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[Meetings] MESS 2020 ~ Learning & Optimization from Big Data ~ Catania, 27-31 July 2020
by Mario Pavone 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MESS 2020 - Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data - 27-31 July 2020, Catania, Italy https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 ** https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2020/application/ MESS 2020 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is ?Learning and Optimization from Big Data?, therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data. All participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. ** LIST OF LECTURERS + Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata + Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy & University of Portsmouth, UK + Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK + Mauricio Resende, AMAZON, USA + Roman Slowinski, Pozna? University of Technology, Poland + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy More Lecturers will be announced soon. ** SCHOOL DIRECTORS + Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg + Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy + Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK + Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy + El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France + Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics Competition?, where each of them will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020 prize. Students whose algorithm will rank in the first five top of the competition ranking, will be invited to submit a report/manuscript of their work to be published in the special MESS 2020 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series. ** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION CHAIRS + Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy + Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy ** SHORT TALK & POSTER PRESENTATION All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Mini-Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school. The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*. ** WORKSHOP CHAIRS + Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy + Paola Festa, University of Naples ?Federico II?, Italy + Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham, UK *See Previous Edition - MESS 2018* https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2018/ ** MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ -- mess.school(a)ANTs-lab.it Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school

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Paper Deadline Approaching: PDSEC-20 Workshop (with IPDPS-20)
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Dear All: The deadline is approaching for papers to be submitted to the 21st IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-20). See http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec20/ . It will be held on May 22, 2020 in New Orleans in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. Deadline: PDSEC-20 deadline: 31 Jan 2020 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 06, 2020 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 15, 2020 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2020 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Michelle Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Committee Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Best regards, Suzanne Suzanne Shontz Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bioengineering Program Information and Telecommunication Technology Center University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045

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Call for Posters and Demos - ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020
by flin＠zju.edu.cn 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

======================================================================== Call for Posters and Demos ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020 https://conferences.computer.org/iotDI/2020/ Sydney, Australia April 21-24, 2020 ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Jan 24th 2020 (AoE) * Notification: Feb 7th 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 16th 2020 (AoE) SCOPE The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2020 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. MADNESS SESSION IoTDI’20 and IPSN’20 will co-host a 1-minute madness session, during which the author of each accepted poster or demo has EXACTLY one minute to introduce their work at the main conference venue. Based on the feedback from past years' attendees, the 1-minute madness session is perceived as lively and interesting, and is typically very well attended. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2020, we will use IEEE templates as linked above using the 10-point type. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Abstract submission site: https://iotdi2020pd.hotcrp.com/ ORGANIZERS General Chairs * Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) * Prashant Shenoy (UMASS, Amherst, USA) Poster & Demo Chairs * Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University, USA) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publicity Chairs * Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA) * Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) * Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, China) Post & Demo Program Committee Members * Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University * Jayson Boubin, The Ohio State University * Yiran Shen, CSIRO * Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology Sydney * Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult * Yunfei Hou, California State University at San Bernardino * Zhenyu Yan, Nanyang Technological University * Dhrubojyoti Roy, The Ohio State University * Salma Elmalaki, University of California Irvine * Fatima M. Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Shuochao Yao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Best Regards, Feng Lin flin(a)zju.edu.cn

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Call for Posters: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing
by Valeria Cardellini 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

========================================================================= ICFC 2020: Call For Posters 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020) April 21-24, 2020 - Sydney, Australia https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/ Co-located with CPS-IoT Week (https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/) ========================================================================= Important Dates * Poster submission deadline: February 8, 2020 (AoE) * Notification: February 17, 2020 * Conference: April 21-24, 2020 Scope --------- The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2020), colocated with the CPS-IoT Week 2020 in Sydney, April 21-24, 2020, welcomes posters that articulate research challenges, work in progress, and application showcases of fog computing. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * System architecture for fog computing * Coordination between cloud, fog, and sensing/actuation endpoints * Connectivity, storage, and computation in the edge * Data processing and management for fog computing * Efficient and embedded AI in the fog * System and network manageability * Middleware and coordination platforms * Power, energy, and resource management * Device and hardware support for fog computing * Programming models, abstractions, and software engineering for fog computing * Security, privacy, and ethics issues related to fog computing * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for fog computing systems * Applications and practical experiences Poster Guidelines and Submission ---------------------------------------------- Poster papers are limited to 2 pages, and the title must start with "Poster:". Submitted poster papers must be PDF files in IEEE two column format. Please refer to IEEE proceedings templates (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) for templates and complete formatting instructions. Submissions do not have to be blind, i.e., by omitting author names or affiliations. Poster papers should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfc2020. The poster paper will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted poster papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted poster paper must register and present the poster at the conference. Please visit ICFC website at https://sites.google.com/view/icfc2020/call-for-posters for more information. Organization ----------------- General Chairs: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Workshop and Poster Chair: David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publicity Chairs: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy Please contact the Poster Chair for any questions/clarifications.

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CFP: 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS'20)
by Pankaj Pandey 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

================================================================================ *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 6th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS 2020) in conjunction with ACM AsiaCCS'20 Taipei, Taiwan -- June 1st, 2020 https://www.nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/ ================================================================================ Overview --------- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) of interest to this workshop consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There exist a multitude of CPS devices and applications deployed to serve critical functions in our lives thus making security an important non-functional attribute of such systems. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss novel ways to address the ever-present security challenges facing CPS. We seek submissions describing theoretical and practical solutions to security challenges in CPS. Submissions pertinent to the security of embedded systems, IoT, SCADA, smart grid, and other critical infrastructure are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Attack detection for CPS * Authentication and access control for CPS * Availability of and auditing for CPS * Blockchain for CPS security * Data security and privacy for CPS * Digital twins for CPS * Embedded systems security * Formal methods in CPS * Industrial control systems security * IoT security * Lightweight crypto * Recovery of CPS from cyber attacks * Security risk assessment for CPS * Security architectures for CPS * Security by design for CPS * Security of autonomous vehicles and vessels * Security of legacy CPS * Smart grid security * Threat modeling for CPS * Security of transportation systems * Vulnerability analysis for CPS Important Dates ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: February 10, 2020 * Notification to authors: March 5, 2020 * Camera ready due: March 15, 2020 Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers describing work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A best paper award will be presented getting opportunities for a registration fee discount. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss20 Organisation Committee ----------------------- Steering Committee: * Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) * Ravishankar Iyer (UIUC, USA) * Douglas Jones (UIUC, USA) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) – Chair Program Committee Chairs: * Sokratis Katsikas (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus; and Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) * Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Program Committee: - Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (SUTD, Singapore) - Alvaro Cardenas (UC Santa Cruz, USA) - Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy) - Afonso Ferreira (CNRS, France) - Yanick Fratantonio (EURECOM, France) - Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) - Vasileios Gkioulos (NTNU, Norway) - Eunsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Huy Kang Kim (Korea University, Korea) - Kandasamy Nandha Kumar (SUTD, Singapore) - Qi Li (Tsinghua University, China) - Hoon Wei Lim (SingTel, Singapore) - Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) - Bo Luo (University of Kansas, USA) - Emil Lupu (Imperial College, UK) - Michail Maniatakos (NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE) - Daisuke Mashima (ADSC, Singapore) - Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) - Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (Linköping University, Sweden) - Martín Ochoa (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia) - Günther Pernul (Universität Regensburg, Germany) - Indraskhi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) - Rodrigo Roman (University of Malaga, Spain) - Justin Ruths (UT Dallas, USA) - Savio Sciancalepore (HBKU-CSE, Qatar) - Martin Strohmeier (University of Oxford, UK) - Qiang Tang (LIST, Luxembourg) - Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA, Germany) - Zheng Yang (SUTD, Singapore) - Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore) - Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Publicity Chair: * Pankaj Pandey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway) Publication Chair: * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Contact ------- Email: cpss20(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: https://nics.uma.es/pub/CPSS2020/

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CFP: IEEE ISORC 2020 - Deadline extended to Friday, Jan 24th
by Tommaso Cucinotta 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

[please, accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times -- feel free to forward to potentially interested colleagues] Dear researcher/colleague, please, consider publishing your latest research by submitting a paper, demo or poster to the /23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ (ISORC) conference, to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), on May 19-21 2020. The official ISORC 2020 call for papers is included below. Feel free to forward this message to potentially interested colleagues, and please accept our apologies should you receive this message multiple times. *IEEE ISORC 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS - https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 _/Main Track Papers Submission Deadline extended to: Friday, Jan 24th 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)/_ ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. In addition to the main conference, ISORC 2020 will host a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where participants will be able to show prototypes, tools, simulators and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This year, ISORC will improve the peer-reviewing process introducing /double-blind submissions/ and a /rebuttal/ phase, where authors will have a chance to shortly reply to the reviewers' major objections before the final acceptance decision is taken. /Best Paper//and //Student Paper Awards/ will be delivered during the conference. Best papers from ISORC 2020 will be invited for submission to a /Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)/. IEEE ISORC 2020 welcomes contributions on topics that include, but are not limited, to: * /Software architectures/ for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * /Distributed computing and communication infrastructures/: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * /Algorithms for real-time analytics/: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * /System software/: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * /Applications/: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, mobile devices, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * /System evaluation/: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* General Chairs * Mathias Pacher, Institut fur Informatik, Univ Frankfurt, Germany * Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Program Chairs * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Local Chair * Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Local Organization Team: * Sara Maddox, Amy Karns, Gerilynn Pearce, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA Web Chair * Anirban Bhattacharjee, Vanderbilt University, USA Publicity Chair * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy * Shweta Khare, Vanderbilt University, USA Proceedings Chair * Yogesh Barve, Vanderbilt University, USA Steering Committee Chairs * Uwe Brinkschulte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Rob Pettit, The Aerospace Corp., USA Finance Chair * Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA *IMPORTANT DATES* Main Track * *Submission deadline (extended): January 24, 2020 AOE (FIRM, No further extensions)* * Rebuttal period: March 9-11, 2020 * Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Poster/Demo Session * Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 * Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 For further information, please, refer to the official conference website: *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* /The IEEE ISORC 2020 Organizers/ -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium Call for Paper
by Jialie Shen 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval July 25-30, 2020 (Xi'an, China); DC on July 26 https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/ SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are: * To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and discuss their research with experienced IR researchers: the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. * To provide students with an opportunity to establish a supportive community, including other doctoral students at a similar stage of their dissertation research. The Consortium will take place the day before the main conference (on Sunday, July 26th, 2020), with the format including: student presentations with plenary discussions, individual 1:1 meetings with experienced researchers, interactive networking sessions over lunch, and panel sessions with a special emphasis on gaining insights regarding career paths after the PhD. Prospective attendees should have written, or be close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent). It is desirable that students not be so close to completing their PhD that the event would have little impact on their work, or so early that a topic has not been chosen. Before submitting, students should discuss this criterion with their advisor or supervisor. To apply for a place at the Doctoral Consortium, candidates should submit a paper up to 5+1 pages in length, solely authored by the student - see submission guidelines below. Candidates will be selected based on the potential of their research for future impact on the field of information retrieval, as well as for the likely benefit to the student from participating in the Consortium. We note that SIGIR 2020 DC is deeply committed to improving the field of IR by making it more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We highly encourage women and students from other underrepresented groups to apply. For each selected student, a one page extended abstract will be published in the SIGIR 2020 Conference Proceedings. Extended abstracts will be invited after selection, and should not be submitted with the proposal. Doctoral students who submit to the Consortium are allowed to have previously published their research, and are encouraged to submit full, short, or demo papers of their work to the SIGIR 2020 conference and associated workshops. Priority is given to students chosen to attend the Consortium when travel grants are determined for the conference, and generally grants will be awarded to chosen students. Application details for travel grants will be available on the SIGIR 2020 website (You must apply for the grant to be considered). Submission Guidelines Papers should be submitted through easychair in the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2020 The submitted paper, solely authored by the student, will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium. To get the most out of the discussion, it should include: * Motivation for the proposed research. * Background and related work (including key references). * Description of proposed research, including main research questions. * Research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate). * Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Consortium. In addition, a one page appendix to the paper (placed after the references) must include the following: A detailed statement by the student explaining why they want to participate in the SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium at this point in their doctoral studies, and how they hope it will contribute to the development of their work and potential future career. A statement by the student’s advisor/supervisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the Consortium. Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate. Format Requirements Submissions must be written in English and submitted in the 2017 ACM Master Article Template (for LaTeX, use the “sigconf” option). The paper should be no more than 5 pages in length including all figures and references, but excluding the one page appendix. The first page must contain the title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details, an abstract of up to 250 words, ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) categories, and up to 3 keywords describing the topic areas. Information about categories and keywords can be found in ACM Web pages on the computing classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates. Doctoral Consortium papers will not be published in the SIGIR Conference Proceedings; only one-page extended abstracts, invited from accepted students will be published. Doctoral Consortium submissions must be in PDF format and submitted via Easychair SIGIR 2020 doctoral consortium site. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their submissions use no unusual format features and are printable on a standard printer. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. Important dates * Time zone : Anywhere On Earth (AOE) * Doctoral consortium papers due: March 1, 2020 * Doctoral consortium papers notification: April 22, 2020 * ACM SIGIR 2020 Doctoral Consortium: Sun, Jul 26, 2020 Doctoral Consortium Chairs Gabriella Kazai - Microsoft, UK Barbara Poblete - University of Chile, Chile Jerry Jialie Shen - Queen's University Belfast, UK Contact information: sigir2020dc(a)easychair.org For updates, please check: https://sigir.org/sigir2020/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/

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DDSW2020 (Deadline Extended): International Workshop on Data-Driven Security
by DDSW 2020 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

*Dear Sir/Madam,* *[*** **Apologies if you received multiple emails for this call of paper * ****]* *Call for Paper* *International Workshop on Data-Driven Security (DDSW 2020)* *In conjunction with* *The 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)* *Warsaw, Poland April 6 - 9, 2020* * Deadline Extended: January 22, 2020 (Firm)* *http://www.just.edu.jo/~qmyaseen/ddsw2020/ddsw2020.html* <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> Data breaches are a daily occurrence, where adversaries attack consumers, corporations, and governments. Moreover, data breaches are growing tremendously due to the immense growth of the backbones of commerce and critical infrastructure, and interconnectivity of networks. The skills of adversaries are improving, and the number and severity of attacks are increasing, which make known security countermeasures suffer. While much research focuses on technical, business or compliance aspects, there is an increasing need for new security solutions to protect assists other than traditional approaches. This workshop focuses on new security techniques that use machine learning, data mining and statistics analytical techniques to solve nowadays security challenges. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Data Mining techniques for Security - Machine Learning for Security - Statistics for Security - Analysis of identified vulnerabilities - Analysis of successful attacks or attack attempts - Diverse aspects of security analytics - Tools for security analytics - Security analytics data *Submission of Papers* Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the DDSW workshop. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (electronically, PDF only) that are no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to the conference guidelines found at: http://csconferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/#paperSubmissions <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> . Please use the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ddsw2020 <https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=d40aebec-5fb7-43e2-a114…> to submit your paper. *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: January 22,2020 (Firm) - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo <qmyaseen(a)just.edu.jo>*

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[ACM/IEEE IoTDI'20] Call for Posters and Demos - one week left before deadline
by Tan Rui (Asst Prof) 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

======================================================================== Call for Posters and Demos ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020 https://conferences.computer.org/iotDI/2020/ Sydney, Australia April 21-24, 2020 ======================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Jan 24th 2020 (AoE) * Notification: Feb 7th 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 16th 2020 (AoE) SCOPE The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) welcomes extended abstracts for presentation as posters and demos. We seek provocative ideas that challenge existing approaches to IoT design and implementation, abstracts that sketch intriguing IoT systems and share preliminary results and exciting demonstrations of novel IoT technology, applications and hardware. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. IoTDI 2020 will be part of CPS-IoT Week in beautiful Sydney, Australia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Analytic foundations and theory of IoT * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures and machine learning analytics for IoT * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Edge and fog computing * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings, smart transportation) * Deployment experiences, case studies & lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds * AI/ML for IoT & Embedded Systems * Energy/Power Management & Harvesting for IoT Platforms The 2-page extended abstract describing the poster or demo will be evaluated based on technical merit, innovation, and the potential to stimulate lively discussions at the conference. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted abstract must register and present the poster/demo at the conference. MADNESS SESSION IoTDI’20 and IPSN’20 will co-host a 1-minute madness session, during which the author of each accepted poster or demo has EXACTLY one minute to introduce their work at the main conference venue. Based on the feedback from past years' attendees, the 1-minute madness session is perceived as lively and interesting, and is typically very well attended. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Poster and demonstration abstracts should be at most 2 single-spaced US Letter (8.5” x 11”) pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Note that due to having both ACM and IEEE sponsorship, IoTDI uses ACM and IEEE templates alternating between the years. For 2020, we will use IEEE templates as linked above using the 10-point type. * The review process is single-blind, so there is no need to anonymize the submissions. * The title of the abstract should be prepended with "Poster Abstract:" or "Demo Abstract:". Please make sure to include the name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors. * Demonstration abstracts should list any special requirements (tables, power, wireless connectivity, etc.) in the submission on a separate third page. This third page is not part of the technical content of the abstract, can be formatted at the discretion of the authors, and will not be included in the camera-ready version of your abstract. * Abstract submission site: https://iotdi2020pd.hotcrp.com/ ORGANIZERS General Chairs * Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) * Prashant Shenoy (UMASS, Amherst, USA) Poster & Demo Chairs * Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University, USA) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Publicity Chairs * Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA) * Oana Iova (INSA Lyon, France) * Feng Lin (Zhejiang University, China) Post & Demo Program Committee Members * Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University * Jayson Boubin, The Ohio State University * Yiran Shen, CSIRO * Asif Qumer Gill, University of Technology Sydney * Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult * Yunfei Hou, California State University at San Bernardino * Zhenyu Yan, Nanyang Technological University * Dhrubojyoti Roy, The Ohio State University * Salma Elmalaki, University of California Irvine * Fatima M. Anwar, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Shuochao Yao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you.

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ICCSA 2020: 2nd Call for Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

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