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CFP: IEEE ISPA2017 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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Postdoc Position: Trustable Robotics and Autonomous Systems
by Huascar Espinoza 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Trustable Robotics and Autonomous Systems http://www-instn.cea.fr/en/education-and-training/research-training/post-do… CONTEXT ------- The LSEA (Embedded and Autonomous Systems Design Laboratory) is working on methods, design principles and tools for the engineering of efficient and trustworthy software for embedded and autonomous systems. The laboratory has a recognized expertise in the field of model-based design of safety-critical systems, and has initiated an upstream work for the mastery of advanced technologies of safe self-adaptation and integration of trustworthy autonomy in critical systems. The lab plays an important role in standardization groups like AUTOSAR in the automotive domain as well as in the OMG (Object Management Group) standardization body responsible for the UML, SysML and MARTE standards, and contributes to the Eclipse open source model-based development platform Papyrus (www.eclipse.org/papyrus) Lab members are strongly involved in various industrial projects as well as collaborative French and European research projects for the development of model-based approaches for the design of autonomous real-time systems for robotics, automotive, railway, aerospace and smart energy systems. WORK DESCRIPTION ---------------- The complexity of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) can only be managed with well-designed software architectures and integrated tool chains that support the entire development process. Model-driven engineering (MDE) is an approach that allows RAS developers to shift their focus from implementation to the domain knowledge space and to promote efficiency, flexibility and separation of concerns for different development stakeholders. One key goal of MDE approaches is to be integrated with available development infrastructures from the RAS community, such as ROS middleware, OROCOS for real-time control, OpenCV for computer vision, or Gazebo for simulation. These RAS platforms embrace communities of hundreds of stakeholders, which need to be preserved and strengthened. However, these communities are still rather fragmented, by representing specific technologies. To strengthen these platforms, to enable interconnections between them, and also between new ones e.g. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies, CEA envisions a model-driven approach built on top of the current code-centric platforms. To do so, the H2020 RobMoSys project (www.robmosys.eu) coordinated by CEA, is establishing the first EU Digital Industrial Platform for Model-Driven Development of Robotics Systems. To address the robotics domain according to the RobMoSys methodology and structures, a set of CEA tools are being collected under the Papyrus4Robotics [1] [2] [3] umbrella. This project is strategic for the LSEA laboratory and the DILS department. The goal of this post-doc is to investigate and develop modular/compositional and predictable software architectures and interoperable design tools based on model-based (instead of code-centric) approaches. The work must be performed in the context of the RobMoSys project and other initiatives on assurance of robotics and autonomous systems. The main industrial goal is to simplify the effort of RAS engineers and thus allowing the development of more advanced, more complex autonomous systems at an affordable cost. In order to do so, the postdoctoral fellow will contribute to set-up and consolidate a vibrant ecosystem, tool-chain and community that will provide a unified model-based design, simulation, safety assessment and formal validation and verification environment. PROFILE ------- You did a PhD in the area of Software-intensive Systems Engineering not longer than two years ago. You have knowledge and expertise in developing tools for engineering embedded systems in any safety-critical industrial sector (e.g., energy, transport, health, or manufacturing). You are familiar with design methods, tools and middleware for the modelling, deployment, simulation of robotics software systems. You are aware of open software initiatives and you actively ensure that you remain aware of the latest developments in state-of-the art software technology. You are familiar with technology areas such as: • (Mandatory) Programming skills in languages such as Java, C and C++ • (Mandatory) Software modelling and transformation techniques: metamodeling, UML • (Highly Desirable) Knowledge of state-of-the-art software development environments and tools, in particular Eclipse: EMF, GMF • (Highly Desirable) ROS, Gazebo and related robotics technologies • (Desirable) knowledge on Artificial Intelligence: Machine/Deep Learning The age limit is 30 years old for post-doc offers. APPLICATION DOCUMENTS --------------------- Send the following documents to huascar.espinoza(a)cea.fr • Detailed CV • Motivation letter • Recommendation letters CONTACT PERSON -------------- Huascar ESPINOZA ORTIZ CEA LIST - PC 174 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Email: huascar.espinoza(a)cea.fr START DATE AND DURATION ----------------------- Start as soon as possible. Post-Doc positions last one year and can be renewed once only (for 1 year). [1] Kchir, S., Dhouib, S., Tatibouet, J., Gradoussoff, B., & Simoes, M. D. S. (2016, September). RobotML for industrial robots: Design and simulation of manipulation scenarios. In Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on (pp. 1-8). IEEE. [2] Nataliya Yakymets, Yupanqui Munoz Julho, Agnes Lanusse. Sophia framework for model-based safety analysis. Congrès Lambda Mu de maîtrise des risques et de sûreté de fonctionnement, October 21-23, Dijon, France, 2014 [3] Mahmoud Hussein, Réda Nouacer, Ansgar Radermacher, "Safe adaptation of vehicle software systems”, Microprocessors and Microsystems - Embedded Hardware Design 52: 272-286 (2017).

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Call for papers: IEEE SC2 2018 (Paris, France, November 6-9, 2018)
by Robert, Ching-Hsien Hsu 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing Paris, France, November 6-9, 2018 http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/sc2iovsoca2018.html Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the 2018 IEEE SC2 Conference. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2018 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2018 will be held on Nov. 6-9, 2018 in Paris, France. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. Cluster Computing (Springer) Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Vehicular Communications Journal International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal Paper Submission Deadline July 14, 2018 Acceptance Notification August 15, 2018 Registration Deadline September 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Submission September 15, 2018 ------------------------------------------ PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE format and submitted via the SC2 2018 submission site : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22018 Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to SC2. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster track. Workshop and Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ---------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ---------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Omer Rana, Cardiff university, UK Daqing Zhang, Institute Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, France GENERAL EXECUTIVE CHAIR Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13 Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland PROGRAM CHAIRS Shu Tao, IBM Research, USA Pascal Bouvry, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PUBLICATION CHAIR Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université STEERING COMMITTEE Hamid Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13 Hanene Azzag, Université Paris 13 Leila Abidi, Université Paris 13 Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université Mustapha Lebbah Université Paris 13 Arnaud Kaiser, IRT SystemX Kais Klay, Université Paris 13 Tarek Menouer, Université Paris 13 Sondes Khemiri-Kallel, Université Versailles St Quentin Walid Gaaloul, Télécom Sudparis, Evry Khaled Boussetta, Université Paris 13 Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13

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CFP: 13th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

********** WORKS 2018 Workshop ********** Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 11 November 2018, Dallas, TX. Held in conjunction with SC18, http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 30 July 2018 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of high-performance, parallel and distributed computing. They provide a systematic way of describing a complex scientific process and rely on sophisticated workflow management systems to execute on a variety of parallel and distributed resources. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, being at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow for different infrastructures; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows In Situ Data Analytics Workflows Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance Workflows in constrained environments e.g. IoT, Edge computing, etc. ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 30 July 2018 Paper acceptance notification: 9 September 2018 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2018 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2018 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2018 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, U Delaware, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2018 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, King's College London, UK Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Newcastle University, UK Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2018
by Dirk Craeynest 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 18-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018 *** Check out tutorials and workshops! *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Online proceedings available at event *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 23rd Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal (12 June 2018) - The University Lisboa and Ada-Europe organize from 18 to 22 June 2018 the "23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018" in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is organized in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda), on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. This year's conference offers two days of parallel tutorials and workshops, three keynotes, a full technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Eight excellent tutorials on Monday and Friday cover a broad range of topics: Recent Developments in SPARK 2014; Scheduling analysis of AADL architecture models; Access types and memory management in Ada 2012; Numerics for the Non-Numerical Analyst; Writing Contracts in Ada; Introduction to Libadalang; Unit-testing with Ahven; Frama-C, a Framework for Analysing C Code. In addition, on Monday the conference hosts the new workshop on "Runtime Verification and Monitoring Technologies for Embedded Systems" (RUME 2018), and on Friday for the 5th consecutive year the workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2018). Three eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program. Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), on "Security and Dependability Challenges of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) Integration". Carl Brandon (Vermont Technical College, USA), on "From Physicist to Rocket Scientist, and how to make a CubeSat that works". Erhard Plödereder (University of Stuttgart, Germany), on "Vulnerabilities in Safety, Security, and Privacy". The technical program presents 10 refereed and carefully selected technical papers and 4 presentations on the latest research, new tools, applications and industrial practice and experience, a collection of 12 industrial presentations reflecting current practice and challenges, and vendor presentations. Springer Verlag publishes all peer-reviewed papers in the proceedings of the conference, as LNCS Vol. 10873. The remainder of the proceedings will be published in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday morning in the networking area and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, and Ada-Europe. The social program includes on Tuesday evening a Welcome Reception on board of modern catamaran, to see Lisbon from a different perspective and watch the sunset from the Tagus river. On Wednesday evening will be the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at the restaurant "A Casa do Bacalhau", which means "The House of the Codfish", located in the old stables of the Duke of Lafões palace. Each day, coffee breaks in the exhibition area and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. The conference is hosted by Univ. Lisboa at the VIP Executive Art's Hotel, strategically located in the Parque das Nações area, Lisbon's modern business centre, close to the Tagus river and the Vasco da Gama bridge, and can easily be accessed by metro. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 16-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/AdaEurope2018%20Final%20Program.pdf> Check out the 8 tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are very reasonable and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018> or go directly to <http://ae2018.di.fc.ul.pt/registration.html>. The proceedings, published by Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10873, are already available online. See <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92432-8>. A printed copy is included in every full conference registration. Help promote the conference by advertising for it! <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018/picts/AE2018_poster.png>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2018. For the latest information consult the conference web site <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2018>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be, Ada-Europe'2018 Publicity Chair *** 23rd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2018 *** June 18-22, 2018 ** Lisbon, Portugal *** http://www.ada-europe.org

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Deadline extended: CIBB 2018 - Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine
by chiara damiani 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2018 <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/>, 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 6-8 September 2018, Caparica, Portugal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks   biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems   flux balance analysis   metabolic engineering   metabolic pathway analysis   model verification and refinement methods   models of neural activity multiscale modelling and simulation of biological systems   parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks   software tools for systems biology   spatiotemporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 Acceptance notification: 9 July 2018 19 July 2018 Author registration due: 20 July 2018 25 July 2018 Camera ready due: 29 July 2018 Conference: 6-8 September 2018 PROCEEDINGS Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/pages/call-papers> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marzia Di Filippo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dario Pescini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918 Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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Submission deadlines extended: IEEE HiPC 2018 (papers due June 25)
by Anand Panangadan 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India http://www.hipc.org IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 • Paper Abstract Submission: Monday, *June 18, 2018 (extended)* • Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, *June 25, 2018 (extended)* • Author Notifications for Rebuttal: Friday, August 10, 2018 • Author Rebuttal Response Due: Friday, August 24, 2018 • Acceptance/Rejection Notification: Friday, September 7, 2018 • Camera Ready paper Submission Due: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference addresses a broad list of topics in three tracks: • Algorithms • Architectures • Applications CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI
by Morris, Karla NMN 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary As high-performance computing hardware incorporates increasing levels of heterogeneity, hierarchical organization, and complexity, parallel programming techniques necessarily grow in complexity or in their ability to abstract away complexity. The concurrent development of multi- and many-core processors, deep memory hierarchies, and accelerators and the variety of ways to combine these makes the low-level language route unmanageable for domain experts tasked with developing applications. The technologies that a competent developer might be expected to master and combine include MPI plus CUDA, OpenMP, and OpenACC, most commonly denoted MPI + X. This approach inherently saddles the developer with low-level details that might better be handled by high-level abstractions. Higher-level parallel programming models offer rich sets of abstractions that feel natural in the intended applications. Such languages and tools include (Fortran, UPC, Julia), systems for large-scale data processing and analytics (Spark, Tensorflow, Dask), and frameworks and libraries that extend existing languages (Charm++, Unified Parallel C++ (UPC++), Coarray C++, HPX, Legion, Global Arrays). While there are tremendous differences between these approaches, all strive to support better programmer abstractions for concerns such as data parallelism, task parallelism, dynamic load balancing, and data placement across the memory hierarchy. This workshop will bring together applications experts who will present concrete practical examples of using such alternatives to MPI in order to illustrate the benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming. The workshop expands upon the two similar workshops, PAW16 and PAW17, by broadening the theme beyond partitioned global address space languages. We invite you to take part in the Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI, and to join this vibrant and diverse community of researchers and developers. Scope and Aims The scope of the PAW-ATM workshop is to provide a forum for exhibiting case studies of higher-level programming models as MPI alternatives in the context of applications as a means of better understanding applications of MPI alternatives. We encourage the submission of papers and talks detailing such applications, including characterizations of scalability and performance, of expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in existing higher-level programming models. In addition to informing other application programmers about the potential that is available through MPI alternatives, the workshop is designed to communicate these experiences to compiler vendors, library developers, and system architects in order to achieve broader support for high-level approaches to scalable programming. We also specifically encourage submissions covering big data analytics, deep learning, and other novel and emerging application areas, beyond well-established HPC domains. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using parallel programming languages. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from big data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using MPI alternatives. * Algorithmic models enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting MPI alternatives. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. Papers shall not exceed ten (10) pages including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative not included. Extended abstracts summarizing published/preliminary results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended for timely communications of novel work that is going to be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that is nonetheless deemed appropriate for dissemination in this venue. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. Preferential treatment will be given to full-length paper submissions. Accepted full-length papers will be given longer presentation slots at the workshop than the abstract-only option. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings ( https://submissions.supercomputing.org ). Submissions must use 10pt fonts in the IEEE format ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). The page limit (8 pages minimum for publication) includes figures, tables, and your appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Reproducibility initiative dependencies (Artifact Description or Computational Results Analysis) are also not included in the page limit. PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC18, please refer to http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ for additional information. WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR * Bill Long - Cray Inc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc. * Valentin Churavy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University, UK * Alex Gittens - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Hartmut Kaiser - Louisiana State University * Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois * Seung-Hwan Lim - Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Bill Long - Cray Inc. * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA * Jeremiah J. Wilke - Sandia National Laboratories ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2018 * Author Notification: September 1, 2018 * Camera Ready: October 1, 2018 * Workshop Date: November 11--16, 2018

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CFP for ICPADS 2018
by sidharta andalam 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

*Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers* Call for Papers Established in 1992, ICPADS has been a major international forum for scientists and engineers to exchange and share new ideas and their latest research results regarding systems that are inherently parallel and/or distributed. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2018) will be held in Singapore in December 2018. The conference provides an international forum for scientists, engineers and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Contributions are solicited in all areas of parallel and distributed systems research and applications. Singapore is a global city and thriving international financial hub attracting international tech companies and is accompanied by a vibrant and successful start-up culture. Related to ICPADS, Singapore’s Smart Nation uses technology to provide a smart infrastructure that enables visitors to enjoy its many sites and attractions in a safe, clean and green environment. Topics of Interest Original, unpublished contributions are solicited covering the general aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms · Cloud OS, Middleware, Toolkits, and Applications · Data Intensive Computing and Data Centre Architecture · Big Data Platforms · High Performance Computational Biology and Bioinformatics · Power-Aware and Green Computing · Security and Privacy · Dependable and Trustworthy Computing and Systems · Internet of Things · Fog/Edge Computing · Cyber-Physical Systems and Sensor Networks · Embedded systems · Real-Time and Multimedia Systems · Operating Systems, Distributed and Parallel Systems · Communication and Networking Systems · Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing · Peer-to-Peer Computing · Multi-Core and Multithreaded Architectures · Virtualization Techniques · Resource Provision, Management, and Scheduling · Cluster and Grid Computing · Web-Based Computing and Service-oriented Architecture · Performance Modelling and Evaluation Submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpads2018) Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Submissions should include author information, abstract, 5-10 keywords, and be in PDF format. Each submission must not exceed 10 pages in the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format with 10 point font, including tables, figures and references. The final version will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE proceeding format for conference papers. Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased. Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the submission be accepted, at least one of the authors must register the paper and attend the conference to present the work in order for the accepted paper to be included into the IEEE digital library. Papers accepted for ICPADS 2018 conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Best Paper Award will be presented in the conference. Important Dates · *On-line submission system open:* 20 May, 2018 · *Deadline for paper submissions:* 13 July, 2018 · *Notification of paper acceptance:* 01 September, 2018 · *Deadline of camera-ready version:* 25 September, 2018

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[Deadline Extended] CFP - PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop (In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC) + Special Issue in Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, IF: 1.326, Q2)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.326, Quartile Q2, ISSN: 0920-8542) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2018 (EXTENDED) http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ VENUE: Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2018 We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 -------------------------------------------------

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