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[Conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth] First Call for Papers - UCAmI 2018
by UCAmI 2018 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAMI 2018 http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic DECEMBER 4 TO 7TH, 2018 Conference Background & Goals The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments and systems. These solutions aim to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services these solutions provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in AmI environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services, such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others. The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference will be "Ambient Intelligence: Sensing, Processing and Using Environmental Information". Publication All accepted conference papers will be included in SPRINGER LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS). Selected papers will be published in the following journals: * IEEE Access (IF(2016) = 3.244 Q1) (TENTATIVE) * Sensors Journal (IF(2016) = 2.677 Q1) * Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IF(2016) = 1.899 Q2) * Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (IF(2016) = 1.588 Q3) (More journals to be announced shortly on http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 [1]) Important Dates * Abstract submission: * Paper submission: * Notification of acceptance: * Camera-ready version: * Conference dates: * APRIL 15th, 2018 * May 15th, 2018 * July 15th, 2018 * August 15th, 2018 * December 4 to 7th, 2018 TRACKS HEALTH (AMIHEALTH) (Topics) * Health, wellness and disease monitoring * Communication, cloud, fog and network architectures for Health * Education and e-Learning systems in Health domains * Knowledge management for health: context, cognition, behavior and user modeling * Data Science for Health environments * Health ecosystems: frameworks, models and methodologies * Interaction, social and user experience within Health environments * Gamification and Serious Games for Health * Mobile and ubiquitous Health * Smart technologies and algorithms for Health * Health Education AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (IWAAL) (Topics) * Monitoring and management of chronic and non-chronic diseases in AAL. * Solutions for active aging, social integration and self-care * Learning, Training and Coaching systems to promote healthy life in AAL environments * Stress, burden and quality of life of caregivers and other healthcare professionals * Security and privacy in AAL * Behaviour analysis in AAL environments * Experiences and study cases in AAL * Smart homes and sensor networks for AAL * Context-Awareness in AAL environment * Middleware and frameworks for AAL * Standards and interoperability INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) AND SENSORS (Topics) * IoT enabling technologies, techniques and methods * IoT application and services * Current and future trends in IoT * IoT societal impacts * Security, privacy and trust in IoT * IoT interoperability, integration and performance * IoT experimental results and deployment scenarios * Human factors in IoT * Sensor design, integration and combination * Architectures, protocols and algorithms of sensor networks * Energy management, resource allocation, quality of service (QoS) and fault tolerance in Sensor Networks * Applications of hybrid sensor networks * Innovative real-world sensor deployments and applications * Sensor and actuator technologies in ambient assisted living contexts SMART ENVIRONMENTS (Topics) * Adaptive Environments * Ambient Behavioural Analysis * Big data within Intelligent Environments * Design principle and guidelines for Intelligent Environments * Enabling intelligence within environments * Environmental Assistive Agents * Indirect/Inferred Sensing though environmental side channels * Industry 4.0: Environments, facilities and solutions * Intelligent Surveillance and Alerting * Smart Environments and e-learning process * Smart Classes * Smart Labs * Smart Campuses * LPWAN technologies/long range communications * Pervasive Care Solutions * Predictive Maintenance * Retroactively provisioned smart environments * Resilient/Self-Healing Infrastructure technologies * Secure Access Control Solutions * Smart Cities - sensing, realisation and optimisation * Solutions enabling intelligent design, visualisation or simulation of intelligent environments HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (Topics) * Natural User Interface * Human-Centric Interfaces for AmI environments * Multimodal Interface * Use of context and location information in user interfaces * Novel input devices * Robot-Human interaction * Human-Ambient Interaction * Mobile Interfaces * Affective Interfaces * User modeling * Personalization and adaptation of user interfaces * Ubiquitous and ambient displays * User experience in Ambient Computing * Interaction with smart objects * Tangible and wearable interfaces * Brain computer interaction * Evaluation of interfaces in Ambient and Ubiquitous environments * Mobile Augmented Reality * New methods and methodologies for Evaluation * Theoretical aspects of HCI * Adaptive interfaces * Case studies for users with special needs * Cultural aspects of design * HCI & e-Learning * Context awareness in learning process 1ST UCAMI CUP - Analyzing human activity recognition dataset In this first UCAmI Cup the competition will be focused on the recognition of 25 types of human activities in a single and interleave way in real time from a smart lab in where 31 binary sensors are deployed. 10 days of activities are provided with three periods of time in each day: morning, afternoon and evening. For more info about the competition and registration, please go to http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/UCAmICup [2] Networking Session [3] Contact * grupo.mami at uclm.es * grupo.mami(a)uclm.es In order to view, change, or cancel your subscription to the CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list, please click here [4]. Links: ------ [1] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018 [2] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/UCAmICup [3] http://mamilab.esi.uclm.es/ucami2018/assets/documents/networking-session.pdf [4] http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_… _______________________________________________ CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH mailing list CONFERENCES-UCAMI-IWAAL-AMIHEALTH(a)sercontecpma.com http://sercontecpma.com/mailman/listinfo/conferences-ucami-iwaal-amihealth_…

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CFP 7th IWCES 2018 Workshop - fast track Special Issue, Scopus and Emerging Clarivate Indexed
by Alfredo Milani 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

========================================================= LNCS workskop proceedings and fast track Special Issue “Mathematics” (ISSN 2227-7390) indexed by SCOPUS and Clarivate Emerging Citation Index ========================================================= 7th IWCES 2018 - Call for Papers Seventh International Workshop on COLLECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS Co-located with 17th ICCSA (http://www.iccsa.org) July 2- 5, 2018 Melbourne, Australia, Monash University ========================================================= IMPORTANT DATES -March 15th, 2018: Submission Deadline -April 8, 2018: Notification of acceptance -May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers and Registration -July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference and IWCES workshop, Melbourne, Australia Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)). Selected workshop papers will be invited to fast track of the Special Issue on “Evolutionary Algorithms in Intelligent System” of the MDPI Journal “Mathematics” (ISSN 2227-7390) indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index, accepted special issue papers will be void of open access publication fees. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Mathematics_Evolutio… CHAIRS Alfredo Milani(University of Perugia, Italy) (Special Issue Chair), alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it Clement Leung (United International College, Zhouhai, China), Valentina Franzoni (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Valentina Poggioni (University of Perugia, Italy) (Special Issue Chair) Submission website: ess.iccsa.org (pls signup and select "7th IWCES Workhop") AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The International Workshop on Collective Evolutionary Systems (IWCES 2018) is in its 7th edition of a workshop series co-located with the International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA). The aim of the workshop is to solicit research papers in the area of collective evolutionary systems. Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies. The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science for, but not limited to, single-objective and multi-objectives optimization, numerical continuous non-linear optimization, combinatorial optimization, graph matching and pattern matching, agents and automata optimization. Evolutionary paradigms to be considered, non-exhaustively, include continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired meta-heuristics. TOPICS Topics include, but are not limited to: -theoretical models and applications of evolutionary algorithms to collective intelligent systems -semantic proximity measures in social networks, weak semantics models -collective knowledge discovery, emergent collective behavior -link prediction, citation networks, bibliometrics in collective environments -sentiment analysis, social network analysis, wisdom of crowds -collaborative social tagging, trust, reputation and recommendation systems -multimodal media search, semantics of social multimedia -massive learning environments, peer assessment, teachers self-evaluation -ubiquitous and mobile collective systems, massive personal sensor networks integration Evolutionary paradigms include, non-exhaustively, continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired meta-heuristics. IWCES also welcomes papers on ongoing projects and PhD showcases, as well as applications, data sets, novel techniques, and multimodal or interdiscipinary approaches. We also consider papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers etc. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please SIGNUP and UPLOAD all the submissions through ICCSA electronic submission systems http://ess.iccsa.org VERY IMPORTANT: when filling the submission form do not forget to select the dropdown menu entry “7th International Workshop on Web-based Collective Evolutionary Systems: models, measures, applications IWCES)” Submissions must be in the one-column LNCS format. Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted through the ICCSA Electronic Submission site as: Full Paper (10-16 pages) or Short Paper (7-9 pages) Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Each paper must be original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors). Detailed instructions for submission can be found in the ICCSA page of Instructions for Authors. Publication is submitted to registration and a person presenting at the conference. Questions on topics of the submission can be sent to the scientific program committee. Please note that the Electronic Submission Site has a separate login access with respect to the registration to the conference. IMPORTANT DATES March 15th, 2018: Sumission Deadline April 8, 2018: Notification of acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference and IWCES workshop, Melbourne, Australia CHAIRS Alfredo Milani(University of Perugia, Italy) (Special issue chair) alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it Clement Leung (United International College, Zhouhai, China), Valentina Franzoni (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy), Valentina Poggioni (University of Perugia, Italy) (Special issue chair) Submission site: ess.iccsa.org Conference site: www.iccsa.org Authors instructions: www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ==================================================================== -- ========================================== Prof. Alfredo Milani Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Perugia Via Vanvitelli 1, 06100 Perugia, ITALY email : alfredo.milani(a)unipg.it<mailto:alfredo.milani@unipg.it> phone : +39 075 585.5049 mobile : +39 328 4144 916 fax : +39 075 585 5024 ===========================================

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01 Mar '18

Dear Colleague, Re: Paper submission deadline has been extended to March 31 Upon many requests the submission deadline of 17th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'18) at UC Berkeley (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-18) has been extended to March 31. For those intended to submit a paper, you are encouraged to upload an abstract earlier in order to allow the program committee to allocate adequate reviewers. The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE Computer Societies and etc. The theme of ICCI*CC’18 is on Cognitive Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Systems and Cognitive Robotics. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'18 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the conference will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. Paper submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccicc18. Both full paper (5-8pp.) and short paper (4-5pp.) are welcome. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'18. IEEE ICCI*CC'18 is dedicated to Late Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, our most respected past honorary chair. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'18 Co-Chairs HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Bernard Widrow (Stanford Univ.) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Profs. Jerome Feldman (UC Berkeley), Yingxu Wang (U Calgary), Newton Howard (U Oxford), and Phillip Sheu (UC Irvine) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Sam Kwong (HK) and Prof. Y. Wang ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Prof. Du Zhang (USA) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of IEEEicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: IEEEicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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CFP: Springer IJIS, Special Issue on "IoT Security and Privacy"
by Rodrigo Roman 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear All, Please consider submitting to the special issue of International Journal of Information Security on "IoT Security and Privacy". Please find attached for the details, which are also described below. Submission deadline is October 1, 2018. We look forward to your submissions! Best regards, Takeshi Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Rodrigo Roman Castro, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Said Tabet, Dell EMC, USA (Guest Editors of the special issue of International Journal of Information Security on "IoT Security and Privacy") ======================================================================== Call for Papers International Journal of Information Security Special Issue on "IoT Security and Privacy" https://link.springer.com/journal/10207 ======================================================================== The Internet is gradually transforming from a communication platform for conventional IT appliances into the Internet of Things (IoT), increasingly interconnecting many assorted devices and sensors. These devices are generally referred as IoT devices, and many of them are inexpensive and can be constrained in terms of energy, bandwidth and memory. The establishment of IoT ecosystems in various domains is bringing multiple benefits to human users and companies alike. Example of such domains include Smart Homes, Smart Cities, the Industrial Internet and even Intelligent Transportation Systems. However, the IoT as a whole – including related paradigms such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) – is susceptible to a multitude of threats. In fact, many IoT devices currently are insecure and have many security vulnerabilities. For example, many vulnerable IoT devices which have been infected with malware have subsequently become comprised into large botnets, resulting in devastating DDOS attacks. Consequently, ensuring the security of such IoT ecosystems – before, during, and after an attack takes place – is a crucial issue for our society at this moment. This special issue aims to collect contributions by leading-edge researchers from academia and industry, show the latest research results in the field of IoT security and privacy, and provide valuable information to researchers as well as practitioners, standards developers and policymakers. Its aim is to focus on the research challenges and issues in IoT security. Manuscripts regarding novel algorithms, architectures, implementations, and experiences are welcome. Topics include but are not limited to: - Secure protocols for IoT devices - Privacy solutions and privacy helpers for IoT environments - Trust frameworks and secure/private collaboration mechanisms for IoT environments - Secure management and self-healing for IoT environments - Operative systems security for IoT devices - Security diagnosis tools for IoT devices - Threat and vulnerability detection in IoT environments - Anomaly detection and prevention mechanisms in IoT networks - Case studies of malware analysis in IoT environments - IoT forensics and digital evidence - Testbeds and experimental facilities for IoT security analysis and research - Standardization activities for IoT security - Security and privacy solutions tailored to specific IoT domains and ecosystems Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Instructions for Authors" guidelines outlined at the journal website http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/10207. All papers will be peer-reviewed, by following a regular reviewing procedure. Authors are requested to submit their original manuscript via the online submission system. Note that article type 'S.I. : IOT Security and Privacy' must be selected on the system in order to be considered for this special issue. Important Dates --------------- Manuscript Due: October 1, 2018 First Round of Reviews: December 3, 2018 Guest Editors ------------- Takeshi Takahashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Rodrigo Roman Castro, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Said Tabet, Dell EMC, USA For more information, contact: editors-ijis-si-iotsec (at) googlegroups dot com

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Call for papers: International workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE 2018)
by Martin Gilje Jaatun 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Call for Papers International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE 2018) http://secse.org Porto, Portugal, May 25, 2018 In conjunction with XP 2018 - 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, 21-25 May 2018 https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2018/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contribute by either submitting a paper, experience report, or an ignite talk proposal (see details below). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Software security is about protecting information and ensuring that systems continue to function correctly even when under malicious attack. The traditional approach of securing a system has been to create defensive walls such as intrusion detection systems and firewalls around it, but there are always cracks in these walls, and thus such measures are no longer sufficient by themselves. We need to be able to build better, more robust and more "inherently secure" systems, and we should strive to achieve these qualities in all software systems, not just in the ones that "obviously" need special protection. This workshop will focus on techniques, experiences and lessons learned for engineering secure and dependable software using the DevOps paradigm, as well as other forms of agile development. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Security in DevOps Security aspects of software deployment Security in Continuous Deployment Security Architecture in Agile Development Security testing in DevOps Container security for DevOps Security automation tools Security in agile software development Agile security requirements Risk management in software projects Agile testing for security Quantitative measurement of security properties Static and dynamic analysis for security Verification and assurance techniques for security properties Security and usability Design and deployment of secure services Secure composition and adaptation of services Teaching secure software development Experience reports on successfully attuning developers to secure software engineering Industry experience talks Important Dates =============== March 3rd, 2018 Submission Deadline April 6th, 2018 Author Notification April 15th, 2018 Author Registration April 15th, 2018 Camera-ready versions May 21/25, 2018 Workshops Submission Guidelines ===================== Papers can be up to 8 pages long in the ACM conference template. If you need more space, save it for the journal version! Paper submission is done through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secse2018 Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or if it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the XP conference and present the paper in the workshop. No-show papers will be removed from the digital library after the workshop. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: SecSE requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted paper contains no author names or obvious self-references. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published by ACM conference proceedings. Journal Special Issue ===================== Distinguished papers submitted to SecSE will be invited to submit revised and extended versions for publication in the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (ISSN 1947-3036). Experience reports (NEW!) ========================= Do you have experiences to share? We want to hear from you! Submit proposals of an Experience Report as a Title and Abstract (500 words maximum) by email to sos-agile(at)sintef.no. Ignite talks (NEW!) =================== We will have a session of 5-minute ignite talks (a variant of PechaKucha) as part of the workshop. An ignite talk is perfect for industrial experience reports! Ignite talks are meant to present ideas and generate discussion. Share with us your novel, ground breaking software security related message as an Ignite presentation. Tell us about tools, processes, tips, tricks, war stories, etc. Submit proposals of an Ignite Talk as a Title and Abstract (500 words maximum) by email to sos-agile(at)sintef.no. The contributions are less scientific in their nature but should be argued in a compelling way accompanied by 20 auto-advance slides. Organizers ========== Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF Digital, Norway Daniela S. Cruzes, SINTEF Digital, Norway Program Committee ================= Karin Bernsmed, SINTEF Digital, Norway Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College, USA Achim Brucker, Sheffield University, UK Estibaliz Delgado, Tecnalia, Spain Zeta Dooly, TSSG, Ireland Jörn Eichler, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Germany Shamail Faily, Bournemouth University, UK Christophe Feltus, LIST, Luxembourg Chad Heizenrater, DoD, USA Sami Hyrynsalmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Ronald Jabangwe, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, SDU Software Engineering, University of Southern Denmark Andrea Lanzi, Universita degli studi di Milano, Italy Ville Leppänen, University of Turku, Finland Jingyue Li, NTNU, Norway Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Anh Nguyen Duc, University College of Southeast Norway Tosin Oyetoyan, SINTEF, Norway Andreas Poller, Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt, Germany Riccardo Scandariato, Chalmers, Sweden Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University, USA Emin Tatli, Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Hasan Yasar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Yee, Carleton University, Canada

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

WPDM 2018 The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: March 8, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - 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 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2018 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES March 8, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 8, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ 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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Call for Tutorials - 2018 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim’18)
by Marco Lützenberger 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Call for Tutorials - 2018 Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim’18) As part of the SummerSim 2018 activities, we invite researchers and practitioners in academia, government agencies or industry to submit proposals for tutorials. Tutorials allow engaging conference attendees in extended discussions in the state of the art in modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications. As such, tutorials are great venues for group discussions and hands on activities. If you are interested to give a tutorial, please send your proposal in PDF to the tutorial chair (marco.luetzenberger(a)dai-labor.de<mailto:marco.luetzenberger@dai-labor.de>) by providing what follows: 1. Title 2. Abstract 3. Presenter’s name, title, affiliation, country and email 4. Length of Tutorial 5. Sample References 6. Bio Sketch Tutorials are 90-120 minutes long. However, longer sessions can be allocated (up to four hours with breaks). Deadlines: - Proposals Due: April 23, 2018 - Notification: May 7, 2018 Event Date: July 9, 2018

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[AHPAMA2018] Deadline Extension
by Massimo CAFARO 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/AHPAMA2018/ Held in conjunction with the the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2018), Washington, DC, USA May 1-4 2018 NEW DEADLINE: February 28, 2018 The Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms Middleware and Applications is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of algorithms, middleware and technologies enabling novel applications. Middleware technologies include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of such applications and technologies. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance algorithms middleware and applications, and related topics. For example, the following topics are relevant to the workshop: - Scalable message-passing parallel algorithms using MPI - Scalable shared-memory parallel algorithms using OpenMP - GPGPU parallel algorithms using OpenCL or CUDA - Green High-Performance Computing - Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, many-cores and multi-cores for parallel applications - Middleware for high-performance computing - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing - Performance models for high-performance applications and middleware - Efficient job scheduling for high-performance applications - Performance-aware resource reservation - Security-related performance issues - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing - Peer-to-peer systems for high-performance grid and cloud environments - Optimization techniques for mobile grids Submission Guidelines The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through Easy Chair following this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahpama1 Important Dates Paper submission: February 28, 2018 Author notification: March 7, 2018 Camera ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: May 1-4, 2018 Workshop Organizers Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it Program Committee Clemente Galdi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Francesco Versaci, CRS4, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ 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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PhD Position available
by Patricia González Gómez 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

My apologies for multiple copies. http://gac.udc.es/noticias/PhD_call.pdf <http://gac.udc.es/noticias/PhD_call.pdf> PhD position available One PhD position is available at the Computer Architecture Group (GAC: http://gac.udc.es/ <http://gac.udc.es/>), in the University of A Coruña (Spain), within the fields of bioinformatics and cloud computing. The project in which the applicant will be integrated aims to solve challenging problems on global optimization in computational biology and bioinformatics through the proposal of new parallel metaheuristics and their implementation for cloud environments. OFFER The candidate will be provided with a one-year contract, extendable (based on the progress of the candidate) up to 3 years offering the chance to obtain a PhD qualification. This contract includes full social security coverage and a net salary competitive for living standards in a city as A Coruña (on the range 22000€-25000€). The well-trained HPC scientists emerging from GAC are in great demand in universities, research institutions, as well as in software companies. Through their excellent interdisciplinary training our graduates are in a prime position to take up leadership roles in both academia and industry. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS The required profile is that of a degree in computer engineer or computer science with good academic records, although other profiles with adequate training on the field of the project, such as mathematics or physics, would be also considered. PREFERRED SKILLS We are looking for a candidate with good programming skills, especially (although not limited to) Scala and/or Java. Knowledge of functional programming will be also valued. Previous experience/knowledge of distributed frameworks (such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.) and parallel libraries (such as MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL, etc.), though not required, will be also welcome. A good command of English (written and spoken) is required. POSITION AVAILABLE The selection procedure is open now and will be maintained opened until the position is covered. The starting date is flexible, but preferred ASAP. INFORMATION If you are interested in this position and want to have more details about it, please contact Patricia González (patricia.gonzalez(a)udc.es <mailto:patricia.gonzalez@udc.es>) including the reference PhD_call. For the formal application, the following documents will be required: - CV - Academic transcript of courses followed and grades obtained - Brief letter describing your motivation and previous experience

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Postdoc position @INRIA Lille
by El-ghazali Talbi 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear all, please find enclosed a postdoc position at INRIA Lille on "Hybrid parallel optimization" Contacts: Prof. N. Melab (Nouredine.Melab(a)inria.fr) and Prof. E-G. Talbi (El-Ghazali.Talbi(a)inria.fr) Team: BONUS (Big Optimization and Ultra-Scale Optimization) Location: Inria Lille – Nord Europe Duration: 16 months Salary : 2132.97€ / mois + social advantages Enclosed the details of the position Regards -- ****************************** META'2018 27-31 Oct 2018, Marrakech, Morocco http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org ****************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA - CNRS

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