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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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FROM 2018 Call for Participation
by Stefan Ciobaca 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - First Call for Participation WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania *** New *** We included in the program of the conference a new category, short contributions, where submissions may describe work in progress or PhD progress/research reports. We still have 3-4 slots available for this category. If you are interested in giving a short talk, please submit an abstract of at most 2 pages using Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 Deadline for submitting short contributions: June 6, 2018 Notification: June 8, 2018 *** Attendance *** Everyone is welcome to attend. Registration is required and the deadline is June 15. Please register on the FROM 2018 webpage: https://fmse.info.uaic.ro/from-2018-registration/ *** About *** The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. *** Invited speakers *** Călin Belta, Boston University, US. Formal Synthesis of Control Strategies for Dynamical Systems Radu Călinescu, University of York, UK. Observation-enhanced stochastic modelling Cătălin Dima, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France. Bisimulations for logics for strategies Dragos Gavrilut, Bitdefender and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania. TBA Radu Grigore, School of Computing University of Kent, UK. Selective Monitoring Cătălin Hriţcu, INRIA Paris, France. Formally Secure Compilation Mircea Marin, West University of Timișoara, Romania. Unification and matching in unranked term algebras with regular expression sorts Grigore Roşu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. Formal Design, Implementation and Verification of Blockchain Languages and Virtual Machines Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Of Koblenz, Landau, Germany. On Symbol Elimination in Theory Extensions and Applications Gheorghe Ștefănescu, University of Bucharest, Romania. Adaptive virtual organisms: A compositional model for hardware-software binding in the IoT era *** Accepted papers *** Bogdan Aman and Gabriel Ciobanu. Timed Migration with Costs in Distributed Systems Ruxandra Stoean. Machine Learning and Formal Methods or the Ballad of East and West Gabriel Ciobanu and Eneia Nicolae Todoran. Continuation Semantics for Concurrent Languages Stefan Popescu. Solving a variant of the 2-D pattern matching problem using Networks of Polarized Evolutionary Picture Processors with a restriction in polarity. Vlad Rusu. Compositional Verification of Reachability-Logic Properties on Reachability-Logic Specifications Georgiana Caltais and Mohammadreza Mousavi. Encoding Causality via Modal Formulae Denisa Diaconescu. Bisimulations in many-valued modal logics Andrei Alexandru and Gabriel Ciobanu. Infinite Sets in Fraenkel-Mostowski Theory Ioana Leustean and Natalia Moangă. A many-sorted polyadic modal logic Andrei Arusoaie. Unification in Matching Logic Ioana Leuștean and Traian Florin Serbanuta. An operational-semantics-based approach to program verification using dynamic logic Short Contributions: Ana Turlea, Raluca Lefticaru and Felician Campean. Search based Model in the Loop Testing for Cyber Physical Systems We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Amazon’s Development Center in Iasi and Continental Automotive in Iasi. Laurențiu Leuștean, co-chair FROM 2018 Dorel Lucanu, co-chair FROM 2018

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Open PostDoc position at LBNL for Machine learning applications and Networks
by Mariam Kiran 30 May '18

30 May '18

Dear All, I am reaching out for help publicizing the post doc position open with our group. We are looking for new members to join our team at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!. The position is shared between the Computer Research Division (http://crd.lbl.gov/departments/data-science-and-technology/sdm/) and Energy Sciences Network (http://es.net/) The position is in the area of developing machine learning solutions for wide area networks. The direct link to the posting may be found here: http://m.rfer.us/LBLfQ6cv Can you please help forward to any interested candidates? Questions can be sent to Mariam Kiran <mkiran(a)lbl.gov> Thankyou in advance, Mariam

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CFP: 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (December 17-20, 2018, Zurich, Switzerland)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 29 May '18

29 May '18

Do not miss the opportunity for discussing a full week of cloud and big data advances in central Europe at the end of the year on the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)! The conference would take place December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland (http://ucc-conference.org/) IMPORTANT DATES * 01 August, 2018 is a deadline for: - Main conference paper submissions - Tutorial proposals - Cloud Challenge proposals - Doctoral Research Papers * Poster submissions due: 01 September, 2018 * Notification of acceptance for main papers: 15 September, 2018 * Camera ready papers due: 08 October, 2018 * Early and author registration deadline: 08 October, 2018 * Conference: 17-20 December 2018 CONTEXT AND SCOPE UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 will have a co-located 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org/) an embedded Cloud Challenge and a subsequent Serverless Symposium. WORKSHOPS [http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html] Nine workshops are confirmed to take place in conjunction with the main conference: * 7th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018 * 5th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications - SCCTSA 2018. Submission deadline: July 31, 2018 * 4th International Workshop on Serverless Computing - WoSC 2018 * 3rd International Workshop on Trust in Cloud Computing - IWTCC 2018. Submission deadline: July 30, 2018 * 1st Industry/University Joint International Workshop on Data-center Automation and Software Provisioning - DCASP 2018 * 1st Workshop on Quality Assurance in the Context of Cloud Computing - QA3C 2018. Submission deadline: September 3, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Managed Fog-to-Cloud - mF2C 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience - CNAX 2018. Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 * 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Environments - BDASE 2018. Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 All the additional information on the workshops is available on the conference website: http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html TOPICS OF INTEREST UCC Conference topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * HPC and the Cloud * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Networking for clouds and data centres * Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers CALL FOR PAPERS [http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html] Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility as well as Big Data computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, IEEE conference style, including figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. We invite you to visit the Call for Papers page for more information: http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html

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JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (Nov. 26-28, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan)
by Kouji Kozaki 28 May '18

28 May '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers: JIST 2018 Regular Technical Papers *** JIST2018:The 8th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference Nov. 26-28, 2018, Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp < Paper submission due: 10 August, 2018 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- The mission of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is to bring together researchers in the Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic-related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. There are two tracks in JIST 2018 for Regular Technical Papers. *** Research Track *** JIST 2018 research track solicits submissions of original research work on semantic technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Ontology and reasoning -Knowledge Graphs -Linked Data -Big Data and semantics, exchange and integration -Data streams and the Internet of Things -Machine learning and information extraction on the Semantic Web -Semantic Web services and processes -Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web -Social Semantic Web -Natural language processing and semantics -Semantic multimedia -Novel applications of semantic technologies *** Special Session Track *** JIST 2018 special session track to discover and implement special topics that researchers in Semantic Technology are particularly interested in. We also intend to facilitate participation of potentially-related researchers in the JIST conference. Topics of special sessions are as follows: - Special Session on Government Open Data http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/government_open_data.html - Special Session on Question Answering and ChatBots http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/qa_chatbots.html - Special Session on Resource-aware Semantic Technologies http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/resource-aware_semantic_tech… - Special Session on Semantic Web for Life Sciences http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/pages/calls/sw_for_life_sciences.html *** Important Dates *** -Abstract submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 3 August, 2018 -Full paper submission: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), 10 August, 2018 -Notification of Acceptance: 14 September, 2018 -Camera-ready Deadline: 28 September, 2018 -Conference: 26-28 November, 2018 *** Submission *** Submissions to JIST 2018 should describe original, significant research on semantic technologies. JIST 2018 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Submissions to JIST 2018 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee of either research track or special session track. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. JIST 2018 submissions are not anonymous. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Regular paper submissions must be no longer than 16 pages, and short paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. Accepted papers of both research track and special session track will be published in an LNCS proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2018 * Please select the corresponding track(s) when you submit your paper(s). *** Organizing Committee *** -General Chairs Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University, Japan -Program Chairs Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Special Session Track Chairs Dongyan Zhao, Peking University, China Takahiro Kawamura, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan -Local Organizing Chair Atsuko Yamaguchi, Database Center for Life Science, Japan -Poster and Demo Chairs Hanmin Jung, KISTI, Korea Shinichi Nagano, TOSHIBA corp., Japan -Workshop Chairs Marut Buranarach, NECTEC, Thailand Ikki Omukai, National Institute of Informatics, Japan -Tutorial Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan -Sponsorship Chair Takanori Ugai, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan -Publicity Chairs Takeshi Morita, Keio University, Japan Guohui Xiao, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------- JIST 2018 Organize Committee Website: http://jist2018.knowledge-graph.jp/ Twitter: @jist2018 Contact: JIST2018<at>knowledge-graph.jp

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