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Call for Participation: Women-in-HPC workshop at Supercomputing (SC)
by Mubarak, Misbah 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

************************************************ Call for Participation 9th International Women in HPC Workshop: Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX Sunday, Nov. 11 9:00-5:30pm <https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/> ************************************************ Progam: Session I: Keynote 9:00-9:05 Misbah Mubarak- Argonne National Laboratory Welcome 9:05-10:00 Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Keynote Speaker "A Black Woman's Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering Lost History" Session II: Thriving at Work (Hot Topics Discussion) 10:00 - 10:10 Linda Akli - Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) "Being a diversity ally‹what it means and how you can help" 10:10 - 10:20 Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) "Telecommuting boss - being a successful remote employee" 10:20 - 10:30 Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center "Leadership strategies in HPC" 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:10 Lorna Rivera - Georgia Institute of Tech. "Effectively responding to discrimination" 11:10 - 11:20 Lucy Nowell - DoE Office of Science "Effective workplace communication" 11:20 - 11:30 Carissa Holohan - Argonne National Laboratory "Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center" Session II: Thriving at Work.. continued (Panel Discussion) 11:30 - 12:30 Christine Cuicchi - Department of Defense (Panel chair and panelist) Panel Discussion: "Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity" Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois (panelist) Lucy Nowell - Dept. of Energy Office of Science (panelist) Yvonne Yang - Intel Corporation (panelist) Session III: Early career lightning talks 2:00 - 3:00 Weronika Filinger and Gokcen Kestor (Chairs) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session IV: Developing workplace resilience & managing stress 3:30 - 4:30 Toni Collis - Appentra Hands on discussion session working through the 'resilience toolkit' 4:30 - 5:20 Toni Collis - Apentra (Panel chair) Panel Discussion: "How to build resilience" Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center (panelist) Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (panelist) Kaoutar El maghraoui - IBM Research (panelist) Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh - Univ. of Sheffield (panelist) 5:20 - 5:30 Misbah Mubarak (Argonne) & Toni Collis (Appentra) Workshop Outcomes and closeup Best Regards, Women-in-HPC Workshop Organizing Committee

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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SPNDS (in PDP2019) - Submission deadline extension till October 30, 2018 !
by Igor Kotenko 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 30th October 2019 Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: 30th Oct, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 23th Nov, 2018 - Camera ready due: 19th Dec, 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 Program Committee Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia - session chair Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, France Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Gurtov, Linkoping University, Sweden Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Evgenia Novikova, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU), Russia Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019) The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. _______________________________________________ computational.science mailing list computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org https://lists.iccsa.org/mailman/listinfo/computational.science Hosted by Sardina Systems: FishOS: AI-powered OpenStack www.sardinasystems.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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[Call for Participation] IA^3 2018 @ SC18
by Tumeo, Antonino 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 12 November 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, TX Room D172 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC —————————————————— Workshop program —————————————————— 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, Vito Giovanni Castellana, John Feo 9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Photonic Interconnects for Extreme Scale Computing Madeline Glick (Columbia University) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:45 Session 1: Software optimizations for irregular applications Software prefetching for unstructured mesh applications Hadade, Jones, Wang, Di Mare A Fast and Simple Approach to Merge and Merge Sorting using Wide Vector Instructions Watkins, Green Impact of Traditional Sparse Optimizations on a Migratory Thread Architecture Rolinger, Krieger 11:45 - 12:35 Session 2: Graph Processing There are Trillions of Little Forks in the Road Choose Wisely! -- Estimating the Cost and Likelihood of Success of Constrained Walks to Optimize a Graph Pruning Pipeline -- Tripoul, Halawa, Reza, Sanders, Pearce, Ripeanu Scale-Free Graph Processing on a NUMA Machine Aasawat, Reza, Ripeanu 12:35 - 14:10 Lunch Break (on your own) 14:10 - 15:00 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Versal: The new Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP) Kees Vissers (Xilinx) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:45 Session 3: Irregular Kernels on GPUs - Chair: TBD Mix-and-Match: A Model-driven Runtime Optimisation Strategy for BFS on GPUs Verstraaten, Varbanescu, de Laat A Block-oriented, Parallel and Collective Approach to Sparse Indefinite Preconditioning on GPUs Thuerck, Naumov, Goesele, Garland High-Performance GPU Implementation of PageRank with Reduced Precision based on Mantissa Segmentation Grützmacher, Anzt, Scheidegger, Quintana-Ortí 16:45 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: John Feo (PNNL) Panelists: Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Omaha-Nebraska), Aydin Boluç (LBNL), Howie Huang (George Washington University), Martin Schulz (University of Munich).

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Scholarship: Helmut Veith Stipend for Female Master´s Students in Computer Science, Deadline November 30, 2018 for the enrollment in 2018/2019
by Mihaela Rozman 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] Female students in the field of computer science (CS) who plan to pursue (or are currently pursuing) one of the masters programs in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology TU Wien taught in English are invited to apply for the annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend. The annually awarded Helmut Veith Stipend for female master students is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding computer scientist who worked in the fields of logic in computer science, computer-aided verification, software engineering, and computer security. Professor Helmut Veith (1971-2016). The Helmut Veith Stipend has been established with generous support of TU Wien, Wolfgang Pauli Institute and with contributions by family and friends of the late Helmut Veith. BENEFITS -EUR 6000 per year -Waiver of tuition fees at TU Wien LOCATION OF MASTER STUDY For study in Austria, at Vienna University of Technology TU Wien FOR FIELD OF STUDY Applicants must be eligible for admission to one of the masters programs in computer science at Vienna University of technology - TU Wien that are taught in English. Link: http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/teaching/master Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Logic and Computation Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Business Informatics European <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Master in Computational Logic Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master> Computer Engineering (Technische Informatik) Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master/DataScience> Data Science Master in <http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/studium/angebot/master/medieninformatik> Media and Human-Centered Computing APPLICATION Applications for Helmut Veith Stipend can be filed after, before or in parallel with the admissions process (if the start of the master´s program is in the Summer of 2019). The applications must be submitted electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at as a single PDF document, by November 30, 2018. DEADLINE November 30, 2018. INQUIRES Electronically to master(a)logic-cs.at WEBSITE http://www.vcla.at/2018/05/call-for-applications-helmut-veith-stipend-for-fe male-masters-students-in-computer-science DOWNLOAD THE FLYER http://forsyte.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

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CFP 3rd Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL19)
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

CALL FOR PAPERS The 3nd International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-19) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies ANT 2019 and the European SarlCon 2019 April 29 - May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. Description =========== Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. SARL-18 provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. SARL workshop borns with the SARL agent programming language, but the scientific results presented in SARL-19 are not restricted to SARL; other languages and agent platforms may be presented. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration. These high-level features are now considered as the major requirements for an easy and practical implementation of modern complex software applications. We are convinced that the agent-oriented paradigm holds the keys to effectively meet this challenge. Considering the variety of existing approaches and meta-models in the field of agent-oriented engineering and more generally multi-agent systems, our approach remains as generic as possible and highly extensible to easily integrate new concepts and features. The goal of SARL-19 is to provides a place where the different points of view on the modeling and the simulation with agent platforms and agent programming languages may be discussed. SARL-19 will be held in Leuven, Belgium (April 29 - May 2, 2019) in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2019) and the European SarlCon 2019. Topics ====== The main topics of the SARL-18 workshop are (but not restricted to): * Methods and Models: * Agent based Modeling and Simulation * Agent programming language * Agent based Simulation * Agent oriented analysis and design methods * Ontologies and theories about large urban systems * Formal models of agent-based simulation * Organizational models * Applications: * Traffic/Transport * Crowds * Smard grids and smart buildings * Land-Use * Energy Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: December 6, 2018 * Notification: February 4, 2019 * Final date for camera-ready copy: March 1, 2019 * Workshop: April 29 - May 2, 2019 Submission ========== All workshop accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. You are invited to submit full length papers in PDF format on EasyChair, not exceeding 6 pages in length, in single-column format including diagrams and references, and following the Procedia Computer Science guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits. All papers will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics listed below. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to present the paper. Workshop Chairs =============== Stéphane GALLAND (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France) Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (Universidad Technologica National, Argentina) Program Committee ================= To be completed.

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Invitation to the 1st European Forum of the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon19)
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

INVITATION FOR PAPERS AND TALKS The European Forum for the SARL Users and Developers (EuSarlCon-19) ------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with: * the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2019); * the 8th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS-19) * the 3nd International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and Applications with SARL (SARL-19) May 2, 2019, Leuven, Belgium. http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:EuSarlCon19 Description =========== The 2019 European SarlCon is the SARL user meeting that is organized in Europe in order to provide a place where SARL users and developers could exchange their experiences. It will be held on May 2, 2019, in Leuven, Belgium. That is the last day of the ANT-2019 conference, the ABMTRANS-19 and the SARL-19 workshops. Abstracts and/or short papers are due on December 1, 2018. The papers are expected to be very short (< 2500 equivalent words). ABMTRANS-19 and SARL-19 are providing an alternative for publishing longer papers. Abstracts and papers can be submitted to ABMTRANS-19, to SARL-19, to SarlCon19, or both. We will coordinate with the main conference so that papers are not presented twice. Submissions directly for the SarlCon should take the form of an abstract (< 1000 words), and are to be submitted before December 1, 2018, through EasyChair. SARL-related submissions to the main conference will as well be considered for inclusion in the SarlCon program. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: December 1, 2018 * Notification: January 4, 2019 * Forum: May 2, 2019 Submission ========== You are invited to submit the abstract in PDF format on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eusarlcon2019) not exceeding 1000 words in length. Organizer ========= Stéphane GALLAND (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France) Registration ============ Registration to the European SarlCon 2019 is free.

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Call for Workshops Proposals in conjonction with ANT-19
by Stéphane Galland 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

-------------- Call for Workshops Proposals ---------------------- The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2019) Leuven, Belgium April 29- May 2, 2019 Conference Website: [ http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/#workshop | http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-19/#workshop ] ********************************************************************** Important Dates =============== - Workshop Proposal Due: October 30, 2018 - Paper Submission: ~ December 6, 2018 - Acceptance Notification: ~ February 4, 2019 - Final Manuscript Due: ~ March 1, 2019 ANT-2019 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2019 and its related areas. Proceedings =========== All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2019 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2019 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. Proposal Format =============== - Title of the workshop - Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Full contact of workshop organizer(s) - Expected number of paper submissions - Draft Call for papers of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members Financial assistance ==================== To appreciate your hard work and support, the registration fees for one organizer of each workshop will be waived for workshops with more than eight registered papers. Please refer to (Important Dates) for the deadline for proposals. Workshops Chair =============== Prof. Dr. Stéphane Galland, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France (Email: [ mailto:stephane.galland@utbm.fr | stephane.galland(a)utbm.fr ] )

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Call For Papers: The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention 2018 (deadline extended)
by Andrii Shalaginov 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) Following the positive feedback and great interest last year, we are delighted to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data conference in Seattle, USA on 10-13 December, 2018. Workshop webpage: http://folk.ntnu.no/andriis/bdaccip2018/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Nov 2, 2018 (extended from Oct 10, 2018): Due date for full workshop paper submissions Nov 14, 2018 (extended from Nov 1, 2018): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 20, 2018 (extended from Nov 15, 2018): Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-13, 2018: Workshops *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithm areas - Machine Learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modelling - Improvements of existing methods - Decision Support Systems 3. Data - Novel datasets - New data formats - Digital Forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - New data formats and taxonomies 2. Application areas - Cyber Threats Intelligence - Network Forensics Readiness - Malware Analysis & Detection - Emails mining & Authorship Identification - Social Network Mining - Events correlations - Access Logs analysis - Mobile Forensics - Fraud Detection - Database Forensics - IoT Forensics - Blockchain technologies - Industrial systems 4. Infrastructure - Secure collaborative platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Technologies for data streams - Hardware and software architectures for large-scale data *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Ali Dehghantanha (University of Guelph) Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University) Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo) Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Shih-Chieh Su (‎Qualcomm Inc) Benjamin Flesch (Copenhagen Business School) Jan-Jaap Oerlemans (Universitet Leiden) Peter Xenopoulos (New York University) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. ***PUBLICATION*** The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings. *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention”, journal "Future Generation Computer Systems". Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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SPDNS 2019 (in PDP 2018) - Extension of submission deadline
by Igor Kotenko 21 Oct '18

21 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ---------------- The Announcement and Call for Papers Special Session "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (SPDNS 2019)" on 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2018) Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019. http://www.pdp2019.eu Paper submission deadline: 15th October 2019 Special Session on "Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in multiple disciplines concerning security in distributed systems to exchange ideas and to learn the latest developments in this important field. We will focus on issues related to network and distributed system security, such as authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, dependability and sustainability of distributed systems. Previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions to the theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems are solicited for submission. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive security * Applied cryptography * Authentication, authorization and access control * Big data for security * Cloud security * Computer and network forensics * Data mining, machine learning, and bio-inspired approaches for security * Digital rights management * Embedded system security * Internet and web security * Intrusion and malware detection and prevention * Risk analysis and risk management * Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Security evaluation * Security of emerging technologies * Security modeling and simulation * Security policies * Security protocols * Software security * Survivability * Tamper resistance * Trust management * Trusted computing Important dates - Paper submission: 30th Oct, 2018 - Acceptance notification: 23th Nov, 2018 - Camera ready due: 19th Dec, 2018 - Conference: 13th - 15th Feb, 2019 Program Committee Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia - session chair Fabrizio Baiardi, University of Pisa, Italy Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST, France Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Hakima Chaouchi, Telecom & Management SudParis, France Andrey Chechulin, ITMO University, Russia Yannick Chevalier, Universite de Toulouse - IRIT, France Luigi Coppolino, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Herve Debar, Telecom SudParis, France Dennis Gamayunov, Moscow State University, Russia Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alexander Grusho, Moscow State University, Russia Andrei Gurtov, Linkoping University, Sweden Ming-Yuh Huang, The Boeing Company, USA Spyros Kokolakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Nikolay Moldovyan, SPIIRAS, Russia Evgenia Novikova, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU), Russia Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer, Germany Luigi Romano, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy Igor Saenko, St.Petersburg Signal Academy, Russia Martin Strecker, Universite de Toulouse, France Peter Teufl, IAIK / Graz University of Technology, Austria Shambhu Upadhyaya, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019) The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon. Double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.

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