ARES 2017 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017)
August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy
http://www.ares-conference.eu<http://www.ares-conference.eu/>
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Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE
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The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.
The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress.
This year we can offer the conference attendees 9 workshops which range from "start-ups" to well-established ones.
Workshops @ ARES 2017 and their submission deadlines:
*12th International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2017) / 01.05.2017
*10th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2017) / 01.05.2017
*6th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2017) / 01.05.2017
*6th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2017) / 01.05.2017
*4th International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2017) / 22.05.2017
*4th International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2017) / 07.05.2017
*3rd International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 2017) / 01.05.2017
*2nd International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2017) / 07.05.2017
*1st International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2017) / 01.05.2017
These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience.
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EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE
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Based on the success of the workshops in conjunction with ARES 2016, in Salzburg, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the third time in conjunction with ARES 2017.
The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community.
This year, 5 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline):
*3rd International Workshop on Security Testing And Monitoring (STAM 2017) / 30.04.2017
*2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2017) / 03.05.2017
*1st International Workshop on Securing Critical Infrastructures (S-CI 2017) / 01.05.2017
*1st International Workshop on Supply Chain Security, Resilience and Accountability (SC-SRA 2017) / no paper submissions
*1st International Workshop on Creating Identity - Trustworthy Ecosystems (CITE 2017) / no paper submissions
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CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chair
Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Program Committee Chairs
Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Andrea Servida, European Commission, Belgium
Neil D. Lawrence, University of Sheffield and Amazon, UK
Marta Milo, University of Sheffield, UK
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: see each workshop
Proceedings Version: June 20, 2017
Conference: August 29 - September 1, 2017
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SUBMISSION
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ARES 2017 proceedings (including workshops) will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals.
Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
For the workshops submission papers are have to be representing original, previously unpublished work: 8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them.
Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references.
The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2017
We are now offering three PhD scholarships in Big Data Security and
Privacy. Students who are interested in research of differential privacy,
big data security, searchable encryption, data auditing and integrity, big
data privacy protection, as well as challenging and world-changing
application areas such as healthcare, are strongly encouraged to apply.
These positions will be based in recently established Swinburne Data
Science Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia. Melbourne is a top ranked most livable city in our world. The
PhD research will be performed under the supervision of Professor Jinjun
Chen - http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/
Scholarship information:
· Annual stipend $26,682 (2017 rate) for three years
· Tuition fees for up to four years
· Thesis allowance
· Annual travel fund available
We are looking for highly-motivated, dedicated candidate. Preference will
be given to those students who have:
- An excellent track record on Bachelor or Master degree,
- Very good programming and math skills,
- Very good communicative skills in English, both in speaking and writing,
- Background in the fields of security, encryption, privacy protection, and
etc.
- Meet Swinburne University's PhD entry requirements (
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/research-degrees/degre
es-programs/phd-doctor-of-philosophy/)
Application:
Interested candidates are invited to send their applications to
Professor Jinjun
Chen (jchen(a)swin.edu.au) by 10 May 2017, including:
1. A cover letter describing your detailed research interest
2. Soft copy of your publications if any (e.g., master’s thesis,
conference/journal papers)
3. Your CV
4. Your transcripts of undergraduate and honors/master degrees
5. Proof of proficiency in English (e.g., TOEFL or IELTS) if English is not
your first language
IEEE HiPC 2017 (Jaipur, India • 18-21 December)
Release: 22 April 2017
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24th IEEE International Conference on
High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics
HiPC 2017
December 18-21, 2017
Jaipur, India
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2017
•June 5.................Abstracts Due
•June 15...............Paper Submission Deadline
•August 8.............Reviews for Rebuttals
•August 15...........Rebuttals Due
•September 8......Author Notification
•October 3..........Camera Ready Submission
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HiPC 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS
Full information on what/where to submit is available at hipc.org/cpf/
HiPC 2017 will be the 24th edition of the IEEE International Conference on
High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. HiPC serves as a forum to
present current work by researchers from around the world as well as
highlight activities in Asia in the area high performance computing. The
meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems and
their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. In 2016, to
keep pace with new computing trends, the conference added two new areas of
interest to its name, Data and Analytics, as reflected in the list below.
Deadline: Abstracts are due by June 5, 2017
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts
that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance
computing, data and analytics. Topics include (but are not limited to):
Algorithms:
Design and Application of Parallel and Distributed Big Data and
Analytics Algorithms
Algorithmic Techniques to Improve Energy and Power Efficiency
Quantum and Bio-Inspired Algorithms
Resilient and Fault Tolerant Algorithms
Parallel algorithms for Numerical Linear Algebra
Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures
Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management
Large Scale Graph Analytics
Streaming Algorithms
Architectures:
Interconnection Networks and Architectures
Cache/Memory Architecture for High Performance Computing
High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems
Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures
Quantum and Bio-Inspired Architectures
Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques
Resilient and Fault Tolerant Architectures
Applications:
Big Data Computing and Applications
Cross-Cutting Methods such as Co-Design of Parallel Algorithms,
Software, and Architectures
Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, IoT, and Nanotechnology
Hardware Acceleration for Parallel Applications
Parallelism in Scientific Data Visualization and Visual Analytics
Scientific/Engineering/Industrial Applications and Workloads
Scalable Machine Learning and Data Mining Applications
Scalable Graph and other Irregular Applications
Design of Simulation Applications and Peta- and Exascale Applications
Systems Software:
Big Data Analytics Systems and Software Architectures
Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing
Exascale Computing, Cloud Platforms, Data Center Architectures and
Services
Parallel Languages, Programming Environments, and Performance Assessment
Operating Systems for Scalable High -Performance Computing
Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators
Dealing with Uncertainties, Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Systems
One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed
papers.
Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2017 will be invited to
submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a
special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in
order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an
accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper
that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore.
PROGRAM CHAIR
Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS
•ALGORITHMS: Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France
•APPLICATIONS: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA
•ARCHITECTURE: Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
•SYSTEM SOFTWARE: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA
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Full information detailing what/where to submit is available on the HiPC
Website at www.hipc.org as well as notices and plans for other conference
events including workshops and programs for students and industry. The
conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed
researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support
from companies operating globally and also established in India. In
addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to
the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and
users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms
and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging
experiences.
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Chiranjib Sur, Shell India
Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA
VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India
Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA
INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS
Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA
Jigar Halani, Wipro, India
Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India
WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Saumil Merchant, Shell, India
STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India
Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA
INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India
Seetha Rama Krishna
Nookala, Intel, India
STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
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HiPC 2017 SPONSORSHIP
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HiPC 2017 is co-sponsored by
•IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
•HiPC Education Trust, India
In cooperation with
•ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)
•ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
•FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems
•Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT)
•National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)
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FROM 2017 - First 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
Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 May 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
In order to participate with a regular talk, an extended abstract
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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Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is a young university established in collaboration with MIT. Cyber security is one of its most important areas and grows very fast with rich research funding. It has the world’s best facilities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) including testbeds for Secure Water Treatment (SWaT), Water Distribution (WADI), Electric Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC), and IoT.
I am looking for PhD interns with interest in cyber-physical system security (IoT, autonomous vehicle, and power grid etc.), especially on the topics such as 1) Lightweight and low-latency crypto algorithms for CPS devices, 2) Resilient authentication of devices and data in CPS, 3) Advanced SCADA firewall to filter more sophisticated attacking packets in CPS, 4) Big data based threat analytics for detection of both known and unknown threats, 5) Attack mitigation to increase the resilience of CPS. The attachment will be at least 3 months. Allowance will be provided for local expenses.
Interested candidates please send your CV with a research statement to Prof. Jianying Zhou.
Contact: Prof. Jianying Zhou
Email: jianying_zhou(a)sutd.edu.sg
Home: http://jianying.space/
Madrid, Spain, October 23 - 26, 2017 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
The IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technologies is
one of the longest-running international technical symposia. This
conference has a broad scope and invites papers that advance security
technologies including physical, cyber and electronic security
research, development, systems engineering, testing, evaluation, case
studies and new research lines to face current and future challenges.
All papers will be carefully subjected to a blind review
process.Conference proceedings will be submitted for posting to IEEE
Xplore.
As well as this top ranking technical event, Madrid also offers you
the amazing features of a major, modern and historical European city,
its legendary social activity, and the appeal of its Mediterranean
gastronomy and lifestyle. The main social event at ICCST-2017 will
include a display of flamenco dancing.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Date: April 28, 2017
Decision to Authors: May 26, 2017
Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2017
Early Registration: August 15, 2017
Best Regards,
ICCST-2017 Organizing Committee
ICCST-2017 Executive Committee
http://atvs.ii.uam.es/iccst2017/
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Workshop on Trusted Computing in Distributed and Hybrid Systems
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Advanced and
Trusted Computing (ATC 2017)
http://www.wnlabs.com/news/ATC_2017_workshop.php
The two fundamental components of Trusted Computing, the asymmetric
PKI framework and RSA IFC cryptography, are operating beyond their
limitations and are no longer sufficient. "In August, 2015, NSA
announced that it planned to transition in the not distant future to a
new cipher suite that is resistant to quantum attacks." wikipedia
Dynamic distributed key and hybrid systems overcome these limitations.
THE TOPICS OF THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING
· distributed frameworks for trusted computing and trusted cyber
· PKI and distributed combined hybrid frameworks and security controls
· security, identity and data provenance in distributed and
hybrid systems
· secure handshakes for distributed trusted computing
· secure cryptographic key distribution and scalability for
trusted computing and trusted cyber
· side channel resistance in trusted computing and trusted cyber
· next generation cryptography for trusted computing and trusted cyber
· secure cryptographic key distribution and scalability for
trusted computing and trusted cyber
· trusted computing key creation for restricted resource
environments i.e. IoT
COMMITTEE
· Chair: Andre Brisson - Whitenoise Laboratories Canada Inc.
· Co-Chair: Dr. Mihai Sima - University of Victoria, British
Columbia ECE Labs
· Program Committee Chair: Layton Perrin - Sequor Systems Inc.
· Program Committee member: Dr. Issa Traore - University of
Victoria, British Columbia ECE Labs
· Program Committee member: Laurie Perrin - Sequor Systems Inc.
· Program Committee member: Albert Meyburgh - British Columbia
Institute of Technology
· Program Committee member: Edouard Kujawski - MIT, Lawrence
Berkeley National Labs
· Program Committee member: Sam Greenblatt, former CTO HP, Dell
SUBMISSION
Workshop papers are limited to 6 pages following the IEEE proceedings
format, and are to be submitted as PDF via the ATC 2017 submission
site: ATC 2017 submission Select CyberTrust track after logging in.
Deadlines
· Paper Submission - Extended to April 25, 2017
· Acceptance Notification - May 10, 2017
· Camera-Ready Submission - June 10, 2017
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*** PROGRAM SUMMARY ***
22nd International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2017
12-16 June 2017, Vienna, Austria
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017
Organized by TU Vienna on behalf of Ada-Europe,
in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN
and the Ada Resource Association (ARA)
*** Online registration open ***
*** Early registration discount until May 22 ***
*** Extensive info available on conference web site ***
*** Highly recommended to book your hotel ASAP ***
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The 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies -
Ada-Europe 2017 takes place in Vienna, Austria, from June 12 to 16,
2017. It is an exciting event with an outstanding technical program,
keynote talks, exhibition and networking from Tuesday to Thursday,
and a rich program of workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday.
The conference is hosted by TU Vienna at Palais Eschenbach, which is
located near the center of Vienna and can easily be accessed by metro.
The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become
a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and
researchers in reliable software technologies. These events
highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety-
and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique
opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and
industrial practitioners.
Extensive information is available on the conference web site,
such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and
industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials,
keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference
web site for registration, accommodation and travel information.
Quick overview
- Mon 12 & Fri 16: tutorials + workshops
- Tue 13 - Thu 15: core program
Proceedings
- published by Springer
- volume 10300 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
- will be available at conference
Program co-Chairs
- Johann Blieberger, TU Vienna, Austria
blieb(a)auto.tuwien.ac.at
- Tullio Vardanega, Università di Padova, Italy
tullio.vardanega(a)math.unipd.it
Keynote speakers
- Giovanni Battista Gallus, Array, Italy,
on "The laws of robotics and autonomous vehicles may be much more
than three, but don't panic... yet"
- Thomas Henzinger, IST, Austria, on "Behavioral Software Metrics"
- Kay Römer, TU Graz, Austria, on "Dependable Internet of Things"
Workshops (full day)
- 4th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for
Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2017),
focus on "Transportation of the Future"
Tutorials (full day)
- "Introduction to SPARK 2014"
Peter Chapin, Vermont Technical College, USA
Tutorials (half day)
- "Ada on ARM Cortex-M, a Zero-Run-Time Approach"
Maciej Sobczak, GE Aviation and Inspirel, Poland
- "Software Measurement for Dependable Software Systems"
William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA
- "Real-Time Parallel Programming with the UpScale SDK"
Luis Miguel Pinho, ISEP, Portugal, and Eduardo Quinones, BSC, Spain
- "Using Gnoga for Desktop/Mobile GUI and Web development in Ada"
Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France
- "Frama-C, a Collaborative Framework for C Code Verification"
Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France
- "On beyond ASCII: Characters, Strings, and Ada 2012"
Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France
- "Modular Open System Architecture for Critical Systems"
William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Papers and Presentations
- 14 refereed technical papers in sessions on Runtimes, Programming
Models, Safety & Security, Timing Verification, Mixed Criticality
- 9 industrial presentations and experience reports in sessions on
Exploratory Uses of Ada, Verification, Large Industrial Applications
- 4 presentations and discussion in special panel session on
"The Future of Safety-Minded Languages"
- submissions by authors from 24 countries, and accepted contributions
from Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, South
Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA
Vendor exhibition and networking area
- area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor
tables, and general networking options
- 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC, Rapita Systems,
VectorCAST; others expected to confirm soon
- vendor presentation sessions in core program
Social events
- each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches
offer ample time for interaction and networking
- Tuesday evening: Ada-Europe General Assembly, followed by Welcome
Reception incl. Robotics Presentations at "TU the Sky"; its terraces
at the top of TU Vienna's buildings offer a terrific view on the city
- Wednesday evening: Vienna bus tour, followed by the traditional
Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, held at a very famous "Heuriger"
- Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out
Registration highlights this year
- single day registration cost has been reduced
- Wednesday is Meet Ada-Europe day! registration is discounted
- tutorial fees reduced when taken together with 3-day conference
Registration
- online registration is open: select "Registration" at
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/>
- early registration discount up to Monday May 22, 2017
- additional discount for
academia, Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, and ACM SIGPLAN members
- a limited number of student discounts is available
- registration includes copy of printed proceedings at event
- includes coffee breaks and lunches
- three day conference registration includes all social events
- payment possible by credit card, check, or bank transfer
- see registration page for info on novel student waiver program!
Promotion
- recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2017
- 16-page Advance Program brochure available online at
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/AE2017_advance_program.pdf>
- support Ada-Europe 2017 with promotional material available at
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017/promotion.html>
- soon also available there: call for participation, ready-to-print
posters for use in your office, university, etc.
Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible.
Vienna will be very busy in that week.
For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2017>.
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*** 22nd Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2017
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SIMPDA 2017
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATA-DRIVEN PROCESS DISCOVERY AND
ANALYSIS
6-8 DECEMBER, 2017 - NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND
http://simpda2017.di.unimi.it
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## 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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Call for Papers:
Fifth Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE
2017,
<http://pages.di.unipi.it/ricci/LSDVE17/LSDVE17.html>
in conjunction of EUROPAR 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es/>
August 2017, Santiago de Compostela, (Spain)
Proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. Extended versions of the accepted papers will be published in a
special issue (pending).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 5 May 2017
Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2017
Workshop Date: August 2017
Submission of Camera Ready papers: 3 October 2017
Objectives of the Workshop:
The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use of
information technology to support distributed networked cooperative
applications. Several novel applications have emerged in this area:
social networks, distributed payment systems, connected devices,
collaboration systems, and many other ones. These applications may
greatly benefit from the support of different kinds of platforms, both
cloud and peer to peer. An interesting technology recently adopted to
handle cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin) is the block-chain technology,
that has now taken the more general role to handle several distributed
applications. Furthermore, the analysis and validation of the huge
amount of content generated by these applications asks for big data
analysis and processing techniques. This workshop aims to provide a
venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of large
scale networked collaborative applications and of the platforms
supporting them. The definition of these applications requires to afford
several challenges, like the design of user interfaces, coordination
protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures. The track's aim is
to investigate open challenges for such applications, related to both
the applications design and to the definition of proper supports. Some
important challenges are, for instance, adaptation of the classical
block-chain technology to support collaborative applications, protocols
design, distributed consensus algorithms, privacy and security issues.
The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce
further directions.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Distributed Large Scale Collaborative Environments (LSCE) and
applications
- Online Social Networks
- Distributed financial transactions systems
- Connected devices tracking in distributed systems
- Distributed Virtual Environments
- Platforms for collaborative applications
- Block-chain technology to support LSCE
- Distributed Consensus
- General purpose distributed auditing through block-chains
- Cloud platforms for LSCE
- P2P platforms
- Distributed cloud storage systems
- Big Data processing for LSCE
- Security and Privacy in LSCE
Program Commettee (to be completed)
Michele Amoretti, University of Parma, Italy
Emanuele Carlini, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy
Giuseppe Di Battista, University of Roma 3, Italy
Kalman Graffi, Univerity of Dusseldorf, Germany
Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Holland
Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, Federal University of Cearà, Brasil
Andrea Marino, University of Pisa, Italy
Fabrizio Marozzo, University of Calabria, Italy
Pietro Michiardi, EURECOM, France
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
We invite original papers previously unpublished. Full papers should not
exceed 12 pages and follow the Springer LNCS Style.
Workshop Organizers
- Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
- Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
- Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria
Full papers should not exceed 12 pages and follow Springer LNCS Style.
Submission of the paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors must register and present the paper at the
workshop.
All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshop
proceedings that will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2017
Workshop, after the conference.
Contact information
- Laura Ricci: laura.ricci(a)unipi.it