland Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore jaideep Tsochou, Ionion University, Greece Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT & TU Darmstadt, Germany Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China Ben Smyth, Huawei, France Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway university, UK Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jeff Yan, Lancaster University, UK Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ben Zhao, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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[ASONAM 2017] Call for Research Papers
by Abraham Diebo 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining ASONAM 2017 Sydney, Australia 31 July -03 August 2017 http://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca Call for Papers The study of social networks originated in the social science, anthropology, and business communities. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly; the development of advanced techniques for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) has been highly influenced by the internet, the social web, and other large-scale, socio-technical infrastructures, which are widely analyzed using graph theory, statistics, and data mining and machine learning techniques. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, and community formation and evolution. These trends have led to a rising prominence of SNAM in academia, politics, homeland security, and business. The international conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017) will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue that will bring together practitioners and researchers from a variety of SNAM fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices. ASONAM 2017 is intended to address important aspects with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works reporting original and unpublished research results on social network analysis and mining along with their application to real life situations. More specialized topics within ASONAM 2017 include, but are not limited to: - Accuracy of network data at scale - Analysis of covert networks, Dark Web - Anomaly detection in social network evolution - Application of social network analysis and mining - Community discovery and analysis in large scale online/offline social networks - Computational simulations and modeling - Crowd sourcing of network data generation and collection - Cyber anthropology - Data models for social networks and social media - Economics of transactions in networks - Ethics, privacy and security with network data collection and analysis - Evolution of communities/patterns on the Web and in large organizations - Impact of social networks on recommendations systems - Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization - Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities - Information acquisition and establishment of social relations - Information diffusion - Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis - Migration between communities - Misbehavior detection in communities - Multi-actor/multiple-relationship networks - Network formation and evolution - Network visualization - Open source intelligence - Pattern presentation for end-users and experts - Personalization for search and for social interaction - Political impact of social network discovery - Privacy and security of social networks - Scalability of social networking/search algorithms - Social and cultural anthropology - Social geography and spatial networks - Statistical modeling of large networks - Trust in networks To fully embrace the fast-growing and vigorously dynamic trend of social networks and applications, ASONAM 2017 is eager to consider any breakthroughs in social network analysis and mining in the broadest possible sense. General areas of interest to ASONAM 2017 include information science and mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine. Submission The papers will be reviewed and assessed by the program committee. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a length of 8 pages using the IEEE two-column template. We solicit also short paper with a maximum length of 4 pages. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), and abstract on the first page. EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/co nferences/?conf=asonam2017 Papers will be accepted for the conference based on the reviewers' comments on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. A Best Paper Award ceremony will be organized at the banquet. If the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at least one author registers as a full conference participant. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ASONAM 2017 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE eXplore, and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for El indexing through INSPEC by the IEEE. If you have any questions on ASONAM 2017, please send email to asonam2017 (AT) gmail (dot) com. Key Dates Paper submission deadline March 17, 2017 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11) Notification of acceptance May 12, 2017 Camera-ready papers due June 23, 2017 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11) Conference events 31 July - 03 August, 2017

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CFP: IFIP WMNC 2017, Sept. 25-27, 2017. Valencia (Spain)
by Sandra Sendra 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We appreciate your help to forward this CFPs to your friends & email lists. ================================================ The 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, September 25-27, 2017, Valencia (Spain) -- WMNC 2017: http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 1st, 2017 SUBMISSION LINK: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21553 =============================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================= The 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference will be held in Valencia, Spain from September 25 to September 27, 2016. WMNC 2017 provides a forum for discussion for researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and mobile computing. WMNC combines PWC (Personal Wireless Communications conference), MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks conference), and WSAN (Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks conference) into one event. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEEXplore. Authors of papers of special merit will be invited to send their extended versions to a Special Issue organized for this purpose in International Journals indexed in ISI Thomson and Scopus databases. Network Protocols and Algorithms (S.I.: Special Issue on Wireless and Mobile Networking) Link: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/npa Indexed is several Databases, incluided in DBLP. Sensors (S.I.: Special Issue on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms for Sensor Networks) Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Smart_Communication_Prot… Indexed in ISI Thomson and several Databases. I.F.: 2.033 (2015). Q1 TOPICS ================================================= Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages, double column) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at Authors Guidelines (http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/sub_gui.html) . WMNC 2017 includes three tacks focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics: Track 1: Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks 5G Networks, Wireless technologies design and evaluation, Handoff management, Location management, Resource management, Network and service management and control, Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices, Cognitive radio networking, Device, to, device communications, Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks, Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks, Network security solutions and protocols, Subscriber privacy, Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Traffic and network modeling, Analysis, and simulation in wireless/mobile networks, Virtualized and cloud, based wireless. Track 2: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks Cyber-Physical, Systems, Machine to Machine communications (M2M), Communication Technologies for the IoT, Ad-Hoc networking, Delay tolerant networking, Cross, layer design and optimization, In-network processing and aggregation of information, Energy, efficient protocols and power management, Localization and tracking, Middleware for WSN and M2M, Self, organization and reconfiguration, Security for WSN and M2M, Multimedia communications in WSN, Vehicular networks, Robots as actor networks, Nano networks, Fog Networking. Track 3: Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks Wireless multimedia networking, Mobile cloud computing and applications, Multicasting and broadcasting issues, Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments, Digital radio and TV broadcasting, Mobile computing, Protocols and platforms for convergence, QoS and QoE in wireless/mobile networks, Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection, Wireless Internet applications, ITS (Intelligent transportation systems), Infotainment, pervasive systems, RFID, Location, based services, Mobile services, Content management and distribution, Context, aware wireless multimedia applications, Context-aware services, Information centric networking, Social networking. WMNC'2017 technical program committee invites authors to submit manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. The following contributions are welcome: (i) Research papers reporting on new trends and developments, (ii) Application papers reporting on academia developments of technologies, products, services, systems and solutions, (iii) Performance evaluation and experimentation papers, (iv) Industry practice papers. PAPER SUBMISSION ================================================= Submissions will be judged based on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Authors can submit original technical papers, using the EDAS link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21553 The submission system will present an entry form to allow you to enter the paper title, abstract text, author contact information and subject areas. For each paper, it is requested to enter ONE conference track. ALL authors must be entered in the EDAS submission form, and must appear in the same order in which the authors appear on the PDF. IMPORTANT DATES ================================================= Full paper registration: April 24, 2017 Full paper submission: May 1, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2017 Camera ready submission: July 1, 2017 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================= General Chair: Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Program Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Special Issue Chair: Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Keynote Speaker & Tutorial Chair: Francisco Falcone, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain Workshops Chair: Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunica��es, UBI, Portugal Industry Chair: Antonio Sanchez, Telefonica, Spain Web Chair: Alejandro Canovas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Publicity Chairs: Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain Sofiane Hamrioui, University of Haute Alsace, France Submission Chairs: Jose M. Jimenez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Lorena Parra, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Local Organization: Juan R. Diaz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Oscar Romero, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================= Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Edmundo Monteiro, Coimbra University, Portugal George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Giuseppe Bianchi, Universita degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata, Italy Guy Pujolle, Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris 6, France Jozef Wozniak (SC Chair), Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Mario Gerla, UCLA Computer Science Department, US Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University, Czehc Republic Zoubir Mammeri, Paul Sabatier University, France Hannes Frey, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France For more information, visit the conference website: http://jlloret.webs.upv.es/wmnc2017/ =================================================

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IEEE Big Data 2017 CFP
by CFP Conference 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

*Call for Papers* *2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017)* http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. · The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. · The IEEE Big Data 2016 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 18.7%) was held in Washington DC, Dec 5-8, 2016 with close to 900 registered participants from 43 countries. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2017) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2017 will offer* student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Journal Publication * A set of about 10 papers will be selected for a fast-track review and then published at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 7, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 9, 2016 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2017 Conference: Dec 11-14, 2017 *PC Co-Chairs* Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research, USA *Industry and Government Co-Chairs:* Raghunath Nambiar, CISCO, USA Ghosh Rumi, BOSCH, USA Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, IncUSA Hui Zang, Huawei Research, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDMyIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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GECCO 2017 Workshop "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology"
by José Santos Reyes 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

GECCO 2017 Workshop “ Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology” http://eccsb2017.irlab.org/ In the last two decades, many computer scientists in Artificial Intelligence have made significant contributions to modeling biological systems as a means of understanding the molecular basis of mechanisms in the healthy and diseased cell. The field of computational biology includes the development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems. The focus of this workshop is the use of nature-inspired approaches to central problems in computational biology, including optimization methods under the umbrella of evolutionary computation. Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Genome and sequence analysis with nature-inspired approaches. * Computational systems biology. * Biological network modeling and analysis. * Use of artificial life models like cellular automata or Lindenmayer systems in the modeling of biological problems. * Study and analysis of properties of biological systems like self-organization, self-assembled systems, emergent behavior or morphogenesis. * Hybrid approaches and memetic algorithms in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Multi-objective approaches in the modeling of computational biology problems. * Use of natural and evolutionary computation algorithms in protein structure classification and prediction (secondary and tertiary). * Mapping of protein and peptide energy landscapes. * Modeling of temporal folding of proteins. * Protein design. * Protein-ligand and protein-protein docking. * Stability and dynamics of biomolecular systems. * Applications in atomic clusters: Water clusters, Leonard Jones clusters, metal clusters, etc. * Applications in cellular systems: micelle, single organisms, bacterial cells, etc. * Applications in stem cell differentiation and development, lineage programming and cell fates. * Evolutionary search strategies to assist cryo-electron microscopy and other experimental techniques in model building. * Surrogate models and stochastic approximations of computationally expensive fitness functions of biomolecular systems. Dates : Paper submission deadline: April 15 (strict deadline) Decision notification: April 20 Camera ready articles due: April 24 GECCO 2017 Conference: July 15th-19th 2017, Berlin. Workshop organizers: José Santos (University of A Coruña, Spain), santos(a)udc.es Julia Handl (University of Manchester, UK), j.handl(a)manchester.ac.uk Amarda Shehu (George Mason University, USA), amarda@ cs.gmu.edu Mostafa Ellabaan (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), mostafa.mhashim(a)gmail.com

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Call for Papers - CNSM 2017 - 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Choi, Baek-Young 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] ************************************************************************************* CNSM 2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management 26 - 30 November 2017, Tokyo, Japan http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2017/ ************************************************************************************* The 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2017 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 12, 2017 Rebuttal Phase: Aug. 6-12, 2017 Acceptance Notification: Aug. 27, 2017 Camera Ready due: Oct. 7, 2017 Conference: Nov. 26 ? 30, 2017 TOPICS OF INTEREST Network Management - Software-defined networks - Virtual networks - Overlay networks - Wireless networks and cellular networks - Wireless sensor networks - Internet of Things networks - Information-centric networks - Enterprise networks and campus networks - Data center networks - Optical networks - IP networks - Home networks - Access networks - SCADA networks and distributed control systems - Smart Cities and Smart Grids Management Paradigms - Centralized management - Distributed management - Hierarchical management - Federated management - Autonomic and cognitive management - Policy-based management - Pro-active management - Energy-aware management - Quality of experience-centric management Service Management - Cloud computing services - Content delivery services - Multimedia services - Internet connectivity and Internet access - Internet of Things services - Security services - Context-aware services - Information technology services Business Management - Economic aspects - Multi-stakeholder aspects - Service level agreements - Lifecycle aspects - Process and workflow aspects - Legal perspective - Regulatory perspective - Privacy aspects Functional Areas - Deployment management - Fault management - Configuration management - Accounting management - Performance management - Security management Management Technologies - Network function virtualization - Software-defined networking - Orchestration - Cloud computing and cloud storage - Communication protocols - Middleware - Data models, information models semantic models - Operations support systems and business support systems - Information visualization Methods - Mathematical optimization - Control theory - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory - Machine learning - Evolutionary algorithms - Economic theory and game theory - Mathematical logic and automated reasoning - Data mining and (big) data analysis - Monitoring and measurements - Computer simulation experiments - Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation - Field trials GENERAL CO-CHAIRS - Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda Univ., Japan - Yoshiaki Kiriha, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan VICE CHAIR - Shingo Ata, Osaka City Univ., Japan TPC CO-CHAIRS - Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA - Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Tokushima Univ., Japan - Steven Latré, Univ. of Antwerp - imec, Belgium

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CFP: International Conference on Intelligent, Secure and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments - Springer
by itraore 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

**ISDDC 2017 *International Conference onIntelligent,Secure andDependable Systems inDistributed andCloud Environments, **October 25-27, 2017*, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Proceedings published in Springer LNCS *(Submissions due June 10 2017)* This conference solicits papers addressing issues related to the design, analysis, and implementation, of dependable and secure infrastructures, systems, architectures, algorithms, and protocols that deal with network computing, mobile/ubiquitous systems, cloud systems, and IoT systems. We invite papers on the following topics: - Intelligent secure mobile systems - Modern and Emerging Authentication Paradigms - Digital Fraud detection, social engineering and insider threats - Cyber threat intelligence - Privacy, Security and Trust for Cloud, Mobile, and Internet-of-Things security - Digital forensics, Intrusion Detection, and Biometrics - Emerging Threats, Botnet and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection and control - Dependable Cluster/cloud/ubiquitous computing and grid Computing for mobile applications - Dependable Distributed data mining for mobile applications - Secure Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery - Applications such as cooperative mobile robots, opportunistic networks - Cryptographic primitives for wireless and mobile security - Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems - Wireless or mobile security for emerging applications - Security protocols for wireless networking - Mobile malware and platform security - Distributed Systems Security - Embedded Systems Security - Security architectures for cloud computing - Security protocols for cloud computing - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Identity management for cloud services - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Trust models for cloud services - Security and Privacy of the Internet of Things - Hardware security - Secure computer architectures - Embedded systems security - Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware - Mobile systems security - Distributed systems security - Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention for mobile, cloud and IOT platforms ** For more information, please visit http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/ISDDC17/.

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TNSM Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management (Submissions due: 3 May 2017)
by Yixin Diao 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

=========================================================================== IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-bdm (Submissions due: 3 May 2017) =========================================================================== Cloud and network analytics can harness the immense stream of operational data from clouds and networks, and can perform analytics processing to improve reliability, configuration, performance, and security management. In particular, we see a growing trend towards using statistical analysis and machine learning to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. Research is therefore needed to understand and improve the potential and suitability of Big Data analytics in the context of systems and network management. This will not only provide deeper understanding and better decision making based on largely collected and available operational data, but present opportunities for improving data analysis algorithms and methods on aspects such as accuracy and scalability. Moreover, there is an opportunity to define novel platforms that can harness the vast operational data and advanced data analysis algorithms to drive management decisions in networks, data centers, and clouds. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following the success of TNSM special issue on Big Data Analytics for Management (September 2016), this special issue of TNSM will focus on "Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management," presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions that can exploit Big Data and analytics in management solutions. We welcome submissions addressing the underlying challenges of Big Data Analytics for Management and presenting novel theoretical or experimentation results. Survey papers that offer a perspective on related work and identify key challenges for future research will be considered as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited, to the following: Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning - Analysis, modelling and visualization - Operational analytics and intelligence - Event and log analytics - Anomaly detection and prediction - Monitoring and measurements for management - Harnessing social data for management - Predictive analytics and real-time analytics - Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management Application Domains and Management Paradigms - Cloud and network analytics - Data centric management of virtualized infrastructure, clouds and data centers - Data centric management of storage resources and software defined networks - Data centric management of Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems - Platforms for analyzing and storing logs and operational data for management tasks - Applications of Big data analytics to traffic classification, root-cause analysis, service quality assurance, IT service and resource management - Analytics and machine learning applications to cyber-security, intrusion detection, threat analysis, and failure detection ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission All papers should be submitted through the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management manuscript submission site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm. Authors must indicate in the submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the "Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management" special issue. Each submission will be limited to 14 pages in IEEE 2-column format. Detailed author guidelines can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/author-guidelines. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 3, 2017 Author Notification: July 15, 2017 Revision Deadline: September 15, 2017 Final Decision: November 1, 2017 Camera Ready: December 1, 2017 Publication: March 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK) Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) Nur Zincir-Heyood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) For more information, please contact the guest editors at TNSM.SI.BDM(a)gmail.com.

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DBSec 2017 - Deadline in a few days (March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time)
by Giovanni Livraga 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline in a few days! (March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time) *** ******************************************************** 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) Philadelphia, PA, USA -- July 19-21, 2017 https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu ******************************************************** DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2017) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - access control - anonymity - applied cryptography in data security - authentication - big data security - data and system integrity - data protection - database security - digital rights management - identity management - intrusion detection - knowledge discovery and privacy - methodologies for data and application security - network security - organizational security - privacy - secure cloud computing - secure distributed systems - secure information integration - secure Web services - security and privacy in crowdsourcing - security and privacy in IT outsourcing - security and privacy in the Internet of Things - security and privacy in location-based services - security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks - security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing - security and privacy policies - security management - security metrics - threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management - trust and reputation systems - trust management - wireless and mobile security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2017 . 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 the accepted papers). The final version of the accepted papers must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of March 16, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time) [extended]. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A paper submitted to DBSec 2017 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2017. Furthermore, after you submit to DBSec 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 DBSec 2017, we will reject your paper without review and will notify the other conference/journal as well. This restriction applies to identical as well as to substantially similar papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission due: March 16, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time [extended] Notification to authors: April 26, 2017 Final papers due: May 5, 2017 GENERAL CHAIRS Krishna Kant Temple University, USA Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovanni Livraga Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sencun Zhu Pennsylvania State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Fengjun Li University of Kansas, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Armando, FBK and Università di Genova, Italy Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA Marina Blanton, SUNY Buffalo, USA Soon Ae Chun, CUNY, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Simon Foley, Telecom Bretagne, France Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France William Garrison, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yuan Hong, SUNY Albany, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Giovik University College, Norway Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Aziz Mohaisen, SUNY Buffalo, USA Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Gunther Pernul, Universitat Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, FBK Security and Trust Unit, Italy Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andreas Schaad, Huawei, Germany Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, USA Meng Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ShengZhi Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Yuqing Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://dbsec2017.ittc.ku.edu

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2017
by res.mb.conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

CD-MAKE 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy https://cd-make.net ****************************************************************************************** "Science is to test crazy ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into Business" CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) and takes place in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) from August, 29 to September, 1, 2017. Keynotes by Neil D. LAWRENCE and Marta MILO IFIP - the International Federation for Information Processing is the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1 Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, data mapping, knowledge representation), 2 Machine learning (both automatic ML and interactive ML with the human-in-the-loop), 3 Graphs/network science (i.e. graph-based data mining), 4 Topological data analysis (i.e. topological data mining), 5 Time/entropy (i.e. entropy-based data mining), 6 Data visualization (i.e. visual analytics), and last but not least 7 Privacy, data protection, safety and security (i.e. privacy aware machine learning). Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 Accepted Papers will be published in a Springer Volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), and outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals tba. For more information please visit the conference homepage: https://cd-make.net

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Call for Papers: ARES 2017 - Deadline extended to March 31, 2017
by res.mb.conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extended to March 31, 2017 ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/> ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2016 conference was 24,42% (full papers only). ARES 2017 proceedings will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy Program Committee Chairs Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 31, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia ,Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Sebastian Neuner, SBA Research, Austria Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, University of Melbourne, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Martin Schmiedecker, SBA Research, Austria Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Steven Van Acker, Chalmers University, Sweden Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[FNC-Conf] FNC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
by Wim Ectors 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All FNC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) FNC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/). FNC 2017 will be gel in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chairs Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Bjšrn A. Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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IEEE BIBM 2017 Call for Workshop Proposal
by CFP Conference 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

*Call for Workshop Proposals* 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine http://muii.missouri.edu/bibm2017/ Nov 13-16, 2017, Kansas City, MO, USA ================================================================= The Program Committees of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2017) invite proposals for Workshops. Selected workshops will hold a central position within the larger Conference, which will bring together top academic and industrial researchers from all over the world to exchange cutting edge research ideas in bioinformatics and biomedicine. Within these fields, workshops at BIBM form crucial focal points for emerging communities and forums for the examination of new ideas. Workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and breadth of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the Conference. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops should cover at least a single session (6 regular papers). The workshop organizers should ensure registration and presence of authors of accepted papers. *Workshop Topics* Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Bioinformatics, Biomedicine and Healthcare Informatics. The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these three fields. Workshop topics may be narrow, e.g., “reverse-engineering” of gene regulatory networks from experimental data, computational approaches to drug discovery, mathematical modeling of signaling pathways, analysis of the next-generation sequencing data, oscillations and synchronization of biological rhythms, wireless sensor networks, patient health records, medical signal processing; or broad, e.g., computational proteomics, *in-silico* diagnosis and prognosis, data mining and machine learning algorithms for biomedical applications, application of network research to biology, emerging technology in healthcare, aging research etc. Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact workshop chairs for feedback. *Important Dates* *May *1, 2017: Workshop proposal submission due: a proposed workshop announcement is sent by e-mail to any of the Workshop Chairs May 10, 2017: Notification to workshop proposers June 25, 2017: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops Papers *Guidelines for Workshop Proposals* Proposals for 2017 IEEE BIBM Workshops should contain the following components. 1. Workshop Title (e.g., mathematical modeling of signaling pathways) 2. Introduction to workshop (a few sentences about the background, importance, purpose, interests, etc. of workshop) 3. Research topics included in the workshop (list a number of interesting topics or areas covered by workshop) 4. Important dates (Please do not change the final camera-ready submission date, feel free to adjust other dates) *Sept 20, 2016:* Due date for full workshop papers submission *Oct 10, 2017:* Notification of paper acceptance to authors * Oct 25, 2017:* Camera-ready of accepted papers * Nov 13-16, 2017:* Workshops 5. Program Chairs or co-chairs: (1-3 experts in the research areas of workshop) 6. Program Committee Members: (at least 5 experts in the research areas) 7. Invited keynote speakers (optional) *Workshop Chairs:* Prof. Illhoi Yoo, University of Missouri, USA Email: yooil(a)health.missouri.edu Prof. Jane Huiru Zheng, Ulster University, UK Email: h.zheng(a)ulster.ac.uk ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DMB-LIST list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2NDMwIGNvbXB1dGF0aW9uYWwuc2NpZ…

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: Extended Submission Date: March 27. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing
by Wim Ectors 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Due: March 27, 2017 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/). MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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