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session in track "Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"
by talbi 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Special Session on "*Synergy between optimization and simulation*" in track "*Metaheuristics and Machine Learning"* In conjunction with *Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017)* Barcelona, Spain, July 4th-7th 2017 Submission deadline: February 15, 2017 *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* Most real-world problems are complex and stochastic and, thus, hard to approach. Such problems originate from a wide range of areas including manufacturing and production, logistics and supply chain management, healthcare, and many more. Simulation and optimization have traditionally been considered separately as alternative approaches to deal with such problems. The recent advances in computational power have promoted the proliferation of hybrid techniques that combine both approaches. This special session seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced single- and multi-objective metaheuristics and simulation based for instance on surrogate models, their applications in different fields including the above ones, their integration in simulation software, their parallelization on various hardware platforms (multi-core processors, coprocessors such as GPU and Xeon Phi, clusters, etc.), and any related issues. *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS* Authors are encouraged to submit unpublished and outstanding original contributions.Submissions are only electronic, in PDF format, using the EasyChair system. They are welcome in any of the three categories S1-S3: ** S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages. S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. They must follow the submission guidelines below. Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings that will be available at the conference. Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2017 conference proceedings. Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings. *Submission Guidelines* Authors are invited to submit papers to both the general and the special sessions. During submission, authors will be required to specify which track they are submitting their paper to. Submitted papers (both regular and special sessions) must be formatted according to MIC/MAEB 2017 guidelines. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates (both LaTeX and Microsoft Word) are available below. Submission is only electronic, in PDF format, using the *EasyChair system link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2017 At least one author of each accepted paper and poster is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Only one paper or poster per registered author will be accepted (one author cannot present a paper and a poster at the conference, only one type of presentation). All papers are due electronically by the deadline reported below. Submissions that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will not be accepted for review. No email or fax submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. If there are problems with the electronic submission, the program chairs will contact the designated author by email. *Final version submission* The final version in PDF format should be upload via EASY CHAIR. There is no copyright. *Electronic templates* The electronic templates for formatting the papers are available in the following formats. Please follow the formatting guidelines for correctly typesetting the paper. ** ·File mic2017Latex.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Latex.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Latex. Specifically, oClass file (mic2017.cls): This file requires also additional files (graphicx.sty, geometry.sty, times.sty, babel.sty, fancyhdr.sty), which are usually included in the most common LaTeX distributions. oExample LaTeX template (example.tex). oExample BibTeX file (example.bib). oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf). ·File mic2017Word.zip <http://mic2017.upf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mic2017Word.zip> contains all the necessary files to generate the pdf manuscript with Microsoft Word. Specifically: oTemplate (mic2015.dot). oDocument (mic2015.doc) oExample graphics (mic.eps / mic.pdf) *Poster Session and Ph.D Colloquium*** A Poster Session will be held during the conference where posters will exhibited for informal browsing with opportunities for individual discussion with their authors. The Ph.D. Colloquium addresses Ph.D. students that are within one year of their graduation (planning to graduate around July 2018). Students close to graduation will be given an opportunity to showcase their work during a short presentation session in the Colloquium, and in this way obtain valuable feedback and introduce yourself to a network that can be of important relevance in your career. The submission for the *Poster Session and the Ph.D Colloquium *should be of format S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Submission deadline*: February 15, 2017 *Notification of acceptance*: February 27, 2017 *Camera-ready papers*: March 6, 2017 *Early registration due date*: March 31, 2017 *Conference*: July 4-7 2017 *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Nouredine Melab* Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: nouredine.melab(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:nouredine.melab@univ-lille1.fr> * El-Ghazali Talbi *Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS CRIStAL Lille, France Email: el-ghazali.talbi(a)univ-lille1.fr <mailto:%C2%A0el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr> __ *Peter Korošec* Jožef Stefan Institute <http://www.ijs.si/> Ljubljana, Slovenia Email: peter.korosec(a)ijs.si <mailto:peter.korosec@ijs.si> *Boris Naujoks* TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science Gummersbach, Germany Email: boris.naujoks(a)th-koeln.de

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CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17
by Marco Lützenberger 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS: MSIAAS@SCSC’17 ===== Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems Track (MSIAAS’17) ===== - held at the 49th Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 2017) - July 9-12, 2017 - Bellevue, Washington, US - http://scs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CFP_MSIAAS-v2.pdf === TRACK DESCRIPTION === The increasing popularity of the Internet of Things, or IoT metaphor emphasizes that heterogeneous systems are the norm today. A system deployed in a netcentric environment eventually becomes a part of a system of systems (SoS). This SoS also incorporates adaptive and autonomous elements (such as systems that have different levels of autonomy and situated behavior). This makes design, analysis and testing for the system-at-hand a complex endeavor in itself. Testing in isolation is not the same as a real-system operation, since the system’s behavior is also determined by the input, which evolves from the environment. This exact factor is difficult to predict, due to an ever-increasing level of autonomy. Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) frameworks are required in order to facilitate SoS design, development, testing, and integration. In more particular, these frameworks have to provide methods to deal with intelligent, emergent, and adaptive behavior as well as autonomy. The subject of emergent behavior and M&S of emergent behaviors takes the center stage in such systems as it is unknown how a particular system responds in the face of emergent behavior arising out of interactions with other complex systems. Intelligent behavior is also defined as an emergent property in some complex systems. Consequently, systems that respond and adapt to such behaviors may be called intelligent systems as well. This track has two objectives. The first objective aims to focus on M&S of the following aspects of complex SoS engineering and brings researchers, developers and industry practitioners working in the areas of complex, adaptive and autonomous SoS engineering that may incorporate human as an integral part of SoS operations. This objective covers the following topics: - Theory for adaptive and autonomous systems - Intelligence-based systems - Computational intelligence and cognitive systems - Human-in-the-loop systems - M&S Frameworks for intelligent behavior - Methodologies, tools, and architectures for adaptive control systems - Knowledge engineering, generation and management in IAAS - Weak and Strong emergent behavior, Emergent Engineering - Complex adaptive systems engineering - Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) capability and collaborative behavior in IAAS - Applications to robotics, unmanned vehicles systems, swarm technology, semantic web technology, and multi-agent systems - Netcentric IAAS - Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) environments - Simulator design for IAAS systems - Modeling tools for IAAS design - Modeling, engineering, testing and verification of complex behavior - Development and testing of complex and distributedsystems - Modeling, simulating, and testing IoT environments and applications The second objective is to advance the science of complexity as applicable in M&S discipline. Complexity is a multi-level phenomenon that exists at structural, behavioral and knowledge levels in such SoS. Emergent behavior is an outcome of this complexity. Understanding emergent behavior as an outcome of this complexity will provide foundation for resilient intelligent systems. Following are some of the topics related to this objective, but not limited to: - Complexity in Structure: network, hierarchical, small-world, flat, etc. - Complexity in Behavior: Micro and macro behaviors, local and global behaviors, teleologic and epistemological behaviors - Complexity in Knowledge: ontology design, ontology-driven modeling, ontology-evaluation, ontology transformation, etc. - Complexity in Human-in-the-loop: artificial agents, cognitive agents, multi-agents, man-in-loop, human-computer-interaction - Complexity in intelligence-based systems: Situated behavior, knowledge-based behavior, memoic behavior, resource-constrained systems, energy-aware systems - Complexity in adaptation and autonomy - Complexity in architecture: Flat, full-mesh, hierarchical, adaptive, swarm, transformative - Complexity in awareness: Self-* (organization, explanation, configuration) - Complexity in interactions: collaboration, negotiation, greedy, rule-based, environment-based, etc. - Complexity in Live, Virtual and Constructive environment - Complexity in Artificial Systems, Social systems, techno-economic-social systems - Complexity in Model Engineering of complex SoS - Complexity in Model Specification using modeling languages and architecture frameworks such as UML, PetriNets, SysML, DoDAF, MoDAF, etc. - Complexity in Simulation environment engineering: distributed simulation, parallel simulation, cloud simulation, netcentric parallel distributed environments - Complexity in Testing and Evaluation tools for SoS engineering - Complexity in Heterogeneity: Hardware/Software Co-design, Hardware in the Loop, Cyber Physical Systems, the Internet of Things - Metrics for Complexity design and evaluation - Verification, validation and accreditation of Complexity in SoS - Application of Complexity aspects in domain engineering: Financial, Power, Robotics, Swarm, Economic, Policy, etc. - SoS Failure due to Complexity === Important Dates === Paper Submission: February 20, 2017 Author Notification: May 1, 2017 Submission of Work in Progress (SCSC-WIP) Papers: May 5, 2017 Notification of Work in Progress: May 10, 2017 Camera-ready Paper: May 14, 2017 === Track Chair(s) === Saurabh Mittal, MITRE Corporation (smittal(a)mitre.org) Jose L. Risco Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (jlrisco(a)ucm.es) Marco Lützenberger, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany (marco.luetzenberger(a)dai-labor.de) Claudia Szabo, University of Adelaide, Australia (claudia.szabo(a)adelaide.edu.au) === Submission Guidelines === Original and high-quality technical papers are solicited for review, possible presentation and subsequent publication in the conference proceedings. For further instructions, please refer to the Submission Instructions in the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System web site. Contributed papers should be 5 to 12 pages long. They will be peer reviewed and – if accepted and presented at the conference submitted to the ACM Digital Library. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during SummerSim’17 review process. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the symposium and must present the paper at the symposium. For author guidelines on how to submit a paper, see: http://scs.org/authorskit/

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CFP 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) - Santa Maria Key, Cuba
by Rafael Falcon 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

First CALL FOR PAPERS ########################################## 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS ’17) Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara, Cuba October 24 – 26, 2017 ########################################## Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~rfalc032/isfuros2017/ Organized by: Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba (http://www.uclv.edu.cu) Sponsored by: International Rough Set Society (IRSS) Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Belgium ################# Aim and Scope ################# Fuzzy and rough set theories stand as two of the most prominent methodologies within the umbrella of Computational Intelligence to handle uncertainty in vague and inconsistent environments. They have enjoyed widespread success in a plethora of real-world application domains and remain at the forefront of numerous theoretical studies to consolidate and augment their well-established properties. The second edition of the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) will take place at Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel, Santa Maria Key, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba from October 24-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the Universidad Central de Las Villas (www.uclv.edu.cu) ISFUROS 2017 aims at providing a forum for exchange on fuzzy and rough set theories and their applications. The symposium includes tutorials, invited key lectures and paper presentations. The goals of ISFUROS 2017 are to strengthen the relationships among researchers and institutions working on fuzzy and rough set theories, to increase awareness of these topics among the Latin American research community and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. #################### Submission Topics #################### Submissions of original and previously unpublished work on fuzzy and rough set theories and applications are encouraged, including but not limited to the following topics: Fuzzy sets • Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals • Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware and architectures • Fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy clustering, classification and pattern recognition • Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing • Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization • Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems • Fuzzy systems design and optimization • Fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria decision making and decision support • Fuzzy logic and its applications in industrial engineering • Fuzzy information processing, information extraction and fusion • Hardware/software for fuzzy systems • Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems Rough sets • Covering / neighborhood-based rough sets • Decision-theoretic rough sets • Dominance-based rough sets • Game-theoretic rough sets • Bayesian rough sets • Variable consistency / precision rough sets • Rough clustering • Rough computing • Rough mereology • Rough-set-based techniques in Pattern Recognition, Machine learning and Big Data • Decision making methods based on rough sets. Hybridization of fuzzy and rough sets • Theoretical foundations of Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets. • Machine learning methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets • Decision making methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets Granular Computing • Information granulation / degranulation methods • Granular clustering / classification methods • Interval analysis, shadowed sets, near sets, probabilistic sets, etc. • Granular frameworks / hardware / software Applications • Astronomy • Big Data Analytics • Big Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Business Intelligence • Computer Vision • Cybernetics and Robotics • Cybersecurity • Finance / Retail / e-Commerce • Knowledge Management • Image Processing • Information Fusion • Internet of Things • Logistics • Machine Learning / Data Mining • Maritime Domain Awareness • Medicine and Health • Modeling and Simulation • Natural Language Processing • Natural Resources • Pattern Recognition • Risk Management • Security and Defense • Smart Cities • Web and Text Mining • Wireless Sensor Networks ########################## Conference Proceedings ########################## All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be made available to the conference attendees. The proceedings will have an ISBN and will be produced by UCLV’s publishing house. After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a volume of Springer’s “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing” series. At least one of the authors must complete the conference registration by the early registration deadline; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program or proceedings. #################### Important Dates #################### May 15, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 30, 2017 Acceptance notification August 30, 2017 Camera-ready version October 24 – 26, 2017 ISFUROS 2017 ####################### Submission Guidelines ####################### Paper submission will be available from March 1st, 2017 via EasyChair. Please use this link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isfuros2017 Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Authors must adhere to Springer LNCS guidelines using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates. The papers must have a maximum of nine (9) pages. Up to two (2) extra pages can be purchased at 100 CUC each. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three (3) Technical Program Committee members. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using appropriate criteria. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, adoption potential, technical quality, and clarity. ############## Registration ############## TBA ################### Official Language ################### ISFUROS' official language is English. ######## Venue ######## ISFUROS 2017 will be held at the Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel in Santa Maria Key, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Santa Maria key is a tropical paradise 75 km north of Santa Clara city. It hosts some of the finest Cuban beaches in an environmentally friendly and utterly relaxing venue. ###################### Steering Committee ###################### Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba Chris Cornelis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bernard De Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada Francisco Herrera, Universidad de Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada ############################## Technical Program Committee ############################## TBA ############################## ISFUROS 2017 Co-Chairs ############################## Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba [rbellop-at-uclv-dot-edu-dot-cu] Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]

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CfP WS on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE) as part of BIS, Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

*First Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments (SESSISE)* ** *as part of* ** *20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/* *Poznan (Poland), 28-30 June 2017* *Important dates* Submission dateApr 17, 2017 Notification dateMay 15, 2017 Paper ready deadlineMay 29, 2017 Conference datesJun 28-30, 2017 *Links* BIS: http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2017/ SESSISE: Homepage *Workshop motivation* The climate changes, the catastrophe in Fukushima, the recent biggest blackout in history in India due to an overloaded electricity grid or the dwindling oil reserves world-wide are some of the manifold different reasons why countries massively increase their efforts in shaping their future energy generation, distribution, transportation and consumption, in short in future smart Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. They are expected to be the enablers of a high penetration of renewable energy, facilitate the wide adoption of electrical vehicles, increase the awareness and the involvement of the end-user in the energy scene, and altogether contribute to create a sustainable lifestyle for the eco-aware 21^st century citizen. Although much is still in a state of flux it is nevertheless commonly accepted that existing energy systems, infrastructures, environments, and business opportunities cannot simply be adapted or extended to address the requirements of the next generation of energy supply and consumption. Instead, a fundamental re-engineering is required. Thus, all these prospected transformations also bring with them numerous challenges and opportunities. Regardless of whether and how the energy supply will be designed and operated in the near future it is obvious that the key enabler for a successful transformation of the energy supply will be a meaningful and purposeful used ICT infrastructure. New solutions will consolidate and represent the combined knowledge and experience of different disciplines as engineering, business management and economics and computer science and, thus, contribute significantly to the stabilisation of the energy supply and to the success of involved companies. The IT backbone for such solutions will be distributed, collaborative, autonomous and intelligent software packages for simulation, monitoring, control and optimization as well as appropriate data and business models, reporting systems and maybe also mobile solutions. Besides the topic of future energy grids the recent past was also dominated by the discussion about so called smart cities and smart homes. A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services. This especially means that the contact between citizens and government is eased and improved substantially with the aim to equip inhabitants with more power, responsibility and easing their life substantially from bureaucratic and useless tasks. Another highly relevant goal is to reduce costs and resource consumption. Smart cities will connect, utilize and optimize a number of sectors including transport and traffic management, energy consumption and management or water and waste issues. However, they also need to rely on the next lower level of abstraction, namely smart buildings and homes. This, however, implies that smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings and homes, and smart infrastructures need to be deeply integrated in order to shape the smart overall energy environment of the future. And that looks more like a revolution than an evolution. Thus, revolutionary papers are highly welcome even if they are not too elaborated or too mature. This workshop is not meant to rely on the presentation of mature research results but wants to provide a lively environment with a lot of even vague input for intensive and fruitful discussions. For that, also shorter provocative statements and ideas are very welcome. *Workshop topics* The SESSISE workshopaims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using new IT-based solutions for Sustainable Energy Systems, Smart Infrastructures, and Smart Environments. For this, the conference provides a forum for different scientific disciplines. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following areas and topics of interest: /Smart Grids, Smart Homes and Buildings, Smart Infrastructures/ •Smart Energy Systems •Energy Storage •Microgrids •Decentralized Control Systems •Stability in Energy Grids •Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks •Self-aware, Self-configuring or Self-healing Energy Systems •Simulation Environments for Smart Grids •Hybrid Energy Networks •Assistance Systems for Smart Energy control •Integrated Infrastructures •Development of Standards for Smart Grids •Industry, Municipality and University Cooperation •Sustainable Cities •Zero Energy Cities and Buildings /Smart Data Handling / •Alternative Data Storing and Proceeding Technologies •Big Data and Smart Energy Environments •Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks •Data Security •Data Structures and required Standards •Mobile Solutions for Smart Energy Environments •ICT Services in Smart Grids/Smart Cities/Smart Environments /Smart Markets, Trading and Business models/ •Forecasts / Predictions •Management of distributed Energy Generation and Storage •Business Models for (hybrid) Energy Networks •Products and User Interfaces •Business Models and electronic marketplaces for Smart Grids •Competition Analysis •Process Management •Electric Mobility •Solar Home Storage Systems •End Users and Demand Response *Structure of SESSISE* SESSISE will be a one or two day workshop and will include several presentation sessions for the accepted paper as well as invited overview papers on topics of overall interest in order to kick off intense and lively discussions. It is intended to give much space for lively discussions. The workshop is meant to end with a panel/discussion round in which the relevant results of the workshop will be discussed. *Review Process* Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 Program Committee members. Selection criteria will include (in all cases possible): relevance, significance, impact, originality, quality of presentation, practical applicability. It is not expected that the papers prohibit mature research results. Good elaborated ideas, visions and directions which may be starting point for more intensive discussions are very welcome. The idea is less the presentation of narrow, however, mature research but the presentation of broader visions, possible solution spaces and research directions, open fields for research, emergent trends, etc. *Submission guidelines* All papers need to be formatted according to the Springer formatting instructions: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… */Regular papers/*: up to 12 pages */Short papers and Work-in-progress reports/*: up to6 pages */Demo papers/*: up to 4 pages Papers must be written in English and need to be submitted in PDF format. Submission system is available at EasyChair. /Original/work approved for presentation at SESSISE 2017 will be published in the BIS 2017 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2017 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. *Workshop proceedings* It is intended to publish revised papers in post-proceedings of BIS 2017 workshops as a book by Springer Publishing Company in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. *Journal publication of excellent papers* It is intended to invite authors of excellent papers to submit an extended version of their paper to the IOS Multiagent and Grid Systems journal (MAGS). This journal has a high reputation and is often classified as a B-class journal. If enough high quality papers will be submitted it is planned to publish them as a special issue, otherwise as regular papers. *Workshop organisers / PC Chairs* Rainer Unland (primary contact), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de Lars Moench, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; lars.moench(a)FernUni-Hagen.de Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; rkowalczyk(a)swin.edu.au *Program Committee* Alexander Fay, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Germany Anke Weidlich, Hochschule Offenburg, Germany Christian Derksen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brasil Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Hangseng Che, University of Malaya, Malaysia Hanno Hildmann, Khalifa University, UAE Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier, Germany Jingxin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia John Collins, University of Minnesota, USA Krzysztof Chmielowiec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Liana Cipcigan , Institute of Energy at Cardiff University:, UK Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany Michael Sonnenschein, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Germany Peter Palensky, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Sajjad Siddiqi, Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP, Germany Zbigniew Nahorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW:http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ *************************************************************************** Rainer -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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CfP IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17), 23-26 Aug. 2017, Leipzig, Germany
by Rainer Unland 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] Please forward this CFP to anyone who might be interested. ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2017 (WI'17) August 23-26, 2017, Leipzig, Germany Conference Website: http://webintelligence2017.com/ (FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Mar. 12, 2017) *** CONFIRMED TURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER *** Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner 1994), Carnegie Mellon University, US Tentative title: The Ultimate Web Intelligence: Computational Social Science ####################################################################### ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSORS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIMS AND SCOPE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The topics of Web Intelligence (WI) have received increasing interest in the past years. They comprise many fields, such as collective intelligence, data science, human-centric computing, knowledge management, and network science. WI'17 aims to cover leading research that both deepens the understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical as well as business and social foundations of the future Web, and enables the development and application of intelligent technologies. The research track of WI'17 invites original high-quality papers. WI'17 is methodologically open, i.e. conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical and technical papers are welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Track-1: Collective Intelligence Track-2: Data Science Track-3: Human-Centric Computing Track-4: Knowledge Management Track-5: Network Science ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR Proposals for TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL-SESSIONS Call for Industry and PhD symposium Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In addition to the research track, WI'17 comprises special sessions and workshops as well as tutorials and a PhD mentoring session. Moreover, industry papers and demo proposals can be submitted to WI'17 and will be dealt with by a special PC for industrial papers which will apply industry-compliant assessment criteria.In all cases please refer to the individual call for papers on webintelligence2017.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'17 solicits original work limited to 6-8 pages in ACM 2-column format. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected WI'17 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.Papers have to be submitted via the Cyberchair submission page and according to the rules specified on this page: ..https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/wi17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=Wr ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AWARDS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Submission of regular papers:Mar. 12, 2017 Notification of regular paper acceptance:May01, 2017 Camera-Ready regular papers (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Submission of Industry track papers:Apr. 23, 2017 Notification of Industry track paper acceptance:May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Industry Track)May29, 2017 Workshop and Special session proposal submission:Feb. 01, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session acceptance:Feb. 15, 2017 Submission of Workshop/Special session papers:Apr. 16, 2017 Notification of Workshop/Special session paper acceptance: May15, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (Workshops and Special sessions)May29, 2017 Tutorial proposal submission:May01, 2017 Notification of Tutorial acceptance:May15, 2017 Submission of PhD Mentoring Papers:May14, 2017 Notification of PhD Mentoring Papers acceptance:Jun. 02, 2017 Camera-Ready Papers (PhD Mentoring):Jun. 18, 2017 Author Registration (Main Conference)May29, 2017 Main conference:Aug. 23-26, 2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs (Regions): ------------------------- Axel Ngonga, currently Leipzig University, Germany (Africa) Amit Sheth, Wright State University, US (North-America) Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Asia) Elizabeth Chang, The University of New South Wales, Australia (Australia) Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc. & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland (East Europe) Bogdan Franczyk, Leipzig University, Germany (West Europe) PC Co-Chairs: ------------- Rainer Alt (Leipzig University, Germany) Xiaohui Tao (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Organizing Chairs: ------------------ Bjoern Schwarzbach, Leipzig University, Germany Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steering Committee Co-chairs: ----------------------------- Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR, China) Organizing Committee -------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Publicity Chairs: ---------------- Guadalupe Ortiz Bellot, University of Cádiz, Spain Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Workshop and Special Session Chairs: ------------------------------------ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Omar Hussain, UNSW Canberra, Australia Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Chile Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Olaf Reinhold, Leipzig University, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: --------------------------- Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany René Schumann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Tutorial Chairs: --------------- Christian Derksen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jacek Kucharski, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Industry Track Chairs: ---------------------- Hanno Hildmann, UC3M Robotics Lab, Spain & NEC Research Europe, Germany Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom & EBTIC, UK & UAE Webmaster: ----------- Christian Franck, Leipzig University, Germany Registrations, enquiries & special requests: -------------------------------------------- Sandra Bartsch, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Finance Chair and CyberChair-Master: ------------------------------------ Sebastian Fuß, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany Industry and Sponsorship Chairs: -------------------------------- Wilfried Röder, Leipzig University, Germany Roland Fassauer, Institute of Applied Informatics, Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contact Information: rainer.alt(a)uni-leipzig.de xtao(a)usq.edu.au +++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- “Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” “Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” ************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland University of Duisburg-Essen Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation Schuetzenbahn 70 45117 Essen, Germany Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ ***************************************************************************

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CGSI'17 CFP - Italy, 2017
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

17th Annual International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications CGA'17 in conjunction with The 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2017) http://www.iccsa.org/ July 3 - 6, 2017 University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Paper submission link: http://ess.iccsa.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 5, 2017 Important Dates --------------- March 5, 2017 (extended): Deadline for draft paper submission. April 28, 2017: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2017: Camera-ready version and Pre-registration July 3-6, 2017: CGA'17 Workshop and ICCSA 2017 Workshop Description -------------------- This year the Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications and Security, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science and Applications, will take place in Trieste, Italy. The workshop is intended as an international forum for researchers in computational geometry and related areas, with the goal of advancing the state of research in computational geometry and related disciplines. We invite submission of papers presenting high-quality original research in one of the three Workshop tracks: - theoretical computational geometry - applied computational geometry - security and performance issues Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ----------------------- - Design and analysis of geometric algorithms - Geometric algorithms in path planning and robotics - Computational geometry in biometrics - Intelligent geometric computing - Geometric algorithms in computer graphics and computer vision - Geometric modeling - Voronoi diagrams and generalizations - Geometric data structures - 3D Geometric modeling - Geometric algorithms in Geographical Information Systems - Algebraic geometry - Discrete and combinatorial geometry - Interpolation and surface reconstruction - Implementation issues and numerical precision in geometric algorithms - Applications in computational biology, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, education, networks. - Visualization of geometric algorithms - Security applications - Geometry in biometrics Submissions in other related areas will also be considered. Proceedings ------------- Proceedings of the Workshop will be published by Springer/IEEE CS. Proceedings of the previous Workshops on Computational Geometry and Applications appeared in LNCS Springer and IEEE_CS. Papers from the previous CGA Workshops have appeared in the special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Journal of CAD/CAM, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE), the Journal of Supercomputing and Transactions on Computational Science, Springer. Location and Conference fees ------ ---------- This year CGA'17 located in beautiful Trieste, Italy. For all details with respect to the conference fees please consult the ICCSA 2011 web page. Special discount for students and session organizers is available. For more information, please visit the ICCSA 2017 web site. Submission ----------- The submission must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules posted on ICCSA 2017 web site. Electronic submissions in PS, PDF, or LaTex (please also submit all .eps, .dvi, and .ps files). MS Word submissions will also be accepted. Please submit your paper through the CyberChair electronic submission system, please follow instructions available at http://www.iccsa.org/. During Step 1 of the abstract submission you will be asked to submit your abstract to the CyberChair: please select CGA workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. For additional references or enquiries, please send your e-mail directly to the Workshop Chair: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca International Program Committee Members (TBC): Tetsuo Asano (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Sergei Bereg (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary, Canada) Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Tamal Dey (Ohio State University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova (University of Calgary, Canada) Christopher Gold (University of Glamorgan, UK) Hisamoto Hiyoshi (Gunma University, Japan) Andres Iglesias (University de Cantabria, Spain) Deok-Soo Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) Ivana Kolingerova (Unversity of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Nikolai Medvedev (Novosibirsk Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Asish Mukhopadhyay (University of Windsor, Canada) Dimitri Plemenos (Universite de Limoges, France) Val Pinciu (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada) Kokichi Sugihara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Vaclav Skala (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) Muhammad Sarfraz (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Marina L. Gavrilova CGA'11 General Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N1N4 Telephone: (403) 220-5105 Fax: (403) 284-4707 E-mail: marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CGI'17 CFP - Deadline in 2 weeks
by Marina Gavrilova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Call for Papers CGI 2017 http://fj.ics.keio.ac.jp/cgi17/ Yokohama, Japan, 27-30 June, 2017 Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Keio University In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Computer Graphics International is one of the oldest international annual conferences in Computer Graphics and one of the most important ones worldwide, founded by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). It is a yearly meeting where academics present their latest algorithms, models and technologies, and explore new trends and ideas on various computer graphics topics. Since 1983 it has been held in numerous different cities worldwide including Geneva, Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, Singapore and many different countries in Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. CGI'17, the 34th annual conference will take place on June 27th – June 30th 2017 in Yokohama, Japan. The conference is organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and hosted by Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. PUBLICATION The scientific program of the conference will include full papers, short papers and posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Visual Computer Journal (impact factor 1.06) by Springer-Verlag. The accepted short papers will be included in the conference proceedings to be published as part of ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available online from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of the highest-ranked short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Visual Computer; these papers will follow a fast track review process. The accepted posters will be included in the conference USB. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline February 13, 2017 Paper notification March 20, 2017 Camera-ready April 10, 2017 Short Papers/Posters Submission deadline April 10, 2017 Paper notification May 8, 2017 Camera-ready May 22, 2017 KEYWORDS We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to: 3D Printing 3D Reconstruction Affective Computing Big Data Visualization City Modeling Computational Fabrication Computational Geometry Computational Photography Computer Animation Computer Vision for Computer Graphics and HCI Crowd Simulation Data Compression for Graphics Deep Learning for Graphics Geometric Processing Geometric Modeling Geometric Algebra for Graphics Geometric Algebra Computing Global Illumination Human-Computer Interaction Human Modeling Image Analysis Image and Video Processing Image-based Rendering Information Visualization Interactive Graphics Medical Imaging Meshing and Remeshing Non-photorealistic Rendering Physically Based Modeling Point-based Graphics Rendering Techniques Saliency Methods Scientific Computing Scientific Visualization Shape Analysis and Image Retrieval Shape and Surface Modeling Shape Matching Sketch-based Modeling Social Robotics Solid Modeling Stylized Rendering Textures Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Volume Rendering Virtual Geographical Environments Web Graphics

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CfP 12th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '17)
by VHPC 17 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS) Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Container security - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline April 25, 2017 - Paper submission deadline May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day June 25, 2017 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Call for Papers - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline extended
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland Submission deadline: 10th February 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 -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: IoA@AAMAS'17
by Marco Lützenberger 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

The Second International Workshop on the Internet of Agents (IoA) - In conjunction with AAMAS Conference 2017 - São Paulo, Brazil: May 8, 2017 - http://ioa.alqithami.com/2017/ - [ CALL FOR PAPER ] : Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained much attention due to the overwhelming advantages it brings to our daily lives. The metaphor “Things" in an IoT does not only represent a variety of hardware, such as simple sensors, actuators or complex devices (e.g., vehicles, charging stations, heating control) it can also comprise pure software instances that might be service-oriented or data-driven. Thus, huge interoperable networks evolve producing large amounts of data and providing a tremendous quantity of services that are supposed to be handled in a distributed manner. An IoT offers the possibility to develop completely new cross-domain solutions but also comes with a lot of challenges for areas such as data aggregation, automated service selection or distributed planning. On the confluence between IoT and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), there is a strong ongoing trend for the IoT to adapt to the intelligent nature/architecture of the MAS that we termed as “Internet of Agents” (IoA). The IoA workshop emphasizes on the current range of nascent network centric agents that operate on IoT infrastructures. From a broader point of view, this includes agents’ efforts to form collaborative units as well as the techniques and methodologies for constructing online agents that represent interests of their actual counterparts (e.g., hardware devices or sensors) and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of the dynamic network proliferation and start of smart agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the fast social-pace of interconnectivity. From a narrow point of view, we aim to collect, to present, and to discuss (practical) applications and cognitive foundations surrounding agent-based approaches that successfully overcome well-known challenges of software that operates on IoT environments in order to identify promising scenarios that motivate a broader use of agent-technology for the development of IoT-software. - [ WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND AREAS ] : The workshop seeks to attract papers concerning: - Presenting a formal or interdisciplinary architecture of IoA, - Discussing an experiment or prototype for IoA, - Providing a novel approach to IoA, or - Mapping an existing approach to IoA. This can be through a theoretical modeling, animation, simulation, or by presenting existing (real-world) applications. The topics of interest for the IoA workshop will comprise all technical issues that are related to IoT systems and can be solved via a (multi-)agent based approach. More concrete, these include but are not limited to: - Agents-based interactive environments - Architectures of cognitively reasoned things and interactions - Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms - Automated service discovery or selection - Quality-of-Service (QoS) and service composition - Computational models of distributed technologies - IoT/M2M applications and services employing MAS - Globalized networks and grid alliances - Network-centric warfare, individualism or organizations - IoA security including self-healing and self-protection - IoA monitoring and control including self-configuration/-adaption/-optimization Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and not exceed 16 pages. - [ IMPORTANT DATES ] : Submission DEADLINE: February 7, 2017 Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

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