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Extended deadline - IEEE DataCom 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing（IEEE DataCom 2017） https://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/ Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017 --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Big data is a rapidly expanding research area spanning the fields of computer science and information management, and has become a ubiquitous term in understanding and solving complex problems in different disciplinary fields such as engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications. The goal of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2017) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Big Data intelligence and computing. IEEE DataCom 2016 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Big Data. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with at least 30% new material) for review and publication in special issues of international journals. IEEE DataCom 2017 will be held on Nov. 6-10, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value - Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualization and semantics - Software and tools for big data management. - Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data - Big data economy, QoS and business models - Scientific discovery and business intelligence - Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing - Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis - Infrastructures and systems for big data analytics and managements - Middleware and tools for big data analytics and managements - Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation - Data quality issues: such as validation, metrics, optimizations and consistency - Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration - Data intensive computing theorems and technologies - Big data for advanced manufacturing and productivity - Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation - Green data centers / environmental-friendly perspectives - Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability - Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated ---------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS ---------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - EI Engineering Index - ACM Digital Library - dblp - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. - Future Generation Computer Systems - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - International Journal of Big Data Intelligence - International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing - Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems - Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing - International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Journal of Supercomputing - Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- *Workshop/Special Session notification: (ongoing as received)* *Paper Submission: July 10, 2017 Author Notification: August 10, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): August 17th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): August 24, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: September 1, 2017 * —----------------- SUBMISSION —----------------- Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via the IEEE DataCom 2017 web site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedatacom2017 IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs, respectively. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to DataCom. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster Chair. - Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- General Chairs Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA Hai Jin, HUST, China Manu Malek, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA General Executive Chairs Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Tao Li, NSF/UFL, USA Program Chairs Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China Workshop Chairs I-Hsin Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Wuu Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Demo/Poster Chair Che-Rung Lee, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Special Session Chair Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Award Chair Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA International Liaison & Publicity Chair Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Huang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Bhekisipho Twala, Univ. Johannesburg, South Africa Hao Wang, Aalesund University College, Norway Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Publication Chair Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italy Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan Cho-Li Wang, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jinsong Wu, University de Chile, Chile Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Steering Committee Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA

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Call for Paper - SoCTA2017-Scopus-Springer-Jhansi-India
by socta 01 Jul '17

01 Jul '17

-----------------------Apologies for cross postings --------------------------------------- Dear Professor/Researcher Greetings of the Day! The 2nd Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2017), December 22 – 24, 2017, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, UP, INDIA URL: http://socta.in<http://socta.in/> https://sites.google.com/view/events-tks/home The conference is technically sponsored by MIR Labs, USA and IET, UK. Proceedings of SoCTA 2016, Volume 1 & Volume 2 are now online. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811056864 http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9789811056987 <http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9789811056987> Conference Highlights (Scopus & UGC Approved Proceedings) * All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. (Listed in UGC approved list, please refer List 1- Page 32 - S.No. - 1375) (http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf<http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf==%20VFgKNw=============…>) * Additionally, registered author(s) & attendees can attend various workshops during the conference for FREE. The details of the workshops will follow soon. * Special issues (Scopus & ESCI indexed / UGC Approved Journals) Registered & Presented papers of high quality will be published in Special Issues 1. International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC), IGI Global Special Issues on: Intelligent Solutions to Engineering Design Problems http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…> Indexed in: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which is a new edition of the Web of Science, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, INSPEC, JournalTOCs, The Standard Periodical Directory and many more… 2. International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC) Special Issue On: Modern Hybrid Heuristic Optimization Techniques http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…<http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-ap…> Indexed in: ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, INSPEC, JournalTOCs, The Standard Periodical Directory and many more… 3. International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing (IJISDC) Special Issue On: Intelligent Solutions to Computer Network Problems through Modern Heuristics http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijisdc<http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfplist.php?jcode=ijisdc========…> Indexed in: Google Scholar, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities, cnpLINKer (CNPIEC) and many more… Dates to Remember Paper Submission: 20 July 2017 Paper Acceptance: 20 September 2017 Final Submission: 10 October 2017 Registration: 10 October 2017 Looking forward to welcome you at Jhansi, a historical city in December. (http://jhansi.nic.in/) Kindly circulate to your fellow colleagues. Best Regards Team SoCTA2017 https://sites.google.com/view/events-tks/home

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - extended deadline 14th July
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW)- deadline extended Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualisation BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017 by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page ( http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information about templates and submission types. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 14, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: August 4, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 25, 2017 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 - info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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[simu-conf] WSC 2017 - Posters, Case Studies, PhD Colloquium, Vendor track
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2017 - Call for Papers December 3-6, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa www.wintersim.org Posters, Case Studies, PhD Colloquium, Vendor tracks WSC TURNS 50: SIMULATION EVERYWHERE! With 360 accepted papers, panels, special tracks, and an amazing venue, this 50th Anniversary Winter Simulation Conference promises to be a very exciting event. This is a reminder that there are other upcoming deadlines: . Poster Track http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/poster-sessions/ . PhD Colloquium http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/phd-colloquium/ . Case Studies http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#caseStudies . Vendor Track http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2017/tracks/#vendor KEYNOTE & TITAN SPEAKERS 50th Anniversary Keynote - Barry L Nelson Northwestern University WSC 2067: What Are The Chances? At the November 1967 "Conference on the Applications of Simulation Using GPSS" it seems unlikely that anyone was wondering if the conference would still be occupying a big hotel in 2017. Conferences persist for many reasons, but a technical conference like WSC has to remain relevant to users, vendors, researchers and consumers (not just hotels) to survive. If our kind of simulation vanished, then so (eventually) would WSC. What is required for simulation to "remain relevant" for the next 50 years? Without fear of having to answer for my crimes in 2067, I boldly speculate on what SHOULD matter for the next 10-20 years, if not the next 50, with a focus on our strength: dealing with uncertainty. 50th Anniversary Titans Robert G. Sargent Professor Emeritus - Syracuse University A Prospective on Fifty-Five Years of the Evolution of Scientific Respect for Simulation Bernard P. Zeigler Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Arizona MASM Keynote Stephane Dauzere-Peres Professor, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne Achievements and Lessons Learned from a Long-term Academic-Industrial Collaboration Military Keynote Douglas Hodson Associate Professor, Professor of Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Military Simulation: A Ubiquitous Future 50th Anniversary Track Keynote Brian Hollocks Professor, Bournemouth University, Faculty of Management. History of Simulation in the United Kingdom Further information about submission and the conference: http://www.wintersim.org Twitter: @WSConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wintersimulationconference/ [apologies for duplicated messages. Problems/issues: vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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CFP BIOMA'2018 @Paris
by El-ghazali Talbi 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** BIOMA 2018 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications 16-18 May 2018 Paris, France http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** The 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications BIOMA 2018 will be held in Paris (France) on May 16-18, 2018. http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ BIOMA is one of the main events focusing on the progress of the area of bioinspired optimization methods and their applications. As in the seven previous editions, BIOMA 2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. BIOMA 2018 welcomes papers that cover any aspects of bioinspired optimization research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and experimental studies. BIOMA 2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks and special sessions. Important dates - Submission deadline Dec 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Feb 15, 2018 - Final papers Mar 1, 2018 Paper submission : We will accept submissions in two different formats. - S1: Extended abstracts of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Long papers of a maximum of 12 pages Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a conference Springer book or LNCS (Lectures Notes in Computer Science) is considered. Proposals of invited sessions - Deadline Nov 1, 2017. Contact bioma2018(a)sciencesconf.org E-G. Talbi (Conference Chair)

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ACS 2017 -- Submission Deadline 30 June, 2017
by Roger Hallman 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

ACS 2017 : The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security Link: http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ When: Sep 18, 2017 - Sep 22, 2017 Where: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2017 Notification Due: Jul 11, 2017 Final Version Due: Jul 21, 2017 Call For Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security (ACS 2017) Co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017) The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- September 18-22, 2017 Cloud computing is used by many organizations to build scalable systems in different domains, such as retail, healthcare, human resources, finance, education, and government. Our society has become more dependent on the services provided by these cloud-based systems. As a result, cyber-attacks on these cloud-based systems can have a dramatic impact on all aspects of our lives. Cloud security is an active area of research, involving many approaches for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of data and applications hosted in the cloud. However, existing techniques for securing cloud-based systems, including autonomic-based cloud systems, are based on the assumption that people will be involved in managing them. These techniques require end user input to implement effective cybersecurity strategies to defend the systems. The emerging area of Autonomic Cybersecurity can provide solutions that complement existing cybersecurity techniques in the cloud. The goal of Autonomic Cybersecurity is to use Autonomic Computing techniques and approaches to defend computing systems. The Autonomics and Cloud Security workshop aims to investigate approaches to cloud security in general, including cloud-based autonomic systems, as well as autonomic cybersecurity approaches for defending cloud-based systems. The workshop is soliciting papers in two categories, namely, the use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security, and techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in these two categories, which include, but are not limited to, the following major areas: The use of autonomic computing techniques to address cloud security: -Challenges in autonomics and cloud security and privacy -Emerging issues in autonomic cloud security -Autonomic identity and access management in cloud computing -Autonomic cybersecurity monitoring and incident response in cloud computing -Autonomic auditing and accountability in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to usable security in cloud computing -Autonomic security protocols in cloud computing -Autonomic approaches to privacy in the cloud -Autonomic approaches for securing data and communication in the cloud -Secure autonomics-based cloud federation -Self-adaptive security policies -Self-configuration of cloud systems -Scalable cybersecurity in the cloud -Autonomic event recovery in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to moving target defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to cyber defense in the cloud -Autonomic approaches to intrusion detection and prevention systems in the cloud -Techniques and approaches for building resilient cloud systems -Cybersecurity in fog and edge computing -Application of big data analytics to securing the cloud -Autonomic approaches to trusted computing Techniques and approaches for securing cloud-based autonomic systems: -Cybersecurity in the cloud for supporting IoT applications -Security protocols in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for privacy preservation in cloud-based autonomic systems -Event detection and forensics in cloud-based autonomic systems -Techniques and approaches for cloud-based autonomic systems resiliency -Secure computing techniques for the cloud (securing data-in-processing via Homomorphic Encryption, Secure Multi-Party Computation, and other secure computing techniques). -Techniques and approaches for anomaly detection in cloud-based autonomic systems -Scalable cybersecurity in cloud-based autonomic systems -Ethical hacking and penetration testing in cloud-based autonomic systems -Case studies in securing cloud-based systems We solicit research papers containing original research results and challenge papers motivating new research directions. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. Submissions may be made via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acs17 . UPDATE: A special issue on Cluster Computing (The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications) will include an extension of the best papers of all the workshops that will be held in conjunction with ICCAC 2017. Organization: General Chair Mamadou H. Diallo -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Program Co-Chairs Michael August -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Sherif Abdelwahed -- Mississippi State University, USA Technical Program Committee: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo -- The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Tiago Cruz -- University of Coimbra, Portugal Song Fu -- University of North Texas, USA Roger Hallman -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Nuno Neves -- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Jason R.C. Nurse -- University of Oxford, United Kingdom Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Muthu Ramachandran -- Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, United Arab Emirates Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA Vijay Varadharajan -- University of Newcastle, Australia Publicity and Web Chair: Christopher Graves -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Scott M. Slayback -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, U.S. Department of Defense, USA Contact: General Chair -- mamadou.h.diallo(a)navy.mil Publicity and Web Chair -- christopher.t.graves(a)navy.mil

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CFP: SC17 workshop, Computational Reproducibility at Exascale 2017 (CRE-2017)
by Keyrouz, Walid (Fed) 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Apologies for the potential duplication. -Walid ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== Computational Reproducibility at Exascale Workshop (CRE2017) ------------------------------------------------------------ Where: In cooperation with SC17, Denver, Colorado When: Sunday afternoon, November 12, 2017 Web: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Deadline: Monday, August 28, 2017 Notifications: Monday, September 18, 2017 Full Papers: Monday, October 02, 2017 Organized by: Walid Keyrouz (NIST), Miriam Leeser (NEU), and Michael Mascagni (FSU & NIST) ====================================================================== This workshop will address the problems of reproducibility in HPC in general and those anticipated as we scale to Exascale machines in the next decade. We seek contributions of extended abstracts (two pages) in the areas of computational reproducibility in HPC from academic, government, and industry stakeholders. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Case studies of reproducibility or the lack of thereof - Reproducibility issues in current HPC - System-level solutions - Algorithmic solutions - Software solutions - Uncertainty quantification in computational reproducibility - Fundamental numerical analysis of reproducibility - Future prospects Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed and the top papers will be selected to be presented at the workshop. In addition, a group of papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) devoted to Computational Reproducibility. Please note that papers submitted to the IJHPCA for the CRE2017 special issue must fall within the IJHPCA's editorial scope. This primarily means that all papers for the special issue must have relevance to high-performance computing. Overview and Background ======================= Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. As computing has grown into a powerful tool for scientific inquiry, computational reproducibility has been one of the core assumptions underlying scientific computing. With "traditional" single-core CPUs, documenting a numerical result was relatively straightforward. However, hardware developments over the past several decades have made it almost impossible to ensure computational reproducibility or to even fully document a computation without incurring a severe loss of performance. This loss of reproducibility started when systems combined parallelism (e.g., clusters) with non-determinism (e.g., single-core CPUs with out-of-order execution). It has accelerated with recent architectural trends towards platforms with increasingly large numbers of processing elements, namely multicore CPUs and compute accelerators (GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs). Programmers targeting these platforms rely on tools and libraries to produce codes or execute them efficiently. As a result, codes can run efficiently, but have execution details that can be impossible to predict and are often very difficult to understand after execution. Furthermore, parallel implementations often result in code with varying execution orders between runs, leading to non-reproducible computations. The underlying reasons are that (1) the hardware and system software allocate parallel work in ways that are not always specifiable at compile time and (2) the execution often proceeds in an opportunistic manner with the execution order changing between runs. As such, floating-point computations, which are not commutative and associative, can have different execution orders and execute on different processing elements between runs, leading to runs with varying results as a matter of fact. The predictability of systems is further complicated by two issues that are becoming more critical as systems grow in scale: (1) interconnect systems with latencies that are often outside the control of programmers and (2) reliability as the mean time between failure (MTBF) is now measured in hours on large systems. This situation seriously affects the ability to rely on scientific computations as a metrological substitute for experimentation. This workshop extends the Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale Workshops (conducted in 2015 and 2016 at SC) to address the broader range of issues in reproducibility that arise when computing at Exascale. The first edition, NRE2015 was held at SC15, its webpage can be found here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/numreprod2015.cfm. The second edition, NRE2016, was at SC16 and its webpage can be found here: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre/nre-2016.html. Submissions =========== Submissions of two page extended abstracts are sought. The format for the abstracts should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. Templates are available at "IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings" (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) The full papers must be in the format of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelines) The abstracts are to submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Important Dates (all are Mondays) ================================= Aug. 28, 2017: submission deadline for two page abstracts via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cre2017 Sep. 18, 2017: notification of authors about their submissions based on rejection, acceptance as a paper, acceptance as a paper and presentation Oct. 02, 2017: submission deadline for full papers for refereeing via the IJHPCA site, the papers must be in IJHPCA format Organizers and Co-Editors of the IJHPCA Special Issue ===================================================== - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Michael Mascagni, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Florida State University, USA Steering Committee ================== - Dong H. Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA - David Bailey, UC Davis, USA - Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Torsten Hoefler, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland - Walid Keyrouz (co-organizer), NIST, USA - Miriam Leeser (co-organizer), Northeastern University, USA - Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA - Michael Mascagni (co-organizer), FSU/NIST, USA - Junji Nagano, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan - Nathalie Revol, INRIA/ENS-Lyon, France - Siegfried Rump, University of Hamburg, Germany - Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Contact ======= E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace ".at." by "@") -Walid ------ Walid Keyrouz, PhD Research Scientist NIST | ITL | SSD

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[CFP] 7th Int. Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA2017)
by Fulvio Frati 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

** SIMPDA 2017 ** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp] **************************************************************************** *** SIMPDA 2017 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS 6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it **************************************************************************** *** ## About SIMPDA With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can share their insight in this hot new field. The Symposium will feature a number of keynotes illustrating advanced approaches, shorter presentations on recent research, a competitive PhD seminar and selected research and industrial demonstrations. This year the symposium will be held in Neuchatel. ###Call for Papers The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2017) offers a unique opportunity to present new approaches and research results to researchers and practitioners working in business process data modelling, representation and privacy-aware analysis. The symposium will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists from around the world. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the LNCS Springer Verlag format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Accepted papers will be published in a pre-proceeding volume of CEUR workshop series. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended articles to a post-symposium proceedings volume which will be published in the LNBIP series (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, http://www.springer.com/series/7911) scheduled for late 2018 (extended papers length will be between 7000 and 9000 words). Around 10-15 papers will be selected for publication after a second round of review. ### Topics Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: - Business Process Modeling languages, notations and methods - Lightweight Process Model - Data-aware and data-centric approaches - Process Mining with Big Data - Variability and configuration of process models - Process simulation and static analyses - Process data query languages - Process data mining - Privacy-aware process data mining - Process metadata and semantic reasoning - Process patterns and standards - Foundations of business process models - Resource management in business process execution - Process tracing and monitoring - Process change management and evolution - Business process lifecycle - Case studies and experience reports - Social process discovery - Crowdsourced process definition and discovery ### Workshop Format: In accordance to our historical tradition of proposing SIMPDA as a symposium, we propose an innovative format for this workshop: The number of sessions depend on the number of submissions but, considering the previous editions, we envisage to have four sessions, with 4-5 related papers assigned to each session. A special session (with a specific review process) will be dedicated to discuss research plan from PhD students. Papers are pre-circulated to the authors that will be expected to read all papers in advance but to avoid exceptional overhead, two are assigned to be prepared with particular care, making ready comments and suggestions. The bulk of the time during each session will be dedicated to open conversations about all of the papers in a given session, along with any linkages to the papers and discussions within an earlier session. The closing session (30 minutes), will include a panel about open challenges during which every participant will be asked to assemble their thoughts/project ideas/goals/etc that they got out of the workshop. ### Call for PhD Research Plans The SIMPDA PhD Seminar is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world. The goal of the Seminar is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on how to use their research results. Students interested in participating in the Seminar should submit an extended abstract describing their research. Submissions can relate to any aspect of Process Data: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, innovative applications, and social implications. Research plans should be at most of 5 page long and should be organised following the following structure: - Abstract: summarises, in 5 line, the research aims and significance. - Research Question: defines what will be accomplished by eliciting the relevant the research questions. - Background: defines the background knowledge providing the 5 most relevant references (papers or books). - Significance: explains the relevance of the general topic and of the specific contribution. - Research design and methods: describes and motivates the method adopted focusing on: assumptions, solutions, data sources, validation of results, limitations of the approach. - Research stage: describes what the student has done so far. ### SIMPDA PhD award A doctoral award will be given by the SIMPDA PhD Jury to the best research plan submitted. Student Scholarships An application for a limited number of scholarships aimed at students coming from emerging countries has been submitted to IFIP. In order to apply, please contact paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it ### CALL for Demonstrations and Posters Demonstrations showcase innovative technology and applications, allowing for sharing research work directly with colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 10 pages. Posters allow the presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Accepted demonstrations and posters will be presented at the symposium. Abstracts will appear in the proceedings. ### Important Dates - Paper Submission: 4 October 2017 - Submission of PhD Presentations: 4 October 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: 14 November 2017 - Submission of Camera Ready Papers: 28 November 2017 - Second International Symposium on Process Data: 6-8 December 2017 - Post-proceeding submissions: 30 March 2018 ## Keynote Speakers TBA ## Organizers ### CHAIRS - Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Kilan Stoffel, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ### ADVISORY BOARD - Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Robert Meersman, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Wilfried Grossmann, University of Vienna, Austria ### Program Committee - Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA - Benoit Depaire, University of Hasselt, Belgium - Chintan Mrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Christophe Debruyne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada - Edgar Weippl, TU Vienna, Austria - Fabrizio Maria Maggi, University of Tartu, Estonia - George Spanoudakis, City University London, UK - Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK - Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Josep Carmona, UPC - Barcelona, Spain - Kristof Boehmer, University of Vienna, Austria - Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany - Marcello Leida, TAIGER, Spain - Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria - Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven TU, Netherlands - Matthias Weidlich, Imperial College, UK - Mazak Alexandra, University of Vienna, Austria - Mohamed Mosbah, University of Bordeaux - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Robert Singer, FH Joanneum, Austria - Roland Rieke, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Thomas Vogelgesang, University of Oldenburg, Germany - Valentina Emilia Balas, University of Arad, Romania - Wil Van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)
by George Pallis 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017) co-located with ALGO 2017 September 4th - 5th, 2017 – Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. ***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) *** TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of elasticity - Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures - Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases - Resource provisioning and management - Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments - Analysis of containerized applications - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Query languages and novel programming models - Content delivery through cloud infrastructures - Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems - Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores - Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores - Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications - Machine learning, analytics and data science - Resource availability, reliability and fail-over - NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration - Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP - Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee). Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>). By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 23, 2017 - Author notification: July 25, 2017 - Workshop: September 4-5, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs  - Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria) - Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Proceedings and Publicity Chair - George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Members  - Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) - Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia) - Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK) - Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria) - Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) - Gabriel Istrate (University of Timişoara & e-Austria RI, Romania) - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) - Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece) - Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland) - Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) - Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK) - Luis Rodrigues (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) - Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland) - Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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[Deadline approaching] CFP: 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing, SPIFEC 2017 (ESORICS workshop)
by roman 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Dear Colleague, We invite you to submit a contribution to SPIFEC 2017, the 1st European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Edge Computing. The paper submission deadline is June 30th. This workshop will be held on September 14th, in conjunction with ESORICS 2017. Revised accepted papers will be published as a joint post-proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with other ESORICS Workshops. More information is available at: https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/spifec Looking forward to meeting you in Oslo! Best regards, the organizers, Rodrigo Roman, Chunming Rong, Ruben Rios

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