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IEEE ScalCom 2017
Nowadays parallel architectures are ubiquitous and the arena of computing
and communicating devices is quickly reaching an unprecedented scale.
The trend is to keep increasing both the number of cores in a single device
as well as the number of communicating devices. In this massively parallel
and heterogeneous context, the need for scalable computing is everywhere
and scalability is rapidly becoming a central aspect of computing.
The 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and
Communications
(ScalCom 2017) provides a forum for researchers willing to present their
original work on scalable parallel and distributed computing. ScalCom
offers a
unique opportunity to exchange ideas at the highest technical level
related to
communication networks, performance analysis, distributed applications with
particular emphasis on scalability.
We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully
developed results or on-going foundational and applied work relating to all
aspects of scalable computing and communications. The program committee
will
interpret it very broadly; everything from engineering principles to
practical
experiences on different levels of a parallel and distributed system
including
High Performance Computing (HPC), massively parallel systems and
heterogeneous
computing. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging
interest
in the research and development communities.
The topics of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable
Computing and
Communications include, but are not limited to:
Cloud & fog computing:
X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database,
Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, and Storage
performance, dependability, and service level agreements
cloud programming models and tools
fog computing algorithms and infrastructures.
Extreme scale, multi-core, GPU, accelerators and novel architectures
for Scalability-Rethinking:
parallel programming models and tools
GPU, MIC, and FPGA based parallel systems, heterogeneous platforms
Extreme scale systems and applications
peta-scale and exa-scale workloads
high-performance and high-throughput computing
fault-tolerance in large scale applications
near-data processing and data-centric approaches.
Modelling and Simulation of Large Complex Systems:
cellular automata, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm
Intelligence implementations
integrated approach to optimization and simulation
high-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological,
physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems.
Mobile, wireless and pervasive computing:
queueing theory; design and performance analysis of communication networks
distributed applications with emphasis on scalability; distributed
applications deployment
internet of things, communication protocols, energy aware computing
pervasive computing, distributed robotics
convergence of communication and computing.
Tools for Big Data:
statistical data mining
extreme big data
Hadoop
convergence of IoT, cloud and big data
Associated Activities:
Panels on SCalable Computing and Communications Challenges
Industrial Forum on Innovations and Engineering
Demo/Expo, Tutorials
Co-located Conferences:
The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC
2017)
The 14th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2017)
The 3rd IEEE Smart World Congress
The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2017)
The 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2017)
The 2017 Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2017)
Paper Submission:
Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in
length, following
the IEEE proceedings format. Over-length submissions will not be
accepted. Submissions
will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and
clarity.
Paper Publication:
Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI
indexed). Authors of
accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the
Conference. Best
Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers
will be recommended
to prestige journal special issues.
Important dates:
Paper submission: March 10, 2017
Acceptance notification: May 10, 2017
Camera ready due: June 10, 2017
Registration due: June 16, 2017
Conference: August 4-8, 2017
General Chairs:
Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France
Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Program Chairs:
Frédéric LOULERGUE, Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA
Massimo TORQUATI, University of Pisa, Italy
Publicity Chair:
Gabriele MENCAGLI, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohamed ELWAKIL, Northern Arizona University, USA
More details can be found via http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/scalcom/
Contact: scalcom2017(a)googlegroups.com
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* Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa *
* Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) *
* Phone: 0039 050 2213132 *
* Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it *
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* Dr. Gabriele Mencagli, PhD *
* Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa *
* Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa (Italy) *
* Phone: 0039 050 2213132 *
* Email:mencagli@di.unipi.it *
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*<< Sorry for Multiple Postings>*
*The Book Title: *Cloud and Fog / Edge Infrastructures for Data Science
*Editors*
*Pethuru Raj, *Cloud Architect, IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence,
Bangalore, India
*Anupama Raman, *Senior Consultant- Societe Generale Global Solution
Center, Bangalore, India
Proposals Submission Deadline: Feb. 17, 2017
Full Chapters Due: July 30, 2017
Submission Date: August 30, 2017
*Introduction*
The surging popularity of the data science domain is definitely a positive
pointer for sustaining the exciting journey of the world economy, which is
increasingly digital, insightful, idea and API-driven. Data science is an
interdisciplinary field that collectively leverages the distinguished and
decisive contributions to machine learning (ML), statistics, Mathematics,
computer science, and various analytical methods. It is a new form of art
that draws out hidden knowledge in the form of value-adding patterns,
associations, opportunities, possibilities, usable tips, actionable
insights, predictions, decisions, actions, etc. However, we need highly
optimized and organized IT infrastructures for automating the process of
knowledge discovery and dissemination through the data science algorithms
and methods. Cloud infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) are being
touted as the most appropriate one for data science. For real-time data
science, the recent model of fog/edge computing is being prescribed. That
is, devices at the edge locations and user environments can be clubbed and
clustered together in an ad hoc and on-demand fashion to create a kind of
device clouds for performing data analytics quickly, easily and affordably.
This book is being readied to tell all on the smart leverage of cloud and
fog /edge infrastructures for achieving next-generation data science
functionalities and facilities.
*Objective*
We have been fiddling with the programming era. We have programming
languages and frameworks in plenty in order to precisely teach compute
machines how to process, mining, and analyze data to squeeze out useful and
usable information. But the next-generation systems and devices will be
cognitive in the sense that they can be self-learning, training, modeling,
understanding and reasoning in order to think, decide, interact, and do
like humans. Previously we had to feed the data and program logic into the
systems towards knowledge discovery. But cognitive systems, while ingesting
data, contextualize and automate the process of generating personalized,
predictive and prescriptive insights. That is, cognitive systems
automatically analyze to exhibit intelligent behavior. Data science is the
prominent field of study and research for bringing forth cognitive systems.
This book is primarily planned to empower our readers with all the
right and relevant algorithms and tools on data science to sustain the
cognitive journey. We would like to dig deeper and describe the
infrastructural components such as software-defined clouds and fog
device clouds for simplifying and streamlining the next-generation
data science requirements. There will be chapters on cloud
infrastructures (public, private and hybrid) and edge/fog
infrastructures that facilitate the formation and sustenance of device
clouds in order to have powerful data science facility in place.
*Target Audience*
· Data Science Researchers and Faculty Members
· Cloud Administrators, Architects and Consultants
· Data Scientist, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts
· Statisticians who want to use data science to derive useful
inferences from data
· Big data professionals who are aspiring to use data science
more efficiently for big data use cases
· Professionals in all industries who are aspiring to use data
science in their respective domains for process efficiency cost
optimization and so on
*Recommended Topics*
· Business Analytics
· Deterministic, Diagnostic and prognostic Analytics
· Predictive Analytics
· Prescriptive Analytics
· Cognitive Analytics
· Data Mining Algorithms
· Machine Learning Algorithms
· Deep Learning Algorithms
· Domain-specific Analytics (Retail, healthcare, energy, and
utility, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, logistics and
transports, banking and Insurance, Automotive electronics and
avionics, Life science, metals and mining, Communication,
Entertainment, Infotainment, etc.)
· Big, Fast, Streaming and IoT Analytics and Applications
· Text, Images and Video Analytics
· Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Event-driven Architecture (EDA)
· RESTful Cloud Services
· Software-defined Cloud Infrastructures (public, private and hybrid)
· Edge / Fog Infrastructures
· Cloud Orchestration and Brokerage Services
· Integrated Platforms, Middleware, and Databases for Data
Science (Open Source as well as Commercial-grade)
· Data Virtualization and Integration Tools and Platforms
· Knowledge Visualization Dashboards and Engines and
Report-Generation Tools
· The Internet of Things (IoT) Edge Data Analytics
· Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neural Networks (NN)
· Natural Language Processing (NLP)
*Submission Procedure*
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *February
17, 2017*, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining
the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be
notified by *February 28, 2017*, about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by *July
31, 2017*, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for
manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/
publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
*Note:* There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts
submitted to this book publication, All manuscripts are accepted based on a
double-blind peer-review editorial process.
All proposals should be submitted through the E-Editorial DiscoveryTM
online submission manager.
*The Book Publisher*
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea
Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business
Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2017.
*Important Dates*
*February 17, 2017:* Proposal Submission Deadline
*February 28, 2017*: Notification of Acceptance
*July 31, 2017*: Full Chapter Submission
*August 30, 2017:* Review Results Returned
*September 30, 2017*: Final Acceptance Notification
*October 31, 2017*: Final Chapter Submission
*Any Inquiries*
Pethuru Raj (peterindia(a)gmail.com)
Anupama Raman (muralianu2001(a)gmail.com)
For more information, please visit this page
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2559
Thanks and regards
peter
Pethuru Raj PhD
Infrastructure Architect
IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence
IBM India, Bangalore 560045
*Personal Web Site*: www.peterindia.net
*Linkedin Page*: http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterindia
Dear everyone,
Umea University welcomes applications for a permanent position as full
Professor in High Performance Computing at the Department of Computing
Science. We are seeking a strong academic leader with a clear strategic
vision, that will have an important role and large freedom in developing
the area of HPC at the department. The position includes research (at
least 75% of full-time during the first six years of employment) as well
as teaching and supervision at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate
level. Collaboration with or an active role in leadership within the
High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N, www.hpc2n.umu.se ), is
also an opportunity.
Link to complete add: http://umu.mynetworkglobal.com/what:job/jobID:127859/
Dead-line for applications is March 2, 2017.
An ongoing high-profile extreme-scale computing research project funded
by the European Commission within the Future and Emerging Technologies
(FET) program under Horizon 2020 is NLAFET (www.nlafet.eu ).
For further information contact Head of Department Pedher Johansson
(pedher(a)cs.umu.se) or Professor Bo Kagstrom (bokg(a)cs.umu.se).
With best regards,
Bo Kagstrom
(Please accept our apologies if you receive this email more than once)
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The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017)
21-23 August 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ficloud.org/2017/
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The Internet of Things (IoT) vision is to provide a dynamic and global network infrastructure which is characterized by intelligent and self configuring capabilities. IoT is considered as an integral part of the future Internet. It is based on interoperable communication protocols in order to enable the interaction and integration of virtual as well as physical Things such as computers, smart devices, sensors, cars, refrigerators, food packages, medicines, etc. Things can be seamlessly integrated into the information network and interaction can be made through the provision of intelligent interfaces. In not so distant future, IoT will be forcing its way into every aspect of our lives and technologies including smart homes, smart cities, environment and nature, green energy, food, medicine, automotive, aerospace and aviation, telecommunication, and so on.
IoT is generally characterized by real world and small Things, limited capacity, constrained devices and the consequential issues such as less reliability, security and privacy. Cloud computing on the other hand deals mainly with virtual world and has unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power. Thus cloud and IoT are the main complementary aspects of the future Internet. IoT can benefit from the unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud computing. Similarly, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner.
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.
CONFERENCE TRACKS:
- Software Architecture and Middleware
- Mobile Cloud Services
- Data and Knowledge Management
- Context-awareness and Location-awareness
- Security, Privacy and Trust
- Software-defined Networking
- Performance Evaluation and Modeling
- Networking and Communication Protocols
- IoT Services and Applications
- Network Design and Architecture
- Smart Environment
- Intelligent Systems for Cloud and Services Computing
- Energy Efficiency
- Virtualization
- Clouds at the Edges
- Industry Track
- General Track-Future IoT and Cloud Computing
Paper submission and Publication:
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website (http://www.ficloud.org/2017/).
All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals (see website).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 10 March 2017
Authors Notification: 30 May 2017
Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2017
Organising Committee:
General Chair:
Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
Program Co-Chairs:
Markus Aleksy, ABB, Germany
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Local Organising Chair:
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop Coordinator:
Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal
Journal Special Issues Coordinator:
Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publicity Chair:
Joyce El Haddad, University of Paris Dauphine, France
Track Chairs:
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK
Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University, China
Maude Manouvrier, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France
Hai Dong, RMIT University, Australia
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Zahoor Ali Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada
Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, India
Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Fano Ramparany, Orange, France
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:: iWAPT 2017 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
http://www.iwapt.org/2017/ <http://www.iwapt.org/2017/>
June 2, 2017 at Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA
The iWAPT 2017 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2017.
http://www.ipdps.org/ <http://www.ipdps.org/>
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# Important dates
Submission closes: Monday, Jan 23, 2017 (AOE) **Extended**
Author notification: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017
Camera-ready: Friday, March 10, 2017
Workshop: Friday, June 2, 2017
Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>
(If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.)
# About iWAPT
iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing.
We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the
following areas (the list is not exhaustive):
* Machine-adaptive algorithms and software
* Program generation
* Performance analysis and modeling
* Parallel and distributed computing
* Numerical algorithms and libraries
* Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures
* Compilation, e.g., iterative and empirical compilers
* Programming models
* Runtime systems
* Empirical search heuristics
* Power- and/or energy-aware computing
# Paper Submission guidelines
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.
See style templates for details:
LaTex Package (ZIP):
http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>
Word Template (ZIP):
http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip <http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>
Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2017>). Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper.
Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPS proceedings.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE’s online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper.
# Program Committee
PC Chair: Toshiyuki Imamura, Riken AICS, Japan
PC Vice Chair: Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA
Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Björn Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK
Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan
Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA
Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan
Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA
Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University, USA
Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan
Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
# Organizing Committee
* (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA
* (General Vice-Chair) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* (SC liaison) Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* (Finance Chair) Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
* (Web Chair) Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan
* (Publicity Chair) Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan
* (PC Chair) Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN AICS, Japan
# Contact
iwapt2017(a)iwapt.org <mailto:iwapt2017@iwapt.org>
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iWAPT2017 Program Committee Chair
Dr. Toshiyuki Imamura
Advanced Institute for Computational Science, RIKEN
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Boyana Norris
norris(a)cs.uoregon.edu
Dear Colleague,
please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended until
January 31st, 2017.
IEEE COMPSAC 2017
www.compsac.org
Where: Turin, Italy. July 4–8, 2017
Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2017
IEEE COMPSAC offers opportunities for recommending best papers for
inclusions in IEEE publications
(https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities
for more details).
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IEEE COMPSAC 2017
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COMPSAC (www.compsac.org) is the IEEE Computer Society Signature
Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is a major
international forum for academia, industry, and government to discuss
research results and advancements, emerging problems, and future trends
in computer and software technologies and applications. The technical
program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case
studies, plenary and specialized panels, fast abstracts, a doctoral
symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on
emerging and important topics. The theme of the 41st COMPSAC is Building
Digital Autonomy for a Sustainable World.
COMPSAC 2017 Symposia are as follows:
CELT: Computer Education & Learning Technologies
CAP: Computer Architecture & Platforms
DSAT: Data Sciences, Analytics, & Technologies
EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications
HCSC: Human Computing & Social Computing
ITiP: IT in Practice
MOWU: Mobile, Wearable, & Ubiquitous Computing
NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet, & Web Technologies
SEPT: Security, Privacy, & Trust
SETA: Software Engineering Technology & Applications
Sessions will include topics and issues related to adaptive
learning and teaching, autonomous computing, wearable computing, the
internet-of-things, social networking, cross-domain data fusion,
privacy, security and surveillance, cloud computing, big data,
physiological computing, self-aware and self-expressive systems, and
emerging architectures and network issues that affect all these
developing technology-driven innovations.
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research
work, as well as industrial practice reports. COMPSAC offer publication
opportunities in IEEE journals following the "Conference First / Journal
Second (C1J2)" and "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Schemes
(https://www.computer.org/web/compsac2017/journal-publication-opportunities).
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JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
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COMPSAC is offering opportunities to recommend our best papers for
inclusion in IEEE publications, and to encourage presentation of already
published journal papers during the conference. These schemes, to be
executed at the discretion of individual COMPSAC symposia and workshops
chairs, are as follows:
COMPSAC "Conference First / Journal Second (C1J2)" Scheme:
Chairs may offer the authors of accepted papers opportunity for
publication in an IEEE journal. In this C1J2 Scheme, a chair initiates
the process to offer the paper(s), together with their COMPSAC reviews,
for publication in an IEEE journal to the journal editor-in-chief (EIC).
EICs may or may not use our reviews at their discretion, but may instead
prefer to rely solely on their own reviewer communities. Such papers
accepted by a journal for publication will appear in the COMPSAC
proceeding as only an abstract accompanied by a note that the paper has
been submitted to the journal for consideration for publication in that
journal. If the paper is accepted for publication, a link to it will be
provided in the conference proceedings, thus providing conference
participants access to that paper. The paper will still be registered
for COMPSAC and must as well be presented during the conference. If
such a paper is not accepted by the journal, the paper will be later
included in the conference electronic proceedings.
COMPSAC "Journal First / Conference Second (J1C2)" Scheme:
Similar to the above mentioned scheme, but taking place in the reverse
order is the J1C2 scheme – journal publication first, conference
presentation to follow. A published work in an IEEE journal, say within
couple of years, or even accepted but not yet published, may be
submitted to and presented at COMPSAC. If accepted, the conference
proceedings will contain an abridged abstract and a link to the
published version, thus conference participants may have access to that
paper. This scheme benefits authors by presenting their work to a wider
audience in person, discussion, networking with peers, and driving
renewed interest to their work. The process is as follows: the author
offers a paper by proposing it as a full-text manuscript submission to a
symposium or a workshop; the paper is then lightly reviewed for
suitability, scope, technical content and merit by the PC of the
symposium/workshop; finally, the PC Chair(s) proposes a notification
decision. The author then registers the paper and presents it during the
conference at the time identified in the program.
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KEYNOTES
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Francesco Profumo, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, University of California, Berkeley
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MAIN DEADLINES
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Main Conference Papers Due:
31 January 2017
Main Conference Notification:
27 March 2017
Workshop Papers Due:
10 April 2017
Workshop Paper Notification:
25 April 2017
Camera Ready and Registration Due:
9 May 2017
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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
AlCoB 2017
Aveiro, Portugal
June 5-7, 2017
Organized by:
Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA)
Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA)
University of Aveiro
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/
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AIMS:
AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.
Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, and Trujillo.
The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at:
1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,
2) identifying gene structures in the genome,
3) recognizing regulatory motifs,
4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,
5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and
6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
VENUE:
AlCoB 2017 will take place in Aveiro, an industrial city with an important seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and known as "the Portuguese Venice" due to its network of canals. The venue will be:
Department of Mathematics
University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology
STRUCTURE:
AlCoB 2017 will consist of:
invited lectures
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Biehl (University of Groningen), Prototype-based Models for the Analysis of Biomedical Data
Benedict Paten (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Human Genome Variation Map Project
Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Villeurbanne), Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, TR)
Stephen Altschul (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US)
Yurii Aulchenko (PolyOmica, Groningen, NL)
Timothy L. Bailey (University of Nevada, Reno, US)
Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US)
Philipp Bucher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH)
Ken Chen (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US)
Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, MX)
Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL)
Dmitrij Frishman (Technical University of Munich, DE)
Terry Furey (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US)
Olivier Gascuel (Pasteur Institute, Paris, FR)
Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, Denver, US)
Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, JP)
Osamu Gotoh (Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP)
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, GR)
Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, US)
Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP)
Lukasz Kurgan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US)
Gerton Lunter (University of Oxford, UK)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, ES, chair)
Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK)
William Stafford Noble (University of Washington, Seattle, US)
Cedric Notredame (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES)
Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, GR)
Manuel C. Peitsch (Philip Morris International, Bern, CH)
Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Graziano Pesole (University of Bari, IT)
David Posada (University of Vigo, ES)
Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE)
Peter Robinson (The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US)
Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, ES)
David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, CA)
Alejandro Schäffer (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US)
Xinghua Shi (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US)
Nicholas D. Socci (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US)
Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, DE)
Granger Sutton (J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, US)
Kristel Van Steen (University of Liège, BE)
Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, AT)
Kai Wang (Columbia University, New York, US)
Haim J. Wolfson (Tel Aviv University, IL)
Ioannis Xenarios (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, CH)
Jinn-Moon Yang (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, TW)
Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, Orlando, US)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US)
Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis, US)
Zhongming Zhao (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, US)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Diana Costa (Aveiro, CIDMA)
Daniel Figueiredo (Aveiro, CIDMA, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Manuel A. Martins (Aveiro, CIDMA)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada)
Armando J. Pinho (Aveiro, IEETA)
Diogo Pratas (Aveiro, IEETA, co-chair)
David Silva (London)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, graphics, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2017
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (2015 JCR impact factor: 1.537) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/Registration.php
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
Paper submission: January 29, 2017 – EXTENDED –
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2017
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 9, 2017
Early registration: March 9, 2017
Late registration: May 22, 2017
Submission to the journal special issue: September 7, 2017
COLLOCATED EVENTS:
AlCoB 2017 will be collocated with the Fourth Workshop on Molecular Logic:
http://molecularlogic2017.weebly.com/
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
POSTAL ADDRESS:
AlCoB 2017
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Universidade de Aveiro
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Environmental computing applications - state of the art
ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop
Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland
http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/
There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology
or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to
analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general
approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data
sources is needed.
The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers,
environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in
Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or
present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but
not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata
approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of
environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation.
The topics of interest include:
* Case studies
* Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them)
* Multi-model systems
* Civil protection (and related engineering challenges)
* Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications
* Risk assessment and management
* Interdisciplinary collaboration
* Dynamic model coupling approaches
* Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks
* Visualisation
Submission
Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental
Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more
information about the submission process (including the “abstract only”
option), please consult the conference website (
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/).
Organisation and contact
Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany
Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich
http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/
info(a)envcomp.eu
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Matti Heikkurinen - LMU
heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31
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SBP-BRiMS 2017
2017 International Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior
Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)
July 5 (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Conference Website: http://sbp-brims.org
All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first
authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those
receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a
special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Abstract Submission : February 22 (Wed), 2017
Regular Paper Submission : March 1 (Wed), 2017
Author Notification : March 24 (Fri), 2017
Final Version Submission : April 7 (Fri), 2017
Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary,
presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation.
All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the
Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival.
Challenge Problem Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a
short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online
proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume.
The online proceedings is not considered archival.
Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : May 12 (Fri), 2017
This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results,
technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the
military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All
short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for:
presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be
published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the
Springer LNCS volume. The online proceedings is not considered
archival.
Tutorial Proposal Submission : March 10 (Fri), 2017
Conference : July 5(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017,
including the following:
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions : July 10, 2017 (first day conference)
Poster Session : At Conference Poster Night
Technology Demos : Lunch times & Poster Night
Challenge Problem Evaluation : At Conference Poster Night
ABOUT SBP-BRiMS:
SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper
track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of
high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The
conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which
were co-located in previous years.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study
social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral
modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is
a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and
scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling
are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex
behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these
approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system
components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”)
and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational
sciences to the social and health sciences.
The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from
academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense
researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research
results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and
showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural
behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.
Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and
tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available
through the websites http://sbp-brims.org and
http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ .
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications.
Topics of interests include the following:
Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes
* Group interaction and collaboration
* Group formation and evolution
* Group representation and profiling
* Collective action and governance
* Cultural patterns & representation
* Social conventions, social contexts and processes
* Influence process and recognition
* Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
* Information diffusion
* Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Behavior Modeling
* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
* Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
* Models of reasoning and decision making
* Model validation & comparison
* Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior
* Physical models of human movement
* Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking
* Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* Knowledge acquisition/engineering
* Human behavior issues in model federations
Methodological Challenges
* Mathematical foundations
* Verification and validation
* Sensitivity analysis
* Matching technique or method to research questions
* Metrics and evaluation
* Methodological innovation
* Model federation and integration
* Evolutionary computing
* Optimization
Information, Systems, & Network Science
* Data mining on social media platforms
* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
* Inference of network topologies and changes over time
* Analysis of link formations and link types
* Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
* Analysis of high-dimensional networks
* Analytics for social and human dynamics
Military & Intelligence Applications
* Evaluation, modeling and simulation
* Group formation and evolution in the political context
* Technology and flash crowds
* Networks and political influence
* Group representation and profiling
* Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Applications for Health and Well-being
* Social network analysis to understand health behavior
* Modeling of health policy and decision making
* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other Applications
* Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
* Viral marketing
* Reasoning about development aid through social modeling
* Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:
The conference solicits three categories of papers:
Regular papers (max. 10 pages)
All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome
Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation.
Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages)
All topics and authors welcome.
Published online. Typically a poster presentation.
Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages)
Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation.
Paper Formatting Guideline
The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files
are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-
793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page.
All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a
maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. All submissions for
posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking
results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using
the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted
on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website.
A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their
papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal
“Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high-
profile journal.
The submission website will be available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017. To register a
paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and
submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be
able to update your submission.
PUBLICATION
For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the
program chairs at sbpbrims2017(a)gmail.com.
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:
Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full
conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two
distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds
in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other
mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be
designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with
medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited
formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an
understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed
by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling
approaches.
Tutorial proposal submission:
Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information:
* Title of the tutorial.
* Description of the tutorial topic and structure.
* Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the
attendees).
* Short bio and contact information of the organizers.
More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including
instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to
the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information
becomes available. For further information, please contact
sbpbrims(a)andrew.cmu.edu.
CHALLENGE:
The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in
previous years.
Additional details will be posted on the conference website.
FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:
Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization
Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross-
fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted
with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider
partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The
Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to
interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies.
Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives
from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA,
etc.
BEST PAPER AWARDS:
SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with
student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
HOTEL AND LOGISTICS:
Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference
website as it becomes available.
TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:
It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available
on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP-
BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available.