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Job Openings for Research Assistant Professors in Computer Science (several positions) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (PR156/17-18)
by comp hkbu 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=409 The Department of Computer Science, presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, now seeks outstanding applicants for Research Assistant Professor positions, which are created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointees will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty in the Department. They are also expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (computational algorithms and/or infrastructures) and their applications. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of two to three years. Re-appointment thereafter is subject to mutual agreement and availability of funding. For enquiry, please contact Dr William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william [at] comp.hkbu.edu.hk). More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application Procedure: Applicants are invited to write in response to the requirements and provide an updated curriculum vitae and/or fill in the application form which is obtainable (a) by downloading from http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/applicationforms; or (b) by fax at 3411-7799; or (c) in person from the Personnel Office, Hong Kong Baptist University, AAB903, Level 9, Academic and Administration Building, 15 Baptist University Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon. The completed application form should be sent to the same address by post or by e-mail to recruit [at] hkbu.edu.hk. Please quote PR number on all correspondence. Applicants are requested to send in samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications to the Personnel Office direct. Applicants not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will not be returned after the completion of the recruitment exercise unless upon request. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. Closing date: 4 November 2017 or until the position is filled

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk Craeynest 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 3 February 2018 at FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General Information ------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for Ada developers to meet. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6], 2013 [7], 2014 [8], 2015 [9], and 2016 [10]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 11:00 and 19:00 in a room which accommodates 76 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [11], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [12] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 20 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [12], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by November 26, 2017 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] http://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [5] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [6] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [7] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: ROME 2018 - 6th Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era
by Lankes, Stefan 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPER The 6th Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era (ROME 2018) May 25, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada held in conjunction with IPDPS 2018, May 21 - May 25, 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/ <https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/> ======================================================================= Background ---------- Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase, a further evolutionary step is currently ongoing by moving away from common multicores towards innovative heterogeneous many-core architectures with deep memory hierarchies on a large scale. Such systems, equipped with a significantly higher number of cores per chip than multicores, pose challenges in both hardware and software design. On the hardware side, complex on-chip networks, scratchpads, hybrid memory cubes, non-volatile memory and stacked memory, as well as deep cache-hierarchies and novel cache-coherence strategies currently enrich the respective research areas. However, the ROME workshop focuses on the software side because without complying system software, runtime and operating system support, all these new hardware facilities cannot be exploited. Hence, the challenges in hardware/software co-design are to step beyond traditional approaches and to venture new approaches for runtime, middleware and operating system designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance of upcoming hardware features as effectively and energy-consciously as possible. In addition, there is currently a strong trend to converge the areas of cloud and high-performance computing. Classical cloud techniques will soon be used in the area of high-performance computing and vise-versa. Projects and frameworks have already proven the benefits of OS-level virtualization for high-performance computing, whereas high-performance interconnects are able to accelerate cloud applications, too. Moreover, customized operating systems, hypervisors and unikernels are likely to leverage the efficient employment of virtualization on a broad scale. Topics ------ Authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding their work on many-core related software research regarding operating systems and runtime environments in the area of cloud and high-performance computing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Virtualization techniques (e. g. containers) for high-performance computing * System software to converge cloud and high-performance computing * Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels and hypervisors * New approaches for operating systems on novel (heterogeneous) many-core architectures * System software for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale * Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration * Many-core/multi-node aware runtime support for large-scale applications * Bare-metal programming and system software for many-cores * Extensions for operating systems and virtualization techniques to support emerging memory technologies * System noise analysis and prevention * Message-passing interfaces and middleware for many-core systems * Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware * Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration by GPUs, FPGAs and many-core architecture * Interfaces for performance and power analysis * Runtime support and kernel extensions for power-aware many-core computing Paper Submission ---------------- Submitted manuscripts 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 submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…. Upload your submission to our submission server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rome2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rome2018>) in PDF format. Accepted manuscripts will be included in the IPDPS workshop proceedings. Further Information ------------------- See the ROME'18 website at https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/ <https://wrome.github.io/vancouver2018/> Important Dates --------------- * January 30, 2018: Submission deadline * February 23, 2018: Notification of acceptance * March 18, 2018: Workshop camera-ready papers due * May 25, 2018: ROME’18 Workshop Workshop Organizers ------------------- * Stefan Lankes, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany * Dr. rer. nat. Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Program Committee: ------------------ * Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany * Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan * Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany * Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Arthur Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus, Germany * Lena Oden, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany * Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain * Juan Carlos Saez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany * Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand * Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Josef Weidendorfer, TU München, Germany * Carsten Weinhold, TU Dresden, Germany * Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA -- Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University Mathieustraße 10 52074 Aachen, Germany Phone: +49-241-80-49740 E-Mail: slankes(a)eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

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Recruitment - PhD Interns on Cyber-Physical Security at SUTD, Singapore
by Jianying Zhou 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university which was established in collaboration with MIT. iTrust is a Cyber Security Research Center with about 15 multi-discipline faculty members from SUTD. It has the world’s best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT (See more info at https://itrust.sutd.edu.sg/research/testbeds/) I am looking for PhD interns with interest in cyber-physical system security (IoT, autonomous vehicle, and power grid etc.), especially on the topics such as 1) Lightweight and low-latency crypto algorithms for CPS devices, 2) Resilient authentication of devices and data in CPS, 3) Advanced SCADA firewall to filter more sophisticated attacking packets in CPS, 4) Big data based threat analytics for detection of both known and unknown threats, 5) Attack mitigation to increase the resilience of CPS. The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses. Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou. Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg Home: http://jianying.space/

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Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship for Excellent Women in Computer Science
by Lise-Meitner Award 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

* Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship for Excellent Women in Computer Science Every second year the Max Planck Institute for Informatics awards the Lise Meitner Award Fellowship. This postdoctoral grant supports excellent female computer scientists in their careers, giving them the opportunity to develop their scientific ideas without exertion of influence. It consists of a two-year tax-free research fellowship and business expenses. Fellows will be chosen based on the strength of their academic background and research credentials. Applications should include a CV, cover letter, publication list, short research plan (one page is enough), and two references. This grant is according to the fellowship rules of the Max Planck Society; it usually amounts to 3,000 Euro/month and is completed by compensation for business expenses of 10,000 Euro/year. The deadline for the application is 01.12.2017. For more information, please contact meitner-award(a)mpi-inf.mpg.de. https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/news/employment/lise-meitner-award-fellowship/ About the Max Planck Institute for Informatics The Max Planck Society is Germany's largest society for fundamental research with more than 30 Nobel Prize winners, including Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - one of the few female Nobel Laureates. The research institutes of the Max Planck Society are nationally and internationally renowned as Centers of Excellence in foundational research. The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for lnformatics is devoted to cutting-edge research in computer science and technology with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. Its research ranges from fundamental topics (algorithms and complexity, automation of logic) to a variety of application domains (computer graphics and vision, geometric computation, program verification, databases and information systems, and computational biology). The MPI for lnformatics is located on the campus of Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The Saarland University campus is also home to the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountabilty (CISPA), the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction, the Center for Bioinformatics, and the Graduate School of Computer Science. These institutions cooperate closely and comprise a total of more than 300 researchers in computer science. The institute collaborates with several of the major research institutions in Europe and the United States and has high international visibility. The MPI for lnformatics strives to provide a family-friendly work environment, with day care opportunities for smaller children and other means of support for working mothers. *

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A Special Issue on Optimization and Machine Learning via Modelling and Simulation
by Jie Shen 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Dear Colleagues, Below is the information of a special issue to be published in International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, which is a peer-reviewed, EI-indexed research journal: *Call for a Special Issue: Optimization and Machine Learning via Modelling and Simulation* *International Journal of Modelling and Simulation* Editor: Jie Shen, Ph.D., Prof. Email: shen(a)umich.edu This special issue will provide a forum for scientists and engineers alike to present their latest findings on the subject of optimization and machine learning. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ø Evolutionary optimization Ø Neural network-based optimization and forecasting Ø Optimization applications of big data Ø Novel machine learning schemes Ø Deep learning via modelling and simulation *Paper Submission* *Submission Website*: www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjms20 (The prefix of your manuscript should be SI-OMLMS:) *Deadline for Full Paper Submission*: February 1, 2018 *Author Paper Review Acceptance or Revision Notification to Author*: May 1, 2018 *Submission of Final Paper*: June 1, 2018 *Journal Publication (online first)*: June 15, 2018 *Journal Publication (print)*: 3 to 6 months later

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CFP: 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018), May 9-11, 2018, Nanjing, China
by Shen, Weiming 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) *************************************************** The 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018) May 9-11, 2018, Nanjing, China http://2018.cscwd.org/ *************************************************** Design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams. The 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2018) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems. The scope of CSCWD 2018 includes the research and development of collaboration technologies and their applications to the design of processes, products, systems, and services in industries and societies. Collaboration technologies include theories, methods, mechanisms, protocols, software tools, platforms, and services that support communication, coordination and collaboration among people, software and hardware systems. Related fields of research include human-computer interaction, business process management, collaborative virtual environments, enterprise modeling, security and privacy, as well as social aspects and human factors related to collaboration and design. The major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * Collaboration theories and methodologies * Collaboration methods, mechanisms, and protocols * Collaboration platforms, software tools, and services * Collaborative computing (Agents, Clouds, Grids, Web Services, Blochchains) * Collaborative processing of Big Data * Collaborative virtual environments * Collaborative wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things * Collaborative workflows * Collaborative workspaces * Interoperability, ontology and semantics * Security and privacy in collaborative systems * Collaboration technology applications in aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing * Collaboration technology applications in architecture, engineering, and construction * Collaboration technology applications in business and administration * Collaboration technology applications in healthcare and homecare * Collaboration technology applications in infrastructure and facility management * Collaboration technology applications in intelligent buildings and smart homes * Collaboration technology applications in logistics and transportation * Collaboration technology applications in power and energy * Collaboration technology applications in social networks and entertainment Submission of Papers ============= Papers reporting original research results and experience are solicited. Each paper, written in English, is limited to 6 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Electronic submissions in PDF format are strongly recommended. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. Submission Web Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cscwd2018 Publication ============= All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee members and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings and will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), DBLP and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals (confirmed with Elsevier Journal: Advanced Engineering Informatics). Contacts ============= Dr. Fang Dong, School of Computer Science and Engineering Southeast University, China fdong(a)seu.edu.cn<mailto:fdong@seu.edu.cn> Dr. Weiming Shen National Research Council Canada wshen(a)ieee.org<mailto:wshen@ieee.org> Important Dates ================ October 30, 2017 Paper submission due February 28, 2018 Author notification March 31, 2018 Final papers due March 31, 2018 Author registrations due May 9-11, 2018 Conference Organized by ============= Southeast University, China Co-Sponsored by ============= IEEE SMC Society CSCWD International Working Group

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Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
by Massimo Cafaro 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Information Sciences, Elsevier The sheer volume of new data, which is being generated at an increasingly fast pace, has already produced an anticipated data deluge that is difficult to challenge. We are in the presence of an overwhelming vast quantity of data, owing to how easy is to produce or derive digital data. Even the storage of this massive amount of data is becoming a highly demanding task, outpacing the current development of hardware and software infrastructure. Nonetheless, this effort must be undertaken now for the preservation, organization and long-term maintenance of these precious data. However, the collected data is useless without our ability fully understand and make use of it. Therefore, we need new algorithms to address this challenge. 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. This Special Issue takes into account the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. Parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators available on parallel computers. 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. 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. Moreover, increasingly the data is spread among different geographically distributed sites. Centralized processing of this data is very inefficient and expensive. In some cases, it may even be impractical and subject to security risks. Therefore, processing the data minimizing the amount of data being exchanged whilst guaranteeing at the same time correctness and efficiency is an extremely important challenge. Distributed data mining performs data analysis and mining in a fundamentally distributed manner paying careful attention to resource constraints, in particular bandwidth limitation, privacy concerns and computing power. The focus of this Special Issue is on all forms of advances in high-performance and distributed data mining algorithms and applications. The topics relevant to the Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST Scalable parallel data mining algorithms using message-passing, shared-memory or hybrid programming paradigms Exploiting modern parallel architectures including FPGA, GPU and many-core accelerators for parallel data mining applications Middleware for high-performance data mining on grid and cloud environments Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining Map-reduce based parallel data mining algorithms Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Novel distributed data mining algorithms SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/ins (http://ees.elsevier.com/ins) The authors must select as “SI:PDDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-sciences/0020-0255/guide-for-a…. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 1th, 2017 First round notification: March 1th, 2018 Revised version due: May 1st, 2018 Final notification: June 1st, 2018 Camera-ready due: July 1st, 2018 Publication tentative date: October 2018 Guest editors: Massimo Cafaro, Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Italo Epicoco, Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation Marco Pulimeno, Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it University of Salento, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention
by Andrii Shalaginov 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention. It is co-located with IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 that will take place in Boston, USA, December 11-14, 2017. Workshop webpage: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieeebigdata2017 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 19, 2017 (Extended from Oct 10, 2017): Due date for full workshop papers submission Nov 5, 2017 (Extended from Nov 1, 2017): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 20, 2017 (Extended from Nov 15, 2017): Camera-ready for accepted papers Dec 11-14, 2017: Workshops *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become inevitable in every aspect of the digital forensics process. Increase in personal devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage mediums) results in an expanding volume of potential evidence found in them. The increase in data is one of the largest challenges facing law enforcements’ timely prosecutions; with the effect, that human analysts can no longer be the lone actor in the loop. There is a need to create innovative and advanced models and analysis methods to help human analysts within law enforcements in order to automatically aid with the discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of evidence in criminal cases. Advanced big data analytics are important for cybercrime investigation and require novel approaches for automation. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithms - Machine learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modeling - Secure platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Secure collaborative platforms 2. Applications - Network forensics readiness - Cyber threats intelligence - Malware analysis and detection - Emails mining - Events correlations - Access logs analysis - Mobile and Internet of Things forensics - Fraud detection - Database forensics 3. Data - Novel datasets - Digital forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - Data storage standards - New formats and taxonomies *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Carl Leichter (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Ethan Rudd (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Hamid Ebadi (Chalmers University of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Michael McGuire (Towson University) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Pavel Gladyshev (Dublin School of Computer Science) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See formatting instructions here: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieee-bigdata-2017-formatting-ins… *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics”. Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention
by Andrii Shalaginov 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Dear Colleague, (Apologies for multiple postings) We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the 1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cyber Crime Investigation and Prevention. It is co-located with IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 that will take place in Boston, USA, December 11-14, 2017. Workshop webpage: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieeebigdata2017 *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Oct 10, 2017 (Extended): Due date for full workshop papers submission Nov 1, 2017 (Extended): Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2017: Camera-ready for accepted papers Dec 11-14, 2017: Workshops *** INTRODUCTION *** The big data paradigm has become inevitable in every aspect of the digital forensics process. Increase in personal devices (such as computers, smart phones, tablets, sensors and storage mediums) results in an expanding volume of potential evidence found in them. The increase in data is one of the largest challenges facing law enforcements’ timely prosecutions; with the effect, that human analysts can no longer be the lone actor in the loop. There is a need to create innovative and advanced models and analysis methods to help human analysts within law enforcements in order to automatically aid with the discovery, correlation, examination, analysis and understanding of evidence in criminal cases. Advanced big data analytics are important for cybercrime investigation and require novel approaches for automation. *** PROPOSED TOPICS *** Note that the topics are not limited to this proposed list. 1. Algorithms - Machine learning-aided analysis - Graph-based detection - Topic modeling - Secure platforms - Distributed storage and processing - Secure collaborative platforms 2. Applications - Network forensics readiness - Cyber threats intelligence - Malware analysis and detection - Emails mining - Events correlations - Access logs analysis - Mobile and Internet of Things forensics - Fraud detection - Database forensics 3. Data - Novel datasets - Digital forensics data simulation - Anonymised case data - Data storage standards - New formats and taxonomies *** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS *** Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Katrin Franke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan William Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Asif Iqbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Bojan Kolosnjaji (Technical University of Munich) Carl Leichter (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Dmitry Kangin (University of Exeter) Emiliano Casalicchio (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Ethan Rudd (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Hamid Ebadi (Chalmers University of Technology) Hanno Langweg (Konstanz University of Applied Sciences) Heri Ramampiaro (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Martin Boldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology) Michael McGuire (Towson University) Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology) Pavel Gladyshev (Dublin School of Computer Science) Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre) *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Our workshop invites authors to submit: full-length papers (up to ten pages), short papers (up to six pages) or abstract papers (up to three pages) through the online submission system: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/submitform.php?subarea… Papers have to follow the IEEE 2-column format and the Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See formatting instructions here: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/digital_forensics/ieee-bigdata-2017-formatting-ins… *** BEST PAPERS *** Selected papers are nominated for submission to “Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analytics”. Extended papers should have at least 60% of new material and will be sent through a review process to ensure the quality of contributions. *** CONTACTS*** If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Andrii Shalaginov (andrii.shalaginov(a)ntnu.no) and Jan William Johnsen (jan.w.johnsen(a)ntnu.no) Best regards, Andrii Shalaginov, on behalf of Katrin Franke and Jan William Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

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