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New Book (Springer) : Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data
by Mourad Elloumi 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

*Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data:* *Techniques, Approaches, and Applications* Editor: Mourad Elloumi (Springer) <http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319598246> The 14 contributed chapters in this book survey the most recent developments in high-performance algorithms for NGS data, offering fundamental insights and technical information specifically on indexing, compression and storage; error correction; alignment; and assembly. The book will be of value to researchers, practitioners and students engaged with bioinformatics, computer science, mathematics, statistics and life sciences. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Buy this book eBook: $99.00 Customers within the U.S. and Canada please contact Customer Service at 1-800-777-4643, Latin America please contact us at +1-212-460-1500 (Weekdays 8:30am – 5:30pm ET) to place your order. Hardcover: $129.00

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FPS 2017 - Deadline approaching (July 9, 2017)
by Abdessamad Imine 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

(Apologies for multiple copies) ********************************************************************************** The 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2017) October 23-24-25, 2017 Nancy, France Website: http://fps2017.loria.fr/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ********************************************************************************** Invited speakers: ----------------- - Véronique Cortier (CNRS-LORIA, France) - Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo, Canada) Important Dates: ---------------- - Deadline for Short / Position Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Deadline for Full Papers : July 9, 2017 (anywhere in the world) - Acceptance Notification : September 15, 2017 Scope: ------ Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly inter-connected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our world. Security has emerged as an important scientific discipline whose many multifaceted complexities deserve the attention and synergy of the mathematical, computer science and engineering communities. After the previous meetings held in La Rochelle, Montreal, Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Quebec city, this 10th edition of the FPS symposium will be held in Nancy, France. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address security issues in inter-connected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, promote scientific collaboration, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast moving research field. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in security, privacy, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Computer and Network Security * Formal foundations in Information or Operational Security * Security of Service Oriented Architectures * Information Theoretic Security * Security of Cloud Computing * Security Management and Security Policies * Policy-based Security Architectures * Security of P2P systems * Security & Privacy on Social Networks * Access Control Languages * Data Mining & Watermarking * Cryptography & Cryptanalysis * Threat Analysis and Trust Management * Privacy & Sensitive Data Management * Policy-based Distributed Information Systems * Security in Sensor Networks and RFIDs * Security of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing * Security of Distributed Embedded Middleware * Distributed Security Protocols & Policies * Security and Privacy in Digital Currencies * Malware, Botnet and Advanced Persistent Threats * Code Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Exploitation * Side Channel & Physical Attacks * Social Engineering * Security of Big-Data Submissions Guidelines: ----------------------- Full papers should be at most 16 pages, including the bibliography and appendices. Short and Position papers should be up to 8 pages. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a “position paper” to differentiate them from regular ones (you mention “Position paper” in the title). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fps2017 ) and following the requirements stated there. All papers will be refereed. The submitted contribution should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions by PhD students as well as surveys and controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Publication: ------------ As in previous editions, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the symposium, by the date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Committees: ----------- General Chairs: - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) PC Chairs: - José M. Fernandez (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) - Abdessamad Imine (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Publications Chair: - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Publicity Chairs: - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d’Auvergne, France) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) Program Committee: - Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) - Jeremy Clark (Concordia University, Canada) - Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique, France) - Jean-Luc Danger (Télécom Paris-Tech, France) - Mourad Debbabi (Concordia University, Canada) - Josée Desharnais (Laval University, Canada) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Samuel Dubus (NOKIA Bell Labs, France) - Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) - Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University, USA) - Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany) - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria, Canada) - Nizar Kheir (THALES, France) - Raphaël Khoury (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada) - Hyoungshick Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea) - Igor Kotenko (SPIIRAS, Russia) - Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University Computer Science, Canada) - Pascal Lafourcade (Université d'Auvergne, France) - Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Jean-Yves Marion (Mines de Nancy, France) - Fabio Martinelli (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy) - Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, USA) - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands) - Marie-Laure Potet (VERIMAG, France) - Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Italy) - Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France) - Basit Shafiq (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) - Anna Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick, Canada) - Chamseddine Talhi (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) - Nadia Tawbi (Université Laval, Canada) - Rakesh Verma (University of Houston, USA) - Lingyu Wang (Concordia University, Canada) - Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Austria) - Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Xun Yi (RMIT University, Australia) - Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Mohammad Zulkernine (Queen's University, Canada)

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Fifth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation
by William Spataro 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Fifth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2018 The 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Cambridge, UK 21-23 March 2018 http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2017 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops which were held in Turin, Turku and Crete, we are glad to invite you to our fourth edition which will take place in St. Petersburg (Russia). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 15th Sep 2017 Acceptance notification: 13th Oct 2017 Camera ready due: 17nd Nov 2017 Conference: 21th - 23th Mar 2018 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors’ own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2018 Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. For instance, a selected number of papers of the past workshop editions have been published on the ISI Journal “International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications” and “Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience”. Organizers William Spataro – University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio – University of Sassari, Italy Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D’Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D’Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <http://unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view_largomento.cfm?48976>

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IGSC'17 Call for Papers **Deadline Extended to July 11**
by Ishan Thakkar 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’17) **Deadline Extended to July 11** ================================================================================================ www.green-conf.org October 23-25 2017, Orlando, Florida IGSC’17 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will consist of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and tutorials on these topics. IGSC’17 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green Computing ----------------- - Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware - Low-power electronics and systems - Power-efficient multi/many-core chip design - Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs - Sensing and monitoring - Power and thermal behavior and control - Data centers optimization - Smart grid and microgrids - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability ----------------------------- - Renewable energy models and prediction - Matching energy supply and demand - Smart transportation and electric vehicles - Smart buildings and urban computing - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture - Computational models for epidemics, infectious diseases, and human well-being - Computational methods for sustainable economy and society Paper submission guidelines ---------------------------------- IGSC’17 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (www.green-conf.org) for specific instructions related to paper submission. Best paper award and journal publication ------------------------------------------ The Technical Committee will select the best contributions to be extended and considered by the Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and special sessions --------------------------------- Proposals are solicited for workshops and special sessions to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Special Sessions Chair (iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu) Ph.D. forum ------------ Submissions are solicited for a Ph.D. forum, from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing. Please refer to the IGSC website for specific instructions for extended abstract submission. Important dates ----------------- Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: Aug 1, 2017 Paper submission: July 11, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) Notifications sent to authors: Aug 4, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: Aug 15, 2017 Organization -------------- Steering Committee Chairs: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), shirazi(a)wsu.edu General Chair: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University, USA), weisong(a)wayne.edu Tech. Program Chair: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University, USA), sudeep(a)colostate.edu Workshop Chair: Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas, Arlington, USA), iahmad(a)cse.uta.edu PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca Publicity Chair: Ishan Thakkar (Colorado State University, USA), ishan9it(a)rams.colostate.edu

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QOECenter Introduction
by sgwang＠bupt.edu.cn 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

Dear Professor, QoECenter is a open and visual platform for QoE Evaluation of Streaming Video Services. Per the streaming video lifecycle, QoECenter provides an integrated set of web-based video QoE evaluation capabilities in parameter control, data acquisition, and data-driven analysis. Under the as-a-service model, it facilitates testing and comparing the performance of state-of-the-art video QoE evaluation methods under various web-based video streaming constrains. You can use it by http://qoecenter.com/ Cheers, Shangguang Wang 2017-07-06 --------------------------------------------------- Shangguang Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Science State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 187#, 10 Xi Tu Cheng Rd. Beijing, China URL: http://www.sguangwang.com/index.html TELE: +86-10-61198162 Zip: 100876 ---------------------------------------------------

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[Brain Informatics 2017] - Call for Abstracts
by Yang 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17) "Investigating the Brain and Mind from Informatics Perspective" November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ --------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 20, 2017 One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B --------------------------------------- *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China) Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US) Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China) Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US) Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) *** WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission deadline for workshop/special session full papers has been EXTENDED to July 20, 2017 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Full paper / abstract submission for worshop / special session is still open, please see http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/workshops.htm for more information) # Workshop on Brain and Artificial Intelligence (BAI 2017) Organizers: Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Shuliang Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China # Workshop on Knowledge Representation: Brain and Machine (KRBM 2017) Organizers: Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University, China Yi Zeng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China # Workshop on Affective, Psychological and Physiological Computing (APPC 2017) Organizers: Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China Zhijun Yao, Lanzhou University, China Mi Li, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Big Data and Visualization for Brainsmatics (BDVB 2017) Organizers: Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anan LI, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China # Workshop on Brain Big Data Based Wisdom Service (BBDBWS 2017) Organizer: Jiajin Huang, Beijing University of Technology, China # Workshop on Semantic Technology for eHealth (STeH 2017) Organizers: Jiao Li, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands # Workshop on Big Data Neuroimaging Analytics for Brain and Mental Health (BDNABMH 2017) Organizer: Shouyi Wang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA # Workshop on Novel Methods of the Brain Imaging in the Clinical and Preclinical Neuroscience (NMBICPN 2017) Organizers: Vassiliy Tsytsarev, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA Vicky Yamamoto, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA Yan Li, University of Southern Queensland, Australia # The 1st International Workshop on Deep Learning in Brain MRI and Pathology Images (DLBMPI 2017) Organizers: Yan Xu, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, BUAA Eric Chang, Microsoft Research Asia # Workshop on Mesoscopic Brainformatics (MBAI 2017) Organizers: Dezhong Yao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Li Dong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China # Special Session on Brain Informatics in Neurogenetics (BIN 2017) Organizers: Hong Liang, Harbin Engineering University, China Lei Du, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Li Shen, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA # Special Session on BigNeuron Project (BP 2017) Organizers: Zhi Zhou, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA Min Liu, Hunan University, China ================================================== Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies. BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological, biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies, including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a difference in various large-scale brain studies and their applications. BI'17 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI. Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing IMPORTANT DATES : =========================== May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers June 20, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers July 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts July 25, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance July 30, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions November 17-18, 2017: Main conference ABSTRACT (TYPE-II) SUBMISSIONS : ================================= (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2017): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. ----------------------------------------------- One-line submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=B ----------------------------------------------- *** Post-Conference Journal Publication *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted abstracts from the conference will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Brain Informatics journal each year. It is fully sponsored and no any article-processing fee charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA) Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Program Committee Chairs Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China) Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA) Organizing Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China) Tutorial Chair Wenming Zheng (South East University, China) Publicity Chairs Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** tielin.zhang(a)ia.ac.cn shouyiw(a)uta.edu yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) at SC17: Extended abstracts due Sept. 1
by Jason D. Bakos 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2017) Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2017 Friday Morning, November 17, 2017 Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 (one page extended abstracts) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its third year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on legacy and new high-level programming models, optimizations specific to scientific computing and data analytics, tools for performance/energy improvements, FPGA computing in the cloud, and popular applications for reconfigurable computing such as machine learning and big data. ========================================================================== Submissions (one page extended abstract): Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA-based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high-performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A non-comprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in Supercomputer, Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Supercomputing, Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Runtimes/OS/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future-gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as a ONE PAGE EXTENDED ABSTRACT in ACM SIG Proceedings format. ========================================================================== You can submit your contribution(s) through a link on the H2RC website: http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Important dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2017 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: November 4, 2017 Workshop Date: November 17, 2017 ========================================================================== Workshop Format: H2RC is a half-day Friday workshop. It will be comprised of Keynote and invited talks and talks selected from paper submissions. ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: Workshop Organizers: Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Program Committee: Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Carl Ebeling, Altera Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Alan George, University of Florida Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico Di Milano Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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Call for Papers for Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics
by Gaurav Somani 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) A call on SPE website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X /asset/homepages/Special_Issue_Proposal_CFP_SPE_Final_v4. pdf?v=1&s=42188b687b9e225871c754b6ddffbe0354bc0551&isAguDoi=false ------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern computing edge has envisaged many technological advances which have impacted the livelihood of human being to society at large. Cloud Computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics are three major innovative paradigms which have changed the way computing is transforming the organizations. Most of the industry sectors are driven by information technology (IT) and all these sectors whether it is government or manufacturing enterprises, health-care or start-ups, each one of them are finding and visualizing unprecedented opportunities and growth in systems driven by these three technologies. At the level of implementation and deployment, these technologies help in preparing a practical “Software System” where the functional aspects are implemented in real software and demonstrated practically. Often, these systems are applied in public sectors such as utility, facility management, smart city projects including transport, health care and power and water distributions. On the other hand, numerous systems are also envisaged along the lines of social networks driven systems, smart homes, smart buildings, smart vehicles, smart industries where cyber physical systems are automated and managed on the basis of these three important technologies. We invite high quality papers either on the use of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving real world or practical problems or the application and assessment of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics for solving well-known societal problems and issues. We focus on submissions that stress software practice studies, and submissions that share a variety of software system development experiences in different domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Cloud and IoT Systems/platforms for Big Data and Data analytics such as smart cities, e-commerce and cyber physical systems leading to real innovation. - Systems using Data Classification on IoT environments and mining for next generation IoT networking - Practical Software System study and evolution using Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data Analytics - Software systems implemented for environmental and cyber physical systems sensing and computing, health care, mobile and personalized data-centered services, social networks analytics etc. - Real-time intelligence and control techniques - IoT architecture, tools and applications for Big Data analytics - Scientific Computing, Data Management and Analytics in Cloud - Software Systems for Enterprise, Government and Society, Cloud-assisted, IoT-based Cyber-Physical Systems, Resilient Infrastructures - Automatic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds - Research and Project Experience in Biomedical, Energy and Environment Control, Service Systems in Tourism, Transportation and Urban Planning, Vertical Markets – Telecom, Sensors, Social Networking, Smart Cities, Food and Agriculture. - Case Studies of Cloud, IoT and Big Data usage and value formation Special Issue Paper Submission This special issue invites submissions that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017, http://dsr.encs.vancouver.wsu.edu/BDCAT2017/) All submissions including invited papers will undergothe regular peer review process. We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version of an already published conference paper, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), (3) confirmation of the percentage of new material, and (4) the original conference paper. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed. While submitting paper to this issue, please select “Special Issue – On Integration of Cloud, IoT and Big Data Analytics” in the submission system. Regular Issue Submission If you have a paper on cloud computing or IoT which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing and IoT. Important Dates Submission: December 30, 2017 First Notification: February 28, 2018 Revision due: April 1, 2018 Notification of final acceptance: May 1, 2018 Final revised paper due: May 15, 2018 Guest Editors Gaurav Somani Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Central University of Rajasthan, India, Email: gaurav(a)curaj.ac.in Xinghui Zhao School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, USA, Email: x.zhao(a)wsu.edu Satish Narayana Srirama Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, Email: satish.srirama(a)ut.ee Rajkumar Buyya Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Email: rbuyya(a)unimelb.edu.au -- =================================================== Gaurav Somani, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Central University of Rajasthan, (Established under the Central Universities Act 2009) NH-8, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. ===================================================

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CFP - IEEE SC2 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing)
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEESC2 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing（IEEE SC2 2017） http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017 Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2017 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2017 will be held on Nov. 22-25, 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. -Cluster Computing (Springer) -Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) -Vehicular Communications Journal (Elsevier) -Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences -International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science -Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) -International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (ESCI, EI, Scopus) -International Journal of Big Data Intelligence -Sustainability -Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing -China Communication ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Tutorial / Workshop / Special Session Proposal Due: May 29, 2017 Paper Submission (Research Track): July 15, 2017 Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop): Aug 10, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP): Aug 30, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): Sept 5th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): Sept 20, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: October 1, 2017 --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION --------------------------------------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Christophe Cerin, Université Paris 13, France General Executive Chairs Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Program Chairs Amir H. Alavi, Michigan State University, USA Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Alex Kuo, University of Victoria, Canada Demo/Poster Chair Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Special Session Chair Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan Award Chair Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan International Liaison & Publicity Chair Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia Bingwei Liu, Aetna Inc., USA Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Li-Hsin Yen, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Rynson Lau, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Publication Chair Wen-Hwa Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging, Malaysia Steering Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hui Lei, IBM, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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CFP IEEE SOCA 2017 - The 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Call For Papers - IEEE SOCA 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 The 10 th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017) http://conferences.computer.org/soca Kanazawa, Japan, November 22-25, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key enabler for the development of robust and high-quality intelligent Internet-scale distributed applications. Extensive research and development in the past few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art applications in emerging areas such as Cloud computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Mobile-Edge Computing, Social computing as well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA) research opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories and e-Health, just to mention a few. Many of the service components are deployed on resource-limited embedded systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of resource-limited systems and high-end servers. Edge servers and clouds are connected through various types of networks, including emerging network function virtualization services. These components are part of complex applications and systems that span multiple execution environments. Their capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via emerging software-defined and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with humans in order to obtain useful human-sensing data and solve complex problems. Thus, on the one hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of emerging trends in such environments to build SOC applications and systems for large-scale service-based systems is an open research challenge. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017 http://conferences.computer.org/soca/) provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service- oriented computing. The conference includes three days of parallel-track program, special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas: -Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications -Cloud-based service systems -SOCA in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems -Service Models and Applications for Mobile-Edge Computing -Service coordination techniques in IoT and cloud environments -SOC-based smart process and workflow management -Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware -Data analytics and data services in and for SOC-based systems -IoT and data marketplaces -Smart data and service contracts -Cognitive computing techniques for SOCA -Social computing for and atop SOCA -SOCA development, deployment and testing tools and methodologies -Security and privacy for SOCA -Dependable and trustworthy SOCA -SOCA for smart applications (cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.) ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal May 30, 2017 Workshop/Special Session Notification June 15, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline July 31, 2017 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission October 1, 2017 ---------------------------- Paper Format and Submission ---------------------------- We seek for both full and short papers. Full papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch) with a page limit of 8 pages. Short paper should be limited with 4 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. The paper can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2017 ---------------------------- Organizing Committees ---------------------------- General Chairs Boualem Benatallah, UNSW, Australia Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan General Vice-Chairs Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Program Chairs Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Tech., China Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Program Vice-Chairs Jing Fan, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Tech., Poland Kevin Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand Workshop Co-Chairs Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Changqin Huang, South China Normal University, China Finance Chair Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Inst. of Industrial Tech., Japan Publication Chair Jong-Chan Kim, Kookmin University, Korea Web Chair Ci-Wei Lan, IBM CSDL, Taiwan Steering Committee Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Jane YJ Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Tech., Austria Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China

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