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

17 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS - GraMSec 2017 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 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. As the previous two years, the GraMSec 2017 post-proceedings are planned to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (confirmation pending). 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, 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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Deadline Approaching: Research Fellow positions in Computer Security
by chhagan.iiita＠gmail.com 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Research Fellow positions in Computer Security University of Padua - SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group JOB DESCRIPTION: The SPRITZ <http://spritz.math.unipd.it/> Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Padova is looking for four research fellows to participate in the project funded by EU H2020 titled “Solutions for access and safe use of mobile scanners devices”. IoT is about connecting billions of objects, things, devices. The overall objective of TagItSmart! ( tagitsmart.eu) is to create a set of tools and enabling technologies integrated into a platform with open interfaces, enabling users across the value chain to fully exploit the power of condition-dependent FunCodes, to connect mass-market products with the digital world across multiple application sectors. The key requirements for the position are as follows: - Recent PhD (or significant research experience) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related areas. - Hands-on experience in some of the following areas will be plus: - Internet of Things (IoT) - Application/service provisioning architectures - Android security - Security and reliability in RFID/NFC scanning - Trusted Platform Module - Software design/implementation and prototyping skills. - Algorithms design and implementation skills. - Experience in working on EU projects is desirable. - Publications in high impact journals and well known conferences. ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA AND THE SPRITZ GROUP The University of Padua is the University of Galileo Galilei, and the first University that awarded a degree to a woman. The first ever report issued by the National Research Assessment Committee set the University of Padova as the highest ranking among leading Italian universities for the quality of its research results. Based on the number of citations of articles and publications by its researchers (source: ISI), the University of Padova ranks among the top three Italian universities for total impact index, productivity index, and presence index. SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group is a group of researchers very passionate in investigating security and privacy issues related to current and future technologies. The SPRITZ group was founded (in 2011) and is led by Prof. Mauro Conti (http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/) The group is mostly based at the University of Padua, while it enjoys worldwide collaborations. For more information about our group please visit: http://spritz.math.unipd.it/ HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates are invited to contact Prof. Mauro Conti <http://www.math.unipd.it/%7Econti/> directly (conti(a)math.unipd.it) For more information about the position and how to apply please visit the following link: http://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=1971 Applications must be received by March 01, 2017. -- Thanks, Best Regards, Chhagan Lal, PhD, Research/Postdoc Fellow, University of Padua - Department of Mathematics, *SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group* *http://spritz.math.unipd.it/team.html <http://spritz.math.unipd.it/team.html>*

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FMEC 2017 (Finall Call): The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017
by IEEE FMEC 2017 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

The 2nd IEEE Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2017) Valencia, Spain. May 8-11, 2017 http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2017/index.php> Co-loacated with (SDS 2017): http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php <http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2017/index.php> Call for Papers: Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2017 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2017 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks Important Dates: Submission Date: 20 Feb. 2017 (Firm) Notification to Authors: 13 March 2017 Camera Ready Submission: 1 April 2017 Papers Submission: Papers selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmec2017> Journal Special Issues: * The Journal of Supercomputing (IF: 1.08) - Springer * Cluster Computing Journal (IF: 1.5) - Springer Co-located workshops: The 4th International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security. http://emergingtechnet.org/IOT SMS2017/index.html The Third International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing systems, Management, and Security (MCSMS-2017) http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/ <http://emergingtechnet.org/MCSMS2017/> The First international workshop on Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDN -NFV2017/ Committee: General Co-Chairs: * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. Technical Program Co-Chairs: * Ejaz Ahmed, NIST, USA * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan * Danda Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA. Publication Co-Chairs: * Ali Safa Sadiq, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia * Lo'ai Tawalbah, UCSB, USA Publicity Chair: * Qussai M. Yaseen, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs * Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan * Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. Steering Committee: * Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK. * Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan. * Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, USA * Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain * Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece * Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo <mailto:yijararweh@just.edu.jo> and to Elhadj Benkhelifa: E.Benkhelifa(a)staffs.ac.uk <mailto:E.Benkhelifa@staffs.ac.uk>.

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WPDM 2017 The first International Workshop on Parallel Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

***We apologize for multiple posting. Please kindly disseminate this CFPto your colleagues and contacts*** The first International Workshop on Parallel 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: March 20, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel 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: ------------------------------------------- March 20, 2017 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- April 10, 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. 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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[DBSec 2017] Call For Papers: Submission deadline March 6, 2017
by Fengjun Li 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************ 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 a 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 6, 2017 (11:59 PM American Samoa Time). 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 6, 2017 - 11:59 PM American Samoa Time 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 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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BIOKDD-DEXA'17: CFP
by Mourad Elloumi 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '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 11, 2017 Submission of full papers: March 18, 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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Call for Papers: ARES 2017
by res.mb.conference 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** 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: March 10, 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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Last CfP: 12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP'17)
by Sebastien Laborie 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

12th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization SMAP 2017 - http://www.smap2017.org <http://www.smap2017.org/> ---------------------- July 9-10, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia Collocated with UMAP 2017 Organized by Foundation for Development of Informatics ---------------------- *Important dates: ----------------------- Submission of full papers (General Track and Special Sessions): February 26, 2017 Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2017 Submission of camera ready: May 18, 2017 SMAP 2017 Workshop: July 9-10, 2017 *Aim and topics ----------------------- SMAP 2017 aims to address several issues of semantic and social multimedia technologies and their use in content creation, media adaptation and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web - Computational intelligence for media adaptation and personalization - Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents - User modelling and dynamic profiling - Ontologies and reasoning - Multimedia standards - Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications - Web adaptation methods and techniques - Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems - Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing) - Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities - User-generated content mechanisms - Privacy/Security issues in Social and Personalized Media Applications - Privacy preserving data mining and social networks - Content customization and adaptation - Semantic context modelling and extraction - Context-aware multimedia applications - Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries - Multilingual content navigation - Intelligent personalized interfaces - Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis) - Social web economics and business - Social network aggregation - Social data analytics - Social data mining - Adaptive/Personalized conversational media In addition, SMAP 2017 seeks papers for special sessions addressing emerging issues in all above aspects that will complement the regular program. Authors will have the opportunity to present their work in short papers that will appear in the official SMAP 2017 workshop proceedings. SMAP 2017 has the support of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society technical co-sponsorship. *Special session on Personalized delivery of cultural heritage content ----------------------------------- Digital cultural heritage is now a mature field, in which information technologies are used in the service of preserving cultural heritage. The digital form of resources allows for the exploitation of advances in data analytics, semantics, information retrieval, user interaction, profiling and personalization in order to develop new, exciting and stimulating exhibitions and cultural/educational/touristic experiences. For this special session we invite works that present and/or review the current state of the art in theory and practice, as well as promising recent advances, in the area of aligning the delivery process for cultural heritage content to the needs, goals, characteristics and preferences of individual users and user groups. The session is broad in scope, with the caveat that emphasis should be on the link between cultural heritage and personalization techniques. *Special Session on Multimodal affective analysis for human-machine interfaces and learning environments ----------------------------------- Affective analysis is a broad research area that focuses on the recognition, interpretation, processing and simulation of human affect, i.e., feelings or emotions. During the last years many efforts in the fields of content understanding and human-machine interaction have turned towards a more human-centered approach and complement traditional semantic-based ones by enhancing them with the users’ affective state while interacting with machines (typically computers, avatars and robots). This special session calls for research papers focusing on signal analysis and machine learning techniques that extract affective knowledge from auditory, visual and textual information usually employed in human-machine interaction and learning applications. Papers that focus on new signal representation, feature extraction and emotion modelling approaches are welcomed, as well as papers covering practical work, tools and applications. *Proceedings/Publications ----------------------------------- As with all previous editions of SMAP, all accepted papers are planned to be published by IEEE in IEEEXplore. Based on the quality of the work presented and its estimated potential selected papers will be invited for consideration, in a revised and extended form, for inclusion in an additional journal publication. *Submission guidelines ---------------------------------- Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SMAP 2017 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 6 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed. GENERAL CHAIRS Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Marian Simko, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Iraklis Paraskakis, The University of Sheffield, International Faculty CITY College, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Sebastien Laborie, University of Pau LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR Milena Zeithamlova, Action M Agency WEB CHAIR Patrik Hlavac, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava STEERING COMMITTEE Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Sébastien Laborie, University of Pau Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Manolis Wallace, University of the Peloponnese

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CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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[IEEE ATC 2017] Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposal DEADLINE: Feb 15
by riccardo.lazzeretti＠math.unipd.it 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Dear colleague, apologies for multiple postings. In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017), we will organize some workshops. The workshop proposals should be submitted to ieee-atc2017(a)googlegroups.com Further information are provided in the ATC Call for Workshop page[1] . All accepted papers will be included in the ATC 2017 proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop/Special Session proposals should contain following information: · The title of the workshop/special session, including both full name and abbreviation (for workshop) · The objectives, scope, and contributions to the main conference (up to 1 page) · The short bios of the key organizers and their related experience · The procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (e.g., how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants · A tentative list of program committee members · The (tentative) website/URL of the proposed workshop/special session Important Schedule for ATC Workshops and Special Sessions: · Proposal Due: extended to Feb 15, 2017 · Proposal Notification: extended to Feb 20, 2017 · Paper Submission, Notification: TBD by individual workshops · Final Camera-ready Paper Due: June 10, 2017 Best regards, Riccardo Lazzeretti riccardo.lazzeretti(a)math.unipd.it Workshop Chair IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017) Links: ------ [1] http://cse.stfx.ca/~smartworld/2017/atc/cfw.php

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2nd National Conference on Advances in Computer Science
by ACS Conference 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

*Dear Sir/Ma'am* *Greetings!* GNA University is state-of-the-art University promoted by GNA Group. GNA University has established with the vision of creating a distinguished teaching and research university; to cater to the needs of the society in terms of quality education and to build world class talent pool. The University promotes practical approach and innovative ways of thinking that creates an inspiring place of study and research. The key strength of GNA University lies in its effort towards reducing the gap between academia and industry. In order to bridge the gap between industry and academia *GNA University* is providing a platform for Academicians, Scientists, Researchers and Professionals who are involved in research in the field of Computer Science and Engineering to come together and share their innovative research contributions with all like-minded Computer Professionals to amalgamate together at *2nd **National Conference on Advances in Computer Science on April 29, 2017.* The conference invites desirous delegates to put across their coveted work. *We invite your abstract/research paper(s) which are NOT submitted or published or under consideration anywhere in other conferences or journals; in electronic format via email at **acs.conference(a)gna.university* <acs.conference(a)gna.university> *Important Dates –* *Submission Close: March 15, 2017* *Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2017* *Registration Open: March 20, 2017* *Early Bird Registration Ends: April 01, 2017* *Registration Close: April 15, 2017* *Conference Date: April 29, 2017* More about conference can be found at *conference.gna.university* <http://conference.gna.university/> If this call for paper is not of your area of interest kindly forward it to a researcher who is working in this field. *Best Regards* *Conference Convener * *GNA University* *For any queries please feel free to contact us at +91-96469-50813 or write back at acs.conference(a)gna.university* Click here to reply or forward

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DeepLearn 2017: early registration February 24
by GRLMC 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

DeepLearn 2017: early registration February 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: February 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, 31 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 from around the world 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 people 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 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: (to be completed) 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 Learning Security: Adversarial Examples and Adversarial Training 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 Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto), tba 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), tba 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. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 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 including 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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1st CFP: CIBCB Special Session on parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions for computational intelligence methods
by Marco S. Nobile 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '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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8th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2017): Third CFP, Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

*** Third Call for Papers and Invited Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops Proposals *** 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications IISA 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 28 - 30 August, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… The International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) series offers a forum for the constructive interaction and prolific exchange of ideas among scientists and practitioners from different research fields such as computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, experimental psychology, social sciences, linguistics, and engineering having the goal of developing methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in artificial intelligence, biology, neuroscience, security, monitoring, surveillance, healthcare, sustainability in energy sources, governance, education, commerce, automation, robotics, optimization, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. IISA 2017 is the eighth conference in the IISA series, technically co-sponsored by IEEE, BAIF, the University of Piraeus and the University of Cyprus. The IISA 2017 proceedings will be published by IEEE and be included in the IEEE DL. The conference is intended as an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications. We invite submissions of papers presenting high-quality original research and developments for the conference tracks listed below. The conference venue is the Golden Bay Beach Hotel (http://www.goldenbay.com.cy) perfectly situated at the edge of the tourist part of Larnaca, right on a long and wide stretch of fine and clear sandy beach, 10 km from the town center, just 15 km from Larnaca International Airport and 30 minutes from the capital city of Nicosia. This prestigious 5* hotel is renowned for its excellent facilities, combined with impeccable service and finest cuisine in luxurious surroundings The conference will last for three days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops, and distinguished keynote speeches. Instructions to Authors Papers must be submitted in IEEE Conference Style format, which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . Papers must be limited to 6 pages in length. To submit a proposal for a Special Session, Tutorial or Workshop, please refer to the instructions in the web site. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of IISA related (but not limited) to the following tracks and topics: Track I: Information Processing and Intelligence · Advances in databases · Information systems · Information and data management · Data mining, warehousing and knowledge extraction · Recommender systems · Digital rights management · Processing of Social and Emotional Interactions · Biological and artificial neural networks · Biological and artificial immune systems · Cognitive science · Neuroscience · Computational biology · DNA computing · Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms · Bayesian networks · Expert systems & intelligent agents · Swarm intelligence · Fuzzy logic systems · Kernel methods - support vector machines · Ensemble classifiers · Emerging machine learning paradigms · Decision making techniques · Knowledge-based systems · Ambient-ubiquitous intelligence · Robotics and automation · Affective computing Track II: Multimedia Systems and Networks · Advances in audio/video and multimedia processing · Signal mining · Signal visualization · Human-machine interaction · Multimodal systems · Multimedia systems · Autonomous Computing · Distributed computing · Quantum computing · Mobile computing · Green computing · Trusted computing · Proactive computing · Cloud computing · Ubiquitous computing · Networking · Sensing, sensory systems and sensor networks · Design and implementation · Real time systems Track III: Educational Informatics · Adaptive and personalized learning · Student modeling · Intelligent tutoring systems · E-learning and mobile learning · Social media and learning · Educational games · Computer-supported collaborative learning · Big data in education and learning analytics · Affective computing in learning systems · Smart learning environments · Virtual and augmented reality in education · Risk management in education · Learning management systems · Content management systems · Learning technologies for students with special needs Track IV: Cyber Security · Watermarking, cryptography, cryptanalysis, steganography, and stegananalysis · Privacy and authentication · Malicious software analysis · Information, computer and network security · Infrastructure security · Forensics · Biometrics Track V: Smart Energy and Smart Cities · Methodologies and tools for assessing the energy status in smart cities · Intelligent sensors and data analytics for energy optimization · Monitoring and control of energy resources · Smart grid · Fault detection · Decision support systems in energy planning and scheduling · Middleware for urban computing · Intelligent transportation systems · Public displays for modern cities · Impact of urban computing in modern cities · Case studies and best practices · Big city data · Culture for smart cities Track VI: Healthcare · E-health, mobile health and smart health · Infrastucture for smart health · Advanced devices and robotics for smart health · Ambient intelligence in assisted living · Health information systems · Healthcare management · Case studies Track VII: Applications · E-government and m-government · E-commerce and m-commerce · E-entertainment and m-entertainment · E-legal and m-legal services · Personalized systems and services · Enabling technologies, frameworks and standards · Empirical evaluations · Simulation and evaluation via simulation · Case studies · Applications in culture and heritage · Applications in tourism · Applications in natural resource management · Applications in disabilities and to people at need Important Dates · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Proposals: March 13, 2017 · Invited Session, Tutorial & Workshop Acceptance: March 20, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 24, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: June 12, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 12, 2017 · Conference Dates: August 28-30, 2017 Organization Program Chairs · N. Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA · G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · G. A. Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece · N. Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ…

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Call for papers: SBP-BRiMS'17
by Donald Adjeroh 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBP-BRiMS 2017 2017 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Abstract Submission : February 22 (Wed), 2017 Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017 Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017 Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 2017 Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival. Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017 This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered archival. Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017 Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, including the following: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference) Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night ABOUT SBP-BRiMS: SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years. Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing. Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ . CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include the following: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes * Group interaction and collaboration * Group formation and evolution * Group representation and profiling * Collective action and governance * Cultural patterns & representation * Social conventions, social contexts and processes * Influence process and recognition * Public opinion representation, identification and modeling * Information diffusion * Psycho-cultural situation awareness Behavior Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Methodological Challenges * Mathematical foundations * Verification and validation * Sensitivity analysis * Matching technique or method to research questions * Metrics and evaluation * Methodological innovation * Model federation and integration * Evolutionary computing * Optimization Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining on social media platforms * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Inference of network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of link formations and link types * Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks * Analysis of high-dimensional networks * Analytics for social and human dynamics Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation * Group formation and evolution in the political context * Technology and flash crowds * Networks and political influence * Group representation and profiling * Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of health policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Other Applications * Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction * Viral marketing * Reasoning about development aid through social modeling * Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: The conference solicits three categories of papers: Regular papers (max. 10 pages) All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation. Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages) All topics and authors welcome. Published online. Typically a poster presentation. Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages) Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation. Paper Formatting Guideline The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6- 793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal “Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high- profile journal. The submission website will be available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission. PUBLICATION For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches. Tutorial proposal submission: Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information: * Title of the tutorial. * Description of the tutorial topic and structure. * Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the attendees). * Short bio and contact information of the organizers. More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu. CHALLENGE: The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted on the conference website. FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES: Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross- fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. BEST PAPER AWARDS: SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. HOTEL AND LOGISTICS: Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP- BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.

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[IEEE ICCI*CC'17:] Cognitive Computing | Neurocomputation | Cognitive Machine Learning | Brain-Inspired Systems
by Yingxu Wang 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Dear Colleague, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'17) will be held at Oxford University, UK, during July 26-28, 2017 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-17) The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer, Computational Intelligence, and SMC Societies. The theme of ICCI*CC’17 is on Neurocomputation, Cognitive Machine Learning, and Brain-Inspired Systems. You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'17 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'17 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the proceedings will be published in leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with EI/ISI indexes. Paper submission site is at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc17. Submission deadline will be on Feb. 28, 2017. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'17. Sincerely, Prof. Yingxu Wang IEEE ICCI*CC'17 Co-Chair HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (UC Berkeley) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Freddie Hamdy (Oxford), Newton Howard (Oxford), and Yingxu Wang (U of Calgary) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Newton Howard (UK) and Prof. Amir Hussain (UK) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of ieeeicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: ieeeicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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FINAL Call for Papers CGI'17
by Marina Gavrilova 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Final Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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2nd Call for papers CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Apologies for Multiple Postings ------------------------------------------- 17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'17 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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The International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Dear CRITIS Community and CI(I)P Community in general, The International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2017) reaches its 12th anniversary this year. After several successful editions in the past, CRITIS continues the tradition of presenting innovative research and exploring new challenges in the field of critical (information) infrastructures protection (C(I)IP) and fostering the dialogue with stakeholders. The event will take place in Lucca from Oct 9th to 11th with the following thematic sessions: CS Cyber Security HF Human Factors TR Transport EM Emergency Management UR Urban Resilience IS Trust and Information Sharing Together with CRITIS, and in the line with the tradition, Satellite Workshops with take place just after the main conference, from Oct 12th to 13th. Moreover, apart from the traditional sessions where original works and significant improvements will be presented, there will be other sessions devoted to Ongoing Projects and Operators. Given this, we invite to participate in where the event will serve to meet and exchange ideas and concerns with experts in the field. For any other information of the event, do not hesitate to check the official website at: http://www.critis2017.org Looking forward to seeing you at CRITIS 2017! Yours sincerely, Programme Chairs

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fourth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

*** Fourth Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 1, 2017 (*** extended ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Deadline Extension - IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

=== DEADLINE EXTENSION === The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 17, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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Fully funded participation at the 2017 Global Scientist Forum in Shenzhen, China
by 姚新(YAO Xin) 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

2017 Global Scientist Forum March 18-20, 2017 Shenzhen, P. R. China I. Introduction The Global Scientist Forum at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) aims to provide a platform for academic exchanges and discussions among young scholars at home and abroad, to promote interdisciplinary and academic innovation, and to discuss the approach towards developing world-class universities and disciplines. Through the recruitment of world-class talents, we plan to develop SUSTech into a leading research university with unique characteristics in the world. We now invite qualified researchers to attend the 2017 Global Scientist Forum at SUSTech, Shenzhen on 18-20 March 2017. II. Minimum Requirements for Applicants (a) Under the age of 40 (b) A doctoral degree obtained from an internationally renowned university and institute; or a Ph.D from a Chinese university with 3+ years overseas working experiences. Research excellence is the most important criterion in selecting the candidates (i.e., Forum participants). We are particularly interested in candidates in the broad field of computer science and engineering. III. Forum Schedule Registration Date: March 18, 2017 Date of the Forum: March 19-20, 2017 IV. Application Procedure Application Deadline: 1 March 2017. Please submit your CV to institutional mailbox of SUSTech Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (aais(a)sustc.edu.cn) and Department of Computer Science and Engineering (liuj6(a)sustc.edu.cn) with the subject line of "SUSTech Global Scientist Forum Application - Department of CSE". Successful applicants will be notified before March 10, 2017. V. Funding for Travel and Accommodation (a) Free accommodation and food will be provided. (b) Travels: All invited scholars should purchase their own tickets. We will provide travel subsidies of CNY 6,000-12,000 per person (depending on distance) for overseas scholars and CNY 5,000 per person for domestic ones. VI. Contact Information (a) Ms Jing Liu (Department of CSE), Tel: +86-75588015125, Email: liuj6(a)sustc.edu.cn (b) Dr Kun Yang (AAIS), Tel: +86-75588015717, Email: yangk(a)sustc.edu.cn (c) Dr Huihui Sun (AAIS), Tel: +86-755-88015716, Email: sunhh(a)sustc.edu.cn VII. Salary and Benefits for recipients of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" SUSTech provides generous remuneration to recipients of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" as well as one of the best working and living conditions in the sector. In addition to national research funds (CNY 1-3 million) and personal income subsidies (CNY 500,000), Guangdong Province will support each "Thousand Youth Talent" additional research funding of CNY 500,000 and additional personal income subsidy of CNY 250,000. Furthermore, Shenzhen City will provide each "Thousand Youth Talent" further research funding of CNY 5 million and further personal income subsidy of CNY 2 million ("Shenzhen peacock talent plan B"). On top of all these supports from the central, Guangdong and Shenzhen governments, SUSTech will also provide research funding of CNY 1 million. In addition, SUSTech will also fund one PhD studentship per year to every faculty member. In short, a recipient of the "Thousand Youth Talents Program" will receive a total of CNY 7.5-9.5 million research funding, and CNY 2.75 million personal income subsidies (which is on top of the highly competitive salaries offered by SUSTech). VIII. About SUSTech Southern University of Science and Technology is a public university founded in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China. It is intended to be a top-tier international university that excels in interdisciplinary research, nurturing innovative talents and delivering new knowledge to the world. It has been widely regarded as a pioneer and innovator in moving China's higher education forward to match China's ever-growing role in the international arena. Currently, SUSTech has a total of 318 faculty members, including 14 academicians of CAS/CAE, 12 "Changjiang" scholars, 34 "Thousand Talents", and more than 60 "Thousand Youth Talents". In 2016, 14 scholars successfully gained the title of Thousand Youth Talents" by applying through SUSTech, which was ranked No. 9 among all universities and institutes in China. In 2016, SUSTech secured 197 research projects with total funds of CNY 372 million. In the "Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars" supplement, SUSTech ranked No. 62 among the top 100 institutions in the world with the most remarkable growth of high quality research papers (the growth rate is 2442.5%, ranking No. 3 in the world). IX. About Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech was founded in 2016. It currently has 12 professors, all of whom hold doctoral degrees or have years of experience in overseas universities. Among them, two were elected into the 1000 Talents Program in China; three are IEEE fellows; one IET fellow. The department is expected to grow to 50 tenure track faculty members eventually, in addition to teaching-only professors and research-only professors. Our current research strength is in artificial intelligence, with three IEEE Fellows in this field. We also have expertise in smart sensing, UAVs, cognitive robotics, big data analytics, parallel and distributed computing, smart cyber-physical systems, wireless networks and communications, mobile health, cryptography, service computing and software engineering. Our five strategic areas for future growth include: Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Robotics; Computer Systems and Networks; Computing Theories. We have a strong PhD programme joint developed with some of the best technological universities in the world, including Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Technology Sydney, etc. All our PhD students will spend at least one year in one of these overseas universities.

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Subject: CFP: Twenty-second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017)
by Cristina Alcaraz 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '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, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Publicity Chair * Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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GECCO 2017 Workshop "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology"
by José Santos Reyes 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

GECCO 2017 Workshop “ Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology” http://eccsb2017.irlab.org/ http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/HomePage 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. -- José Santos Reyes Departamento de Computación Facultad de Informática Universidad de A Coruña tf: 981167000 Ext 1257 http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/ai/~santos/santos.html

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LATA 2017: call for participation
by GRLMC 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

LATA 2017: call for participation****************************************************************************** 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2017 Umeå, Sweden March 6-9, 2017 Organized by: Department of Computing Science Umeå University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2017/ ****************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, March 6 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Thomas Wilke: Finite Backward Deterministic Automata on Infinite Words - Invited Lecture 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:15 Thomas Troels Hildebrandt, Christian Johansen, Håkon Normann: A Stable Non-interleaving Early Operational Semantics for the Pi-calculus Adam Jardine, Kevin McMullin: Efficient Learning of Tier-based Strictly k-Local Languages Makoto Kanazawa, Ryo Yoshinaka: The Strong, Weak, and Very Weak Finite Context and Kernel Properties 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch 13:45 - 15:00 Benedikt Brütsch, Patrick Landwehr, Wolfgang Thomas: N-Memory Automata Over the Alphabet N Lisa Hutschenreiter, Rafael Peñaloza: An Automata View to Goal-directed Methods Ruggero Lanotte, Massimo Merro: A Calculus of Cyber-Physical Systems 15:00 - 15:15 Break 15:15 - 16:30 Costas S. Iliopoulos, Ritu Kundu, Solon P. Pissis: Efficient Pattern Matching in Elastic-Degenerate Texts Shmuel Tomi Klein, Dana Shapira: Integrated Encryption in Dynamic Arithmetic Compression Manasi S. Kulkarni, Kalpana Mahalingam: Two-Dimensional Palindromes and Their Properties --- Tuesday, March 7 09:00 - 09:50 Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Andreas Pieris: Logic, Languages, and Rules for Web Data Extraction and Reasoning over Data - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Janusz A. Brzozowski, Corwin Sinnamon: Complexity of Left-Ideal, Suffix-Closed and Suffix-Free Regular Languages Nadia Creignou, Markus Kröll, Reinhard Pichler, Sebastian Skritek, Heribert Vollmer: On the Complexity of Hard Enumeration Problems Yo-Sub Han, Sang-Ki Ko, Timothy Ng, Kai Salomaa: Consensus String Problem for Multiple Regular Languages 11:35 - 13:05 Lunch 13:05 - 14:20 Johannes Schmidt: The Weight in Enumeration Johanna Björklund, Loek Cleophas: Minimization of Finite State Automata Through Partition Aggregation Haiming Chen, Ping Lu: Derivatives and Finite Automata of Expressions in Star Normal Form 14:20 - 14:35 Break and Group Photo 14:35 - 15:50 Henk Don, Hans Zantema: Finding DFAs with Maximal Shortest Synchronizing Word Length Hellis Tamm, Brink Van Der Merwe: Lower Bound Methods for the Size of Nondeterministic Finite Automata Revisited Dusan Knop: Partitioning Graphs into Induced Subgraphs 16:00 - 18:00 Touristic Visit --- Wednesday, March 8 09:00 - 09:50 Franz Baader, Oliver Fernández Gil, Pavlos Marantidis: Approximation in Description Logics: How Weighted Tree Automata Can Help to Define the Required Concept Comparison Measures in FL0 - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:35 Nariyoshi Chida, Kimio Kuramitsu: Linear Parsing Expression Grammars Flavio D'Alessandro, Oscar H. Ibarra, Ian McQuillan: On Finite-Index Indexed Grammars and Their Restrictions Mark-Jan Nederhof, Anssi Yli-Jyrä: A Derivational Model of Discontinuous Parsing 11:35 - 13:05 Lunch 13:05 - 14:20 Jirí Síma, Petr Savický: Cut Languages in Rational Bases Giovanni Casu, G. Michele Pinna: Merging Relations: a Way to Compact Petri Nets' Behaviors Uniformly Vidhya Ramaswamy, Jayalal Sarma, K. S. Sunil: Space Complexity of Reachability Testing in Labelled Graphs 14:20 - 14:35 Break 14:35 - 15:50 Dick Grune, Wan Fokkink, Evangelos Chatzikalymnios, Brinio Hond, Peter Rutgers: Detecting Useless Transitions in Pushdown Automata Chunmiao Li, Xiaojuan Cai: Hardness Results for Coverability Problem of Well-Structured Pushdown Systems Adrien Pommellet, Marcio Diaz, Tayssir Touili: Reachability Analysis of Pushdown Systems with an Upper Stack --- Thursday, March 9 09:00 - 09:50 Harald Beck, Minh Dao-Tran, Thomas Eiter: LARS Stream Reasoning and Temporal Logic - Invited Lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break 10:20 - 11:10 Davide Bresolin, Ivan Lanese: Most General Property-Preserving Updates Bernd Gärtner, Ahad Noori Zehmakan: Color War: Cellular Automata with Majority Rule 11:10 - 11:25 Break 11:25 - 12:15 Stefan Gerdjikov, Stoyan Mihov: Over which Monoids is the Transducer Determinization Procedure Applicable? Mika Hirvensalo, Etienne Moutot and Abuzer Yakarylmaz: On the Computational Power of Affine Automata 12:15 - 12:25 Closing 12:25 - 13:55 Lunch

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 05 Feb '17

05 Feb '17

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=Y29tcHV0YXRpb25hbC5zY2llbmNlCQ… . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Important Dates · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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[simu-conf] Winter Simulation Conference 2017 - Call for Papers
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa. Las Vegas, NV http://www.wintersim.org WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! After 50 years, we are now beyond Modeling and Simulation using Grid and Cloud computing, Web-based and distributed simulation and other recent technologies. We need to deal with computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, resources virtualization; services consumed on demand (with minimal limitation for resource location), power issues, massive datasets. We face new challenges as we have ubiquitous processors that can process applications on demand. PROGRAM WSC 2017 features a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice, a PhD Colloquium, Poster Session, Vendor and Case Studies tracks. WSC 2017 also incorporates MASM, the leading modeling and analysis conference for global semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain. 50TH ANNIVERSARY KEYNOTES Keynote Speaker: Barry L Nelson - Northwestern University Titans Robert G. Sargent - Syracuse University Bernard P. Zeigler - University of Arizona PAPER DEADLINES & REQUIREMENTS All contributed paper submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore, ACM DL, and others. Contributed Paper Deadlines - April 7, 2017: submission deadline. - June 2, 2017: Notification of acceptance. - June 30, 2017: Ready Camera Version. - July 15, 2017: Final manuscript. Registration deadline: November 3, 2017. WSC 2017 is sponsored by: ACM/SIGSIM, IISE, INFORMS-SIM and SCS, with Technical Co-Sponsorship from ASA, ASIM, IEEE/SMC and NIST. [problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca <mailto:vsim-conf-owner@sce.carleton.ca> - apologies for multiple postings]

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CFP: Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), Hong Kong, May 29, 2017
by Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SmartSys 2017 Second IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017) Hong Kong, May 29th, 2017 http://mpsc.umbc.edu/smartsys17/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people, organizations, environments, and technologies to sense, actuate, control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems. Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-service of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and investors. Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to smart human services and systems, including: • Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture, national security etc. • Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, smart watch, and human • Context and situational-awareness of smart service systems • Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as food, transportation and places to live • Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for internet of things • Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems • Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new types of sustainable services • Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart service systems • Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, control theory, information and communications technologies • Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and cyber-physical-social-systems • Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart gird, computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. • Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and innovative applications ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 11th, 2017 Notification: April 8th, 2017 Camera Ready: May 6th, 2017 Workshop Date: May 29th, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Organizing Committees* *Workshop Co-Organizers* Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Publicity Co-Chairs* Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- *Technical Program Committee* Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Diane Cook, Washington State University Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Paul P. Maglio, University of California, Merced, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Arpan Pal, TCS Innovation Lab, India Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Mi Zhang, Michigan State University ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Call for papers - Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2017)
by Dario Russo 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '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: March 27, 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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Call for Papers - 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017)
by SECRYPT 2017 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ 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 2, 2017 - Authors Notification: May 3, 2017 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 17, 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 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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session in track "Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"
by talbi 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Special Session on "*Synergy between optimization and simulation*" in track "*Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"* In conjunction with *Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017)* Barcelona, Spain, July 4th-7th 2017 Submission deadline: February 15, 2017 *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Most real-world problems are complex and stochastic and, thus, hard to approach. Such problems originate from a wide range of areas including manufacturing and production, logistics and supply chain management, healthcare, and many more. Simulation and optimization have traditionally been considered separately as alternative approaches to deal with such problems. The recent advances in computational power have promoted the proliferation of hybrid techniques that combine both approaches. This special session seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced single- and multi-objective metaheuristics and simulation based for instance on surrogate models, their applications in different fields including the above ones, their integration in simulation software, their parallelization on various hardware platforms (multi-core processors, coprocessors such as GPU and Xeon Phi, clusters, etc.), and any related issues. *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS* Authors are encouraged to submit unpublished and outstanding original contributions.Submissions are only electronic, in PDF format, using the EasyChair system. They are welcome in any of the three categories S1-S3: ** S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages. S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. They must follow the submission guidelines below. Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings that will be available at the conference. Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2017 conference proceedings. Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings. *Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit papers to both the general and the special sessions. During submission, authors will be required to specify which track they are submitting their paper to. Submitted papers (both regular and special sessions) must be formatted according to MIC/MAEB 2017 guidelines. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates (both LaTeX and Microsoft Word) are available below. Submission is only electronic, in PDF format, using the *EasyChair system link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2017 At least one author of each accepted paper and poster is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Only one paper or poster per registered author will be accepted (one author cannot present a paper and a poster at the conference, only one type of presentation). All papers are due electronically by the deadline reported below. Submissions that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be accepted for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. If there are problems with the electronic submission, the program chairs will contact the designated author by email. *Final version submission* The final version in PDF format should be upload via EASY CHAIR. There is no copyright. *Electronic templates* The electronic templates for formatting the papers are available in the following formats. Please follow the formatting guidelines for correctly typesetting the paper. ** ·File mic2017Latex.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Latex.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Latex. Specifically, oClass file (mic2017.cls): This file requires also additional files (graphicx.sty, geometry.sty, times.sty, babel.sty, fancyhdr.sty), which are usually included in the most common LaTeX distributions. oExample LaTeX template (example.tex). oExample BibTeX file (example.bib). oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf). ·File mic2017Word.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Word.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Microsoft Word. Specifically: oTemplate (mic2015.dot). oDocument (mic2015.doc) oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf) *Poster Session and Ph.D Colloquium*** A Poster Session will be held during the conference where posters will exhibited for informal browsing with opportunities for individual discussion with their authors. The Ph.D. Colloquium addresses Ph.D. students that are within one year of their graduation (planning to graduate around July 2018). Students close to graduation will be given an opportunity to showcase their work during a short presentation session in the Colloquium, and in this way obtain valuable feedback and introduce yourself to a network that can be of important relevance in your career. The submission for the *Poster Session and the Ph.D Colloquium *should be of format S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Submission deadline*: February 15, 2017 *Notification of acceptance*: February 27, 2017 *Camera-ready papers*: March 6, 2017 *Early registration due date*: March 31, 2017 *Conference*: July 4-7 2017 *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Nouredine Melab* Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: nouredine.melab(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:nouredine.melab@univ-lille1.fr> * El-Ghazali Talbi *Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: el-ghazali.talbi(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:%C2%A0el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr> __ *Peter Korošec* Jožef Stefan Institute <http://www.ijs.si/> Ljubljana, Slovenia Email: peter.korosec(a)ijs.si <mailto:peter.korosec@ijs.si> *Boris Naujoks* TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science Gummersbach, Germany Email: boris.naujoks(a)th-koeln.de

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CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17
by Marco Lützenberger 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17 ===== Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems Track (MSIAAS’17) ===== - held at the 49th Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 2017) - July 9-12, 2017 - Bellevue, Washington, US - http://scs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CFP_MSIAAS-v2.pdf === TRACK DESCRIPTION === The increasing popularity of the Internet of Things, or IoT metaphor emphasizes that heterogeneous systems are the norm today. A system deployed in a netcentric environment eventually becomes a part of a system of systems (SoS). This SoS also incorporates adaptive and autonomous elements (such as systems that have different levels of autonomy and situated behavior). This makes design, analysis and testing for the system-at-hand a complex endeavor in itself. Testing in isolation is not the same as a real-system operation, since the system’s behavior is also determined by the input, which evolves from the environment. This exact factor is difficult to predict, due to an ever-increasing level of autonomy. Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) frameworks are required in order to facilitate SoS design, development, testing, and integration. In more particular, these frameworks have to provide methods to deal with intelligent, emergent, and adaptive behavior as well as autonomy. The subject of emergent behavior and M&S of emergent behaviors takes the center stage in such systems as it is unknown how a particular system responds in the face of emergent behavior arising out of interactions with other complex systems. Intelligent behavior is also defined as an emergent property in some complex systems. Consequently, systems that respond and adapt to such behaviors may be called intelligent systems as well. This track has two objectives. The first objective aims to focus on M&S of the following aspects of complex SoS engineering and brings researchers, developers and industry practitioners working in the areas of complex, adaptive and autonomous SoS engineering that may incorporate human as an integral part of SoS operations. This objective covers the following topics: - Theory for adaptive and autonomous systems - Intelligence-based systems - Computational intelligence and cognitive systems - Human-in-the-loop systems - M&S Frameworks for intelligent behavior - Methodologies, tools, and architectures for adaptive control systems - Knowledge engineering, generation and management in IAAS - Weak and Strong emergent behavior, Emergent Engineering - Complex adaptive systems engineering - Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) capability and collaborative behavior in IAAS - Applications to robotics, unmanned vehicles systems, swarm technology, semantic web technology, and multi-agent systems - Netcentric IAAS - Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) environments - Simulator design for IAAS systems - Modeling tools for IAAS design - Modeling, engineering, testing and verification of complex behavior - Development and testing of complex and distributedsystems - Modeling, simulating, and testing IoT environments and applications The second objective is to advance the science of complexity as applicable in M&S discipline. Complexity is a multi-level phenomenon that exists at structural, behavioral and knowledge levels in such SoS. Emergent behavior is an outcome of this complexity. Understanding emergent behavior as an outcome of this complexity will provide foundation for resilient intelligent systems. Following are some of the topics related to this objective, but not limited to: - Complexity in Structure: network, hierarchical, small-world, flat, etc. - Complexity in Behavior: Micro and macro behaviors, local and global behaviors, teleologic and epistemological behaviors - Complexity in Knowledge: ontology design, ontology-driven modeling, ontology-evaluation, ontology transformation, etc. - Complexity in Human-in-the-loop: artificial agents, cognitive agents, multi-agents, man-in-loop, human-computer-interaction - Complexity in intelligence-based systems: Situated behavior, knowledge-based behavior, memoic behavior, resource-constrained systems, energy-aware systems - Complexity in adaptation and autonomy - Complexity in architecture: Flat, full-mesh, hierarchical, adaptive, swarm, transformative - Complexity in awareness: Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) - Complexity in interactions: collaboration, negotiation, greedy, rule-based, environment-based, etc. - Complexity in Live, Virtual and Constructive environment - Complexity in Artificial Systems, Social systems, techno-economic-social systems - Complexity in Model Engineering of complex SoS - Complexity in Model Specification using modeling languages and architecture frameworks such as UML, PetriNets, SysML, DoDAF, MoDAF, etc. - Complexity in Simulation environment engineering: distributed simulation, parallel simulation, cloud simulation, netcentric parallel distributed environments - Complexity in Testing and Evaluation tools for SoS engineering - Complexity in Heterogeneity: Hardware/Software Co-design, Hardware in the Loop, Cyber Physical Systems, the Internet of Things - Metrics for Complexity design and evaluation - Verification, validation and accreditation of Complexity in SoS - Application of Complexity aspects in domain engineering: Financial, Power, Robotics, Swarm, Economic, Policy, etc. - SoS Failure due to Complexity === Important Dates === Paper Submission: February 20, 2017 Author Notification: May 1, 2017 Submission of Work in Progress (SCSC-WIP) Papers: May 5, 2017 Notification of Work in Progress: May 10, 2017 Camera-ready Paper: May 14, 2017 === Track Chair(s) === Saurabh Mittal, MITRE Corporation (smittal(a)mitre.org) Jose L. Risco Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (jlrisco(a)ucm.es) Marco Lützenberger, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany (marco.luetzenberger(a)dai-labor.de) Claudia Szabo, University of Adelaide, Australia (claudia.szabo(a)adelaide.edu.au) === Submission Guidelines === Original and high-quality technical papers are solicited for review, possible presentation and subsequent publication in the conference proceedings. For further instructions, please refer to the Submission Instructions in the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System web site. Contributed papers should be 5 to 12 pages long. They will be peer reviewed and – if accepted and presented at the conference submitted to the ACM Digital Library. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during SummerSim’17 review process. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the symposium and must present the paper at the symposium. For author guidelines on how to submit a paper, see: http://scs.org/authorskit/

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CFP 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) - Santa Maria Key, Cuba
by Rafael Falcon 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

First CALL FOR PAPERS ########################################## 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS ’17) Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara, Cuba October 24 – 26, 2017 ########################################## Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~rfalc032/isfuros2017/ Organized by: Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba (http://www.uclv.edu.cu) Sponsored by: International Rough Set Society (IRSS) Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Belgium ################# Aim and Scope ################# Fuzzy and rough set theories stand as two of the most prominent methodologies within the umbrella of Computational Intelligence to handle uncertainty in vague and inconsistent environments. They have enjoyed widespread success in a plethora of real-world application domains and remain at the forefront of numerous theoretical studies to consolidate and augment their well-established properties. The second edition of the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) will take place at Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel, Santa Maria Key, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba from October 24-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the Universidad Central de Las Villas (www.uclv.edu.cu) ISFUROS 2017 aims at providing a forum for exchange on fuzzy and rough set theories and their applications. The symposium includes tutorials, invited key lectures and paper presentations. The goals of ISFUROS 2017 are to strengthen the relationships among researchers and institutions working on fuzzy and rough set theories, to increase awareness of these topics among the Latin American research community and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. #################### Submission Topics #################### Submissions of original and previously unpublished work on fuzzy and rough set theories and applications are encouraged, including but not limited to the following topics: Fuzzy sets • Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals • Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware and architectures • Fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy clustering, classification and pattern recognition • Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing • Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization • Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems • Fuzzy systems design and optimization • Fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria decision making and decision support • Fuzzy logic and its applications in industrial engineering • Fuzzy information processing, information extraction and fusion • Hardware/software for fuzzy systems • Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems Rough sets • Covering / neighborhood-based rough sets • Decision-theoretic rough sets • Dominance-based rough sets • Game-theoretic rough sets • Bayesian rough sets • Variable consistency / precision rough sets • Rough clustering • Rough computing • Rough mereology • Rough-set-based techniques in Pattern Recognition, Machine learning and Big Data • Decision making methods based on rough sets. Hybridization of fuzzy and rough sets • Theoretical foundations of Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets. • Machine learning methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets • Decision making methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets Granular Computing • Information granulation / degranulation methods • Granular clustering / classification methods • Interval analysis, shadowed sets, near sets, probabilistic sets, etc. • Granular frameworks / hardware / software Applications • Astronomy • Big Data Analytics • Big Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Business Intelligence • Computer Vision • Cybernetics and Robotics • Cybersecurity • Finance / Retail / e-Commerce • Knowledge Management • Image Processing • Information Fusion • Internet of Things • Logistics • Machine Learning / Data Mining • Maritime Domain Awareness • Medicine and Health • Modeling and Simulation • Natural Language Processing • Natural Resources • Pattern Recognition • Risk Management • Security and Defense • Smart Cities • Web and Text Mining • Wireless Sensor Networks ########################## Conference Proceedings ########################## All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be made available to the conference attendees. The proceedings will have an ISBN and will be produced by UCLV’s publishing house. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a volume of Springer’s “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing” series. At least one of the authors must complete the conference registration by the early registration deadline; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program or proceedings. #################### Important Dates #################### May 15, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 30, 2017 Acceptance notification August 30, 2017 Camera-ready version October 24 – 26, 2017 ISFUROS 2017 ####################### Submission Guidelines ####################### Paper submission will be available from March 1st, 2017 via EasyChair. Please use this link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isfuros2017 Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Authors must adhere to Springer LNCS guidelines using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates. The papers must have a maximum of nine (9) pages. Up to two (2) extra pages can be purchased at 100 CUC each. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three (3) Technical Program Committee members. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using appropriate criteria. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, adoption potential, technical quality, and clarity. ############## Registration ############## TBA ################### Official Language ################### ISFUROS' official language is English. ######## Venue ######## ISFUROS 2017 will be held at the Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel in Santa Maria Key, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Santa Maria key is a tropical paradise 75 km north of Santa Clara city. It hosts some of the finest Cuban beaches in an environmentally friendly and utterly relaxing venue. ###################### Steering Committee ###################### Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba Chris Cornelis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bernard De Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada Francisco Herrera, Universidad de Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada ############################## Technical Program Committee ############################## TBA ############################## ISFUROS 2017 Co-Chairs ############################## Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba [rbellop-at-uclv-dot-edu-dot-cu] Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]

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CfP WS on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE) as part of BIS, Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

*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/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “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/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “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/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “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/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “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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CfP IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ (FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Mar. 12, 2017) *** CONFIRMED TURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER *** Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994), Carnegie Mellon University, US Tentative title: The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page: ..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AWARDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission of regular papers:Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of regular paper acceptance:May01, 2017 Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Submission of Industry track papers:Apr. 23, 2017 Notification of Industry track paper acceptance:May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track)May29, 2017 Workshop and Special session proposal submission:Feb. 01, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:Feb. 15, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:Apr. 16, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)May29, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission:May01, 2017 Notification of Tutorial acceptance:May15, 2017 Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers:May14, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance:Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring):Jun. 18, 2017 Author Registration (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------------ Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Publicity Chairs: ---------------- Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ------------------------------------ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: --------------------------- Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany René Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tutorial Chairs: --------------- Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Industry Track Chairs: ---------------------- Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Webmaster: ----------- Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany Registrations, enquiries & special requests: -------------------------------------------- Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master: ------------------------------------ Sebastian Fuß, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Industry and Sponsorship Chairs: -------------------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt(a)uni-leipzig.de xtao(a)usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- “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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CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CGI'17 CFP - Deadline in 2 weeks
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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CfP 12th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '17)
by VHPC 17 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS) Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Container security - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline April 25, 2017 - Paper submission deadline May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day June 25, 2017 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Call for Papers - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline extended
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland Submission deadline: 10th February http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Submission Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more information about the submission process (including the “abstract only” option), please consult the conference website ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/) Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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CfP 15th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, Aug. 23 - 26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

==================================================================== ==CALL FOR PAPERS ==MATES 2017 ==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/ ==================================================================== ==Submission deadline: 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. 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 multiagent systems - Standards for agents and multiagent systems - Multiagent systems: 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. 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 short papers are up to 6 pages long, written in English and formatted with Springer LNCS style. 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 pokahr(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de 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 theMATES proceedings. If you would like to participate actively in this event please contact both chairs by Email: Invited Speakers ================ In keeping with its tradition, MATES 2017 offers invited keynotes which are delivered by highly renowned experts on relevant topics of the broad area of intelligent agent technology. Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: Sun, April 23, 2017 Notification of Authors: Fri, June 2, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers:Sun, June 18, 2017 Conference:Wed-Sat, August 23-26, 2017 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. 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) 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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CFP- The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
by Francesco Buccafurri 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

ARES 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017) August 29 – September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy 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). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ 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: March 10, 2017 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 22, 2017 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017 Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. 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 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, University of Piraeus, Greece 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 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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Last Call: dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track - CfP Due Feb. 3/2017
by Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

(Apologies for cross-posts) ----------------------------- The dg.o '17 Beyond Bureaucracy (BB) Track aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance research paths and priorities. The BB-Track invites contributions that discuss pending technological challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on BB thought and knowledge. Some corresponding thoughts have been outlined by scholars in BB Volume (http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319541419) that has been released recently. Moreover, after Vienna, Krems, and Shanghai, BB is comming to the dg.o 2017 in New York! More information regarding dg.o 2017 (18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research) is available on conference's official website (http://dgo2017.dgsociety.org/) We're welcoming research papers, works in progress and tutorials that deal with innovation and ideas, which bypass BB and look forward with regard to ICT and governance. All submissions have to be forwarded with the subject "dg'o 17 BB-Track" to both the track chairs: Dr. Alois Paulin, TU Vienna, Austria (alois(a)apaulin.com <mailto:alois@apaulin.com> ) Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos, TEI Thessaly, Greece (lanthopo(a)teilar.gr <mailto:lanthopo@teilar.gr> )

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BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10
by GRLMC 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

BigDat 2017: works in progress February 10*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 3rd INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2017 Bari, Italy February 13-17, 2017 Organized by: University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/ ******************************************************** --- Regular registration deadline: February 10, 2017 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 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 big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 23 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, PhD students and postdocs from around the world will be the most typical profiles. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for participation in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be differences in level, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. BigDat 2017 is also appropriate for more senior people 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, 2-3 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: BigDat 2017 will take place in Bari, a lively university city on the Adriatic Sea in Southern Italy. The venue will be: Department of Computer Science University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ernesto Damiani (EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi & University of Milan), Model-driven Development of Big Data Applications Daniele Quercia (Bell Labs), Good City Life PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Tamás Budavári (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory] Big Data Approaches in Astronomy Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [advanced] Data-aware Processes: Modeling and Verification Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Managing Big Data in the Cloud Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University), [intermediate] Using High Performance Computing for Big Data Analytics Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Streaming Big Data Analytics David W. Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Signal Processing Tools for Big Network Data Analytics Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), [introductory] We Are Big Data Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia), [introductory] Analysis of Large Social Networks Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University of Rome), [intermediate/advanced] Ontology-based Data Management Soumya D. Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods and Optimization Problems in Big Data Analytics Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato), [introductory] Introduction to Data Stream Mining for Big Data Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), [introductory/intermediate] Harnessing Big Data for Building Smart Things Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Coupled Oscillators Approach in Time Series Analysis Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate] Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data and Cybersecurity Alexander S. Tuzhilin (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems and Big Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania), [introductory] Sentiment Mining from User Generated Content John Wright (Columbia University), [intermediate/advanced] Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Algorithms and Applications Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Knowledge Discovery from Relational and Multimedia Data OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute 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 February 10, 2017. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Annalisa Appice Michelangelo Ceci (co-chair) Stefano Franco Corrado Loglisci Donato Malerba (co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón Gianvito Pio David Silva REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/BigDat2017/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: Suggestions for accommodation are available on the website. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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OFC Announces 2017 Technical Program
by OSA 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Advance Registration Deadline: 20 Feb. [1]OFC Registration is Open [2] [3]REGISTER [4]INVITED SPEAKERS [5]HOTEL RESERVATIONS OFC 2017 Technical Program Just Published Online This is your first opportunity to see the entire OFC 2017 technical program online including contributed papers, abstracts and invited speakers. * Browse sessions by type, category or day * Search by author, title, category and more! [6]BROWSE THE PROGRAM [7] Stay up-to-date in advances in the field Over 100 technical sessions, 10 workshops and 15 tutorials feature invited speakers and contributed papers covering hot topics such as integrated photonics, open hardware and software platforms, SDN/NFV, data center interconnects, and much more. Register by 20 February 2017 and save! [8]REGISTER Take advantage of all OFC has to offer. Add a Short Course to your OFC experience. Short Courses are a good way to get clear, concise overviews of important topics in optical communications and networking. You will receive a syllabus with course notes, a valuable take-home reference. Registration fees are required. [9]VIEW SHORT COURSES Make Your Hotel Reservation The best rooms go first so book now to guarantee the best possible hotel experience at the lowest rates! There are many events in town that week so it is more important than ever to reserve your hotel room now through onPeak. It's the most convenient and economical way to make travel arrangements for the event. [10]RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM [11]Image [12]Image [13][14] [15][16] The Optical Society 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, USA 20036 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - References 1. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 2. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 3. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 4. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/ 5. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 6. https://ofc2017.abstractcentral.com/planner.jsp 7. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/ 8. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/registration/ 9. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/short-courses/ 10. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/hotel-travel/ 11. https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=1134727 12. http://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/about/ofc-blog/ 13. http://www.comsoc.org/ 14. http://www.photonicssociety.org/ 15. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ 16. http://www.osa.org/en-us/home/ This message was sent to computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org from: OSA | list(a)igigroup.com | IGI Group, Inc. | PO Box 35880 | Brighton, MA 02135 Unsubscribe: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=36158000&l=29400&s=16FD&m=4…

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[AIS @ CEC 2017] A few days left CfP - AIS: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory
by Mario Pavone 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

* Apologies if you received multiple copies * Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. CALL FOR PAPERS Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/ ais.cec2017(a)gmail.com *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017 *** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System; - Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms; - Novel algorithms and new immune operators; - Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques; - Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and complexity of immune inspired algorithms; - Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques; - Systems & Synthetic Immunology. This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org) * IMPORTANT DATES: paper submission: January 30, 2017 notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017 final paper submission: March 12, 2017 Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017 * ORGANIZERS: Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Jon Timmis, University of York, UK -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone(a)dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ======================================================

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21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2017): Third Call for Doctoral Consortium
by Announce Announcements 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

*** Third 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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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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CGSI'17 CFP
by Marina Gavrilova 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

============================================================ 17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 ============================================================ Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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TSD 2017 - First Call for Papers
by TSD 2017 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

************************************************************************** TSD 2017 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twentieth anniversary International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017) Praha (Prague), Czech Republic August 27-31, 2017 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Tomas Mikolov (Facebook AI Research Group, USA), Lucia Specia (The University of Sheffield, UK), Rico Sennrich (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and other eminent personages with various expertise related to the topics of the conference have been asked to give their respective pieces of speech. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers discussion. * The TSD2017 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event. * TSD will take place in the historical centre of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in co-operation with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee starting at 290 EUR for students and 360 EUR for full participants. * Moreover, we succeeded in our effort to provide students with an accommodation option for an affordable price of 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) in the nearby dormitories. IMPORTANT DATES March 31, 2017 ......... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2017 ........... Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2017 ........... Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers August 27-31, 2017 ..... TSD2017 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 20th anniversary conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on the participant's status (full or student). It includes one copy of the conference proceedings (on a USB flash drive), refreshments/coffee breaks, lunches and dinners, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included in it this time. Full participant: early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 11 000 (approx. 400 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 12 000 (approx. 444 EUR) Student (reduced): early registration by May 31, 2017 - CZK 8 000 (approx. 290 EUR) late registration by August 1, 2017 - CZK 8 700 (approx. 322 EUR) on-site registration - CZK 10 000 (approx. 360 EUR) Dormitory accommodation 20 EUR/night (+ 5 EUR for the breakfast) Please, keep in mind that the fees are preliminary and they may slightly change in the future. LOCATION Praha (Prague)--also called The City of a Hundred Spires or The Heart of Europe--is situated in the very centre of Bohemia on the banks of the river Vltava. There live more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area. Thus, Praha is considered the centre of science, higher education, culture, economy and authorities. The city is divided into ten districts. Each of them offers its own charming atmosphere predicated upon its rich history. A good example can be the Jewish Quarter (Josefov) known especially for the legend of Golem and famous writer Franz Kafka. Then, walking the Parizska street (said to be the most luxurious street in the city), there is the Old Town Square. One of the most important squares of the city renowned for the rare Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj), number of galleries, Bethlehem Chapel and a monument of religious reformer Jan Hus. The next place of interest can be found in the area of the New Town. The Wenceslas square with the monument of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, is the longest square of the republic. Its capacity is fully used by various shops, restaurants, clubs and street artists. Also the renaissance revival-styled building of National Museum, which is now under reconstruction, is situated on the upper end of the square. Modern art and architecture together with technical mastery demonstration are represented by the Zizkov Television Tower, the Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building) or the Stefanik's Observatory on the Petrin hill located in the neighbourhood of the quarter Hradcany. Also Krizik's light fountain or Industrial Palace in the area of the Holesovice Showground are worth seeing. However, the dominant feature of the skyline is still created by the Prague Castle and the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral spires. The Golden Lane heading down to the Lesser Town shows the tiny and colorful medieval houses. There are many bridges connecting the banks of the Vltava River. However, only one of them is well known in the whole world--the Charles bridge. Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV promoted its construction in the 14th century. The bridge is 520 metres long and stands for a connection between the Lesser Town and the Old Town. It was built in the Gothic style as well as the St. Vitus Cathedral. Charles IV was also the founder of the University, which now proudly bears his name--The Charles University. It is one the world's oldest universities and with 17 faculties, 3 institutes, 6 centres of teaching, research and development it is also the largest and best rated university in the Czech Republic. The students can choose some of the 642 courses within 300 of accredited degree programmes in the field of medicine, law, theology, pharmacy, arts, science, mathematics and physics, education, social sciences, physical education and sports, and humanities. We are justifiably very proud of the fact that the campus of the Charles University is going to host the TSD2017 conference. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University. The TSD2017 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2017 satellite event and it holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event as well. Venue: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University Mala Strana Campus - "S" Building Malostranske nam. 2/25 CZ-118 00 Praha 1 Accommodation: Orea Hotel Pyramida **** Belohorska 24 CZ-169 00 Praha 6 CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Mrs Romana Strapkova, TSD2017 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2017(a)tsdconference.org Phone: (+420) 736 664 500 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2017 - KIV Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: (+420) 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD 2017 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2017

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