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BAFI 2018
by Richard Weber 21 May '17

21 May '17

THIRD CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS ANALYTICS IN FINANCE AND INDUSTRY - BAFI 2018 January 17th - 19th, 2018 Santiago, Chile www.baficonference.cl Twitter: @bafichile Call for Abstracts The aim of the BAFI 2018 conference is to bring together researchers and developers from data science and related areas with practitioners and consultants applying the respective techniques in different business-related domains. Our goal is to stimulate an academic exchange of recent developments as well as to encourage the mutual influence between academics and practitioners. At BAFI 2018, the focus will be on methodological developments aimed at uncovering information contained in large data sets, as well as on business applications in various sectors, among them finance, retail, and telecommunications. Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to: Business Analytics - Applications: + Credit Scoring and Financial Modeling + Forecasting + Fraud Detection + Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval + Marketing, Business Intelligence, and e-Commerce + Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems + Social Network Analysis + Privacy-preserving Data Mining and Privacy-related Issues + Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Mining + Internet of Things (IoT) Business Analytics - Methods: + Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection + Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods + Statistical Learning Theory + Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining + Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data + Spatial and Temporal Data Mining + Deep Learning and Neural Network Research + Large Scale Data Mining + Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining STUDENT GRANTS We will offer a number of travel grants for students who present their work at BAFI 2018. The following two categories will be considered: + National category: students enrolled at a Chilean university or staying at a Chilean address at the time of the conference. + International category: students enrolled at a university outside Chile and staying abroad prior to the start of the conference. Please visit www.baficonference.cl for information on Submission Guidelines, Venue, Program, Conference Fees, and more. For more information, please contact us at info(a)bafi.cl

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FROM 2017 - Extended deadline
by From 2017 21 May '17

21 May '17

FROM 2017 - Last Call for Papers http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017 WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM 5 - 8 July 2017 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bucharest IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission (extended deadline): 28 May 2017 Notification of acceptance (extended deadline): 8 June 2017 Aims and Scope Formal methods use mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. The formal methods can be used to specify, verify, and analyse in any part of the system life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on the one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user to effectively apply these methods/frameworks in the life cycle of the system. ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi organize FROM 2017, the first one from a yearly workshop series, meant to bring together Romanian researchers in formal methods and to foster international collaborations. Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work for formal methods by contributing with new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation is available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures (the current list can be seen on the workshop web page) and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages Methods of interest include: - Model checking - Deductive verification - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Symbolic computation Applications of interest include: - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware, - Computational logic, - Computer mathematics, - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases, - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of 2 pages, excepting the references, formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The abstracts should be submitted before 21 May 2017, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2017 The notification of acceptance will be received by 31 May 2017. Depending on the number and the quality of submissions, we intend to publish extensions of selected presentations in peer-reviewed well-ranked journal. Registration There is no conference fee, but valid registration is required in order to participate at the conference. All participants registered with an abstract will receive the conference kit. There is an additional fee of 50 RON for the social dinner at Casa Universitarilor. For details and updates see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017/

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Call for papers -- DSS 2017 The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems
by Dr. Stefan Bosse 21 May '17

21 May '17

Dear colleagues, I want to announce an important event for scientists working on artificial intelligence solutions for large-scale distributed systems: The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017), co-located with the The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017)! You are cordially invited to submit a paper and/or to share this announcement with your colleagues. The CFP is appended to this eMail. It is a great opportunity to discuss your work on an international platform. Best regards, Stefan Bosse -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stefan Bosse University of Bremen Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Robert Hooke Str. 5 28359 Bremen Germany RESEARCHGATE <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Bosse> Tel. +(49)421/178-45-4103 ============================================================ Call for papers -- DSS 2017 The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017) In conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Proceedings appear in IEEE Digital Library September 18-22, 2017 in University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ CFP link: http://dss2017.inn.ac/ ============================================================ The emergence of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies together with social media has resulted in unprecedented opportunities to reason about the complexity of our society based on magnitudes of data. Embedded ICT technologies mandate the functionality and operations of several techno-socio-economic systems such as traffic systems, transportation systems, Smart Grids, power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion connected smart devices will be online by the year 2020. Moreover, social media provide invaluable insights about the complexity of social interactions and how these interactions influence the sustainability of several ICT-enabled techno-socio-economic systems. These observations show that regulating online the complex systems of our nowadays digital society is a grand challenge. Regulation concerns trade-offs such as the alignment of technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness in the utilization of energy resources. The scale of nowadays data cannot tackle the challenge by itself as data may convey ungrounded correlations and biased predictions. Smart, autonomic and selfregulating mechanisms are required for filtering data streams in real-time and transform them to valuable information based on which intelligent adaptive decisions can be made in a decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + self-regulation + autonomic computing + pervasive/ubiquitous computing + Internet of Things + big data analytics + cloud computing + online policy-making + distributed systems + privacy & security + multi-agent systems + peer-to-peer systems + self-organization + adaptive mechanisms + complex systems & (social) networks + mechanism design & game theory + quality of experience Application domains: + Smart Grids + power/gas/water networks + traffic systems + manufacturing systems + transportation systems + ambient-assisted living + social media/networks + mobile applications + disease spreading Workshop Organizers ==================================================================== Evangelos Pournaras, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Akshay Uttama Nambi S.N., Microsoft Research Lab, India Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen, Germany Submission Instructions ==================================================================== You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to self-regulating systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding authors and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Submissions have to be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide not exceeding 6 two-column pages. Papers are submitted as PDF files via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2017) Key Dates ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2017 Paper notification: July 30, 2017

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2nd CFP -- ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks @ SIGIR 2017
by Stefano Mizzaro 19 May '17

19 May '17

2nd Call For Papers (with apologies for multiple copies) ATIR: Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks Co-located with ACM SIGIR 2017 August 11, 2017. Tokyo, Japan Workshop Website: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html Motivation The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in applying axiomatic analysis to all kinds of IR and IR-related problems, including particularly both those interested in developing retrieval models and those interested in developing evaluation measures, and to enable them to share their findings (both positive or negative), to present their latest research results, and to discuss future directions. Theme As the title of the workshop suggested, the general theme of the workshop will be about all aspects of applications of axiomatic thinking to solve IR and IR-related problems. The basis of this general theme is the recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics, which we expect to continue. The existing work has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. However, much more research is still needed in multiple directions. Opportunities of applying axiomatic thinking also go beyond analyzing the basic retrieval functions; in fact, understanding constraints is also beneficial to many IR tasks that use machine learning techniques. Instead of having a designer carefully choose a set of assumptions to make when designing a formal model, these approaches use machine learning to weight items in a pool of features derived from many retrieval heuristics. However, this potentially results in a bloated backend which computes many features irrelevant to the task or collection. Having knowledge about relevant features would help slim down backends and speed learning and ranking. An important strength of the axiomatic methodology is that evaluation data sets become resources used to check motivated hypotheses instead of optimization mechanisms, which are at risk of overfitting. There are even more opportunities for new research on applying axiomatic thinking to evaluation as has already been happening where researchers have done axiomatic analysis of metrics for tasks such as text categorization, clustering, and ranking. In general, an understanding of how to apply axiomatic thinking to IR problems may become increasingly important as information retrieval continues to broaden into new areas. New tasks often require new constraints, and an understanding of these constraints can provide guidance on how to adapt existing methods or how to develop new methods for the new tasks. For example, domain-specific IR tasks such as medical record search might require new retrieval constraints that can capture the domain knowledge. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from a broader community to exchange research ideas and results and to foster collaborations across subcommunities. Some of the specific topics we envision to be covered by the workshop theme include, but not limited to: - What constraints are effective to improve retrieval performance independent of the underlying model? - What constraints were expected to be useful but have not been effective in practice? Why not? - In the case of evaluation metrics, why some metric constraints do not affect the system comparison or the user satisfaction? - How can we potentially unify the axiomatic analysis of IR models and evaluation metrics given that both lines of work aim at formally modeling relevance? - Have new languages, media, or domains suggested new constraints for established domains? - To what extent is a valid constraint in one domain also valid in other domains? More generally, which constraints for retrieval methods or evaluation metrics are core ones, and which constraints are highly scenario dependent? - How can axiomatic thinking be combined with machine learning techniques to learn more effective retrieval functions? Planned Activities - Keynote talk - Panel - Presentations of papers Paper Submission We solicit papers describing research work related to the above theme. In addition to the innovative methods with promising results, we also welcome papers reporting negative results. Papers need to be: - 4 or 10 pages - In ACM format - Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atir2017 Formal proofs can be added as additional material. The submissions are not anonymous. Important Dates - Submission deadlines: May 27 (for long paper) and June 3 (for short papers) - Review due: June 20 - Notification: June 30 Workshop Organizers - Enrique Amigo - Hui Fang - Stefano Mizzaro - ChengXiang Zhai -- Prof. Stefano Mizzaro, PhD Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics University of Udine Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy mizzaro(a)uniud.it - http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/ Ph.: +39 0432 558456 - Fax: +39 0432 558499

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Call for Papers: Ph.D. Forum at IGSC'17
by Mahdi NIKDAST 17 May '17

17 May '17

**Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement** **Call for Papers: Ph.D. Forum at The 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC'17)** Forum webpage: http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/forum_17 The Ph.D. forum at IGSC'17 will provide an international forum for doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing and/or computing for a more sustainable planet to present their work to fellow researchers and practitioners in the green and sustainable computing community. The forum includes a poster session during which the students can present their work and receive constructive feedback for completion of their dissertation research. The Ph.D. forum is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research topic and have some preliminary results, but still have enough time remaining before their final defense that they can benefit from the forum discussions. **Accepted submissions will appear in IGSC'17 proceedings** *Paper submission guidelines* Current Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. The student should be the sole author of the paper, but the advisor and other contributors should be acknowledged. The topics of interest coincide with IGSC'17 are listed in the CFP page (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_17) The extended abstract should be three pages in IEEE conference proceedings style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht ml). All manuscripts should be in pdf format, in English, and registered and submitted through easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igsc17) under the "IGSC17 PhD Forum" submission track. Please kindly note that: - The research ideas in submissions should be mature enough to be presented in a paper and content can evolve to become the substantial part of a Ph.D. dissertation. The submissions should not have been published and not under review by other conferences or journals elsewhere. - The authors should outline related problems in the field and their current solutions, clearly motivate and formulate the research topic, present the preliminary idea, the proposed approach, and the preliminary experimental results achieved thus far, explicitly point out the intended contributions of the proposed work. Each submission will be reviewed by members of the forum¹s technical program committee. Abstracts will be judged on originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference topics. Accepted abstracts will appear in the IGSC conference proceedings and will be indexed by DBLP and the IEEE digital library. All invited participants will be asked to provide a poster, which will be displayed throughout the conference. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to register for the conference and appear in person to present their work. The student rate will apply to authors who are currently full-time students. *Poster Presentation* Authors of accepted submissions should prepare a poster for presentation. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference and the students are required to be available during the poster session to discuss their work and answer related questions. The poster size should not exceed 841 x 1189 mm (width x height). The organizers encourage all Ph.D. Students in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet to participate in this Ph.D. Forum. *Ph.D. Forum Chair* Mahdi Nikdast (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada), mahdi.nikdast(a)polymtl.ca *Important dates* Paper submission due: June 16 , 2017 Notifications sent to authors: July 17, 2017 Camera-ready papers due: August 5, 2017

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Announcing CFPs: The 1st International Workshop on Autonomics and Cloud Security and The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security
by Roger Hallman 17 May '17

17 May '17

We are pleased to announce the following two calls 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 http://www.autonomic-conference.org/iccac-2017/resources/ACS/ http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=64433&copyownerid=… 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 Commmittee 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 Sokratis K. Katsikas -- Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway Ryan Ko -- University of Waikato, New Zealand Thomas Moyer -- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Stacy Prowell -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Khaled Salah -- Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, UAE Sachin Shetty -- Old Dominion University, USA MORE TO COME 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 And *The 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security*Held on 30 October, 2017 in conjunction with the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2017)Hotel Sheraton, Downtown Dallas, Texas, USA https://centers.njit.edu/cybersecurity/CCS_MPS2017/ *Scope:* We live in an interconnected world where ever increasing multitudes of devices and people can be connected to each other by intelligent algorithms, apps, social networks, and the infrastructure set by Internet of Things (IoT). As more people and their devices are connected without much restriction, the issues of security, privacy, and trust remain a challenge. Multimedia in IoT services should provide a robust and resilient security platforms and solutions against any unauthorized access. Recent literature shows increased concerns about hacking, security breaches, data manipulation, social engineering, and new attack methods. Malware can be hidden within multimedia files and visiting infected websites can trigger its download to victims’ machines. There are a multitude of techniques to steal personal information and other sensitive media for unauthorized dissemination; imposters/identity thefts are common in social networks. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of resilient security and privacy solutions, methods such as new standards, advance cryptography, improved algorithms for intrusion detection, personalized privacy, and isolation of questionable or malicious files can be used independently or all together to minimize the threats. Multimedia has expanded beyond the scope its original definition. With the rise of social media, large quantities of multimedia (e.g., pictures, videos, data, analytics and personal information) can be created in a short period of time. When all these data are stored in a cloud environment, many people can connect to these services for viewing, sharing, commenting, and storing information. IoT represents a collection of devices, platforms, and software that allow people to store and share data in the cloud and also connects different types of clouds altogether. Hence, multimedia in the IoT serves a significant purpose as many people’s updates, status, locations, and live actions can be seen, disseminated, tracked, commented on, and monitored in near real time. IoT opens up many possibilities since more people can broadcast themselves and allow their networks to view and share in their lives. There are also increased fraudulent activities, cybercrimes, unauthorized access, malicious attacks, phishing, and impersonating/stealing identities. This presents challenges for existing areas such as access control, authentication, data leakage, permission, social engineering, denial of service, and identity management for the attackers to impose identity, steal information, and manipulate data in the IoT environment. Challenges also include new problems such as large scale attacks and prevention, the strength of security protection (e.g., common encryption algorithms), hiding malware with multimedia, location-based privacy with high accuracy and anonymity, underground criminal networks, and hidden security breaches. Our workshop will allow a specific venue for the publication of work addressing these concerns, specific to the IoT ecosystem. We invite research into new and innovative methods, techniques, and proofs‐of‐concepts supported by strong theory/algorithms and simulation/experiments to submit papers for this workshop. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Access control and authentication - IoT and Social Network security and privacy - Encryption of all types in multimedia, including homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation - Information Forensics - Data Leakage and Exfiltration - Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems - Largescale simulations and experiments for security - Location-based privacy and other privacy-enhancing technologies - Risk Mitigation, reduction, and simulation - Identity management and standards - Data security, recovery, and segregation - Secure integration of IoT and social networks - Steganography - Internet-connected cameras and Multiview Systems - Human Factors in Multimedia Security and Privacy - Emerging Privacy and Security Threats in Multimedia *Submission:* All papers will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mps2017. We are accepting Full, Short, and Demo Papers. Full Papers (10-12 pages) will be allotted 25 minutes for their presentations, plus 5 minutes for questions. Short Papers (6-8 pages) will be allotted 20 minutes for their presentations, plus 5 minutes for questions. Demo Papers (4-8 pages) will be allotted 15 minutes for their presentations, 10 minutes for a code review, and 5 minutes for questions. Submissions should be formatted according to the CCS 2017 formatting requirements provided at https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2017/#format. All submissions will be anonymized for a double-blind review, with final acceptance decisions made by the organizers based on reviewer comments. *Important Dates:* - 4 August, 2017 – Submission Deadline - 4 September, 2017 – Author Notifications - 17 September, 2017 – Camera-Ready Papers Due *Organizing Committee:* - Chair – Mr. Roger Hallman, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Ca, USA - Co-chair – Professor Kurt Rohloff, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA - Co-chair – Professor Victor Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China *Program Committee:* - Professor An Braeken – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Professor Tiago Cruz – University of Coimbra, Portugal - Dr. Jason R.C. Nurse – University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Professor Giovanni Pau – Kore University of Enna, Italy - Dr. Jose Romero-Mariona -- SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA - TBD *Contact:* mps2017(a)easychair.org

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CFP - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) 2017
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '17

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) http://www.ieee-hpcc.org Bangkok, Thailand, December 18 - 20, 2017 The 2017 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) is the 19th edition of a highly successful forum of discussion for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and the government. The forum provides a venue to discuss profound challenges and to present and discuss new ideas, research results, applications, and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2017, midnight (Anywhere on Earth) Main conference decision notification: August 15th, 2017 Main conference camera-ready deadline: September 15th, 2017 Conference: December 18-20, 2017 We are soliciting paper submissions in the following topic areas: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Resource management for parallel and distributed systems 6. Embedded systems 7. Peer-to-peer computing 8. Grid and cluster computing 9. Web services and Internet computing 10. Cloud computing 11. Utility computing 12. Performance evaluation and measurement 13. Tools and environments for software development 14. Distributed systems and applications 15. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 16. Database applications and data mining 17. Biological/molecular computing 18. Bioinformatics 19. Collaborative and cooperative environments 20. Mobile computing and wireless communications 21. Computer Networks 22. Telecommunications 23. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 24. Autonomic computing, reliability, and fault-tolerance 25. Trust, security, and privacy 26. Energy-aware computing Organizers: General Co-chairs: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Program Co-chairs: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The submission may not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures, in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. The authors commit that if the submission is accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcc17 Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS CPS (EI Index), which will be uploaded to IEEE Xplorer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must have full registration and present the work at the conference, otherwise the paper may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference.

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CFP - IEEE DataCom 2017: IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '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 (Research Track): June 15, 2017 Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop): July 10, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP): July 30, 2017 Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session): August 5th, 2017 Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster): August 20, 2017 Camera ready / registration deadline: August 31, 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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CFP - IEEE SC2 2017 (IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing)
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '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 - 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2017)
by Anna Kobusińska 17 May '17

17 May '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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